Government College University, Faisalabad: Department of English
Government College University, Faisalabad: Department of English
Government College University, Faisalabad: Department of English
Department of English
Syllabus of B.A.(Honors)English Literature (Semester System)
implemented from 2018 onwards
Policy Guidelines:
1. Focus on the critical appreciation and evaluation of the texts
2. Include 02 oral presentations, 01 group discussion, 01 mock interviews/viva voce and
1 quiz in the credited task/s (sessional)
3. Avoid Objective Type questions. Short Questions may be included in the question
papers.
4. Accept self-written assignment after plagiarism check (below 17%) through Turnitin
software
Semester: 1
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
English (I)
1 ENG-301 3(3-0)
Pakistan Studies
2 PST-321 2(2-0)
History of English Literature (I)
3 ENG-305 3(3-0)
Introduction to Literary Studies ENG—
4 303 3(3-0)
Classical Poetry (I)
5 ENG-307 3(3-0)
Prose
6 ENG-309 3(3-0)
7 Social Psychology PSY-407 3(3-0)
Total 20
Semester: 2
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
English (II)
1 ENG-302 3(3-0)
Islamic Studies
2 ISL-321 2(2-0)
Classical Poetry (II)
3 ENG-304 3(3-0)
History of English Literature (II)
4 ENG-306 3(3-0)
Greek Literature
5 ENG-308 3(3-0)
Philosophy
6 ENG-310 3(3-0)
Total 17
Semester: 3
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
English (III)
1 ENG-401 3(3-0)
Computing
2 CSI- 321 3(3-0)
Introduction to Linguistics
3 ENG-403 3(3-0)
Novel (I) ENG-
4 405 3(3-0)
Elizabethan and Restoration Drama
5 ENG-407 3(3-0)
Physical Geography
6 GEO-302 3(3-0)
Total 18
Semester: 4
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
Advanced Academic Reading and Writing
1 ENG-402 3(3-0)
Media Studies
2 ENG-404 3(3-0)
Literary Criticism
3 ENG-406 3(3-0)
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
4 ENG-408 3(3-0)
Victorian Novel
5 ENG-409 3(3-0)
Shakespearean Studies
6 ENG-410 3(3-0)
Total 18
Semester: 5
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
Modern Poetry
1 ENG-501 3(3-0)
Pakistani Literature in Translation
2 ENG-503 3(3-0)
TESOL
3 ENG-505 3(3-0)
Literary Theory (I)
4 ENG-507 3(3-0)
American Literature (I)
5 ENG-509 3(3-0)
Modern Novel
6 ENG-511 3(3-0)
Total 18
Semester: 6
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
Literary Theory (II)
1 ENG-502 3(3-0)
American Literature (II)
2 ENG-504 3(3-0)
Modern Drama
3 ENG-506 3(3-0)
Russian Literature
4 ENG-508 3(3-0)
Pakistani Literature in English (I)
5 ENG-510 3(3-0)
Total 15
Semester: 7
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
Short Stories
1 ENG-601 3(3-0)
Postcolonial Studies
2 ENG-603 3(3-0)
Pakistani Literature in English (II)
3 ENG-605 3(3-0)
Literature of War and Conflict
4 ENG-607 3(3-0)
Theatre of the Absurd
5 ENG-609 3(3-0)
Total 15
Semester: 8
Course
Sr # Course Title Credit Hours
Code
Research Methodology
1 ENG-602 3(3-0)
Women’s Writings
2 ENG-604 3(3-0)
World Literature
3 ENG-606 3(3-0)
Postcolonial Literature
4 ENG-608 3(3-0)
Critical Theory
5 ENG-610 3(3-0)
Total 15
Semester 1
Introduction:
The course teaches the basics of English language to the fresh students of B.S. programme. It
enhances their command over language by enabling them to understand the techniques of making
simple sentences and complex sentences. Along with that, it also improves their speaking and
writing skills and inculcates a sense of confidence for the oral presentation, quiz and viva voce.
Objectives:
➢ To develop abilities for effective communication
➢ To make English language learning experience meaningful and interactive
➢ To enable the students to engage and collaborate with each other for vocabulary-building
Course Outline:
• Formal/Informal Introduction
• Parts of Speech (Basics of English Grammar)
• Phrases
• Clauses: Subject, Verb, Direct/Indirect Object, Object Complement, Subject
Complement
• Sentence Structure
• Kinds of Sentences
• Combining Sentences
• Use of Active/Passive Voice and Direct/Indirect Narration
• English Expressions, Manners & Greetings (Greeting etiquette, Gratitude, Command,
Agreement/Disagreement, Time-checking etc)
Recommended Readings:
Objectives:
➢ To understand the spirit of freedom struggle in the creation of Pakistan
➢ To study the process of governance and national development in the early years of the
creation of Pakistan
➢ To examine the external and internal challenges the country faced after its independence
Course Outline:
• Regeneration of Muslim Society in the Sub-Continent and Causes of Decline of Muslim
Rule
• War of Independence 1857 and its Impacts upon the Politics of South Asia
• Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Aligarh Movement:
i) Educational Services
ii) Political Services
iii) Rational Interpretation of Islam
• All India Muslim League:
iv) Multiple Approaches and Causes of the Formation of Muslim League
v) Objectives of Muslim League
vi) Comparison of the Policies of All Indian National Congress and All India Muslim
League
vii) Politics of Muslim League after the Creation of Pakistan
• Luckhnow Pact 1916, High Water Mark of Hindu-Muslim Unity
• Khilafat Movement:
viii) Khilafat as an Institution
ix) Hindu-Muslim Unity
x) Role of Gandhi
xi) Emergence of Muslim Ulma in Indian Politics
xii) Causes of the Failure and Impacts of the Movement
• Iqbal’s Address at Allahabad 1930 and Political Thoughts of Ch. Rehmat Ali
• Congress Ministries
• Pakistan Resolution 1940
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah:
xiii) Jinnah’s role in Indian Politics
xiv) Quaid s a Governor General
• Initial Problems and Constitutional Development in Pakistan
• Constitutions of Pakistan (1956-1962-1973)
• Political Culture of Pakistan
• Foreign Policy of Pakistan:
xv) Major Determinants and Objectives
xvi) Overview
Recommended Readings:
Sr. No Books Author
Objectives:
➢ To develop an understanding of the economic theories, religious postures, philosophical
schools of thought and metaphysical debates that overlap each other in the literary works
of diverse nature elaborated in the history of English Literature
➢ The make the students aware of the fact that literary works are basically a referential
product of the practice that goes back to continuous interdisciplinary dialogical interaction
➢ To analyze and criticize the works of literature in their cultural and historical contexts
➢ To assess the influence of literary movements in Britain on English literature from all parts
of the world
Course Outline
• Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman conquest)
• Age of Chaucer
i) Salient Features of the Age of Chaucer
ii) Chaucer as Representative of his Age
iii) Chaucer’s Contribution to English Language and Literature
• Renaissance and Reformation
• University Wits
• Elizabethan Drama
• William Shakespeare
• Elizabethan Poetry
• Jacobean Drama
• Prose in Elizabethan Era
• Metaphysical School of Poetry
• Restoration Comedy
• 18th Century: Age of Prose Reason and Satire (Neo-Classical Era)
• Rise of English Novel
Core Readings:
Sr No Books Authors
04 A Brief History of English Literature, New York, John Peck & Martin Coyle
Palgrave Publishers, 2002
06 The Routledge History of Literature in English Ronal Carter & John McRae
London. Routledge, 2001
Objectives:
➢ To study the history and practice of English as a scholarly discipline
➢ To undergo the history and development of each genre through excerpts of literary texts
➢ To do close reading of texts and analyze them with different critical frameworks
Contents:
Core Readings
Sr. Books Author
No
01 Mastering English Literature Richard Gill
02 Introduction to Literary Studies Mario Clarer
03 Introduction to the Study of Literature W. H. Hudson
04 Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms J. A. Cuddons
Objectives:
➢ Develop a deeper appreciation of linguistic and cultural diversity by introducing them to
poetry of Classical Era
➢ To impart an insight into specific poetic language and classical allusions
➢ To explore the social and political situatedness of the poet and his textual
➢ To identify a variety of forms and genres of poetry such as sonnets, ballads, dramatic
monologues etc
➢ To recognize the rhythms, metrics and other musical aspects of poetry
Contents:
• Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book I)
• John Donne: Good Morrow, The Sun Rising, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Death be not
Proud, Batter My Heart, Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Recommended Readings:
Sr No Books Authors
Objectives:
➢ To impart the knowledge of the distinct features of Prose
➢ To recognize and discuss selected texts from the Renaissance and compare them with the
modern renderings
➢ To approach literary texts in terms of genre, gender and the canon
➢ To engage in comparative work, draw general conclusions and use textual evidence to
argue a case
➢ To improve writing skills of students by providing them readings of well-known prose
writers
➢ To develop critical thinking in students
Contents:
Recommended Readings:
Sr No Books Authors
01 The English Eassys and Essayists. S. Hugh Walker
Chand & Co. Delhi.
