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BANGIADESII
2007

Prlce i Tk. 8.{X) ( Taka Eight ) onlY.

UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Syllabus fnr B,A, Honours Coirtse Front Session : 2A06_2007

First Yerr
Semesier

coqli

NtT---eouGEii;

Semester

II
Crrursem

Coutse

No. I

Sccond Year Scmester

Coune

No.

CourG

(2)
Smester

(3)
Semester

lI
Course Title

Il
Course Title

Course

No. I

gns lq_ _l E"glith D,"." f .o^ M

tlonu.eve

Eng.204

-Fru.

_1 I ?06 | I

Acaclemio Writr

gs.4q_,

f-c,Iiell!
|

v.clo,,{rn Poclr\.rr)d Pro\e

Third Year
Semestr

!5.1{{{] I O| 0rl
E\9.

Lauguage Throrh I.iteratrue

Eng. 408(8) i StruLcLure of -

jqtj!_

408(C) | Langrra-ge and Media

ffil,lioduc,i.,n

TngJdf l_!Tt'y - frotn f"g,'10: i.sto') ol E ngland

Semester

, r.g!lng.-Spenscr to Popu
couse Title Lng'i.h tr,'.. E Ir' !g9qI Hr'lory of Wcj:crn ldea\

t., E,tgl'sh Language

First
Comse Eng. 101
Listenitrg i

Ycar

Semestcr

eours.

-Nc I

II

Deyeloping English Lauguage Skills

EnF. 305 | EngJ06 | Fourth Year

Semster

lllk"

* fistcning for main ideas/key information * L;stening fol spcific details ' L:stcning and understanding' both inplrcit
cxplicit
r

aad

Listanjng and lespondirg to lexts (i.e.), Ibllowing instructions, answcring questions, roacting to

mossages.

cIts.

ctc.)
r,-nd note-taking

Listening
Spcaking :

Und-erstantling social conventions ii.e., formal/ informal speech, turn takjng etc.) American L;.terature grzing,

Guided convelsations (involving d.ifferen fnnctions antl siitLations, c.g.. greeting:, requecring, apnlo-

etc.I

*,

Two-minulo impronxptu talks

( 4t
' Readjng news rter.I]s and rcportillg ' Role-PlaYs itnd simulaxions on a giYel thenle " prepailng and prcsgntirg taLks * Interviews
*
b.

( 5)
Use of rvo.'d combinations an:l collocaliotrs Uje of complex sentence constructjons nith com:t-tivrs, also fragmsnts, run-ons

't intoimrt dlebater ltLl Public speaking

Reailing :

Storv telljr)g

gtotLp dirutrs'i.,'t'

* * * * *

Paraphrasing

Summarizils -a
O.Aanizrng

. Reading strategres (skirnmirg' scarning, predicting, jnferencing, tc * Soced rc:r'-[itrg ) - tii-u. ,.ra;n"g (highl;gillir)g' getting inlbr,malion frorn te\i. ouickly finding )oltl way srotLllo rqrt\t norins kev' wolcts. l'ollowing malll argunlcl{l\' lnr".oarinn- wirh rhe telt and sttlllnl'tllztllgl - R;il;;:" improve lingu'siic s(ill\ ald eKpand ;;;;iti ) : unclersrancling o\Lrall ditcot'rct. ia r,ilatc structure ilnd ncdn;llg 1o lhc anallsl' and comDrchcllsiolt of lhc iexl iow ?' ctn;*l- tJo.Ling (makc judgcrncnts -''boutpcl \oili(l " rcxt is arguc.t, rcRecting and nlllKrllg r..ioonr" i. vTsll 65 closi \cnLlin)- oi lxngtLi'gc 1o perspccllv(' ,r,rd"rst"',(.1 u'titet" a:iitudr lnd - f^i.rti,."t."J'ng (rerd ng orrtsid' clas'. bo"ks sclected by leach(ls; al l(lsl l\\o Doo}.s \\lr!
be lead) - R;.,iiil ' iorrrnal art,clc' and lircrarl cliticisn:'' " \41';ii"; b'ool revictr'' (revic\\\ ot th': books t"rtti tltu ing thc cours'e)
:

pltagr'apb: iopic scntene<. d<ta,lcd \.n]e'rccs.- l.rgical ordcr and cottcjurions ?aragi'aph wrrting focusing on the charactedsaics ol patiering, cohesion, coherence and unitf in thc pa!'agr&ph, paragraph anaiysis, dcvelopmenl, outlinins \\,riting" pa.rag.aphs followjng differcnt ^ rnodcs ol writing : deflnitjon. descriptio:r' classification, cl',use and efect, compatjson and contrast

