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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University Gopalganj
Department of English
B. A. Honours Syllabus
Session: 2013--2014 (Literature & Language Courses)
145 Credits
Semester Wise Course Distribution
First Year Semester I
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG100 English Language Skills 2+0 2.0
ENG101 English Language Skills (LAB) 0+2 1.0
ENG102 Introduction to Poetry (Rhetoric &
Prosody)
3+0 3.0
ENG110 Introduction to Prose 3+0 3.0
ENG109 Assignment and Viva Voce 0+2 2.0
MGT104 Introduction to Business 3+0 3.0
CSE104 Computer Fundamentals 3+0 3.0
CSE105 Computer Fundamentals Maintenance 0+2 1.0
Total 14+6 18.0
First Year Semester II
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG150 Advanced Reading & Writing 3+0 3.0
ENG152 Introduction to Novel 3+0 3.0
ENG160 Introduction to Drama 3+0 3.0
ENG159 Viva Voce 0+2 1.0
MAT154 Fundamentals of Mathematics 2+0 2.0
PSC154 Bangladesh Studies 3+0 3.0
MGT154 Principles of Management 3+0 3.0
Total 17+2 18.0
Second Year Semester I
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG200 Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama 4+0 4.0
ENG202 Romantic Poetry 3+0 3.0
ENG209 Presentation and Viva Voce 0+2 2.0
SOC204 Introduction to Sociology 3+0 3.0
BAN204 Bangla Literature 3+0 3.0
PSC204 Politics and Administration in Bangladesh 3+0 3.0
Total 16+2 18.0
Second Year Semester II
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG250 Socio-Political History of England 3+0 3.0
ENG252 Shakespeare-I 3+0 3.0
ENG260 Victorian Poetry 3+0 3.0
ENG262 Introduction to Linguistics 3+0 3.0
ENG259 Viva Voce 0+2 1.0
PHI254 Introduction to Philosophy 3+0 3.0
PSY254 Introduction to Psychology 3+0 3.0
Total 18+2
19.0
Third Year Semester I
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG300 18th Century Literature 3+0 3.0
ENG302 19th Century Novel 3+0 3.0
ENG310 American Literature-I 3+0 3.0
ENG312 Poetry from Chaucer to Milton 3+0 3.0
ENG320 Phonetics and Phonology 3+0 3.0
ENG309 Assignment, Presentation and Viva voce 0+3 3.0
Total 15+3 18.0
Third Year Semester II
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG350 Introduction to Socio & Psycholinguistics 3+0 3.0
ENG352 Classics in Translation 3+0 3.0
ENG360 American Literature-II 3+0 3.0
ENG362 Continental Literature 3+0 3.0
ENG370 Literary Theory-I 3+0 3.0
ENG359 Assignment, Presentation and Viva voce 0+3 3.0
Total 15+3 18.0
Fourth Year Semester I
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG400 20th Century Novel 3+0 3.0
ENG402 Translation Studies 3+0 3.0
ENG410 Literary Theory-II 3+0 3.0
ENG412 South-Asian Literature in English 3+0 3.0
ENG420 Business & Professional English 3+0 3.0
ENG409 Assignment, Presentation and Viva voce 0+3 3.0
Total 15+3 18.0
Fourth Year Semester II
Course No. Course Title Hours/Week
Theory + Lab.
Credits
ENG450 English for Media Communication 3+0 3.0
ENG452 20th Century Poetry 3+0 3.0
ENG460 Modern British Drama 3+0 3.0
ENG462 Introduction to English Language Teaching 3+0 3.0
ENG470 Research Methodology and Writing
Research Project
3+0 3.0
ENG459 Assignment, Presentation and Viva Voce 0+3 3.0
Total 15+3 18.0
Detailed Syllabus of Major Courses
ENG100 English Language Skills 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Grammar:
Tenses, review and sequence of tenses, use of articles, prepositions, subject-verb agreement,
phrases, clauses and sentences, conditionals, word classes.
Transformation of sentences: Active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, reported
speech.
Pronunciation: Sounds of English and IPA .
Vocabulary Building:
Word-formation rules; affixes; idiomatic expressions; level of appropriateness; colloquial and
informal words and expressions; standard and formal words and expressions.
Listening and note taking:
Listening to recorded texts and class lectures and learning to take useful notes based on the
listening.
Developing spoken skills: Formal and informal oral communication, situational dialogues, presentation
skills, extempore speech, talking about families, friends, persons, places and other local and global issues.
