PERIYAR UNIVERSITY

PERIYAR PALKALAI NAGAR

SALEM 636 011

B.A. ENGLISH
NEW REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS UNDER CHOICE
BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
FOR THE STUDENTS ADMITTED FROM THE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 2013 ONWARDS

SYLLABUS - CBCS PATTERN

SEMESTER I
SL. NO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

PART
I
II
III
III
III
IV
IV

COURSE
Foundation- Tamil- I
Foundation- English- I
Core Paper- I Fiction
Core II- Grammar and Usage
Allied-I Social History of England
Environmental Studies
Value Education
TOTAL

HOURS
6
6
5
5
5
1
2
30

CREDITS
3
3
4
4
5
2
21

SEMESTER II
SL. NO
8
9
10
11
12

PART
I
II
III
III
III

13

IV

COURSE
HOURS
Foundation- Tamil- II
6
Foundation- English- II
6
Core Paper- III Prose
5
Elective-I Indian Writing In English
6
Allied-II
History of English
6
Literature
Environmental Studies
1
TOTAL
30

CREDIT
3
3
4
5
5
2
22

SEMESTER III
SL. NO
14
15
16
17

PART
I
II
III
III

18

IV

COURSE
Foundation- Tamil- III
Foundation- English- III
Core- IV Poetry
Allied Paper III- Literary Forms and
Terms
SKILL BASED ELECTIVE COURSE
i)
ii)
iii)

19

IV

Phonetics and Transcription

Journalism Basics
Personality Development

HOURS
6
6
5
5

CREDIT
3
3
4
5

2
2
2

2
2
2

30

23

NON-MAJOR-I
Soft Skills for Career
Communication
TOTAL
2

SEMESTER IV
SL. NO
20
21
22
23

PART
I
II
III
III

24

IV

COURSE
HOURS
Foundation- Tamil- IV
6
Foundation- English- IV
6
Core Paper- V Drama
5
Allied Paper IVLanguage and
5
Linguistics
SKILL BASED ELECTIVE COURSE
i.
ii.
iii.

25

IV

Presentation Skills
Creative Writing
Communication
Placement

for

NON-MAJOR-II
Communication for Placement
TOTAL

CREDIT
3
3
4
5

2
2
2

2
2
2

2
30

2
23

SEMESTER V
SL. NO
26
27

PART
III
III

28

III

29
30

III
III

COURSE
HOURS
Core- VI Post Colonial Literature
6
Core- VII English for Competitive
6
Examinations
Core- VIII
Womens Writing in
6
English
Core-IX Grammar and Semantics
6
Core- X
Twentieth
Century
6
Literature
TOTAL
30

CREDIT
5
5

COURSE

HOURS

CREDIT

6
6

5
5

30

25

5
5
5
25

SEMESTER VI
SL. NO

PART

31
32

III
III

33

III

34

III

35

III

Core Paper- XI Shakespeare

Core Paper- XII English Language
Teaching
Core Paper- XIII English Literature
for Competitive Examinations
Elective PaperII
American
Literature
Elective Paper- III Communication
Skills - Practical
TOTAL
3

Study Components
Part-I
Tamil/Other Languages
Part-II
English
Part-III
Core Subjects
Allied Subjects
Electives with three Courses
Part-IV
Non-Major
Skill Based Electives
Environmental Studies
Value Education
Part-V
Extension Activities

No. of
Courses
4

Credit Per
Course
3

Total
Credits
12

12

13
4
3

4-5
5
5

60
20
15

2
6
1
1

2
2
2
2

4
12
2
2

1
TOTAL

1
140

Internal Assessment 25 Marks

Test
15 Marks
Assignment 5 Marks
Attendance 5 Marks
---------------------Total 25 Marks
--------------------Passing Minimum (IA) 40% - 10 Marks
Passing Minimum(UE) 40% - 30 Marks
--------------40 Marks

FIRST YEAR I SEMESTER

CORE PAPER - 1 FICTION

Hrs: 5
Credits: 4

UNIT I & II
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
UNIT III & IV
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
UNIT V
Aldous Huxley Brave New World

CORE PAPER - II GRAMMAR AND USAGE

Hrs: 5
Credits: 4

UNIT I
1.

