Syllabus Third Semester

Year 2, Semester III

1.         Communication Skills

• Preparing for interviews (scholarship, job, placement for internship, etc.)

• Writing formal letters

• Writing different kinds of applications (leave, job, complaint, etc.)

• Oral presentation skills (prepared and unprepared talks)

• Preparing a Curriculum Vitae (CV), (bio-data)

• Writing short reports

2.         Citizenship Education (HR)

• What are Human Rights (HR)?

• Evolution of the Concept of HR

• Four Fundamentals in HR: freedom, equality, justice, and human dignity

• Universal Declaration of HR

• Three Key Principles in HR: inalienability, indivisibility and universality

• Are HR Universal? (debate/ discussion etc)

• HR in South Asia: Issues

• Rights of Women

• Rights of Children (debate/ discussion on child labor, etc)

3.         A General Survey of American Literature

CONTENTS:            Although historically speaking it is difficult to encompass all the merging and emerging traditions or trends of American literary sensibility in this short survey course, the parameters of the course will highlight some salient and unique features of literature written in English in the United States of America. The writings, not classics all the way but popular expressions of their time, can be analyzed in different historical, social, political, religious, mythical, and of course literary contexts. The teachers can focus on themes, issues or concerns that have run through American life from its beginnings and can ask what makes them particularly American. In this regard knowledge of American history and political theory in terms of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationalism as a background resource to tracing the frontier tradition and American hero will be very useful. As a guiding principle, some of the common themes to be picked and discussed may go around approaching American selfhood, American character and culture to further delve into exploring the American sense of adventure, human will to connect or conquer, toughness, courage, humor, expedition, exploitation, competition, experimentalism, materialism, dignity, freedom, opportunity, dream, desire, illusion, reality, self-reliance, search for identity, belonging, alienation, loneliness, isolation, pathos, optimism, difference, co-existence, human rights, building or bulldozing democracy, so on and so forth.

4.         Classics In Poetry-I(Chaucer 1^st Generation Of Romantics)

ü        J. Chaucer, Prologue To The Canterbury Tales

ü        E. Spenser, Fairie Queene (Canto-1)

ü        J. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1

ü        J. Donne, Love And Divine Poems: Selections: The Flea, The Sunne         Rising, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Extasie, Death Be Not            Proud,            Thou Some have Called Thee, If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified

ü        Pope, Rape of The Lock

ü        S.T.Coleridge, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan

ü        W.Wordsworth, Intimation Ode, Tintern Abbey, It’s A Beauteous       Evening, The World is too Much With Us

5.         Linguistics & Major Schools in Linguistics -An Introduction

ü              Basic terms And Concepts in Linguistics (language, design features,        nature and functions of language, diachronic/synchronic linguistics,      paradigmatic/syntagmatic   relations)            

ü              Elements of Language (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, etc.)

ü              Scope of Linguistics (an introduction to major branches of linguistics)

ü              Schools of Linguistics (generativism, structuralism, mentalism, etc.,)

ü              Discourse Analysis