Recommended Reading:
Ahmed, Sadruddin, Learning English the Easy Way
Martinet & Thomson, A Practical English Grammar
Hornby, A.S., The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
Taylor, Clive., Advancing Language Skills
Close, R.A., The English We Use
ENG102 Introduction to Poetry( Rhetoric & Prosody) 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet l8: “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
:Sonnet 130: “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun”
Donne, John : “The Sun Rising”
Sonnet l4: “Batter My Heart, Three-personed God”
Herrick, Robert : “Delight in Disorder”, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”
Marvell , Andrew : “To His Coy Mistress”, “Definition of Love”
Gray, Thomas : “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Keats, John : “Ode to Autumn”
Arnold , Matthew : “Dover Beach”
Thomas, Dylan : “Fern Hill”
Hughes, Ted : “Pike” and “Jaguar”
Rich, Adrienne : “Living in Sin”, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Heaney, Seamus : “Digging”
Recommended Reading:
Boulton, Marjorie : Anatomy of Poetry
Abrams, M. H. : A Glossary of Literary Terms
Long, William J. : History of English Literature
Vendler, Helen : The Art of Shakespearean Sonnets
Carey, John : John Donne: Life, Mind and Art
Martin, L.C. : Robert Herrick: Poems
Hunt, John Dixon : Andrew Marvel: His Life and Works
Southam, B.C. : A Student’s Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Rahman, Mofizur : An ABC of English Literature
ENG110 Introduction to Prose 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Bacon, Francis : “Of Studies”
Narayan, R. K. :The Financial Expert
Mansfield, Katherine: “Bliss”
Lawrence, D.H. : “Why the Novel Matters”
Orwell,George : “Shooting an Elephant”
O’Connor, Frank : “My Oedipus Complex”
Recommended Reading:
Boulton, Marjorie : Anatomy of Prose
Brooks &Warren : Understanding Prose: Understanding Fiction
Allen, Walter : The English Novel
Abrams, M. H. : A Glossary of Literary Terms
Vickers, Brian : Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose
Mackie, Erin (ed. by): The Commerce of Everyday Life
Ehrenpreis, lrvin : Swift: the Man, his works and the Age
Voorhees, R. J. : The Paradox of George Orwell
ENG109 Assignment + Viva Voce
2 Hours/weeks (0+2), 2 Credits
ENG150 Advanced Reading & Writing 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Developing writing skills:
Sentences: Sentence variety; generating sentences; sentence clarity and correctness; linking
sentences to form paragraphs.
Paragraphs: Paragraph structure; topic sentence; developing paragraphs with specific details and
examples; paragraph unity and coherence.
Essays: Essay structure; thesis sentence; writing good introductions and conclusions; strategies for
development.
Letter writing: Informal and formal letters, report writing, writing papers and assignments.
Developing reading skills:
Guessing and meaning; understanding sentence meaning, surveying text stucture skimming,
scanning, predicting, inferencing, analyzing and interpreting reading and summarizing.
Recommended Reading:
Greenberg, Karen L. & Wiener, Harvey: The Advancing writer: Book-3, Harper Collins 1994
Heffernon, James A.W. &. Lincoln, John E. :Writing: A College Handbook
Weiner, Bazerman: Writing Skills Handbook, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin l998
Imphoof, Maurice & Hudson, Herman: From Paragraph to Essay, Longman 1975
Glover, G. : Build Up Your English, Aldine House. London (reprinted) 1975
Roberts, Paul: Cambridge First Certificate Reading (New Edition)
Dixson, Robert J. : Complete Course in English
Dixson, Robert J.: Everyday Dialogues in English
Liz & Soars, John : New Headway English Course
Constant, Clare & Bennett, Andrew : Developing Reading & Writing Skills
Barnwell, Thomas & McCraney, Leah : An Introduction to Critical Reading
ENG152Introduction to Novel 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen : Emma
Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities
Recommended Reading:
Grissing, George : Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Richetti, John : Defoe’s Narratives
Earle, Peter : The World of Defoe
Pinion, F. B. : A Jane Austen’s Companion
McKillop, A. D. : The Early Masters of English Fiction
ENG160 Introduction to Drama 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Sophocles : Oedipus the King
William Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice
G. B. Shaw : Arms and the Man
Recommended Reading:
Nocoll, Allardyee : British Drama
Bradbrook, M. : Themes & Conventions of English Tragedy
The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy
Kitto, H. D. F. : Form and Meaning in Drama—Greek Tragedy
Haugh, A. E. : Tragic Drama of the Greeks
George, Shaw : Bernard Shaw’s plays—Norton Critical Edition
ENG159 Viva Voce
2 Hours/weeks (0+2), 1 Credit
ENG200 Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Marlowe :Doctor Faustus
Kyd :The Spanish Tragedy
Ben Jonson : Volpone
Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Shakespeare :Macbeth
Note: Teachers should take the following matters into consideration:
a. The Origin of the Drama; b. Miracle and Mystery Plays; c. Cycles of Plays;
d. The Stage and the Actors; e. Dramatic Unities; f. Two Schools of Drama;
g. The Theatre and the Stage; h. The Methods of Early Dramatists;
i. History of the Rise of English Drama since its Beginning to the 15th Century;
j. Interludes; k. The Influence of Seneca in Elizabethan Drama; l. The Use of Blank Verse in Drama; m.
The Comedy of Humors; n. Decadent Tragedy; and
o. Tragic Comedy.
Recommended Reading:
Boas, S. An Introduction to Stewart Drama.
Boas, S. D. An Introduction to Tudor Drama.
Bradbrook, M. C. The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy.
Bradbrook, M. C. Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Tragedy.
Lucas, F. L. Seneca and Elizabethan Drama.
Schelling F. E. Elizabethan Drama.