Nouns : Countable, Un-countable, Common, Proper-Noun,

Concrete, Abstract Properties of Noun: Gender, Number, Person, Case

2.

Pronouns

3.

Articles

UNIT II
4.

Adjectives

5.

Prepositions

6.

Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Transitive, Intransitive, Finite, Nonfinite,

Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives, Tenses

UNIT III
7.

Adverbs

8.

Conjunctions and Interjections

UNIT IV
9. The Sentence: Subject and Predicate
10. Types of Sentences
11. Sentence Patterns
UNIT-V
12. Idioms and Phrases
13. Figures of Speech
Prescribed Book:
A. Rajamaicakam : Every Mans English Grammar, New Century Book House (p)
Ltd.

Reference Books:
1. Michael Strumpt: The Complete Grammar. Goodwill Publishing House
2. Raymond Murphy: Essential English Grammar. Cambridge University Press.
3. A.J.Thomson & F.V.Martinet: A Practical English Grammar Exercise. OUP

ALLIED I SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Hrs: 5
Credits: 5
Unit I The Renaissance
The Reformation and the counter Reformation
The Stuart Age
Puritanism
Colonial Expansion
Restoration Age: Social Life
Unit II
The Age of Queen Anne
Hanoverian England
The Industrial Revolution
The Agrarian Revolution
The Rise of Methodism
The American War of Independence
Unit III
The Effects of French Revolution
The Victorian Age
The Reform Bill
The Development of Transport and Communication
The Development of Education in 19th Century

Unit IV
The Dawn of 20th Twentieth Century
Life between two World Wars
The Effects of World War II
Social Security and the welfare state
The Effects of Cold War
Life in the Sixties and Seventies
Unit V
Life in the Eighties
Trade Unionism
The Origin and Growth of Political Parties
Contemporary Life in England

Prescribed Book :
Padmaja Ashok : The Social History of England, Orient Blackswan

Reference Books :
G.M. Trevelyan: The English Social History, London
A.G. Xavier: An Introduction to the Social History of England

SECOND SEMESTER
CORE

PAPER - III PROSE

Hrs : 5
Credits : 4

Unit-I
1. Francis Bacon : Of Parents
2. Francis Bacon : Of Truth
Unit II
3. Joseph Addison: Sir Roger at church
4. Richard Steele : His account of his disappointment in love
Unit - III
5. Charles Lamb : A dissertation upon roast pig
6. Charles Lamb : New years Eve
Unit -IV
7. E.V. Lucas

: Tight corners

8. J.B. Priestly

: On getting off to sleep

Unit-V
9. The Portrait of a Lady - Kushwant Singh
10. Fall of a Sparrow- N. Kalyani
Prescribed Book:
1. SELECTED COLLEGE PROSE by orient Blackswan
2. M.G. Nayar (Ed.). : A Galaxy of English Essayists: From Bacon to Beerbohrn,
Macmillan

ELECTIVE- I INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Hrs

:6

Credits: 5
Unit-I POETRY
Jayanta Mahapatra : IN A NIGHT OF RAIN
A. K. Ramanujan

: SMALL SCALE REFLECTIONS ON A GREAT

HOUSE

Arun Kolatkar

: AN OLD WOMAN

Unit-II PROSE
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam : THE POWER OF PRAYER
Amitav Ghosh : THE TOWN BY THE SEA
Unit-Ill DRAMA
Girish Karnad : THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN
Unit-IV FICTION
R.K.Narayan : THE FINANCIAL EXPERT
Unit-V Short Story
Sathyajit Ray : THE GUEST
Manohar Malgonkar : UPPER DIVISION LOVE

Prescribed Book :
1. Poetry Down the ages Orient Blackswan Revised Edition
2. Saleem Peeradina (ed.) : Contemporary Indian Poetry in English,
Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.