02 Gulliver’s Travels (Case. Book Series). Richard Gravil
Macmillan .1974.
03 The Glory of English Prose. Tutis Digital Stephen Coleridge
Publishing Pvt. Ltd
04 Bertrand Rusell, Philosopher and John Leavis
Humanist. New World Paperbacks
Objectives:
➢ To expand the knowledge about social psychology and human behavior
➢ To raise awareness of the major problems and issues in the discipline of social psychology
and develop capacity to interpret research findings
➢ To understand the behavior of other people, particularly that of members of the diverse
array of groups and social categories to which learners do not belong
➢ To recognize the limits in generalizing psychological research to all
cultural/gender/ethnic/age groups and understand the dynamics of intergroup relationships,
conflict, and cooperation
Contents:
• Introduction to Psychology
o Definition, Nature, Application of Psychology in Pakistan
• Method of Psychology
o Observation Method
o Case History Method
o Experimental Method
o Interview
• Sensation: Definition, Characteristics
o Vision, Structure and Functions of the Eye
o Audition: Structure and Function of the Ear
• Perception: Definition, Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization, Types of Perception and
Illusion
• Learning: Definition, Types of Learning, Classical and Operant Conditioning, Methods
of Learning, Trial and Error, Learning by Insight, Observational Learning
• Socialization: Definition, Agents of Socialization, Process of Socialization
• Attitude: Nature, Formation of Attitude, Attitude Change
• Group Dynamics: Nature & Scope of Group, Interaction in Group, Culture & Social
Norms
Recommended Readings:
Sr No Books Author
01 Psychology: An Introduction (11th Ed) B. Lehay
02 Social Psychology (11th Ed) David Myers
03 Understanding Psychology (9th Ed) R. Feldman
04 An Approach to Cognitive Psychology H. Khalil
05 The Social Animal Elliot Aronson
Semester 2
Introduction:
This course introduces the students to the conventions of academic reading and writing to improve
their study skills. It enhances the creative and critical abilities of the students to skim for main
ideas, scan for details, develop reading speed, build academic vocabulary, make use of contextual
clues to infer meanings of unfamiliar words from context, summarize and paraphrase information
in a text and distinguish main ideas from specific details. Furthermore, it teaches them to locate
and select relevant information, take notes, paraphrase, synthesize and organize information,
demonstrate behavior and attitudes appropriate to a university environment (work collaboratively),
manage time, and comply with academic integrity rules.
Objectives:
➢ To take effective notes
➢ To read for comprehension and retention
➢ To evaluate various types of tests and select appropriate test taking techniques
➢ To develop a personalized study schedule
➢ To apply learning style to college learning
➢ To employ memory strategies and appropriate levels of thinking
Course Outline:
• Reading Comprehension
i) Identify Main Idea/Topic Sentence
ii) Analyzing paragraph writing
iii) Find Specific Information quickly
iv) Recognize and Interpret Cohesive Devices
v) Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion
vi) Pre- reading
vii) Skimming and Scanning
viii) SQ3R
ix) Notes taking techniques
x) Analyzing paragraph structure
xi) Identifying the writer’s intention such as cause/effect, reasons, comparison and
contrast, exemplification.
xii) Interpreting charts and diagrams
xiii) Making appropriate notes using strategies such as mind maps, tables, lists,
lists, graphs.
• Enhancing Vocabulary through Reading
• General Study Skills: Time Management, Finding Learning Style, Developing Reading
Keys and Systems
• Getting organized and knowing one’s Target
• Dictionary Skills
• Using the Library
• Critical Thinking
Recommended Readings:
Sr No Books Authors
Objectives:
➢ To provide Basic information about Islamic Studies
➢ To enhance understanding of the students regarding Islamic Civilization
➢ To improve students’ skill to perform prayers and other rituals
➢ To enhance the skill of the students for understanding of issues related to faith and religious