Vaughn. Types of Tragedy.
Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare’s Predecessors in English Drama.
ENG202 Romantic Poetry 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Wordsworth: a) Tintern Abbey; b) Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Coleridge: a) Dejection on Ode; b) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Byron: a) Don Juan: Canto: I & II (as in Norton); and b) She Walks in Beauty.
Shelley: a) Adonais; b) Ode to the West Wind.
Keats: Ode on Grecian Urn, Ode to Nightingale, Ode to Melancholy .
Note: The paper should be studied with the reference to the following:
a) Meaning of Romanticism; b) Origin of Romantic Movements in Germany and France; c) Precursors of
Romanticism in England; d) The French Revolutionary and English Poets; e) Wordsworth’s Theory of
Poetic Diction; f) Supernaturalism in English Poetry; g) Idealism in Shelley and Byron; and h) Hellenism in
Keats.
Recommended Reading :
Hough, Graham. Romantic Poets.
Brailsford, H. N. Shelley, Godwin and their Circle.
Elton, Oliver. Survey of English Literature: 1780—1830.
Bowra, C. M. Romantic Imagination.
Prez, Mario. The Romantic Agony.
Lucas, F. L. The Decline and Fall of Romantic Ideal.
Willey, Basil. Nineteenth Century Studies.
Grierson, G. C. The Background of English Literature: Classical and Romantic.
ENG209 Presentation + Viva Voce
2 Hours/weeks (0+2), 2 Credits
ENG250 Socio-Political History of England 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
The Phoenicians’ Trade with the Britons—BC 200~BC 79;
Roman Invasion by Julius Caesar’s Legionnaires—BC 79~449 AD (?);
The Landing of Hengist and Horsa in Britain—449~1066 (Anglo Saxon Period);
The Norman Invasion—1066~1400 (Anglo Norman Period);
The Revival of Learning—1400~1558 (The Renaissance);
The Age of Elizabeth I—1550~1620;
The Puritan Age—1620~1660;
Period of the Restoration—1660~1700;
The Eighteenth Century—1700~1800;
The Union of the Great Britain and Ireland to Crimean War—1800~1854; and
The Victorian Age—1850~1900.
Recommended Reading:
Mahajan, V. D. : History of England.
History of England—See Seminar Books.
William, Long, J. : English Literature.
Trevelyan, G M : A Shortened History of England. Penguin Books.
Trevelyan , G M: English Social History. Penguin Books.
John Thorn, Roger Lockyer, David Smith. A History of England. ATTBS Publishers and
Distributors.
Robert M Adams. The Land & Literature of England: A Historical Account. W. W. Norton.
Johri, Dr. A N : A Social History of England.
Kemp Melone & Albert C Baugh. Literary History of England. Routledge.
ENG252 Shakespeare-I 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
As You Like It
Othello
Measure for Measure
Recommended Reading:
Ford, Boris (Edited): Pelican Guide to English Literature—Vol III
Boas, R. S. : An Introduction to Stuart Drama
Bradley, A. C. : Shakespearean Tragedy
Charlton, H. B. : Shakespearean Tragedy
ENG260 Victorian Poetry 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Tennyson: a) “Lotus Eater”; b) “Ulysses”; c) “Tithonus”
Browning: a) “A Grammarian’s Funneral”; b) “My Last Dutchess”; c) “ The Last Ride Together”
Browning, Elizabeth B.: The Sonnets from the Portuguese 14, 22 & 43
Arnold: a) “Thyrsis”; b) “ The Scholar Gipsy”
Rosetti, Dante G.: “ The Blessed Damzel”.
Note: Prescribed pieces should be studied with reference to the following:
a. Meaning of Victorianism; b. Victorian Compromise; c. Rise of science & industry in the 19th Century; d.
Pre-Raphaelitic Movement; e. Dramatic Monologue;
f. The Debate of Science & Religion; and g. Expansion of British Imperialism.
Recommended Reading:
Hugh ,Walker : The Literature of the Victorian Era..
Oliver, Elton : A Survey of English Literature(1830~1880).
George, Brandes : Main Currents in the 19th Century Literature.
ENG262 Introduction to Linguistics 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Nature of Linguistics
Definition and Characteristics of Language
Basic areas of Linguistics: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics
Stylistics
Sociolinguistics: variety of language, dialect, pidgin, creole ,register, status situation
Psycholinguistics
Discourse and speech acts
Recommended Reading:
Lyons, John : Linguistics: An Introduction
Yule, George : The Study of Language
Hudson, R.H. : Sociolinguistics
ENG259 Viva Voce
2 Hours/weeks (0+2), 1 Credit
ENG300 18th Century Literature 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Swift :Gulliver’s Travels
Dryden : Absalom and Achetophel
Burke :‘Speech on the East India Bill’
Sheridan :The Rivals
Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Addison & Steele : Coverly Papers (Selections)
Recommended Reading:
Alam Fakrul, Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English
Stephen Leslie, English Literature and Society in the 18 th Century
James E Tobin, 18th Century Literature and its Cultural Background
J.L. Clofford(ed), 18th Century English Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism
Robert Halsband, The Rape of the Lock and its Illustrations
Laura Brown, Alexander Pope(1984 Basil Blackwell)
Maynard Mack, Alexander Pope(1985 New Haven)
Robert Hudson, Edwin Arnold, Daniel Defoe: A Critical Study
Butt, John. Augustan Age
Gosse, Edmund. History of 18th Century Literature
ENG30219th Century Novel 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Austen, Jane : Pride and Prejudice
Bronte, Emily :Wuthering Heights
Hardy, Thomas : Tess of the Durbervilles
Dickens, Charles : Great Expectations
Note: Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues of the Victorian era:
a) Democracy; b) Social Unrest; c) The Ideal of Peace; d) Arts and Science; e) An Age of Prose; f) Moral
Purpose; g) Idealism; and h) The Domestic Novel.