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ALLIED II

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Hrs : 6
Credits: 5

Unit-I

CHAUCER AND ELIZABETHAN AGE

POETRY: 1.Chaucer
2. Wyatt and Surrey
PROSE

: Bacon and his Essays

DRAMA: 1.University Wits

2.Shakespeare
3.Ben Jonson
UnitII THE AGE OF MILTON
1. Milton
2. The Metaphysical Poets- Donne and his followers
3. Dryden and Pope
UnitIII THE RESTORATION AGE
1. Prose-Addison, Steele, Dr. Johnson
2. Fiction- Swift, Fielding
3. Drama- Congreve, Sheridan
UnitIV THE ROMANTIC AGE AND THE VICTORIAN AGE
1. Romantic Poets- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley & Keats
2. Romantic Novelists- Scott, Jane Austen
3. Romantic Prose Writers- Charles Lamb, Hazlitt
4. Victorian Poets- Tennyson, Browning
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5. Victorian Novelists- Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy

6. Victorian Prose Writers- John Ruskin, Arnold
Unit-V TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
1. Twentieth Century Poetry- G.M.Hopkins, T.S. Eliot
2. Twentieth Century Prose A.G.Gardiner, Chesterton
3. Twentieth Century Drama- Oscar Wilde, G.B.Shaw
4. Twentieth Century Fiction- Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence

Prescribed Book:
W.H. Hudson. : An Outline History of English Literature
Reference Books:
Edward Albert : History of English Literature
Crompton & Rickett : History of English Literature
K R Ramachandran Nair : Essays on the History of English literature , Emerald
Publishers

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THIRD SEMESTER
CORE PAPER IV POETRY
Hrs

:5

Credits : 4
Unit-I
Edmund Spenser: The Bridal Beauty (But if ye saw and paired -- 19
Lines ... from Epithalamion)
William Shakespeare: All the World is a Stage
Unit-Il
John Milton: On His Blindness
Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose
Unit-III
William Wordsworth Lines Written in Early Spring
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla khan
Unit-IV
P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
John Keats : Ode to the Nightingale
Unit-V
Tennyson: Ulysses
William Butler Yeats: A Prayer for My
Daughter

Prescribed Book :
Poetry Down the Ages, Orient Blackswan
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ALLIED PAPER III

LITERARY FORMS AND TERMS
Hrs : 5
Credits : 5
Unit-I POETRY
The Lyric, Ode, Sonnet, Epic, Elegy, The Heroic Couplet
TERMS: Allegory, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Blank Verse, Epic Simile,
Metaphysical Conceit, Poetic License
Unit-II DRAMA
Dramatic Monologue, The One Act Play, Tragedy, Comedy, The Masque
TERMS: Soliloquy, Dramatic Irony, Aside, Climax, Melodrama, Absurd
Theatre
Unit-III PROSE-I
The Essay, Short Story, Biography, Autobiography, Epigrams
Unit-IV CRITICISM
Biography, Auto-biography, Epigram, Criticism, Psychoanalytical
Criticism, Feminist Criticism
Unit-V FICTION
Elements of Novel, Historical Novel, Detective Novel, Social Novel, Science
Fiction
TERMS : Anti Climax, Stream of Consciousness, Characterization
Prescribed Books :
1. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature, Macmillan
2. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms, Macmillan

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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER - I

PHONETICS & TRANSCRIPTION
Hrs : 2
Credits: 2
Unit-I
Speech Mechanism and Organs of Speech
Unit-II
Classification and Description of Vowel Sounds in English
Unit-III
Classification and Description of Consonant Sounds in English
Unit-IV
Word accent: Certain Guidelines
Unit-V
Transcription of Words (not exceeding three syllables)

Prescribed Book:
T. Balasubramanian : A Text book of English Phonetics for Indian Students,
Macmillan

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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER - II