life
Contents:
5 ب طلبُ کَس ِ سلَّ َم َ علَ ْی ِہ َو َ اّٰللُ َ صلَّی ہ اّٰللِ َ س ْو ُل ہ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَالَ :قَا َل َر ُ ی ہ ض َ ِاّٰللِ َر ِ 11۔ َعن ْ َع ْبد ہ
ض ِۃ َ ی
ْ ر ِ َ ف ْ
ال َ د ع
َْ ب ۃ ض
ِ َ ی
ْ ر َ ف ل ِ ْال َح َال
بیہقی) االیمان (شعب
سلَّ َم قَا َل اَلتَّا ِج ُر َ َ و ہ
ِ ی
ْ َ ل ع
َ ُ اّٰلل ہ ی َّ ل ص
َ ُ َ ِ ِ ِ َ ی بَّ ن ال ن ع ہ ْ
ن ع ُ ہ
اّٰلل یَ ِ َ ض ر دٍ ی
ْ ع
ِ س
12۔ َ ِ ْ َ
ی بَ ا ن ْ ع
لص ِد ْی ِقیْنَ َوالش َھدَاء (جامع تر مذی) 1209: ُّ صد ُْو ُق ْاالَ ِم ْینُ َم َع النبِیِیْنَ َو ِ َّ ال َّ
سلَّم قَالَ :أ تَد ُْر ْونَ اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلَّی ہ َ ہ
اّٰلل ل َ و ْ س
ُ ر
َ ن َّ َ ا ُ ہ ْ
ن ع
َ ُ ہ
اّٰلل ی
َ ضِ ۃر
ِ ْ َ َ َ ْر ی ُر ھ ی ب َ ا نْ ع
َ ۔ 13
س ِمن ا َّمتِ ْی َمن ُ ْ ْ
ع فقالَ:اِن ال ُمف ِل َ َّ َ َ َ َ
س؟ قال ْوا ال ُمف ِلس فِیْنا َمن الد ِْرھَم َلہ' َوال َمت َا َ َّ ْ ْ ْ َ ُ َ ْ
َما ال ُمف ِل ُ ْ
ف ٰھذَا َوا َ َک َل َمال ٰھذَا شت ََم ٰھذَا َوقَذَ َ صیَ ٍام َوزَ ٰکاۃٍ َو یَأْتِ ْی قَدْ َ صالۃٍ َو ِ یَّأْتِ ْی َی ْو َم ْال ِق ٰی َم ِۃ ِب َ
سنَاتُہ' قَ ْب َل اَ ْن یُّقـضٰ ی ت َح َ سنَاتِ ٖہ فَا ِْن فُنِیَ ْ ب ٰھذَا فَیُ ْع ٰطی ٰھذَا ِم ْن َح َ ض َر َ ک دَ َم ٰھذَا َو َ سفَ َ َو َ
ار۔(رواہ مسلم ،کتاب طایَاھُم فَط ِر َحت َعلَ ْی ِہ ث َّم ط ِر َح فِی النَّ ِ ُ ُ ُ َما َعلَ ْی ِہ ا ُ ِخذَ ِم ْن َخ َ
البر)65٧9:
ْ
ش ْیء اَثقَ َل سل َم قَا َل َ :ما َ َّ عل ْی ِہ َو َ َ اّٰللُ َ صلی ہ َّ یَ َ ی اّٰللہ ُ َع ْنہُ ا َ َّن النَّبِ َّ ض َ آء َر ِ بی الد َّْردَ ِ 14۔ َع ْن ا َ ِ
ی َ َ َّذ
ِ ب ْ
ال ش اح
ِ َ ف ْ
ال ض ُ غِ ب ْ ی
َ ی ٰ
ال ع
َ َ َ ت ہ
اّٰلل َّ
ِن ا َ ف ن َ َ ٍ س ح ق
ٍ ْ
ل خُ ن ْ م ِ ۃ م
َ ی ٰ ق
ِ ْ
ال م
ان ا ُ ِ َ ْ َ
و ی ن م ِ ؤْ م ْ
ل فِی ِْمیْزَ ِ
(ترمذی)2002:
سلَّ َم قَالَ:ا َ ْربَع َم ْن َ َ َ و ہ
ِ ی ْ َ ل ع ُ ہ
اّٰلل ی َّ ل ص
ِ َّ َ ی ب َّ ن ال َّ
ن َ ا ہ
َ ُ ْ
ن ع ُ اّٰللہ ی
َ ِ َ ض ر َّاس ٍ ب 15۔ َع ِن اب ِْن َع
َ ْ َ ً
سا نا ذا ِک ًرا َّو بَدنا َعلی البَلء َ ً ی َخی َْر الدُّنیا َواال ِخ َرۃِ قلبًا شَا ِک ًرا َّو ِل َ ْ َ ٰ ْ ْ ْط َ ْطیَ ُھ َّن فَقَدْ أُع ِ اُع ِ
صا ِب ًرا َّوزَ ْو َج ًۃ ال ت َ ْب ِغ ْی ِہ ُح ْوبًا ِف ْی نَ ْف ِس َھا َو َما ِل ٖہ (سنن نسا ئی ،کنز العمال 43409: َ
)
6 سلَّم :اِجْ تَ ِنب ُْوا ُ َ ِ َ َ و ہ ی
ْ َ ل ع اّٰللہ ی َّ ل ص
َ ُ
ل و س
َ ُْ َ:ر ل ا َ ق ال َ ق ہ
َ ِ ْ َ َ َ ِ َ ُ َ ُ ْ
ن ع اّٰللہ ی ض ر َ ۃ یر ُر ھ ی ب َ ا ن ْ ع ۔ 16
کُٖ بِا ہّٰللِ َوالسِحْ ُر َوقَتْ ُل النَّ ْف ِس اّٰللِ َو َما ھ َُّن قَالَ:اَلش ِْر ُ س ْو َل ہ س ْب َع ال ُم ْوبِقَاتِ،قَالُوا یا َر ُ ال َّ
ف ُ ْ ذ َ ق و َ ف ِ حْ الزَّ م
ْ َ یو ی ل وِ َ َ َّ ت ال و ْم ی ت
ِ الی ل
َ ِ ا م ل ُ ک َ ا و َ ا بو ٰ الر ِ ل ُ ک ْ َ ا و ِ َ ِ َ ق ح ْ
ال ب َّ ال ِ ا ُ اّٰللہ الَّتِ ْ َ َّ َ
م ر ح ی
علیہ) (متفق ت الغَافِالَ ِ ْ ت ؤمنَا ِ ال ُم ِ ْ ت صنَا ِ ْال ُمحْ َ
اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ صلَّی ہ اّٰللِ َ س ْو َل ہ س ِم ْعتُ َر ُ اّٰللُ َع ْن ُہ قَا َل َ ی ہ ض َ س ِع ْی ٍد ْال ُخد ِْری َر ِ ع ْن ا َ ِب ْی َ 1٧۔ َ
سانِ ٖہ فا ِْن ل ْم یَ ْست َِط ْع َّ َ سلَّم یَق ْو ُل َم ْن َّرای ِمنک ْم ُمنک ًَرا فلیُغَیِ ْرہُ بِیَد ِٖہ ف ِا ْن ل ْم یَ ْست َِطع فبِ ِل َ
َ َّ َ ْ َ ْ ُ ْ ُ َو َ
) مسلم1٧٧: (رواہ انَ ِ م ی
ْ االِ ْ ف ُ ع
َ ض ْ َ ا ک
َ ل ِ ذ ٰ و َ ہٖ ب ْ
فَ ِبقَ ِ
ل
سلم یُ َجآ ُء َّ اّٰللُ َعل ْی ِہ َو َ َ ص لی ہ َّ اّٰللِ َ س ْول ہ ُ اّٰللُ َعنہُ قالَ:قا َل َر ُ َ َ ْ ی ہ ض َ سام َۃ ب ِْن زَ ْی ٍد َر ِ ُ
18۔ َعن ا َ ْ
طحْ ِن ْال ِح َما ِر ط َحنُ فِ ْی َھا َک َ ار فَیَ ْ ِ َّ ن ال یْ ف
ِ ُہ' ب َا ت ْ
ق َ ا ُ
لق َ د نْ َ ت َ ف ر ِ ا َّ ن ال ی ف
ِ ی ق ٰ ْ
ُل ی َ ف ِ ۃ م َ ی ٰ ق ِ ْ
ال م
ِب َر ُج ٍل ٍٖ یَ ْ َ
و
ف و ر
َ تَ ُ ُ ِ َ ْ ُ ْ ِع م ْ
ال ب َا ن ر م ْ ا َ ت ْ
ن ُ
ک ْس ی ال ک
َ ُ ن َا ش ا مَ الن ُ ف ی
ِ َ ْ ِ َ ْ ْ نَ ْ َ ا و ُ ل و ُ ق ی َ ف ہ ی َ ل ع ار َّ ن ال ل ُ ھْ َ ا ع َم ِب َر َحاہُ فَ َیجْ ت ِ
ٰ ْ
َوت َ ْنھٰ نَا َع ِن ال ُم ْنک َِر؟قَا َل ُک ْنتُ ا ُم ُر ُک ْم بِال َم ْع ُر ْوف َوالَ ا تِ ْی ِہ َواَنَ َھا ُک ْم َعنِال ُم ْنک َِر َوا تِی ْہ ِٖ ٰ ْ ٰ ْ
) (بخاری326٧:
ی نَف ِس ْی بِیَد ِٖہ ْ سلم ََوال ِذ ْ َّ َّ اّٰللُ َعل ْی ِہ َو َ َ ص لی ہ َّ اّٰللِ َ س ْو ُل ہ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَا َل َر ُ ی ہ ض َ 19۔ َع ْن اَن ٍَس َر ِ
ال ِخی ْٖہ َما ی ُِحبُّ ِل َن ْفس ِٖہ۔(رواہ مسلم)1٧0: َالیُؤْ ِمن َع ْبد ٌ َحتہی ی ُِحبَّ ِ َ
سلَّ َم
اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلَّی ہ اّٰلل ِ َ س ْو ُل ہ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَا َل قَا َل َر ُ ی ہ ض َ ان ب ِْن بَ ِشی ٍْر َر ِ َ 20۔و َع ِن النُّ ْع َم ِ
عض ٌْو تَدَا َعی س ِد اِذَا ا ْشت َٰکی ُ ج
ِْ َ َ ْ َ َ ِْ َ ِ َ َ ال ْ ل َ ث م َ
ک م ھ ف
ِ ُ
ط ا ع َ ت و م ھ ِ د ِ ا َو ت و م ھ م ِ ح ُ َ ا َر ت ت ََری ْال ُمؤْ ِمنِیْنَ فِ ْ
ی
س َھ ِر َوال ُح ہمی (متفق علیہ ،بخاری )6011 : ْ س ِد بِال َّ سآئِ ُر ْال َج َ لَہ' َ
7 سلَّ َم اَالَ علَ ْی ِہ َو َ اّٰللُ َ صلَّی ہ اّٰلل َ س ْو ُل ہ اّٰللُ َع ْن ُہما قَا َل قَا َل َر ُ ی ہ ض َ ع َم َر َر ِ ِاّٰلل اب ِْن ُ 21۔ َع ْن َع ْبد ہ
ی َعلی الناس َِراعٍ َّ َ َّ
اال َما ُم االعظم ال ِذ ْ ُکلُّ ُک ْم َراعٍ َّوکلک ْم َم ْسئ ْو ٌل َعن َّر ِعیتِ ٖہَٖ ف ِ
ْ َ ْ ُ ُ ُّ ُ
الر ُج ُل َرا ٍع َع ٰٰۤلی اَ ْھ ِل بَ ْیتِ ٖہ َوھ َُو َم ْسئ ُ ْو ٌل َع ْن َّر ِعیَّتِ ٖہ َوال َم ْراَۃ ُ
ْ َوھ ُُو َم ْسئ ُ ْول َع ْن َّر ِعیَّتِ ٖہ َو َّ
ٰ ِی َم ْسئول ٌۃ َعن ُھ ْم و َع ْبدُ َّ ْ َ ُ َ َراِ َعی ٌۃ َع ٰلی بَ ْی ِ
سیِد ِٖہ الر ُج ِل َراعٍ َعلی َما ِل َ ت زَ ْو ِج َھا َو َولد ِٖہ َوھ َ
َوَٖ ھ َُو َم ْسئ ُ ْولٌ َع ْنہُ اَالَ فَ ُکل ُک ْم َراعٍ َو ُکل ُک ْم َم ْسئ ُ ْو ٌل َع ْن َر ِعیَّتِ ٖہ (بخاری ٧138:و ُّ ُّ
ترمذی)1٧05:
سل َمَ :مثَ ِل ْی َّ اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلی ہ َّ اّٰلل ِ َ س ْو ُل ہ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَالَ ،قَا َل َر ُ ی ہ ض َ 22۔ َع ْن اَبِ ْی ھ َُری َْر ۃ َ َر ِ
ظا ُر ف ِبہالنَّ َّ َ ا َ
ط َ ف ٍ، ۃ ن
َ ب َ ل
ُ ِ َ ِ ُ َْ َ ٍ ِ ع ض و م ہ ْ
ن م ک ر ُ ت ، ہ ن یا ن ْ ُ ب ن سَ حْ َ أ ر ص یاء َک َمث َ ِل قَ َ َو َمثَل ْاالَ ْن ِب ِ
ُ
ض َع ال ِل ْبنَ َۃ، سدَدْتُ َم ْو َ ک اللبِنَ ِۃ ،فَ ُک ْنت اَنَا َ َّ ضعٍ تِل َ ْ یتَعَ َّجب ُْونَ ِم ْن ُحس ِْن بَنَا ئِ ٖہ ا ِِٖال َم ْو َ َّ
س ُل َو فِ ْی ِر َوایۃٍ :فَاَنَا اللَّ ِبنَ ُۃ َواَنَا َخا تَ ُم النَّ ِب ِی ِینَ ۔ (رواہ الر ُ ی الُبُ ْنیانَ َو ُختِ َم ِبی ُّ ُختِ َم ِل َ
)3535: البخاری
سلَّ َم قَالَ :ا َ ْر َح ُم ا ُ َّمتِ ْی ِبا ُ َّمتِ ْیاَب ُْو اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلَّی ہ ُ ِ ِ ِ َ ی ب َّ ن ال ن عَ ہ ْ
ن ع
َ ُ اّٰلل ہ ی َ ض ِ ر َ َس ٍ ن َ ا 23۔ َعن
ض َھ ْم زَ ْیدُ ْبنُ ثاَ ع ِلی َو اف َر ُ ْ َ ضاھ ْم َ ُ ئ َعث َم َ ،وأق َ ْ َ انُ ْ صدَ ق ُھ ْم َحیا ً ُ ع َم ُر َو ا ْ َ شدُّ ھ ْم ُ ُ بَ ْک ٍر َو ا َ
َ
ْ َ
ب َو ِل ُک ِل أ َّم ٍۃ أ ِمیْن َو أ ِم ْینُ ٰھذ ِٖہ ْاالُ َّمۃ ِأب ُْو ُ َ َ ُ ُ
ِبتٍَ ،و أ َ ْق َر ُء ُھ ْم أبَ ُّ
عبَ ْیدَۃ َ ْبنُ ال َج َّراحِ ی ْبنُ َک ْع ٍ
۔(رواہ احمد والتر مذی ،مشکوۃ المصا بیح ،باب منا قب العشرۃ)
سلَّم َعلَی صلَّی اّٰللہ ُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ س ْول ا ہّٰللِ َ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَالََ :رأ َیت َر ُ ی ہ ض َ کرۃ َ َر ِ 24۔َ َع ْن أَبِ ْی بَ َ
اس َم َّرۃ ً َو َعلَ ْی ِہ أ ُ ْخ ٰری َویقُ ْولُ: سنُ ْبنُ َع ِل ٍی ا ِٰلی َج ْن َب ْی ِہ َوھ َُو ی ْق ِب ُل َع ٰلی النَّ ِ ْال ِم ْن َب ِر َو ْال َح َ
ص ِل َح بِ ٖہ بَیْنَ فِئتَی ِْن َع ِظ ْی َمت َی ِْن ِمنَ أن ی ْ اّٰلل ْ سیِد َو لعَ َّل ہ َ ا َِّن ا ْبنِ ْی ٰھذا َ
ْال ُم ْس ِل ِمیْنَ (بخاری)2٧04:
سلَّ َماّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلَّی ہ س ْو ُل اللہ ِہ َ َ:ر ُ اّٰللُ َع ْنہُ قَال قَال َ ی ہ ض َ صی ِْن َر ِ َ 25۔و َعن ِع ْم َرانَ بْن ُح َ
َ :خی ُْر أ ُ َّمتِ ْی قَ ْرنِ ْی ث ُ َّم الَّ ِذیْنَ یلُ ْونَ ُھ ْم،ث ُ َّم الَّ ِذیْنَ یلُ ْونَ ُھم۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔(متفق علیہ
بخاری)3650:
ی سلَّ َم ف ِْ اّٰللُ َعلَ ْی ِہ َو َ صلَّی ہ َ ُ ل وْ س
ُ ر َ َا ن ب
َ ط َ خ َ َ: ل ا َ ق ہ
ُ ْ
ن ع
َ ُ اّٰلل ہ ی
َ ض ِ ر َ ِ اّٰلل ہ د
ِ ب
ْ ع َ ْن 26۔ َع ْن َجا ِب ِرب ِ
،واِن أبَاک ْم َوا ِحد ُ َ َّ احد َ اس:اِن َر َّبک ْم َو ِ ُ َّ ِیام الت َ ْش ِریْق ِخطبَ َۃ ال َودَاعِ فقالَ :یای َھا الن ُ
َّ َ َ َ ْ ْ ُ ْط أ ِ َوس ِ
ض َل ِلعَ َر ِبی َع ٰلی َع َج ِمی َو َال ِلعَ َج ِمی َع ٰلی َع َر ِبیَ ،و َال ِِل حْ َم َر َعلی أس َْودَ َولال
َ ٰ َ َأالال فَ ْ
اّٰللِ ٰأَتْ ٰق ُک ْم ،أ َ َال ھ َْل َبلَّ ْغتُ ؟ قَا لُ ْوا َب ٰلی یا ِالَس َْودَ َع ٰلی أَحْ َم َر ا َِّال ِبالت َّ ْقوی۔ا َِّن ا َ ْک َر َم ُک ْم ِع ْندَ ہ
شا ِھد ُ ْالغَا ِئب۔( البیھقی ،شعب
شا ِھد ُ ْالغَا ِئب َف ْلی َب ِل ُغ ال َّ
س ْو َل ا ہّٰللِ ،قَالَ :فَ ْلی َب ِل ُغ ال َّ
َر ُ
االیمان ،باب فی حفظ اللسان ،فصل فی حفظ اللسان عن الفخر با ِلباء)
8 مطالعہ سیر ت کی ضرو رت و اہمیت ۔
تعارف کا سیرت کتب اردو
