COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS)
FOR
SEM- I, SEM-II, SEM-III, SEM- IV, SEM- V, SEM- VI
IN
B.A. (PROGRAMME) ENGLISH
(w.e.f. ACADEMIC SESSION 2017-18)
BANKURA UNIVERSITY
P.O- PURANDARPUR, DIST- BANKURA
WEST BENGAL, INDIA, PIN- 722 155.
B.A. (PROGRAMME) ENGLISH CBCS SYLLABUS, BANKURA UNIVERSITY, 2017-18
CONTENTS
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1. Details of Semester wise Course Structure: 3
2. Schemes of Courses: 4-9
3. Semester- I Syllabus 10
4. Semester- II Syllabus 11-12
5. Semester- III Syllabus 13-14
6. Semester- IV Syllabus 15-16
7. Semester- V Syllabus 17-18
8. Semester- VI Syllabus 19-20
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DETAILS OF SEMESTER WISE COURSE STRUCTURE
TOTAL MARKS = 1200 SEMESTER - 6 CREDITS =122
COURSES SEM SEM SEM SEM SEM SEM TOTAL
I II III IV V VI
CORE COURSES 18 18 18 18 - - 72
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC - - - - 12 12 24
ELECTIVE COURSE
GENERIC ELECTIVE /
INTERDICIPLINARY - - - - 6 6 12
COURSE
ABILITY
ENHANCEMENT 4 2 - - - - 6
COMPULSORY COURSE
(AECC)
SKILL ENHANCEMENT - - 2 2 2 2 8
COURSES (SEC)
TOTAL 22 20 20 20 20 20 122
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SEMESTER – I
Course Course Title Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG- Academic 6 10 40 50 05 01 -
101/C-1A Writing and
Composition
UGP- 6 10 40 50 05 01 -
102/C-2A
ACP- MIL-1 6 10 40 50 05 01 -
103/C-
MIL-1
ACSHP- Environmental 4 10 40 50 04 -
104AECC- Studies
ENV
Total in Semester – I 22 40 160 200 19 03
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SEMESTER –II
Course Course Title Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG Nation, 6 10 40 50 05 01
201C-1B Culture and
India
UGP-202 6 10 40 50 05 01
C-2B
ACP - British Poetry 1 6 10 40 50 05 01
203/C-E-1
ACSHP- English 2 10 40 50 02 -
204/AECC- Communication
ENG
Total in Semester - II 20 40 160 200 17 03
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SEMESTER – III
Course Course Title Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG Contemporary 6 10 40 50 05 01
- 301/C- India: Women
1C and
Empowerment
UGP- 6 10 40 50 05 01
302C-2C
ACP - MIL-2 6 10 40 50 05 01
303C-
MIL-2
APENG- English 2 10 40 50 02 -
304/SEC- Language
1
Teaching
Total in Semester - III 20 40 160 200 17 03
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SEMESTER – IV
Course Course Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code Title I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG- Language 6 10 40 50 05 01
401/C- and
1D Linguistics
UGP- 6 10 40 50 05 01
402/C-
2D
ACP - British 6 10 40 50 05 01
403/C- Poetry 2
E-2
APENG- Soft Skills 2 10 40 50 02 -
404SEC-2
Total in Semester – 20 40 160 200 17 03
IV
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SEMESTER – V
Course Course Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code Title I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG - Literature 6 10 40 50 05 01
501/DSE- of the
1A Indian
Diaspora
UGP- 6 10 40 50 05 01
502DSE-
2A
APENG - Novel 6 10 40 50 05 01
503/GE-1 and Prose
APENG - Creative 2 10 40 50 2
504/SEC- Writing
3
Total in Semester – 20 40 160 200 17 03
V
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SEMESTER – VI
Course Course Title Credit Marks No. of Hours
Code I.A. ESE Total Lec. Tu. Pr.