Recommended Reading:
Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists.
Brandis, George. Main Currents in the 19th Century Literature. Vol. IV.
Walker, Hugh. The Literature of the Victorian Era.
Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature: 1830~1880.
Forster, E. M. Aspects of Novel.
Allen, Walter. The English Novel.
ENG310 American Literature-I 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Emerson :The American Scholar, Self- Reliance
Hawthorne :The Scarlet Letter
H. Melville :Moby Dick
Thoreau :Civil Disobedience
Walt Whitman :Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, When Lilacs Last. . .
Emily Dickinson : Selections
Recommended Reading:
Bewley, M : The Complex
Chase, R., ed : Melville
Dutton, G. : Walt Whitman
Forester, N. : Image of America
Grant, D.,ed : The Scarlet Letter
Hayford, H. and H. Parker : Moby Dick
Jeffarson, N. ed : Selected Poems and prose of Walt Whitman
Kaul, A.N. : Hawthorne
Pearce, R. H. : Walt Whitman
Sewall, R. B. : Emily Dickinson
ENG312 Poetry from Chaucer to Milton 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Chaucer: a) The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; b) Nun’s Priests’ tale
Spenser. Faerie Queene: Book—I: cantos: I-IV
Milton. Paradise Lost: Book-I
Note: Attention should be given to the following:
a) Primary and Secondary Epic; b) Romantic Epic; c) Puritanism and Reformation Movements; and d)
English Pastoral Poetry.
Recommended Reading:
Bennet, H. S. Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century.
Ker, W. P. Mediaeval English Literature.
Chambers, E K. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages.
Ker, W. P. The Dark Ages.
Kittredge, G. L. Chaucer and His Poetry.
Roat, R. K. The Poetry of Chaucer.
Legouis, Emile. Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Age of Chaucer. Ed. Ford, Borris. Pelican.
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love.
Rose & McLaughlin. Mediaeval Reader.
Bowden, Muriel. A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Power. Eileen. Mediaeval People. Pelican.
The Romance of the Rose. Translated by Robbins, Harry. W. Dutton Paperback.
Lewis, C. S. History of the 17th Century Literature.
Thomson, J. A. Classical Background of English Literature.
Tillyard, E. M. W. Elizabethan world Picture.
Grierson. Cross—currents in the English Literature of the 17th Century.
Lewis, C. S. A Preface to Paradise Lost.
Tillyard. Milton.
ENG320 Phonetics and Phonology 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Phonetics: Articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics; contrastive study of English and Bangla speech
sounds; cardinal vowels; English short vowels, long vowels and diphthongs; English plosives, fricatives,
affricates and nasals.
Phonology: Defining phone, allophone and phoneme, Supra segmental phonology, voice quality and voice
dynamics.
Phonemic transcription: Stress, nature of stress; factors of stress, prominence; weak and strong forms,
Intonation system in English; Functions of intonation; structures of tone unit; high and low heads; pitch
possibilities in the simple tone unit; semantics of intonation; transcription of utterances, assigning stress
marks and showing intonation.
Recommended Reading:
English Phonetics and Phonology by Peter Roach, Cambridge University Press
An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English by A. C. Gimson E. Arnold, 1989
Elements of General Phonetics by David Abererombie Edinburgh, 1967
ENG309 Assignment + Presentation+ Viva Voce
3 Hours/weeks (0+3), 3 Credits
ENG350 Introduction to Socio and Psycholinguistics 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Sociolinguistics:
Introduction: Key terms and approaches- relationship between language and society- sociolinguistics and
the sociology of language.
Language, Dialect and Varieties: regional dialects-social dialects- styles and register
-standard language and developing a standard variety.
Pidgins and Creoles: Definition-linguistics characteristics- from Pidgin to Creole and beyond.
Choosing a Code: Diglossia and bilingualism- definition and relationship- code switching and code mixing-
borrowing
National Language and Language Planning: National and official languages-planning a national language-
the linguist’s role in language planning.
Language and Identity: Language and social inequalities-attitude towards language and speech-language
and gender.
Studies in Language Dynamics: Language change-language maintenance and language shift-multilingual
and multicultural societies-proto Indo-European languages.
Psycholinguistics:
Introduction: Definition-different branches of psycholinguistics-relationship between Psycholinguistics and
Psychology of language.