9 نبی کر یم صلی ہللا علیہ وسلم کی حکمت انقالب۔ ہجرت ،میثاق مدینہ ،صلح سیر ت النبی صلی ہللا
حدیبیہ ،خطبہ حجۃ الوداع علیہ وسلم
10 تزکیہ نفس اور تعمیر سیرت و شخصیت کانبو ی منہاج اور عملی نمو نے۔
صحابہ کرام ،امہات المومنین
11 تشکیل اجتماعیت و معاشرت اور اسو ہ حسنہ ۔
13 اسالمی تہذیت وثقا فت (الف) اسالمی تہذیب و ثقا فت کے خصا ئص۔
عدل اجتماعی ،اخالقی اقدار ،انسا نی حقوق ،روا داری ،اعتدال و توازن
14 (ب) اسالمی تہذیب و ثقا فت کے عا لمی اثرات
Recommended Readings:
Objectives:
➢ To explore the impact of Romantic and Victorian age on Literature
➢ To examine some of the divergent offshoots of Realism like Naturalism, Symbolism,
Existentialism, Absurdism, Surrealism, and many others
➢ To study the effects of world wars
➢ To comprehend the diversity in the literature and textuality of the Postmodern era
Contents:
• Romantic Age
• Victorian Age
• Modern Age
• Postmodern Age (with an exclusive focus on literary movements)
• Realism
• Naturalism
• Modernism
• Symbolism Existentialism/ Absurdism
• Surrealism
• Postmodernism
Recommended Readings:
Sr. No. Books Authors
Objectives:
➢ To analyze the elements of poetry and give critical appreciation
➢ To understand poetry from different cultural and historical periods
➢ To sensitise students about selected poetic genres
➢ To develop a sense of social and political textual relevance
Contents:
• John Milton: The Paradise Lost Book 1 and 9
• Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Recommended Readings:
Sr. No. Books Author
Objectives:
➢ To familiarize with the cultural, religious, and literary background of the Greek Literature
➢ To examine the literary contribution of the Greeks to the World literature through a focus
on the thematic concerns and formal features of the selected works
➢ To foreground the reception of Greek literature from Roman antiquity through Renaissance
art and beyond
Contents:
• Mythology
i) Homeric Hymns (Hymn to Aphrodite, Hymn to Apollo)
• Epic
ii) Iliad Book 1
• Tragedy
iii) Aeschylus: Agamemnon
iv) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Recommend Readings:
Objectives:
➢ To give the undergraduate students a broad-based and comprehensive understanding of
philosophy
➢ To orient them with the basic terms and tenets of philosophy
➢ To introduce them with the essential features of philosophic thought, inquiry and discipline
to give a brief appraisal of major philosophers in western philosophical history
Contents:
• Idealism
• Existentialism
• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Logical Positivism
• Post-positivism
• Pragmatism
Philosophers
1. Descartes
2. Hegel
3. Rousseau
4. Nietzsche
5. Marx
Recommended Readings
Objectives:
➢ To identify strengths and weakness of writing structures
➢ To utilize library resources for information and research
➢ To apply critical thinking skills to analyze, interpret, and evaluate course content and
information
➢ To understand what writing assignments/letters/essays involves
➢ To understand the functions of essays and reports
➢ To demonstrate writing skills efficiently
Course Outline:
• Significance of Writing
• Writing Steps
i) Pre- writing
ii) Drafting
iii) Editing
iv) Publishing
• 7 Cs in writing
• Application Writing/ Office Letter
• Essential & Non-essential elements of a letter
• Body of letter (Direct and indirect approach of composing a message)
• Its Formats
• Punctuation Rules
• Job Application Writing/Cover letter, CV and Resume Writing
• Essay writing
• Report writing (Reading various samples & understanding its steps)
Recommend Readings:
Objectives:
➢ To understand and articulate general issues concerning nature & function of language.
These include the basic mechanisms common to all languages: domains of phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
➢ To compare and contrast languages in terms of systematic differences in phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Recommended Readings:
Sr. No. Books Author
Objectives:
➢ Apprising students with the genre of novel; its lateral entrance into literary tradition
➢ To understand the basic structure of novel with special focus on plot, characterization,
setting and language by making students familiar with E.M. Forster’s Aspects of
Novel-introducing to the art of novel.