APENG- Partition 6 10 40 50 05 01
601/DSE- Literature
1B
UGP- 6 10 40 50 05 01
602DSE-
2B
APENG - Drama 6 10 40 50 05 01
603/GE-2
APENG- Business 2 10 40 50 2
604/SEC- Communication
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Total in Semester – VI 20 40 160 200 17 03
APENG= Arts Programme English (Subject Code), ACSHP- Arts Commerce Science
Honours Programme, ACP- Arts Commerce Programme, C= Core Course, E/H/MIL=
English/ Hindi/ Modern Indian Language, H/MIL/E= Hindi/ Modern Indian Language/
English, AECC-E= Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course-English, AECC-ENV=
Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course-Environmental Science, SEC= Skill
Enhancement Course, GE= Generic Elective, DSE= Discipline Specific Elective IA=
Internal Assessment, ESE= End-Semester Examination, Lec.= Lecture, Tu.= Tutorial, and
Pr.=Practical
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SEMESTER- I
Course Title (Core Course): Academic Writing and Composition
Course Code: APENG -101/C-1A
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
(Any Four) (10x4)
1. Introduction to the Writing Process
2. Parts of Speech and their Uses
3. Phrases and Clauses
4. Types of Sentences
5. Writing in one’s own words: Summarizing and Paraphrasing
6. Critical Thinking: Syntheses, Analyses, and Evaluation
Suggested Readings
1. Samantray K, Academic and Research Writing: A Course for Undergraduates, (New Delhi:
Orient Black Swan)
2. Jones Leo, Cambridge Advanced English: Student's Book (New Delhi: CUP, 1998)
3. Fish Stanley, How to Write a Sentence (Harper Collins, 2011)
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SEMESTER- II
Course Title (Core Course): Nation, Culture and India
Course Code: APENG -201C-1B
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Amartya Sen – “Secularism and its Discontents” (from The Argumentative Indian) 10
2. Rabindranath Tagore – “Nationalism and India” (from Nationalism) 15
3. Sri Aurobindo – “The Renaissance in India” (from The Renaissance in India and Other
Essays on Indian Culture) 15
SEMESTER- II
Course Title (Core Course): British Poetry
ACP - 203/C-E-1
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Shakespeare : 'Shall l Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day' (10+5)
John Donne – 'Batter my Heart'
Milton : 'On His Blindness'
Pope: 'Ode on Solitude'
2. William Blake: 'A Poison Tree' (10+5)
Wordsworth : 'To the Skylark'
15 Shelley : 'To a Skylark'
Keats : 'Ode to Autumn'
3. Rhetoric and Prosody (10)
Suggested Readings:
Jaydip Sarkar & Anindya Bhattacharya, A Handbook of Rhetoric and Prosody, Orient
Blackswan, Kolkata, 2017
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SEMESTER- II
Course Title: English Communication Skills
Course Code: ACSHP- 204/AECC-ENG:
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
(10x4)
1. Introduction: Theory of Communication, Types and modes of Communication
2. Language of Communication:
Verbal and Non-verbal
(Spoken and Written)
Personal, Social and Business
Barriers and Strategies
Intra-personal, Inter-personal and Group communication
3. Speaking Skills:
Monologue
Dialogue
Group Discussion
Effective Communication/ Mis-Communication
Interview
Public Speech
4. Writing Skills
Documenting
Report Writing
Making notes
Letter writing
Suggested Readings
1. Interface:
Raman Communication and Sangeeta
Meenakshi and Language Skills,
Sharma,Malathy Krishnan &Communication:
Technical D. N. Bandyopadhyay,
Principles and
Cambridge University Press, 2018
Practice (New Delhi: OUP, 2011).
2. Rizvi Ashraf, Effective Technical Communication (New Delhi: McGraw Hill, 2005)
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SEMESTER- III
Course Title: Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment
Course Code: APENG - 301/C-1C
(To be opted by students from other departments)
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Social Construction of Gender (10+5)
Masculinity and Feminity
Patriarchy
Social Constructionism
2. History of Women's Movements in India (Pre-independence, post-independence) Women,
Nationalism, Partition (10+5)
Women and Political Participation
(Radha Kumar – The History of Doing)
3. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana’s Dream (10)
Suggested Readings:
1. Bhasin Kamala, What is Patriarchy (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993).
2. Ray Raka, Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1999).
3. Kumar Radha, The History of Doing (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993).
4. Begum Rokheya Sakhawa Hossain, Sultana’s Dream.
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SEMESTER- III
Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): English Language Teaching
Course Code: APENG -304/SEC-1 Credit: 02
Contact Hours/week: 02 Maximum Marks: 50
(ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Structures of English Language: (10+5)
a) Tenses
b) Clause types (Noun clause, Adj. clause, Adv. Clause, Finite Clause, Non-finite Clause)
c) Subordination, Coordination, Embedding, Co joining
2. Methods of Teaching English Language and Literature (10+5)
a) Traditional Method / Grammar Translation Method
b) Communicative language teaching method / Audio-Lingual Method
3. Writing Ability Assessment (10)
a) Paragraph Writing
b) Letter Writing
c) Précis
d) Report Writing
Suggested Readings
1. Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory (Cambridge: CUP, 1996).
2. Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, and Marguerite Ann Snow, TeachingEnglish
as a Second or Foreign Language (Delhi: Cengage Learning, 4th edn,2014).
3. Adrian Doff, Teach English: A Training Course For Teachers (Teacher’s Workbook)
(Cambridge: CUP, 1988).
4. Business English (New Delhi: Pearson, 2008).
5. R.K. Bansal and J.B. Harrison, Spoken English: A Manual of Speech and Phonetics
(New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 4th edn, 2013).
6. Mohammad Aslam, Teaching of English (New Delhi: CUP, 2nd edn, 2009).
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SEMESTER- IV
Course Title (Core Course): Language and Linguistics
Course Code: APENG -401/C-1D
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1 Language: language and communication; language varieties: standard and non- standard
language; language change. 10
2 Phonetics:
Overview of Articulatory Phonetics 15
The Consonants of English
The Vowel Sounds of English
3 Phonology and Phonetic Transcription: 15
The Phonology of English
Transcription of Consonants
Transcription of Vowels
Suggested reading:
1. Roach Peter, Phonetics (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).
2. Balasubramanian, T., Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students (New Delhi:
Laxmi Publications, 2009).