Coutse
Rerding

Erg.

102

Inttoilucrion
ApprecietioE)

to l-iterltrte

(Criticd

3 U;ing clific,'ent g.r]ies to inlFoduce

nguratjve

ItngLlage (image, sinlile, metaphors, connoiation' dc;rotation, pelsonification, allusion, synbol, hlper-

,t"',"". a.,on-0n.". inte.nal. ind rhyme. hlank free verse, hel'ojc couplel, rhythm) and scansion. * Understanding aspects of style and structure
verse,

brrlc, irony. pa-adox. urrmoron and apostrophe) Undersrandiog .ound nx:rcrns (all;terar;on. conso-

frriting

Developing selltence stluctulc-r

fl,watness:

1c) brrild langrt'agc

willl
vocabu-

1.""i?""oi"g
lary

basic sentc cc constructiolr

(m^od, ronc. \elLing. cllar.lcler and rheme) UnderstaLrding overlll discourse 1o relxle slructure and meaniug to the analysis and comprehen* sion of the lext. to nake judgcmcnts ilbout Rea,ling critically horv a text is argued and to make personal rcsDonscs as well as closc scrutinv of llnguagc to rrndc;'rtand \vr;tef'\ atliludc, and perspcctivc and point of vicw (speaker, narrator)

"

(6)
Course Eng, 103
Shakespearc

(7)
to
PoetrJ
ts

Introductiotr
" Sba1.l

Da)

Herrick Donne
Gray Keats

"Elegy Writtsn in ir Qhulehdyald" "On First Lookiilg irto

Hontcl"

Llk.' rhe Sun" "Deiight in Disordt'r"; "fipo;r Julia's Clothes" ,'The Sun Rising", "Birlter 1l1y hearl''
Country
Chapnran's
43

" "My \.Iisiress's

Cornpare Tiree to a Sulllrrel

Eves

are

Nolhing

tive, exploratory, argumentativc Writing biographies Wnting rcsponse papsrs * Mecharrics of wr,ting : gramnlar, pttllctuatron
spel ling

Writing diflelent ilpcs of essays : narrative idc:r.-np-

and

Cousc
Pro se'-

{ng, 105 Intloiluction to

"Of
Studies"

P(ose erd

Drrrr

Bacon

Lamb
Ncwlnal1

E.B. Brorvning
EJiot

Dyian Thonas

fed

Hughes

"The Love Song ol J. Alfred Prufrock" "Fern Hill" .(piker...Jaguar."

Sonnets lj'on the Portugttest. No.

Woolf Manslicld Orweli O'Connor

Desai

Adrienne Rich

'Living in SinD' "Aunt

Tigers"

Jentrifer's

Froxt '.The lclea of a New tlniversit:"' "Worlletr and Fiction" "The Garden Party" "Shooting an Elepharf' " My 0 ()dipus Complex" "Games at Twilight"

"Witches and Other NiSlrt Fca.s'

Archibald
Macl-e ish Seamus Heat]ey

"Ars Poetica"

Drama

Oedipus

Mercharrt of Venit:t Arms and the Man

Semcstcr

First
Couxse Eng.