JOURNALISM BASICS
Hrs : 2
Credits : 2
Unit-I
What is news?
The Reporter
News Editor
Unit-Il
Anatomy of Editing
UnitIII
Language and Style
UnitIV
Headlines
Unit-V
Design and make-up
Picture Editing and Captions

Prescribed Book:
Rangasamy Parthasarathy : Basic Journalism, Macmillan

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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER-III

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Hrs:2
Credits : 2
Unit-I

INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Definition of Personality - Theories of Personality Eastern Western
Outlook - Determinants of Personality

Unit-II

SELF ESTEEM AND SELF EVALUATION

Self Motivation
Need for Goal Setting
Unit-III

HOW TO IMPROVE PERSONALITY

Attitude and Aptitude

Confidence
Unit-IV

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

TQL (Total Quality Leadership)

Problem Solving
Unit-V

PERSONALITY ORIENTED JOB SKILLS

Conflict Management
Negotiation Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Reference Books :
Harish Kumar : All about Personality Development - Become a Better
person- New Delhi Good Will Publishing House, 2004.
Shiv Kera : You Can Win
M.R. Kopmeyer - You can Get Wherever You Want
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NON MAJOR I
SOFT SKILLS FOR CAREER COMMUNICATION

Hrs : 2
Credits : 2

Unit-I
Introduction
Listening and Speaking
Reading Skills
Unit-II
Exit Errors
Word Power
Unit-III
Career Concerns
Pleasing Personality
Unit-IV
Think Tank
Management Magic
Unit-V
Leading Light
Enhance and Empower
Prescribed Book :
Dr V. Saraswathi and Dr. Revathi Viswanathan : Soft Skills for Career
Communication,
Preesat Publications

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FOURTH SEMESTER
CORE PAPER V
DRAMA
Hrs : 5
Credits : 4
Unit-I & II
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

Unit-III & IV
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

Unit-V
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

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ALLIED PAPER

IV

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Hrs : 5
Credits : 5
Unit-I
Definition of Language, Characteristics of Language,
Human Communication and Animal Communication,
Need to Study Language
Unit-II
Definition of Linguistics, Linguistics as a Science, Scope of Linguistics
Unit-III
Levels of Linguistics Analysis, Branches of Linguistics
Unit-IV
Some Major Linguistics Concepts, Language / Parole: Competence Vs
Performance,
The Nature of Linguistic Sign
Unit-V
Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relationship, Substance and Form,
Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches

Prescribed Book :
D.V. Jindal Pushpinder Syal : An Introduction to Linguistics Language,
Grammar, and Semantics Prentice Hall of India.

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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER IV

PRESENTATION SKILLS
Hrs : 2
Credits : 2
UnitI
Powerful Presentation (1-15)
UnitII
Reinforcement (16-30)
UnitIII
Using visual aids (31-46)
UnitIV
Types and Methods of Presentations (47-59)
UnitV
Obstacles to Presentation (61-75)
Prescribed Book :
Roz Townsend : Presentation Skills for the Upwardly Mobile, Emerald Chennai

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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER V

CREATIVE WRITING
Hrs : 2
Credits: 2
Unit-I
Rhymes, Free Verse
Jokes and Think pieces
Article Writing
Unit-II
Descriptive Passages
Short Stories
Unit-III
Report Writing
Review Writing for books and films
Unit-IV
Writing for T.V Radio and Magazine
Freelance Writing
Unit-V
Preparation of Web Content
Advertisement Writing
Types of advertising and advertising media
Writing techniques in effective advertisement
Code of ethics for advertisement
Advertising and marketing
Prescribed Book : Creative Writing, Log swan
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SKILL BASED ELECTIVE PAPER VI