Language Acquisition in the early years: Communication with language- what young children talk about-
how young children use their utterances- how adults talk to young children.
Stages in Language Acquisition: The babbling stage-Holophrastic stage-the two-word stage.
First sounds in the child’s language: Perception of speech sounds- production of speech sounds.
Later growth in the child’s language: Learning, complexity and processing-elaboration of language
structure-elaboration of language function.
Acquisition of meaning: Early word meanings-context and strategies- semantic components.
Theories-of first Language: Acquisition: Behaviourist Theory-Innatist Theory-Cognitive Theory,
Maturation Theory.
Recommended Reading:
Hudson, R. A. : Sociolinguistics
Trudgil : Sociolinguistics: An Introduction
Fishman, L. A : Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction
Clark, H. H. & Clark, E. V.: Psychology and Language
Barry McLaughlin: Theories of Second Language Learning
Slobin : Psycholinguistics
ENG352 Classics in Translation 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Homer : The Iliad (Selected Books)
Virgil : The Aeneid
Aeschylus : Agamemnon
Euripides : Alcestis
Sophocles : Electra
Recommended Reading:
McNamee, Maurice B : Homer and Epic Hero
Chadwick, H. M. : The Heroic Age
Merchant, Paul : The Epic
Kitto, H. D. F. : For and Meaning in Drama—Greek Tragedy
Segal, Eric : Oxford Reading in Greek Tragedy
ENG 360 American Literature-II 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Arthur Miller : Death of A Salesman
E. Hemingway : The Sun Also Rises
Robert Frost : Selected Poems
Eugene O’Neill : Desire under the Elms
Saul Bellow : Seize the Day
Allen Ginsberg : Selected Poems
Recommended Reading:
Boris, Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature
Weeks, R. P : Hemingway
Jeremy, H : Studying the Novel: An Introduction
Waldhorn, A : A Reader’s Guide to Ernest Hemingway
Brower, Robert : Poetry of Robert Frost
ENG362 Continental Literature 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Moliere : Miser
Ibsen :A Doll’s House;
Brecht : Mother Courage and Her Children;
Camus, Albert : The Outsider;
Tolstoy, Leo : Anna Karenina;
Note: Instructors should lay emphasis on the following issues:
a) Psychology; b) Philosophy; c) Transcendentalism; d) Literary Regionalism; and e) Racial and other
Minorities.
More:
1. An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Barnet, Berman, Burto, and Cain. Longman. XI editation. 2. The
Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Jerome Beaty and Paul Hunter. 3. Webster, Mariam. Encyclopedia
of Literature. 4. Introduction to American Studies. Ed. Malcolm Bradbary. 6. Luedike, L. S. Making
America: The Society and Culture of the United States. 7. Mathiessen, F. O. American Renaissance. 8.
Lewis, R. The American Adam. 9. Tayler, M. C. History of American Literature: 1607~1765. 10. Chase,
Richard. The American Novel.
Recommended Reading:
An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Barnet, Berman, Burto, and Cain. Longman. XI meditation.
The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed.Jerome Beaty and Paul Hunter.
Webster, Miriam. Encyclopedia of Literature.
ENG370 Literary Criticism 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Sydney : Apologie for Poetrie
Dryden : Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge : Biographia Literaria
Note: The Course is to be studied with reference to the following:
a) An outline of history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present day; b) Classification of
criticism: Linguistic; Theoretical; and Descriptive; c) Criticism and a reflection of contemporary creative
practice; and d) Beginnings of English criticism: Dr. Johnson; Neo—Classicism in the 18th Century;
Criticism during the romantic revival; and Continental influence on English criticism in the 19 th Century;
and Trends in the 20th Century criticism.
Recommended Reading:
Wimsal & Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History
Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism
Rene, Wellek : The Rise of English Literary History
Austen, Warren. & Rene, Wellek :Theory of Literature
Polts, T. D. Poetics: Aristotle.
Wetson, George. The Literary Critics. Pelican
ENG359 Assignment +Presentation + Viva Voce
3 Hours/weeks (0+3), 3 Credits
ENG400 20th Century Novel 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man
Virginia Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness
E.M.Forster : A Passage to India
Recommended Reading:
K. R. Leavis : D. H. Lawrence: Novelist
Albert J. Guerard: Conrad: The Novelist
E.M.Forster :Aspects of Novel
ENG402 Translation Studies 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
A . Theory
i)Translation : Scope and Significance
ii) Translation , Language and Culture
iii) Translation and Literature
iv) History of Literary Translation
v) Literary Translation Theories
B. a) Evaluation of Translated Texts :
i) Selections from Of Women , Outcastes ,Peasants and Rebels –A Selection of Bengali Short Stories by
Kalpana Bardhan
ii) Selections from Jibananda Das : Selected Poems , by Fakrul Alam
iii)munir choudhury , mukhara ramani basikaran
b) Assignment on Translation :
Translation assignments will be from English into Bangla and from Bangla into English.
Source Text :
Susan Bassnett :Translation Studies
Andre Lefevere :Translation , Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame
Sujit Mukherjee :Translation as Discovery
Gayatri Spivak : “Politics of Translation ‘’
Schulte , Rainer and John Biguenet eds.:Theories of Translation
Recommended Reading :
Arrowsmith, William and Roger Shattuck ,eds: The Craft and Context of Translation .Austin : U
Texts Pr ,1961.