II

Coxsc Eag. 106{A)

Irtroil{etior to Brrgle Litsrrhi

'{41T1" 'efl-.{r{ sfi" ',<Ft' ' fi 'cs{a'j','lt{,al n-'}' '{idl c$T' 'c<l{" 'qlb {Qr qlr,rJ

104

Advanceil Coruposition

qRq:
<-fi-s-.il!t

The course w.rll comprise the following:

free-writing, brainstorming' Prc\\'rjting mind rnapping/clustering, narrowing the focu's etc' Writing iith- purpose aud for specific audience Writing effcctive thssis statements Olgani'zirtg/structrrring the c'say : oullinrng. wiiriag op[,"ptioi. i'itrnduciions. supporting derail5 and
strateg:cs conclusions

4eF4 fual{

bEi
st_l

fr<',fifi

,j"{i4'

,rrf{t? qtl'r< {tcr-,

q{}M.'il',t ru

rfff{< fi{{r{

air

Wdting tho first draft Revi\ing and edil ing Writing the final draft

?{r' ,ft{{4 ?{

{Fr{'4 rt:lE:r rt

'1tfr aor

'{'lffa *Fi'. '?c-r 1tln

'r"JT,'etrft.

!{i

3t!r {tGf.T-< strT c<i rrtrTt rtts{lq "$e$ rt{

( 8)
E t-qtl'r:

(e.)
Corrsc Erg. 203: Erglish l{orel
Dcfo c Austen Charlotl-e

fron Dfoc to

Httv

i{E-g{.1 rfif'ltfir: "ael< rilstfr ?'nn ,'slrfFrtE,,lr : o trt-< qxl<rtt

Coursc

Pobinson Ctusoe

Pride ond

PreiudiL:c

Erg.

106

(B)

Berglatlcsh Studies

Bionte
Charjes Dickclls

(Forforcigo students and those who havc not st .d icd Bangia at any levol)

Hardy

Jqne Eyrc Olirer Twist Tess of the D'Urbet'rillcs

Sccolil Year : Scncstcr

Histo;y of Bangladesh since Ethnology and Cl.rltu!:e L:terary Heritage

Sccoril Yrr

introdu ::,'n ro Bangla Language, H

1905

'lo'\ aird CultLrre

.collse Eig.

II

204

Actilemic lvritirg

*
r Scrcster
Coarsc

: htrodlctior ta Lirguistics * Dcfir.rition and chal.acteristics ol language * Or ig;n' of huguage * Sub*fi:l,is'b lrnclFs -ol' I ngu sr cs : pJrlnetic' l'ld
Erg.
201

Tlre various colnpJ.nents of thc couiso lvill includc : ReaCing to wiitc : ieading aritical sssays, obia,,r,lg info. m.r'ioIt ,Ln.l notc-iakiDg * Sy;rtheslz ng diverse information and rnaklng connections * Tninking criticall,v and aralytically on a giYcn theme/issu:

O,ganizrne a1-Id p.-io|itjz;ng the informati0n into

iingu'sticl,- psychcl i ntnistjcs, discoursc analysisand p jagmatics

Celrsc Elg. 202
Blakc
Wordsworrh

phonology, raoiphology, scmantios, $yntax, socio

Ro.rartic Poehy
Songs of lulocence antl Experictrcc "Trntern Abb3)'' ti Michar:lt ' "Odc on Intimxiions of Immorrolitv": .Th; Pielude" Brok I .,The Rimo oi rhe Ancient

Patlern * Argulng w'th convincing eviclence * S, ting the tone of foiinal rvriting * Drqtion/wofd clrojce in asadenic writlng * and co]resion * Tranritiolrs Aqknowledgjng sou'ces and incorporating dircct quotes * and indirect essays on chalacter, thcme, st]'le, Wl.itlng Iiterary sirxcture, imagery, s5r.mbolisn, e1c * illot

thematic

U,lderstanding exalnination questions and .ms in qui\. !)!) r. 'e

20-<

kc,v

C(,lcridg
81-'ron

Marircr";

Corrsr Eng.
crgrcvc

: Erglish Dr*nr fron

J)r. Fcltsftrs
Macbeth

Marlowc

t.

Shcilcv

"Kubla Khan!'; "Dejecliou : An Ode" Don Jun I ..Odr ro a Skvla.k" 'Adonais"

"Odes"

Keats

Shakespearc

lVlarlowc

: :

(10)
Jonson Webster Congreve
Volpone

(11
Course F
Spenser

g.