COMMUNICATION FOR PLACEMENT
Hrs : 2
Credits : 2
Unit-I
Language and Communication
Non-verbal Communication
Communication in Organizations
Unit-II
Dyadic Communication
Meetings
Seminars and conferences
Group Discussion
Audio- visual Aids
Unit-III
Formal Reports
Style
Technical Proposals
Unit-IV
Business Correspondence
Notices, Agenda, Minutes
Hand Books and Manuals
Unit-V
Research papers & Articles
Advertising
Job Description
Graphic Aids
Prescribed Book :
Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerjee - Developing Communication Skills,
Macmillan
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NON-MAJOR - II
COMMUNICATION FOR PLACEMENT
Hrs : 2
Credits : 2
Unit-I
Language and Communication
Non-verbal Communication
Communication in Organizations
Unit II
Dyadic Communication
Meetings
Seminars and conferences
Group Discussion
Audio- visual Aids
Unit- III
Formal Reports
Style
Technical Proposals
Unit-IV
Business Correspondence
Notices, Agenda, Minutes
Hand Books and Manuals
Unit-V
Research papers & Articles
Advertising
Job Description
Graphic Aids
Prescribed Book :
Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerjee : Developing Communication Skills,
Macmillan.
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FIFTH SEMESTER
CORE PAPER - VI
POST COLONIAL LITERATURE
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
UNIT-I & II POETRY
( Bengal )- Razia Khan My Daughters Boyfriend
( Africa) - Bernard Dadie - I Thank You God
(Australia) -A.D. Hope - Australia
(New Zealand) -Allen Curnow House and land
(Canadian)- K. J. Pratt The Dying eagle
(Africa) -Abioseh Nicol The Continent that Lies Within us

UNIT-III PROSE
Chinua Achebe - The Novelist as Teacher

UNIT-IV DRAMA
Africa -Wole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel

UNIT-V SHORT STORY

1.

Sinclair Ross The Lamp at Noon

2.

Margaret Laurence The Loons

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CORE PAPER VII

ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
Unit-I DETECTING USAGE ERRORS
Nouns
Pronouns
Articles and Preposition
Adverbs
Linking words
Unit-II DETECTING USAGE ERRORS
Exclamation
Punctuation
Phrasal Verbs
Subject- verb agreement
Homonyms
Time and Tense
Reported Speech
Active and Passive
Unit-III Paragraph
Minutes writing
Unit-IV
Report writing
Essay
Unit-V
CV writing
Attending Interview
Group Discussion
Prescribed Book : J.K.Gangal : Competitive English for Professional Courses,
S.Chand Publication (Sections D, E & F)

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CORE PAPER - VIII

WOMENS WRITING IN ENGLISH
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
UnitI & II Poetry
Kamala Das - My Grandmothers House
Maya Angelou: Phenomenal Woman
Alice Walker - Am I Blue?
Judith Wright - Clock and Heart
Kishwar Naheed - I am not that woman
Christina Georgina Rossetti Uphill

Unit-III Prose
Anita Desai Sale

Unit-IV Fiction
Manju Kapur - Difficult Daughters

Unit-V Short Story

Nadine Gordimer : A Correspondence Course
Bharati Mukherjee : A Wifes Story

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CORE PAPER IX
GRAMMAR AND SEMANTICS
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
Unit-I WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
1. Functions and Categories
2. Traditional Definitions
3. Empty Words
4. Functional Labels
Unit-II STRUCTURALIST VIEW OF GRAMMAR & I C ANALYSIS
1. Structural Grammar
2. I C Analysis
3. Phrase Structure Rules
4. Deep and Surface Structure
5. Transformational Rules
Unit-III MORPHOLOGY
1. Definition
2. Free and Bound Morphemes
3. Morphological Analysis of Words
Unit-IV WORD FORMATION
Structure of Words, Various Ways of Word Formation
1.
2.

Use of prefix and suffix

Conversions

3.

Compound Formation

4.

Reduplication

5.

Clippings

6.

Acronyms
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7.

Blends

8.