Baker , Mona :The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London Routledge,1998
Bassnett McGuire , Susan and A.Lefevere , eds. Benjamin , Walter :Translation ,History and
Culture . London:Pinter Publication.1990. “Die Aufgabe des Ubersetzers “. In Illuminations 50-
62. Frandfurt am Mam : Shikamp , 1977 englishtranslation : “The Task of the Translatior. “ In
Illuminations 69-82. Tr. Harry Zohn,New York :Schocken Books, 1969
Brower, Reuben A. ed.: On translation. Harvard Studies in comparative literature73.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Pr. 1959
Robinson, Douglas :Translation and Empire. Post-colonial Theories Explained.
Translation Theories Explained4. Manchester, UK: st. Jerome Press, 1997.
ENG410 Literary Theory 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent
Arnold : The Study of Poetry
Eagleton : The Rise of English
Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
Said : Introduction to Orientalism
Spivak :‘3 women’s texts and a critique of imperialism’
Recommended Reading:
Wimsatt & Brooks: Literary Criticism—A Short History
I. A. Richards : Principles of Literary Criticism
Rene Welleck : History of Literary Criticism
George Watson : The Literary Critics (Pelican Edition)
ENG412 South Asian Literature in English 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Tagore, Rabindranath.: Gitanjali (Selected pieces)
Islam, Kazi. Nazrul (Selected Poems)
Rokeya, Begum.: Sultana’s Dream
Ghosh, Amitava.: The Shadow Lines
Mukerjee, Bharathi: Jasmine
Recommended Reading: To be decided by the Course Instructor
ENG420 Business and Professional English 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Business letters, Business reports, Job Applications, Resume/CV writing, writing memorandums, notice for
meeting and minutes of meeting, office circular, office order, joining letter, appointment letter, transfer
order, press release, job advertisements, tenders, quotations, project proposal.
Recommended Reading:
L.Sue Baugh, Maridell Fryar, David Thomas, How to Write First Class Business Correspondence
S. Taylor, Model Business Letters and Other Business Documents
Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
R. Brown and S. Hood, Writing Matters
M.R. Sethi, Better Applications for Better Jobs
Kay White, Draft Your Own Business Letters
Florian Columns, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
Leo Jones and Richard Alexander, New International Business English
Lesikar, V. and Pettit D.: Report Writing for Business
J. John Lincoln and Janet Atwill, Writing: A College Handbook
ENG409 Assignment +Presentation + Viva Voce
3 Hours/weeks (0+3), 3 Credits
ENG450 English for Media Communication 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Week (3+0), 3 Credits
Section A : Theory
This section will introduce some basic theories of media and communication. It will specially focus on the
students’ understanding of the policies and politics in the use of English language in media communication
in Bangladesh.
This section will cover :
Theories of communication
Nature, purpose and special features of media communication
Language as communication
Politics of media communication and communication ethics
English in media in Bangladesh: ‘an imported world ‘
Section B: Practice
This section will be an application of the theoretical knowledge students acquire in ‘real -life’ situations. It
will familiarize students with and train them in media writings such as
News reports with catching captions /headings
Subtitling
Translating reports
Writing special features for the press or electronic media
Issuing press releases
Editing
Focus will also be ( if possible ) on :
Press briefing (oral and written ) conferences and preparing reports on the briefings
Interviewing
Conducting surveys and preparing reports for the media
News casting with emphasis on pronunciation , stress , intonation , confidence and naturalness
Recommended Reading :
C J Bolt and D U Seyler eds. 1981 . Language Power . New York : Random House .
Nancy Bonvillain . 1997 . Language , Culture and Communication . New Jersey : Prentice Hall
Paul Cobley. 1996 . The Communication Theory Reader. London :Routledgo .
Simon During ed. 1993 . The Cultural Studies Reader .
E M Griffin . 2000. Communication Theory . New York : Mc Graw Hill.
Werner J Severin . 1988. Communication Theories. New York:Longman.