➢ To introduce Henry Fielding, his art, social realism and socio-political reality of his
times
➢ To evaluate and interpret Joseph Andrews by making marriage between stylistic and
thematic concerns
➢ To examine the art of Jane Austen and her dealings with realities of her age especially
marriage, love, family system and socio-political currents
Course Outline:
• Aspects of the Novel by EM Forster
• Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Recommend Readings:
Sr. No. Books Authors
Introduction:
During the reign of Elizabeth -1 in the 16th Century, drama as a genre developed tremendously.
Renaissance spirit found its best expression in drama. University wits and Shakespeare
describe the temper of renaissance age. Exploration, exploitation, orientalism, race and
antisemitism are some major themes of Elizabethan drama. Restoration age is famous for the
development of comedy.
Objectives:
➢ To introduce the major features of Elizabethan and Restoration drama
➢ To highlight the major theoretical debates that characterize drama in both Elizabethan
and Restoration drama
➢ To examine major playwrights of both ages
Contents:
• Marlowe:Dr. Faustus
• Ben Johnson: The Alchemist
• R.B. Sheridan: The Rivals
Recommended Readings:
Course Objectives:
➢ To explain the causes of seasons
➢ To discuss the formation of major landforms
➢ To identify the function, temperature profile and composition of the atmosphere
➢ To explore the hydrologic cycle, and the distribution and allocation of water resources
for humans
➢ To examine patterns and consequences of human environment interaction.
Contents:
• Introduction
• Definition, Scope and Major Branches
• Realms of the Physical Environment
• Lithosphere
i) Internal Structure of Earth
ii) Rocks–origin, Formation and Types: Igneous, Sedimentary
and Metamorphic Rocks
iii) Plate Tectonics, Mountain Building forces
iv) Geomorphic Processes – Endogenic and Exogenic
Processes and their Resultant Landforms
• Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity, Folding and Faulting
• Weathering, Mass-wasting, Cycle of Erosion, Erosion and Deposition
• Landforms produced by Running Water, Ground Water, Wind and Glaciers
• Atmosphere
v) Composition and Structure of Atmosphere
vi) Atmospheric Temperature and Pessure, Global Circulation
vii) Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
viii) Air Masses and Fronts
ix) Cyclones and other Disturbances
• Hydrosphere
x) Hydrological Cycle
xi) Ocean Composition, Temperature and Salinity of Ocean Water
• Movements of the Ocean Water; Waves, Currents and Tides
• Biosphere
• Eco-systems
• Formation and Types of Soils
Recommended Readings
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No.
01 Physical Geography, Basil Blackwell, Oxford M. A. King
Course Content
• Reading Skills
i) Idea and Information in Reading
ii) Follow written instructions
iii) Use active reading strategies with long textbook chapters (e.g., surveying,
skimming, and sectioning)
iv) Recognize purpose and/or issue, organization, overall key idea, main ideas, and
key details in expository readings
v) Identify writer’s overall point of view, tone, bias, supporting argument and
evidence in opinion readings
• To determine meanings of unfamiliar words in course materials
vi) Use an English-English dictionary, thesaurus, index, glossary, Wikipedia
vii) Use word analysis (word families and affixes)
viii) Use context clues within sentences and in surrounding sentences (vocabulary in
context)
ix) Use library resources to locate materials
• Study skills
x) Place text material into visual form
xi) Interpret visuals such as graphs and tables
xii) Prepare for objective tests (T/F, multiple choice) and essay tests using a variety
of strategies
xiii) Learn content from text/class materials concerning economic, political, cultural,
and socially relevant topics
xiv) Recognize cultural differences and show awareness of the general features of
own culture and associated world views
• Writing Skills
i) Formal Writing
ii) Write reflectively about course readings
iii) Summarize ideas and information from readings
• Formal Summary Writing
vi) Take accurate notes from an assigned article
vii) Paraphrase accurately
viii) Write one-paragraph summaries of texts of one to two pages
• Essay Writing
ix) Prewriting
o Understand assignment instructions, including audience, purpose, and
format
o Generate ideas from readings on economic, political, cultural, and socially
relevant topics
o Select and narrow topics
o Create essay outlines, which include focused thesis statements, body
paragraphs with main ideas, and support
x) Writing
o Write well-structured introductions
o Develop unified, specific support in body paragraphs, reviewing paragraph
structure as necessary
o Incorporate source material, showing understanding of plagiarism by
paraphrasing, quoting, and citing appropriately
o Create coherence within and between paragraphs
o Write well-structured concluding paragraphs
xi) Revising
o Redraft and revise on own
o With peer and limited teacher feedback, re-draft and revise
o Edit and proofread
• Accuracy
xii) Self-monitoring for accuracy
o Use word processing editing aids (spelling, grammar check, thesaurus)
o Apply knowledge of parts of speech, sentence elements, specified sentence
types, and mechanics
o Identify and correct errors
xiii) For explicit instruction and evaluation
o Review all verb tenses, especially perfect tenses
o Identify and correct infinitive/gerund/base form errors
o Correctly use articles and other determiners
o Use a variety of complex structures and sentence patterns
o Use a range of academic vocabulary
xiv) Items to work on as need arises
o All accuracy items from 100 and 200 levels
o Word choice and word form errors (e.g. parallelism in thesis statements)
Recommended Readings:
Objectives:
➢ To get familiar with the ideological role of media
➢ To understand the impact of media on our social and cultural strata
➢ To be able to question various forms of communication and culture in the contemporary
globalized world
Contents:
• Semiology
• Postmodernism: Simualtion, Simualcrum, Hyperreality
• Media and Globalization
• Media as Industry
• Media Power, Ideology and Market
• Representation and Language in Media
• Fiction to Film - Theory of Adaptation
Recommended Readings:
Sr No Books Authors
Objectives:
➢ To understand the historical background to literary criticism, exploring its development in
the light of some contemporary viewpoints
➢ To focus much on the poetic and dramatic forms in order to highlight some significant
trends and concepts around “poetry”, “imagination” and “tradition”
➢ To develop a critical background for literary theory and critical thinking in the future
semesters
Contents:
• Aristotle: Poetics
• Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• T S Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent, What is Classic? On Meta-physicals
• Mathew Arnold: Function of Poetry and Literature
• Raymond William: Modern Tragedy (Tragedy and The Tradition, Tragedy and Experience,
Tragedy and Contemporary Experience)
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Introduction:
Romanticism attests the most fertile period of English poetry that marks a shift from the pomp and
grandeur of the previous years to more complex and emotional artistic expressions. Victorian
poetry deals greatly with the conflicting cultural discourses, radical social changes and
reconstruction of the self. Students explore the artistic and thematic aspects of the poetry of the
two periods paying special attention to the historical and political context of the events.
Objectives:
➢ To learn the poetic pattern of Romantics and Victorians (diction, setting, subject matter,
figures of speech and form etc).
➢ To highlight various political, intellectual and social influences that helped shape the
mentality of the poets being studied
➢ To encourage the students to offer their own interpretations of the poems in the context
of the age they were composed along with their relevance in the present age
Contents:
• Poetic Devices
• Blake: Songs of Innocence (Auguries of Innocence, The Lamb, The Divine Image)
Songs of Experience (The Tyger, A Poison Tree, The Sick Rose, London, A Divine
Image)
• Wordsworth: Ode on Intimation of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Ode to Duty, I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, My Heart Leaps Up, The Lucy Poems.
• Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Part-I), Water Ballad
• Byron: She Walks in Beauty, So We’ll Go No More a Roving, By the Rivers of Babylon
We Sat Down and Wept
• Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy
• Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, Hellas, England in 1819, Love’s Philosophy, Stanzas
Written in Dejection near Naples
• Browning: The Last Ride Together, Summum Bonum, Fra Lippo Lippi, My Last
Duchess
• Tennyson: Ulysses
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01 Romantic Poetry and Prose. New York: OUP H. Bloom & L. Trillig
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Contents:
• The Tempest
• Hamlet
• Othello
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Contents
• T S Eliot: The Wasteland, Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
• W B Yeats: Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium,
• Philip Larkin: Mr Bleany, Church Going, MCM 1914
• Seamus Heaney: The Tollund Man, Toome Road, A Constable Calls
• Ted Hughes: Thought Fox, That Morning
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01 New Case Book Series T. S. Eliot
02 Harold Bloom Critical Interpretations: W. B
Yeats
03 Jane Ayers : Modernism
Objectives:
➢ To create space for Pakistani literature in Translation in academia
➢ To promote Pakistani identity, nationalism and ideology
➢ To foreground Pakistani Urdu and regional literature in English translation
➢ To interpret Pakistani literature in translation in proper historical and cultural
perspective
➢ To develop an indigenous theoretical framework to conceptualize and problematize
Pakistani literature in Translation
Contents
Poetry
• Iqbal Shikwa (Stanza 01 to 07) and Jawab-e-Shikwa (Stanza 25 to 35) translated by
Khushwant Singh
• Urdu Ghazals (Selected Poems)
i) Mir: Faqirana Aai Sada Kar Chalay, Hasti Apni Habab kesi hay
ii) Ghalib: Aahko Chahy Aik Umer, Bazi Hai Tfaalhy Dunya
iii) Akbar Allahabadi: Bay Parda Kal Jo Aain, Dunya Main Hoon Dunya ka
Talabgar Nahi Hoon
iv) Faiz: Subhe-Azadi, Bol, Mujh say Pehli Si
v) Faraz: Ranjish hi Sahi, Suna hay Log
vi) Habib Jalib: Zulmatko Zia, Dastoor ko Main Nahi Manta
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Objectives:
➢ To familiarize the students with the basic concepts and techniques in teaching of English
as foreign language
➢ To demonstrate a general understanding of, and familiarity with the world of teaching
English as a Foreign Language including general terminology, the profession’s
qualifications, further training options and career opportunities
➢ To demonstrate a good grasp and a basic understanding of the communicative approach to
teaching English as a Foreign Language
➢ To write objectives and appropriate lesson plans
Contents:
• Orientation
• Culture and Acculturation
• Bilingualism
• Theories of Second Language Acquisition
• ELT methods (Grammar Translation, Direct, Audio-lingual, Eclectic)
• Class Room Management
• Lesson Planning
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Teaching Pronunciation
• Exploring Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing Skills
• Use of A.V aids
• Error Analysis and Testing
• Teaching through literature
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Objectives:
➢ To expose the students to understand the mainstream liberal humanist tradition and its point
of convergence and divergence with other continental developments in the field of literary
and aesthetic arts
➢ To familiarize the students with the basic tenets of literary theory
➢ To introduce them with major theoretical developments and their theorists
➢ To enable them distinguish between literary criticism and literary theory
Contents:
• Liberal Humanism
• New and Practical Criticism
• Russian Formalism
i) Structuralism (Swiss)
ii) Structuralism (Prague)
iii) Reader Response Theories
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Contents:
• Arthur Miller: The Crucible
• Eugene O’ Neil: Mourning becomes Electra-I
• Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar named Desire
• August Wilson: Fences
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A Critical Introduction to twentieth century C.W.E Bigsby
01 American Drama: 1, 1900-1940; II Williams,
Miller, Albee; III Beyond Broadway, 1982-85
Introduction:
The course focuses on the modern form of the genre with its different and varied narrative
techniques as well as its cultural, human and topical concerns.
Objectives:
➢ To examine the novel as an evolving genre in its different aspects of language, tone, point
of view, structure and narratology
➢ To view the novel form as reflective of social and literary themes & trends against the
backdrop of historicity
Contents:
• James Joyce: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
• D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
• Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Semester 6
Objectives:
➢ To enable them understand the difference between Anglo American literary theory and
other continental developments in Language and theory
➢ To introduce them with the intersection of theory, class, gender and race
➢ To allow them explore some more practical and applied angles of literary theory
Contents:
• Post structuralism
• Deconstruction
• Postmodernism
• Feminism
• Marxism
• New Historicism
• Psychoanalysis
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Objectives:
➢ To comprehend race, gender and class equations reinterpreted as the central meaning of
America
➢ To revise the changing social and economic values in America
Course Outline:
Poetry:
• Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass—Song of Myself (Lines 1-139)
• Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, After Apple Picking, Mending Walls, Bereft
• Emily Dickinson: Poem 260 (I am nobody! Who are you?) Poem 340 (I Felt a Funeral in
my Brain)
• Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus, Daddy
• Sherman Alexie: Why We Play Basket Ball, Sasquatch Poems
Novel:
• Tony Morrison: Beloved
• William Faulkner: Sound and Fury
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Objectives:
➢ To enable the students to see formal innovation of the genre under the influence of
modernism;
➢ To give them fairly comprehensive grasp of European drama;
➢ To develop their understanding of how human sensibility concerning class, war,
gender, language and culture was transformed under modernism as it finds expression
in modern drama
Contents:
• Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
• G B Shaw: Pygmalion
• Bertolt Brecht: The Three Penny Opera
• Sean O’ Casey: Juno and the Paycock
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Objectives:
➢ To make students familiar with social and political history of Pre-1917 Czarist Russia,
revolutionary days, Soviet era and the modern Russian as to get better understanding of the
works included in the course
➢ To introduce Leo Tolstoy, his life, works, art and legacy
➢ To discuss the art of short story writing and the distinctive art of Leo Tolstoy with reference
to the short stories included in the course
➢ To get familiarity with Marxism, communism, existentialism, nihilism and other streaks of
philosophy relevant to Russian literature
➢ To analyze Crime and Punishment keeping in view its thematic, philosophic, artistic and
stylistic concerns
➢ To read Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard in the light of existing dramaturgy and its own
distinctive elements with an aim to understanding the socio-political milieu
Contents:
Novel and Short Story
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Introduction:
The course is designed to introduce students with the freedom movement in the Indian
subcontinent and creation of Pakistan, partition and the subsequent political chaos and various
post-partition narratives that helped shape today’s Pakistan. The course focuses on the literary
representations of the various historical, political and socio-cultural crises of the time.