312

The Duchess o.f Malf. The Way of the World

Donne

Corrse Eng. 206

r Victod

to FtE The Faeie Queene Book I. C"nb I "Goocl Morrow' ; ' Canonizatiotr'-' "Song: Sweetest Love I do not goe';
Poetry
St)eNer

fron

Poe

try

eerl Prme

Tennyson

Browning Aronld

'Locksley Hall" "Porphyria's Lover",;

"Lotos Eaters" Ulysses",,.Tithonus":

Herbert

Lippo Lippi"; "Andrea del Sarto": '!My Last Duchess"; "Rabbi Ben Ezra" "The Scholar Gipsy"; "Dovcr Beach"; "Thyrsis" Selections fr-orn
Autobiograplty (as

"Fra

Milton Marvell
Pope

"Valediction : Forbidtiing Mouraing'; "Nooturnal upon St. Luc.iets Day-;' "The qe1i"",'The Extasie"; "Tne Flea-; "Thou Hast Made MeD\ "The A I1ar"; "Easrer Wings,'; .'Collar ' Poradise Lost Book IX "To His Coy Mistress",; 'Bsrmuda' .?he Definition of Love" Ihe Rape of the Lock
trngtanl

Corrse Eng.
t

303; Ilistory of
ts
.

The Tudors and the Stuar

Mill
Walter Pate r

(As in Norton)

in Norton)

On Liberty

a:td

Tbird Yeer

Scacstcr

I
Erglish

The Crvil War The ftestoration of [660 The Glorious Revolution ot The Rise of Political Parties Industrial Revolution
The English Ernp re Victorian E ngland

ion England

Renaissancc and

Rcforma-

1688

Cowse Erg. 301

Intooduction
Tcaehitg

to

grage

The Firsl Wo"ld War in

England

* Brief history

of Euglish languagc tcaching * The Gramrnar-Translation Method I The Direct Mothod 'r' The Audio Ungual Metbod * I Thc Natrrral approach and Mcthods : Sjlont Alternative Approaches ' + [.e311e1-centred Approaches
*
Issues

Third Yeer : Senester

II

Corsc Eng. *

304

Eagtish

fot

Profcsdonl Pupecc.

Way, Suggestopediar Community Languagc Learning Commuoicalive Language Tcaching

Classroom intcrecauthenticity, fluency, accuracy and approprialy, usagc of Lt and L2, crror corrcction

+ Bnsiness (eports

tion,

in ELT Methodology :

' Job Applicarion! '* lnternal Memoranda * Minutes Edir ing

Business Letters

( 12)
Dcvelopjng Pt'oss Copics

(
l0Lh CenrrLLv Thoughr

13

Oral

Presentation

'Cmrsc Eng. 305

Bacon

English Prose

fron

Bacor to Brrke

Essals

Milton
Swift Addison

Samuel

thc Assizes"; "Thc Aims ol t\e Spectatoi"; "Wrt: T|ue, Falsc, l\4ixed"
"

Plaltations", "Of Friendship" ..l.reopqgitica (as in Norton) Gulliver's Tr.tvels "Sir RogeJ at ChurcJr"; "Sir Roger at

:'!Oi Truth", "Of Marrjagc and Singlo Life": "Of Great Place',, "Of

:. B,rg.o1 .,1,1 Crerrivc lvoluPrcgnlr.risl]l- Modern Analyricrl pltilosophy antt lbe Scicr)lif,c WLrrld-Vieu. Modcr; p.yr.Jrotoev (Frcud. Jung and P\ychoanalys;s. Behaviourisnr, Cesriir psysii6i logy), Existelrtialisn, Fcmini-sm.

lion.