( In addition to this list the instructor/s will select material like newspapers, electronic data
/images , reports , editing / subtitling tools and necessary documents to be used in the practice
classes )
ENG452 20th Century Poetry 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
W. B. Yeats : “ Prayer for My Daughter”, “ Byzantium”, “Sailing to Byzantium”,
“Wild Swan at the Coole” “The Second Coming”, “Easter 1916”
T. S. Eliot : “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “The Waste Land”
W. H. Auden : Selections
Dylan Thomas : Selections
Philip Larkin : Selections
Ted Hughes : Selections
Recommended Reading:
Drake Nicholas : Penguin Critical Studies—The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Coote Stephen : Penguin Critical Studies—The Waste Land
Jain Manju : A Critical Reading of the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Hendon Paul : The Poetry of W. H. Auden—A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism
Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
ENG460 Modern British Drama 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
G. B. Shaw : Man and Superman
J.M. Synge : Riders to the Sea
Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party
Samuel Becket : Waiting for Godot
Recommended Reading:
Nicolle Allardyce: The Theory of Drama
Boas, F. S. : An Introduction to Drama
Wilde Oscar : The Major Works—Oxford World Classics
Shaw George : Bernard Shaw’s Plays—Norton Critical Edition
Coles Notes : Man and Superman
ENG462 Introduction to English Language Teaching 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Theories of Language Learning
Linguistics, sociology and psychology in language teaching
Approaches to and Methods of Language Teaching:
Grammar- translation method, structural approach, audiolingual method,the direct method, the
natural approach, total physical response, the silent way, suggestopaedia, counseling learning
Communicative language teaching
Inductive and deductive approaches to the teaching of grammar, teaching the macroskills: reading,
writing,speaking and listening
appropriate methodology: politics of ELT
Designing language tasks and planning language lessons: theory and practice
Course(syllabus) design:theory andpractice
Materials design, evaluation and adaptation:theory and practice
Testing and evaluation
Text Books:
Freeman, Diane Larsen :Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, Oxford
University Press, 1986
Richards, J. C. and T. C. Rodgers : Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching
Recommended Reading:
Harmer,J :Teaching and Learning Grammar
Harmer, J :The Practice of English Language Teaching
D. A. Wilkins : National Syllabus
W. Littlewood : Communicative Language Teaching
J. Munby : Communicative Syllabus Design
H. G. Woddowson: Teaching Language as Communication
White, R : Curriculum Design
Holliday,A :Appropriate Methodology in Social Context
ENG470 Research Methodology and Writing Research Project 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
What is Research?
Steps in research: selecting a topic, defining the research question/research problem, doing primary
literature survey, finalizing focus, extensive literature survey, deciding about methods of data collection,
analysis of data, presenting results.
Important concepts in ELT research: reliability, validity, triangulation etc.
Types of research: Qualitatitive and quantitative research, inductive, deductive research, experimental and
empirical research
Methods of data collection: questionnaire survey, interviews, document analysis, diary studies,
ethnigraphy, case study, observation etc.
Designing tools for investigation
Administering the study
Process of data collection and data analysis, tabulating data, planning an analysis in keeping with the
objectives, frequency counts, central tendency and some other types of data analysis
Presenting results
Referencing style: APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles of referencing
Students will also be required to :Write a research proposal & Do a minor research project
Recommended Reading:
David Nunan : Research methods in Language Learning
Best John W. : Research in Education
ENG459 Assignment +Presentation + Viva Voce
3 Hours/weeks (0+3), 3 Credits
Detailed Syllabus of Non-Major Courses
MGT104 Introduction to Business 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
The course outlines the philosophy, objectives, activities and responsibility of business enterprises and
familiarizes with business enterprises, business terminology and business environment, included in the
course are forms and procedure of business organization, procedure for business start up, sources of
finance, agencies involved in business start up, major business decisions, associations in business world,
major business functions and careers in business. Functional areas of business, such as marketing,
production, finance, accounting, personnel etc. are discussed; includes a project work on how to set up a
business.
Recommended Reading:
Straub and Attner: Introduction to Business
Koontz and Fulmer: A Practical Introduction to Business
F.T. Haner et at.: An Introduction to Business
CSE104 Computer Fundamentals 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits Computer Basics: Introduction to Studying Computers, History and development of Computers,
Generation of Computers, Types of Computers.
Computer Hardware and Peripherals: Basic Units of Computer Hardware, Keyboard, Mouse, Internal
structure of CPU, Functions of RAM, ROM and Cache memory, Basic functional mechanism of HDD and
CD-ROM, Different types of Monitors, Impact and Non-impact Printers, Scanner, Plotter, Typical
Computer specifications.
Software: Classifications, System software, Operating system concepts and importance, components and
basic functions of DOS, Windows operating system, Application software’s and Utility programs,
Computer Virus.
Data Processing: Concepts of Data, Information, and Database, Traditional File Processing, and DBMS.
Computer Networks: Computer networks and its goals, Basic concepts on LAN, MAN, WAN and
Internet systems, Internet services, Functions of Modem in Internet.
Recommended Reading:
Peter Norton : Introduction to Computer, McGraw-hill Publishers
J. Stanley Warford:Computer Systems, Jones & Bartlett Publishers
P. Norton : Inside the PC, Sam Publishers
L. Rosch : Hardware Bible, Braddy Publishing, Indianapolis
Subramanian : Introduction to Computers, Mcgraw-hill Inc.
V. K. Jain : Switching Theory and Digital Electronics, Khanna Publishers
MAT154 Fundamentals of Mathematics 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
2Hours/Weeks (2+0), 2 Credits
Sets : Elementary idea of set , set notation , set of natural numbers , rational number , irrational number s,
real numbers along with their geometrical representation , idea of open and close interval, sub sets, power
set of a set, basic set operations and related theorems on set Venn diagrams.
Real Number system: Idea of absolute value real of real number, axioms of real number system and their
applications in solving algebraic equations.
Arithmetic: Factorizations, LCM, HCF, Unitary method, percentage, profit and loss measurement.