Borrowings

Unit-V SEMANTICS
1. Definition
2. What is Meaning: Different Kinds
3. Distinctions between Lexical and Grammatical Meaning
4. Sense and Reference
5. Sentence and Utterance
6. Entailment and Presupposition

Prescribed Book : D.V. Jindal Pushpinder Syal : An Introduction to Linguistics

Grammar and Semantincs, Prentice Hall of India

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CORE PAPER X
TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5

Unit-I Prose
I.A.Richards

: Four Kinds of Meaning

Unit-II & III Poetry

T.S. Eliot

: The Waste Land

Unit- IV Drama
Bertolt Brecht

: Mother Courage and Her Children

Unit- V FICTION
Arvind ADIGA The White Tiger

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SIXTH SEMESTER
CORE PAPER XI
SHAKESPEARE
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5

Unit-I& Il
Julius Caesar

Unit-III&IV
The Tempest

Unit-V
Macbeth

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COREPAPER XII
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
Unit-I
The English Language Teaching situation in India
Language Acquisition Theories
Approaches, Methods and Techniques
Unit-II
Curriculum and Syllabus Design
Classroom Management
The Teaching of Prose Text
Unit-III
The Teaching of Language Skills
The Teaching of Grammar
Remedial Teaching
Unit-IV
Language games
Lesson Planning and Classroom Observation
Unit-V
Language Testing and Evaluation
Constructing a Language Test
ELT and Source Disciplines
Prescribed Book: DR. M.N.K Bose : A text Book of English Language Teaching,
New Century Book House (p) Ltd.
Reference Books : 1. C. Paul Varghese : Teaching English as a Second
Language, Sterling Publishers
2. J.A. Bright & G.P. Mc Gregor : Teaching English as a Second Language,
Longman Publisher
3. Ghosh, Sastri, Das : Introduction to English Language Teaching. CIEFL (OUP)
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CORE PAPER XIII

ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
Unit-I
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Modern Literature (1370- 1600) Poetry

Modern Literature (1370- 1600) Prose
Modern Literature (1370 - 1600) Drama
The Age of Chaucer (1340-1400)
From Chaucer to the Renaissance (1400- 1520)

Unit-II
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Renaissance (1520-1590)
Age of Shakespeare (1590-1616)
Shakespeares Contemporaries and the Successors (1580-1625)
Milton and Dryden (1625-1700) Puritanism & Restoration
Restoration Prose (1660-1700)

Unit-III
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Classicism (1700-1740)
Classicism (1740-1770)
The Pre- Romantic Period (1770-1798)
Wordsworth & Coleridge (1798-1832) Romanticism
Walter Scott (1798-1832) Romantic Period

Unit-IV
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The Romantic Period (1798-1832) Second Generation of Poets

Victorian Era (1832-1875) Carlyle, Dickens, Bronte, and Ruskin
Victorian Era (1832-1875) Poetry & Novel
New Divergencies (1875-1914)
Twentieth Century (1914-1970)

Unit-V
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The Twentieth Century (1914-1970) The Novel & The Short Story
The Twentieth Century (1914-1970) The Theatre
The Twentieth Century (1914-1970) Poetry
The Twentieth Centruy6 (1914-1970) Criticism
Literary Quotes (Marlow to Modern Time)

Prescribed Book : Devaraj : English Literature for Competitive Examinations,

Emerald Publishers

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ELECTIVE Il
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Hrs : 6
Credits : 5
Unit-I POETRY
Walt Whitman: When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest
Robert Frost: Mending wall
Unit-II PROSE
Henry James: The art of Fiction
Unit-III DRAMA
Arthur Miller: All my sons
Unit-IV FICTION
Ernest Hemmingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Unit-V SHORT STORIES
0 Henry: The Furnished Room Willa Cather: Neighbour Rosicky

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ELECTIVE III
COMMUNICATION SKILLS PRACTICAL
External Examination: 75 Marks
Internal Examination: 25 Marks

UNIT I
Pronunciation and Neutralization of Accent
UNIT II
Communication Skills
Telephone Skills
UNIT III
Writing Skills
a. Transcoding a given chart, Table or Statistics into a report
b. Making Announcements
i.

Announcements in Radio & T.V about Programmes and Missing

Persons

ii.

Announcement in Railway Stations about the

arrival/departure/cancellation of Trains

c. Filling up Forms
i.