SEMESTER- IV
Course Title (Core Course): British Poetry 2
Course Code: ACP -403/C- E-2
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Alfred L.Tennyson : Break Break Break, 15
Mathew Arnold – Buried Life
Robert Browning: Porphyria’s Lover
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2. T.S.Eliot: Preludes
W.B. Yeats: The Lake Isles of Innisfree 15
Auden : Musée de Beaux Arts
3. Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into the Night 10
Seamus Heaney: Digging
SEMESTER IV
Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): Soft Skills
Course Code: APENG -404/SEC-2
Credit: 02 Contact Hours/week: 02
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
Teamwork. (10x4)
Emotional Intelligence.
Adaptability .
Leadership.
Problem Solving.
*Six Long Questions & Ten Short Questions of 02 marks to be set
from the above components
Suggested Readings:
1. English and Soft Skills. S.P. Dhanavel. Orient BlackSwan 2013
2. English for Students of Commerce: Precis, Composition, Essays, Poems eds.
Kaushik,et al.
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SEMESTER- V
Course Title (Discipline Specific Elective Course): Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Course Code: APENG -501/DSE-1A
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Meera Syal Anita and Me (Harper Collins) 15
2. Short Stories 15
a. “When Mr. Pirzada came to Dine” from Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
b. “One Out of Many” from V.S. Naipaul’s In a Free State
c. “We are not in Pakistan” from Shauna Singh Baldwin’s anthology We are not in Pakistan
3. Poems 10
a. A.K. Ramanujan - “Take care”
b. Uma Parameswaran – “This Land where I Stand”
c. Sujata Bhatt – “The One who Goes Away
Suggested Readings:
1. “Introduction: The Diasporic Imaginary” in Mishra, V. (2008). Literature of the Indian
Diaspora. London: Routledge
2. “Cultural Configurations of Diaspora,” in Kalra, V. Kaur, R. and Hutynuk, J. (2005).
Diaspora & Hybridity. London: Sage Publications.
3. “The New Empire within Britain,” in Rushdie, S. (1991). Imaginary Homelands.
London: Granta Books.
SEMESTER- V
Course Title (Generic Elective Course): Novel and Prose
(to be opted by students from other departments)
Course Code: APENG -503/GE-1
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Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist 10
2. R.K.Narayan: A Library Without Books 15
Charles Lamb: The Superannuated Man
Bertrand Russell: The Functions of a Teacher
3. Guy de Maupassant: My Uncle Jules 15
O Henry: After Twenty Years
Ismat Chugtai, 'Lihaaf' /'The sacred Duty'
SEMESTER- V
Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): Creative Writing
Course Code: APENG -504/SEC-3
Credit: 02 Contact Hours/week: 02
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
(10x4)
Unit 1. What is Creative Writing
Unit 2. The Art and Craft of Writing
Unit 3. Modes of creative Writing
Unit 4. Writing for the Media
Suggested Readings:
Anjana Neira Dev and Others, Creative writing: A Beginner’s Manual (Delhi: Pearson, 2009).
Mary Lee Marksberry. Foundation of Creativity (NewYork : Harper and Row, 1963)
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SEMESTER- VI
Course Title (Discipline Specific Elective Course): Partition Literature
Course Code: APENG -601/DSE-1B
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995). (10)
2. a) Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: Partition (15)
Stories from Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp.
23–39.
b) Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M.
Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.
3. a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in In English: Faiz Ahmad Faiz, (15)
A Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris, 2008) p. 138.
b) Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in Modern
Indian Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.
SEMESTER- VI
Course Title (Generic Elective Course): Drama
Course Code: APENG -603/GE-2
(to be opted by students from other departments)
Credit: 06 Contact Hours/week: 06
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar 15
2. John Galsworthy- Justice 15
3. Lady Gregory- Rising of the Moon
10
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SEMESTER- VI
Course Title (Skill Enhancement Course): Business Communication
Course Code: APENG -604/SEC-4
Credit: 02 Contact Hours/week: 02
Maximum Marks: 50 (ESE-40; IA-10) Examination Duration: 2 Hours
1. Introduction to the essentials of Business Communication: Theory and practice 10
2. Writing a project report 10
3. Writing reports on field work/visits to industries, business concerns etc. /business
negotiations. Writing minutes of meetings. 10
4. E-correspondence 10
Internals
1. Spoken English for business communication
(Viva for internal assessment)
2. Making oral presentations (Viva
for internal assessment)
Suggested Readings:
1. Bovee, and Thill, Business Communication Essentials, Pearson Education
2. Shirley Taylor, Communication for Business, Pearson Education
3. Locker and Kaczmarek, Business Communication: Building Critical Skills, McGraw Hill
Education
4. Herta A Murphy, Herbert W Hildebrandt, Jane P. Thomas, Effective Business
Communication (SIE), McGraw Hill Education
5. Dona Young, Foundations of Business Communication: An Integrative Approach,
McGraw Hill Education
6. Raymond V. Lesikar, Marie E. Flatley, Kathryn Rentz, Paula Lentz, and Neerja Pande,
Business Communication:
Connecting in a Digital World
(SIE), McGraw Hill Education
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