Equation and inequality: Elementary idea of law of inequality, solution of relations and inequality.
Variable and Function: Variable of a set, functions of a variable, polynomial, graph of single polynomial
functions, exponential log arithmetic, trigonometric functions and their graphs, domain and range of a
function, sum, difference, product, quotient, compositions and inverse of functions.
Recommended Reading:
Seymour Lipschutz: Set Theory
R. David Gustafson and Peter D. Frisk: Functions and Graphs.
PSC154 Bangladesh Studies 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits History of Society, Culture, Geo-politics & Economics-Development of nationalism during pre
independence of Bangladesh-Language Movement of 1952, Constitutional Movement of 1962, Six point
Formula and Mass Movement of 1968-69, Election of 1970-Emergence of Bangladesh—Political Process
of Bangladesh, constitutional experimentations in Bangladesh, power and functions of the organs of
government—Administration of Bangladesh, planning commission and Bangladesh Public Service, local
government—Political economy of Bangladesh, Bangladesh agriculture, industry and other sectors—social
security in Bangladesh.
Recommended Reading: To be decided by the Course Instructor
MGT154 Principles of Management 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits Introduction: Meaning and importance of Management, evolution of management thought, scientific
management and modern management, managerial excellence and success, manager and entrepreneur,
managerial decision making, environmental impact on management, corporate social responsibility,
managerial levels and skills, theory X and Theory Y.
Advantage and disadvantages of planning, time frame of planning, why plans go wrong. Organizing:
Definition, importance, formal and informal organizations, functions, benefits of informal to formal
organizations, disadvantages of informal organizations, conflict, functional and dysfunctional conflict, and
reasons of conflict, inter personal conflict. Actuating: Definition, recruiting, recruiting alternatives,
selections, selection model, motivation, need hierarchy theory.
Controlling: Definition, control process, types of control.
Recommended Reading:
Terry and Franklin: Principles of Management
Koontz and Weihrich: Management
3.R.W. Griffin: Management
SOC204 Introduction to Sociology 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits What is Sociology? Nature and scope of sociology: Origin and development of sociology as a separate
discipline. Doing Sociology: Scientific method and techniques for sociological investigation. Primary
Concepts: Society, community, association, institution, culture; components of culture, norms, values,
folkways, mores, cultural unity, and diversity. Social Institutions: Family, religion, functionalist, and
conflict perspectives of institutions. Population and Environment: Population growth, ecological balance
ecosystem, threats to global environment. The Environment: A sociological issue. Social change and its
factors, theories of social change.
Recommended Reading:
Alex Inkels: What is Sociology?
Pascal Gisbert: Introduction to Sociology
T.B. Bottomore: Sociology:A Guide to problems and literature
J.E. Goldthrope: An Introduction to Sociology
G.T. Miller: Living in the Environment
BAN204 Bangla Literature 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
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PSC204 Politics and Administration in Bangladesh 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits a) Fundamental concepts: State, power, sovereignty, law, liberty government, institution, nationalism
constitution democracy, dictatorship unitary and federal government
b) Bangladesh: Society and politics
c) Background of Bangladesh: Nationalism, war of liberation, nature of leadership
d) Political process of Bangladesh: Democratic practices and constitutional experimentation in Bangladesh
military rule and civilization process, power and function of the organs of government (executive,
legislature and judiciary)
e) Constitutional framework of Bangladesh public administration
f) Central personnel agencies:
i) Ministry of establishment (MOE)
ii) Bangladesh public service commission
g) Structure and functions of Bangladesh secretariat and attached departments
h) Bureaucracy in Bangladesh: Characteristics and functions
i) Local government in Bangladesh
Recommended Reading:
Rymond G Gettle: Political Science, Boston: inn and Co., 1910
J.W Garner: Introduction to Political Science, NY: America Book Com., 1910
White, L. D. : Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, New York: The Free Press,1926
Jahan, Rounaq: Bangladesh Politics Problems & Issues
Halim, Abdul: Constitution, Constitutional Law and Politics Bangladesh Perspective
Rodee Anderson & Chritto(ed), : Introduction to Political Science
Constitution of People’s Republic of Bangladesh
PHI254 Introduction to Philosophy 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits General introduction, explanation of three main mental processes, what is philosophy, history of
philosophy, methods of philosophy, different branches of philosophy, cosmological problems, problems of
philosophy of mind, epistemological problems, axiological problems, idea of God, problem of Evil,
contemporary philosophy, Literature: a brief survey, language used and idea borne by common sense, the
type and object of literary knowledge, relation of philosophy with literature
Recommended Reading: To be decided by the Course Instructor
PSY254 Introduction to Psychology 100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/Weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
1. Introduction: Definition, nature, subject-matter, scope, development, branches, Research
methods.
2. Biological Bases of behavior.
3. Sensation & Perception.
4. Learning.
5. Memory and Forgetting.
6. Cognition: Thinking, deciding and Communicating.
7. Motivation and Emotion.
8. Intelligence.
9. Personality.
10. Attitude.
Ref . Books:
1. Robot A Baron, Psychology 5th ed.
2. Clifford T. Morgan & Rich and A kais Psychology .