Objectives:
➢ To explore the literary heritage of Pakistan
➢ To explore the role of Pakistani Literature in English in constructing nativity
➢ To appreciate the role of Pakistani Literature in English in constructing an alternative
literary narrative
Poetry
• Daud Kamal (Selected Daud Kamal Poems, ed Afterword. The Groove, Ali S. Zaidi)
i) Rebel
ii) Anniversary
iii) Kingfisher
• Taufiq Rafat (Arrival of Monsoon, 1985, Vanguard)
i) Kitchens
ii) A Touch of Winter
• Aalamgir Hashmi (Sun and Moon & Other Poems-1992, Indus Book, Islamabad)
iii) Eid
iv) A Topic
v) Pakistan Movement
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Objectives:
➢ To read, understand and appreciate a range of short stories and to think rigorously about
these selected contemporary texts and the contexts of their production
➢ To explore the short story as a literary form with emphasis on structure and technique
➢ To analyze the formal features, developments, historical context the literary terms,
themes, strategies, and issues as are relevant to the works being studied
Contents:
• Naguib Mahfuz: The Mummy
• E.Allen Poe: The Man of the Crowd
• Doris Lessing: African Short Story
• Flannery O’Connor: Everything that Rises Must Converge
• J.Joyce: The Dead
• Nadine Gordimer: Ultimate Safari Once upon a time
• Kafka: The Judgement
• Ben Okri: What the Tapster Saw
• Hanif Qureshi: My Son the Fanatic
• D.H.Lawrence: The Man who Loved Islands
• Alice Walker: Strong Horse Tea
• V.S. Pritchett: The Voice
• Brian Friel: The Diviner
• H.E. Bates: The Woman who Loved Imagination
• Ali Mazuri: The Fort
• Amy Tan: The Voice from the Wall
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04 The Art of the Short Story. Longman. Dana Gioia & Gwynn
Objectives:
➢ To introduce critical concepts, debates and theories of postcolonialism
➢ To critique colonial and postcolonial poetics and aesthetics
➢ To highlight the politics of race, class and gender in postcolonial context
➢ To focus on postcolonial condition in era of neocolonialism, diaspora and globalization
Contents:
• Key Terms
i) Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, Imperialism
• Key Theorists
ii) Edward Said: Orientalism, Colonial Discourse, Resistance Opposition and
Representation, Colonial and Postcolonial Identities
iii) Homi K. Bhabha: Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry, Cultural Diversity and
Cultural Difference, 3rd Space
iv) Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
v) Frantz Fanon: Native Intellectual and Decolonization
• Postcolonial Feminism
• Postcolonialism and Postmodernism
• Cultural Identities and Diaspora
• Language and Decolonization
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Introduction:
The course explores Pakistani Literature in English written in response to General Zia’s military
regime and Islamization of Pakistan during the 1980s, 9/11 and the discourse of War on Terror,
the country’s situated positionality in the Western discourse and Pakistan’s representation as a
terrorist sympathizer country. The course focuses on various contemporary political and cultural
debates.
Objectives:
➢ To introduce students to local themes and issues
➢ To enable students to compare and relate Pakistani writings in English with English
writings from other parts of the world in order to enhance critical thinking
➢ To understand and appreciate the Pakistani variety of English through this study
➢ To provide the scholar with a wide basis for research in terms of Pakistani issues
and conflicts as this is a relatively new and unexplored area of English literature
Novel:
• Muhammad Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
• Mohsin Hamid: Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows
Short Stories:
• Aamir Hussein: Sweet Rice
• Danyal Moeenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Our Lady of Paris
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Objectives:
➢ To sensitive students with traditional and iconoclastic concepts of heroism and courage
➢ To study the ideological basis of wars and conflicts
➢ To be familiarised with literature as a reflection of a certain discourse on/about war and
conflict
Novel:
• Earnest Hemmingway: For Whom the Bells Tolls
Poems:
• Wilfred Owen
i) Anthem for Doomed Youth
ii) Futility
iii) Strange Meeting
• Najat Abdul Samad (Poem, Translated by Ghada Altarash)
vi) When I am Overcome by Weakness
• Youssef Abu Yihea (Translated by Ghada Alatrash)
iv) I am Syrian
• Tim O’ Brien: The Things They Carried (Short Stories on the Vietnam War)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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03 Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance Sean Gaston
of Meeting
Objectives:
The Objective of this course is
➢ To give the reader an opportunity to read the influence of Existentialism on the Theatre of
Absurd
➢ To enhance their understanding by reading the representative works of the writers
➢ To prepare them for the full-length study of the genres
Contents:
• Jean Paul Sartre: No Exit
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
• Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
• Eugene Ionesco: Ameedee
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03 No Exit (Script)
➢ To equip students with contemporary research conventions and norms to make them
proficient in different kinds of ‘research writings’ like research proposals, papers,
projects, reports, dissertations & thesis
Contents:
• Philosophy of Research
• Kinds of Research
• Process of Research
• Developing Research Questions
• Preparing A Research Design
• Data Collection, Data Management and Analysis
• Documentation of Research
• Exploring Power and Ethics in Research
• Use of Technology in Research
• Mechanics of Thesis Writing
• Dealing with Plagiarism, Using Research conventions & Manuals (APA and MLA),
Responsibilities of a Researcher
• Writing Abstract, Literature Review, Methodology
• Writing Research Proposals/synopsis
• Writing Textual Analysis
• Following Structure, Writing Thesis Statement
• Developing Argument
• Interpretation and Dissertation Writing: Writing up findings
• References and Bibliography Writing
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Objectives:
➢ To explore some exciting readings of women’s writings
➢ To understand the link of women’s writing with the politics of identity and representation
➢ To discover the literature by women writers and its contribution in contemporary feminist
theories in literature and culture
Contents:
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Objectives:
➢ To understand and identify the concept of “World Literature”
➢ To explain the characteristics of various periods and genres of World Literature
➢ To make comparisons and contrasts between literatures of different cultures
➢ To identify and trace the relationship of World Literature with Comparative Literature and
Translation Studies
Contents:
Poetry:
• Spanish:
i) Pablo Neruda
o Amor America from Canto (I)
o The Hangman from (Canto V)
o You Will Struggle from (Canto XIII)
• Punjabi:
ii) Bulleh Shah
o One is Enough
o Ik Nuqtay Wich Gul Mukdi
o Ranjha Ranja Kardi,
o Lass Look to your Spinning
o Kar Kuttan Wal Dihyan Kuray
• Persian:
iii) Jalaluddin Rumi,
o A New Rule
o A Stone I Died
o All Through Eternity
o Any Soul that Drank Eternity
iv) Nazim Hikmat Yar
o I Love you,
o I Think of You
o The Miniature Woman
Fiction:
• Spanish: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
• French: Albert Camus: The Outsider
• German Kafka: The Metamorphosis
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Objectives:
➢ To introduce key western texts that negotiate with the colonial experience from different
perspectives
➢ To demonstrate how colonial texts deconstruct themselves betraying their ideological
and political biases
Contents:
• Rudyard Kipling: Kim
• E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
• Paul Scott: Jewel in the Crown
• Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Recommended Readings:
➢ To introduce students with the key texts in Critical Theory and their main arguments
➢ To give a critical discussion of the ideas as developed by Critical Theorists and their
difference from other literary and cultural theories
Contents:
• Theoretical assumptions, Critical theory and the Frankfurt School? Origins and
Early Development,
• Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin,Max Horkheimer
• Dialectical View of Society(Max Weber and Karl Marx)
• Power-Knowledge – Foucault
• Constructive variants of critical theory, Habermas
• Habermas’s theory of communicative action, Critique of Habermas’ theory of
communication
• Critical theory and historiography, critical theory as triple hermeneutics
• Interpretive Approach: Critical Hermeneutics
• Critical Theory Today
• Critical race theory
• Cultural theory
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