BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY TIRUCHIRAPPALLI - 620 024

B.A. ENGLISH
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM –
LEARNING OUTCOMES BASED CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK (CBCS - LOCF)
(Applicable to the candidates admitted from the academic year 2022-2023 onwards)

Se Part Courses Title Ins. Credits Exam. Maximum Marks

m. Hrs. Hours
Int. Ext. Total
I I Language Course - 1 6 3 3 25 75 100
(Tamil $/Other Languages +#)
II English Course-I 6 3 3 25 75 100
III Core Course – I (CC) Prose 6 5 3 25 75 100
Core Course-II (CC) World Short Stories 6 5 3 25 75 100
First Allied Course-I (AC) Social History of England 4 3 3 25 75 100

IV Value Education Value Education 2 2 3 25 75 100

Total 30 21 600

II I Language Course - 1I 6 3 3 25 75 100

(Tamil $/Other Languages +#)
II English Course-II 6 3 3 25 75 100

III Core Course – III (CC) Poetry I 6 5 3 25 75 100

Core Course-IV (CC) Fiction 6 5 3 25 75 100
First Allied Course-II (AC) Literary Forms 4 3 3 25 75 100
IV Environmental Studies Environmental Studies 2 2 3 25 75 100
Total 30 21 600

$ For those who studied Tamil upto 10th +2 (Regular Stream)

+ Syllabus for other Languages should be on par with Tamil at degree level

# Those who studied Tamil upto 10th +2 but opt for other languages in degree level under Part I should study special Tamil in
Part IV

* Extension Activities shall be out side instruction hours.

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 SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM STRUCTURE OF UG PROGRAMMES – ARTS

Sl. Part Types of the Courses No. of No. of Marks

No. Courses Credits
1. I Language Courses 4 12 400
2. II English Courses 4 12 400
3. Core Courses 15 75 1500
4. III Allied Courses I & II 4 12 400
5. Major Based Elective Courses 2 10 200
6. Project 1 3 100
7. Non Major Elective Courses 2 4 200
8. Skill Based Elective Courses 2 4 200
9. IV Soft Skills Development 1 2 100
10. Value Education 1 2 100
11. Environmental Science 1 2 100
12. V Gender Studies 1 1 100
13. Extension Activities 1 1 ---
14. Total 39 140 3800

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES:

 To create literary sensibility among the students for appreciation and enlightenment of the artistic and
innovative aspects of English Language and literature.
 To instill ethical values and develop human concerns among the students by exposing them to various English
literary texts.
 To enrich the students with literary analysis and linguistic competence.
 To enable to students critically analyze the cultural texts from different historical periods and genres and
augment the existing stock of literary texts through research.
 To provide students with the critical faculties necessary in an academic environment, on the job, and in an
increasingly complex, interdependent world.
 To enable the students perform better social adoptability and create original literature in at least one genre.

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PROGRAM OUTCOMES:

 Demonstrate a broad understanding of literature in English and translation and appreciate the historical
significance in the creation and interpretation of literary works.
 Engage questions of justice, values, spirituality, and meaning raised by literary texts.
 Read, closely analyze, interpret, and produce texts in variety of forms and genre.
 Draw from different critical perspectives and appreciate how differences in theoretical framework can produce
multiple readings of a literary text.
 Conduct scholarly inquiry to produce literary research.
 Write and speak effectively for specific audiences and purposes in university, public, and professional life.

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES:

 Expertize the LSRW ability of English language and its divergent forms such as prose, poetry, drama and
fiction.
 Increase the professional competency of exegesis linguistically, historically and culturally.
 Assimilate the contextual, critical and theoretical interpretation of any piece of literature.
 Apprehend and analyse various customs of ethics and cultural sensibilities in heterogeneous cultures through
literary texts.
 Augment the employability skills mandatory in the spheres of teaching, translation, documentation, creative
writing, media, and explication etc.
 Enable the students to employ the theoretical and practical knowledge of the global language in industries or
institutes for better performance.

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First Year CORE COURSE-I Semester-I
PROSE

Code: (Theory) Credit: 5

OBJECTIVES:

 To acquaint the students with lives and works of great writers of prose.
 To instigate a sense of aesthetic beauty and love of aspiration.
 To provide some moral lesson through the essays.

UNIT – I:

Francis Bacon : Of Studies

: Of Friendship
UNIT – II:

Joseph Addison : Sir Roger at the Play

Oliver Goldsmith : The Man in Black

UNIT – III:

Charles Lamb : In the Praise of Chimney Sweepers

William Hazlitt : On Going a Journey

UNIT – IV:

E. M Forster : A Note on English Character

Robert Lynd : The Pleasures of Ignorance

UNIT – V:

A.G. Gardiner : On the Rule of the Road

Virginia Woolf : Professions for Women

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Significance of language in the elements of prose such as character, theme, and style – Give a critical analysis of
a passage of prose from English literature – Becoming aware of moral values through the stories from the
prescribed prose pieces.