Four.th

Year

Semestel

I
:

Couse nng. 401

Teaching Seconrl Language Skills

Johnson
E,

Brrko

Ltfe ol' Cowle) " "Speech on the East India Bill"

" Tcaching Glammai' '' Tcach;ng Vocabulary * Teacllirlg Pronrrncirr i iol

Teaching the receptive and productive skiiis thcory ilnd cllrssroolr applicar ion ' lntcgration of rhc lorrr rkill:

Gorrsc Eng. 306

: Ilistory of
Romans
Vrew

Westerr Iilces

Corrse Eng, 402 | 20th ( entury l.iaerrtlre (pochy rnri

Drama)

Fiato, Aristotle, Stoics, EpicuIeans. Cyrics,

Thc

Greeks

and 1he

: Tlrc

Ptc-Socratics,
Skeptics.

Th:

\4rd ier r

Thc Renaissance: Eralrus, More, Machiavelli, Bacon. Thc Refornation and the Coonrer-Reformation. The Risc of Modern Sliance: Copernicus, Galilco,

I W,,-ld

Poetry:

Ncwton.

Thc Risc of Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Hobb"'s, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke. The Englightenmenr and 18th Century Thought: 'fhe Philosophes, Bsrkele"v, Hume, Burke, Adam Snith,
Ir4a llh us, Roasseau. Kani. Romanticisn and the F|ench Revolution.

Mary Wollstonecraft and the bi*h of Feminism Thc A.rnctican Waf of Independcncc anrl Democracy 19 Century Thougbt: Hcgel, Marx and Socialism,
Igtiliaiianism, Darwin and the Theory

of

Evolution,

" Anong School Chjklr-en',;,.Byzantiunt"; "61ra,rs {lrintal's Desorlion',; "A Prayer for My Dalrghtcr', Eliot : Tlte l|/aste Larttl Arrdcn : ' Mtrscc dc Bcau\ Alts": " ln Vcltorv of w' B. YeatsDl (shield r,In Prajse of Ljmestone" of Achillies'!

Yents : "The Lake Isle of Innsfree',; "The Man Who Drea_n ol Faerie Lanri"; '.ta.rer l9 [6"; "Second Coming',; ,'Sajling 1ll ByTantium,'; "The Wild Swans at Crolo',; "Leda and the S\yan,,;

Itrkin: :

Posjrivism (Comtc), Srhop:nhaucr, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Feminism,

'.Ch1rrch trMr.

lances" "Tirc Whjtsun

Blea.nev", "Thg Building". .'AmbuWedtlines't,

Going,',

..Aubade'r,

( t4)
J)fama : Osbolne

(lJ)
JD. Saliager Ioni Mofiison
:
Allen Giasberg

Beckott

: Pinter :

: Look

Waiting for Godot The Birthday Party

Back

in

Anger

Edward Albee

Catcher in the Rve The Bluest Eye' : ''.4. Supermarket jn "Jessore Pog6" : The Zno Stury

California':

;Coo$e nng. 403

Homer

Classics

in T(ansl.tio!

Fourth Yeer Semester

rI

The lliod
The Aeneid
Agamemnon

Ccuse Eng. {05

Conrad
Lawrence

20th Century Fictiol Jim Sons and Loyers Mrs. Dalloway Portrait of the Arti$ as a l'oune Ma Lord of the Flies The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Virgil
AeschYlus

Lord

Sopbocles

Electa
:

Eutipides

Anonymous
Course Eng.

Aristophanes

Alcestis Lysisftata Beowulf Language and Society

'lYoolf

Jo1rce

Golding

404(A) '

Maudsl SpaFk Course Eng. 406

Sydney

* Language and Diaiect : Regional and Social . Dialects, Variation Studies, Standard Languagc

Cdtical Theory

'

'Register * Dglossia

Dryden
Johnson 'Wordsworth
Coler idge

* Code-switching * Bollo'lving * Pidgins * Creoles * Theories of the origins of pidgins and Creoles * World Er\qlishes, Language and C\lture

"An Apology for Potrv" "Preface to rh Fables"' "Preface to Shakesoeare" 'Preface to the Lirical Balla(Is,'

Arnold

Eliot
Woolf
Eagleton
Said

"Tradirion and rbe t;dividuirj Talent':

Biographia ..Literariq (Clrapters xrii, Xlv, Xv. xviil "The Study of poetrv,'

"The lt4e12phtsi.al Poets" A Room of One's Own

"The Rise of English', Introduction to Oi ientalism
Shahespeate

Couse Eng.
Emerson Hawthorne

4M@i

American Literatue

H.