Money Order Forms

ii.

Telegram

iii.

Railway Reservation/Cancellation Forms

iv.

Mobile Connection Form

v.

Passport Application Form

vi.

Bank A/C opening Form

d. Preparing Advertisements and Brochures

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UNIT IV
A. Group Discussion Skills
a. Dress and Appearance
b. Motivation
c. Importance of being calm, friendly & cool
d. Importance of Listening
e. Leadership qualities
f. Knowledge of the subject
g. Delivery
i. Body Language
ii. Voice Modulation
iii. Language: simple, specific, intelligible, concrete &
sensuous
iv. Brevity
v. Humour
Note: Students are to be trained to group discuss current affairs, National
Issues, International Developments, Social Issues, Systems of
Government, Human rights etc.
B. Public Speaking Skills
a. Preparation
b. Knowledge of the subject
c. Dress and Appearance
d. Delivery: Body Language, Brevity, Humour, Accuracy and
Eloquence
e. Use of Anecdotes
f. Sensing the Audience
g. Overcoming fear
h. Time Management
i. Encountering a hostile atmosphere
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C. Reading Skills:
a. Pronunciation, Stress & Intonation
b. Fluency
UNIT V
A. Interview Skills
a. Making the Interview File
b. Preparation for the Interview
c. Dress and Appearance
d. Entry & Exit
e. Eye Contact
f. Gestures and Postures
g. Presence of Mind
h. Communication Skills
i. Knowledge
j. Brevity and Accuracy
k. Leadership Qualities
l. Negative Aspects
B. Magazine Making: See Guidelines for Conducting Practical
Examination
Note 1: Students are to be informed about the skills to be tested and the
marks allotted to each of them in Group Discussion, Public
Speaking, Reading and Interview skills tests.
For details see Appendix (Test Details)
Note 2: For the test in Interview Skills students are required to bring their
CV with them

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For Units I & II: Practice Book

A course in Listening and Speaking I (with CD) by V. Sasikumar, P
Kiranmai Dutt and Geetha Rajeevan. Published by Foundation Books, 21/1,
(New No. 49), I Floor, Model School Road, Thousand Lights, Chennai 600
006. Test Material will be taken only from the CD supplied with this
practice book.
For Unit IV A: Group Discussion Skills
Group Discussion by Dr B.R Kishore. Published by Vee Kumar
Publications Pvt. Ltd., 507, Vikram Towers, Rajendra Place, New Delhi 110
008.
For Unit IV B: Public Speaking Skills
Better speeches made easy by Walter Thompson, Pub. By W.R Goyal
Publishers and Distributors, 86, UB Jawahar Nagar, Delhi 110 007. Email: goyal@vsnl.com.
For Unit V A: Interview Skills
i.

The art and Techniques of Interviews by B.S Sijwal and Indu Sijwal
Pub. by Arihant Publications, Kalindi Transport Nagar, Meerut -2
(U.P) 250 003.

ii.

Interview Manual Interview Techniques and Model Interviews by

Abdul Hashem Pub. by Ramesh Publishing House, 12- H, New
Daryaganj Road, (Opp- to Traffic Kotwali), New Delhi 110 002.

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B.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
(CBCS PATTERN FOR ALL PAPERS: CORE, ALLIED, MAJOR AND NON MAJOR
ELECTIVES AND SKILL BASED ELECTIVE COURSES)
FOR THE STUDENTS ADMITTED FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013
ONWARDS
Time: 3 Hrs
Marks

Max: 75
SECTION A (20 Marks)

I.

Answer the following questions in about 30 words each

10 x 2 = 20
Ten Questions. Two questions from each unit. No choice
SECTION B (25 Marks)

II.

Answer the following questions in about 100 words each

5 x 5 = 25
Five Questions. One from each unit. Either.. or choice
SECTION C (30 Marks)

III.

Answer any three questions in about 200 words each

3 x 10 = 30
Answer any three out of five questions. One from each unit

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