REFERENCE:

1. Damrosch, David. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Longman, 2003.

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COURSE OUTCOMES : After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following
outcomes:

 To develop a knowledge about different genres of prose

 To get an idea about the development of prose through ages
 To expose the students early English Literature and transition
 To Understand the linguistic changes that took place during this period
 To provide knowledge about socio–cultural and historical development of this period

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 First Year CORE COURSE-II Semester-I
WORLD SHORT STORIES
Code: (Theory) Credit: 5

OBJECTIVES:

 To explore the sequences in a story by knowing its themes, strategies and techniques employed by the writers
and create an insight of various cultures of the world.
 To identify the characters and convey moral, ethical and cultural values.
 To enhance vocabulary knowledge of learning new words and phrases.

UNIT–I BRITISH:

H. H. Munro (Saki) : The Open Window

Somerset Maugham : The Verger

UNIT–II INDIAN:

Rabindranath Tagore : Subha

Lakshmi Kannan : Muniyakka

UNIT–III RUSSIAN:

Anton Chekhov : A Work of Art

Leo Tolstoy : How Much Land Does a Man Need?

UNIT–IV AMERICAN:

Kate Chopin : The Story of an Hour

O. Henry : The Last Leaf

UNIT–V NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN:

Katherine Mansfield : A Cup of Tea

Tim Winton : Neighbours

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Significance of reading various classical and modern stories of various countries and writers.
Reading / Writing / Express a short story in own words and making a short video of a short story.

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BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:

1. Joseph. A and Subramanian. Memorable Tales. Pogo Publishing House, 2013.

2. Popular Short Stories Edited by Board of Directors. Oxford University Press, 2006.
3. Kannan, Lakshmi. India Gate and Other Stories. Disha Books, 1993.

COURSE OUTCOMES :

After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following outcomes:

 Analyze the style of writing and examine the story, plot and themes.
 Classify the different types of characters in real life situations.
 Understand the meanings of difficult words / phrases.
 Write or narrate a story creatively in own words.
 Recall and relate stories from different parts of the world.
 Explain and apply the values and understand that virtues always excel over vices.
 Empower to think creatively and discover the inner talent to b short story writers.

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 First Year FIRST ALLIED COURSE-I Semester-I
SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Code: (Theory) Credit:3

OBJECTIVES :

 To help learners understand the social and literary history of England from the Middle Ages to the 20th
century
 To make learners aware of the relation between socio–political and socio–religious events and literary works

UNIT – I:

Medieval and Tudor England – Renaissance, Reformation

UNIT – II:

The Civil War and the Restoration England

UNIT – III:

The Age of Queen Anne

UNIT – IV:

The Victorian Age

UNIT – V:

Twentieth Century

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Map Reading – Post World War England – Birth of Commonwealth – UK: Current Scenario - Economy and e-
commerce.

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BOOKS FOR REFERENCE :

1. Trevelyan, G. M. English Social History. Books Way, 2014.

2. Xavier, A. G. An Introduction to the Social History of England. S.V. Printers and Publishers, 2009.
3. Ward A. C. Twentieth Century Literature (1900-1960). ELBS, 1965.
4. Bedarida Francois. A Social History of England (1851-1990). Routledge, 1991.

COURSE OUTCOMES: After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following
outcomes:
 Acquire knowledge of the course of British social history.
 Realize the major trends which have shaped English society
 Identify the key themes which encapsulate each period.
 Relate the socio–historical background to literature.
 Understand the impact of historical events on writers of each age.
 Explore the contemporary social history of England.

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 First Year CORE COURSE-III Semester-II
POETRY I
Code: (Theory) Credit: 5

OBJECTIVES:

 To introduce learners to the changing trends in English poetry from Age of Renaissance to Johnson.
 To help learners analyse and appreciate poetry critically

UNIT – I

Edmund Spenser : Epithalamion

William Shakespeare : Sonnet 116

UNIT – II

John Donne : Death be not Proud

Andrew Marvell : The Garden

UNIT – III

John Milton : Lycidas

UNIT– IV

John Dryden : To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander Pope : Essay on Man – Epistle I: Of the Nature and
State of Man with Respect to the Universe.
UNIT– V

Oliver Goldsmith : The Village Preacher

William Blake : The Tyger

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Significance of poetry – Structure of a poem– Rhyming lines, metre rhythm and system of repetition, landscape of
poem – Amplification, reflection and engagement with other national and international works - the diverse themes
& poetic forms such as Haiku, Tanka, Free verse, etc. – demonstrate a crafty integration of words into ideas and
vistas – illuminates a reflection on matters of National and Global issues.