Melville

Thoreau

Walt Wlitman Emily Dickinson Henry James Frost Eugene O'Neill

American Scholartt "Young Goodman Btown" "Bartlebv' "Economyl' (ftom llalden) "Whgn Lilacs Last"

"The

Coqrre Eng. 4O7:

Seleotions
Selec't;ons

DaisvMiller:AStudl
The

Twevth Night Hamlet Meqsure .for Meatarc King Lear

Tempest

Richard

noiry Ape

Eenry

IY

II

( 16 )
Co{rse Eng.
10S{C.t

(tr : language ani

_\ledia

Couse Erg. 408(A): Lengrage Throrgh Litcrrtrxe {. Using Literaturo in tha LangliaSo Clas.rioorll * I.iterature and tho La.nguage Learner

*
*

slills triading, *t;ting. i\lc,rin! 'n itk'ni', \,\2bularv and grsnm;lr) * Srvliriics: Ainls and Pctsf'ettivc * Linzuisljc Dcr.,ipttor of Lt'ertry T((t': Aprly'is ar -Wo|d Lcrel : Anallsir rt Clilu'c Le\cl ' Anlrlysis at Sefience Level
Counc nng, 408(8) Sttucture of firglish * Norrns: Positjon ancL Func.tiol ' Noun Cllsscs: colu , r1oll{'ounl, fropef llotlns ' Deletntinatir'c- : p e-dcleflnitlcrs. !q11|i11 riert]rrnineis. post tletilmincrs. The u.e of Aniclet - Vetb: l.,ti;or vert classes-ti1re, tollse arld ihs

Reading Literature Cross-Culturally Literature and LanguagcSkills: rtsir'g sholt slorics Dov:l\. poelry anC plalt i,r Ieacllillg thc llrrlgtr"gc

* Hisior'y _oi 1\.iedi3 Jech [clcg,v- _ spec jal ibcus 1..^ the aevelopmeni oi pr.in,, nidja * Theory and Aesthelicr oi Audio-l-isual MeC:a_ cel.rel rheo,ie\/phi'osopiy and il\ ,npacr -of

'Fcminist Medi Srudics_criricaj, analwis of ':.n,lc' und. ,crlality in prin*iaii.'- nf *.

* I)iscourse Ana-lysir of Med;a- crilical
Diotogrrphy.

med.ra.

Recepfioii and Use of Media_critical theory ol J:r-t Baudrilliard etc. * Wdting for the Media-oxamine the form and content_. of popular genres ; preparo ..copi6' of media texts * Reading Films-critical eranlnalion

o' of

lr:lgtragc : cxamin;aiion rep'-esedaijon

of

ideology

anah,s;s

polii;c:

filnr

studies.

of

fllms,'

* Scouence of Te[.cs : Conclll;o tl - nj",rO. : CharacterisLics oi Lltc adYcrb -tlle adv"tb as clause ciemont-lhq advclb and oth--f 't functiolls 01' adverbs*oiO "lr"t"i-iyntactic a<ljectivcs.aud adverbsbctrveen co;respondencc

vcrb.

. Ajii.riu.t : Charrcrerist:c' ol tirc adjectivc.;;',;;l ;"i periphcral acllct t ves -llrc adjcctivc irt relalion to otllor word clssses \ynlxclrL lltll(tion of adjcclivcs -syl11a. f'c lrlld scnlanllc suoclassification of adjectives. - eatJt-di"i- bf.iases"- Aclj ct iva 1 ph rascs -Prepos itioual Pltase' Verb Phrl( r' - i"nt"O,- -Ptincjptcs anLi vcrblcs' CllltLses f.fon-Tcnserl ,. i.;i;; ,' of Passr'vization Yoice Constraints. - bi.*i"ri'",,a rraditior.rl intcrnfclitlion of lhc
c

compalison of adjectives and advet-bs'

rtse and usagc

of

modals