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:

1. Fifteen Poets. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1941.

2. Khan. M.Q. and Kumar Das, Bijoy, ed., Treasury of Poems: An Anthology of Poems in English. Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2011.
3. Sharma, R.S and Misra, L, ed., Anthology of English Poems: From Shakespeare to Keats. Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2001.
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COURSE OUTCOMES: After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following
outcomes:

 Identify the essential elements of poetry.

 Appreciate the tone and theme, sound devices metre, rhythm, rhyme scheme
 Explain the figures of speech used in the poems.
 Understand the different types of poetry.
 Analyze myths and biblical references of the poem.
 Examine the contemporary life of England as portrayed

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First year CORE COURSE-IV Semester-II
FICTION
Code: (Theory) Credit:5

OBJECTIVES:

 To introduce fiction as a literary genre.

 To familiarize learners with various techniques of fiction.
 To enable the learners to understand fiction as tool for enhancing reading skills.
 To orient the learners towards understanding the chronological development of fiction.
 To motivate the learners to write screenplay for the prescribed

UNIT – I

Samuel Richardson : Pamela

UNIT – II

Charles Dickens : Great Expectations

UNIT – III

Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness

UNIT – IV

Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway

UNIT – V

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Taking up fiction reading as an individual and group activity – Comparing the prescribed fiction with the works of
regional writers – updating their knowledge on the contemporary novelists – watching the movie adaptation of
prescribed fiction

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:

1. Logan, Melville Peter. The Encyclopedia of Novel.

2. Richardson, Samuel. Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. Penguin Classics, 1980.
3. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Fingerprint! Publishing, 2018.
4. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. Maple Press, 2018.
5. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. RHUK, 2004.

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COURSE OUTCOMES: After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following
outcomes:

 Understand fiction as a literary genre.

 Gain a grip over skimming and scanning methods of reading.
 Develop the various methods of storytelling.
 Transform fiction into modern screen play.
 Familiarize themselves with contemporary popular fiction.
 Appreciate theme, characterization and setting of the novel .

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 First Year FIRST ALLIED COURSE-II Semester-II
LITERARY FORMS
Code: (Theory) Credit:3

OBJECTIVES:

 To initiate learners into the study of various literary forms

 To enable learners to understand the literary terms while analyzing and interpreting the works of literature

UNIT– I: POETRY:

Ballad – Epic and Mock Epic – Dramatic Monologue –Limerick – Lyric – Ode – Elegy –Pastoral Elegy – Sonnet

UNIT– II: POETRY:

Rhyme – Metre – Stanza Form – Types of Verse – Figures of Speech – Imagery – Simile and Metaphor –
Personification – Onomatopoeia – Alliteration – Apostrophe –Hyperbole – Oxymoron – Allegory – Allusion –
Irony and Metonymy

UNIT – III: DRAMA:

The Origin and Growth of Drama in England – Tragedy and Comedy – Dramatic Design – Romantic Tragedy and
Romantic Comedy – Tragicomedy – Chronicle Plays – Masque and Antimasque – Comedy of Humours – Comedy
of Manners – Genteel Comedy – Sentimental Comedy – Farce – Melodrama – Expressionist Drama – Absurd
Drama – One–Act Play
UNIT– IV: NON–FICTION:

Biography – Autobiography – Essay – Aphoristic, Personal, Critical, Periodical

UNIT – V: FICTION:

Short Story – Picaresque Novel – Historical, Sentimental and Gothic Novel – Science Fiction –Detective –
Social and Proletarian – Stream–of–Consciousness Novel

UNIT - VI CURRENT CONTOURS (For Continuous Internal Assessment Only):

Haiku and other modern forms of poetry – drama and fiction in the postmodern era – memoir and life narrative –
cyber literature – eco literature

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:

1. Abrams, M H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 2015.
2. Prasad B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press Pub., 1999.
3. Ashok, Padmaja. A Companion to Literary Forms. Orient Blackswan, 2015.
4. Rees, R J. English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers. Macmillan, 1973.
5. NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms. McGraw-Hill, 1992.
6. Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. OUP, 2015.

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COURSE OUTCOMES: After completion of the course the students will be able to realize the following
outcomes:

 Identify a wide variety of forms, styles and genres in English literature.

 Understand the significance of these forms in determining the meaning of texts.
 Have access to elementary literary vocabulary.
 Possess the basic skills required for the reading and understanding of literature.
 Acquire the ability to appreciate literature through analytical and responsive reading.
 Observe present trends in literary writings.

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