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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Eligibility Criteria:
B.A , English Literature : A pass in the HSE (+2) both academic & vocational stream.
CORE PAPERS
S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 British Literature-I I 2 Indian Writing in English I 3 British Literature-II II 4 Regional Indian Literature in Translation II 5 British Literature-III III 6 Modern English Language and Usage III 7 American Literature – I IV 8 Film and Literature IV 9 American Literature - II V 10 Post- colonial Literature - I (Australian Literature) V 11 Women’s Writing V 12 Introduction to Literary Theories V 13 Contemporary Literature VI 14 Post-colonial Literature in English- II (Canadian Literature) VI 15 Shakespeare VI
ELECTIVE PAPERS
S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 Introduction to Translation Studies V 2 World Literature in Translation VI 3 Journalism VI
ALLIED PAPERS
S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 Background to the Study of English Literature I I 2 Background to the Study of English Literature II II 3 Myth and Literature III 4 Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics IV
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DETAILED SYLLABUS
SEMESTER I
Title of theCourse/ Paper CORE-BRITISH LITERATURE I
Core I Year & FirstSemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Introduction- The Renaissance and its Impact on England, the Reformation- causes and effects, The Commonwealth Period, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social relevanceUnit - 2: Prose
1. On Revenge – Francis Bacon 2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison3. A City Night Piece – Oliver Goldsmith
Unit - 3: Poetry1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?- William Shakespeare3. A Valediction of Weeping- John Donne4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) –John Milton (lines795-833)5. The Rape of the Lock (Canto III- lines125-178)- Alexander Pope
Unit - 4: Drama- Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlow
Unit - 5: Fiction-The Vicar of Wake field- Oliver Goldsmith
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
CORE-INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Core I Year & FirstSemester
Course outline
Unit – 1: Introduction- Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact, History of Indian Writing in English, Nativisation of EnglishIntroduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay’s Speech), Indian Diasporic WritersUnit– 2: Prose
1. The World Community – S. Radhakrishnan 2. The Argumentative India – Amartya Sen
UNIT- 3: Poetry1. The Tiger and the Deer – Sir Aurobindo Ghosh2. Summer Woods – Sarojini Naidu3. In India – Nissim Ezekiel4. Crab – Arun Kolatkar5. Eating Wheat – Vikram Seth6. Fireflies – Manohar Shetty
Unit -4: Drama Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani
Unit-5: Fiction Swami and Friends – R.K.Narayan
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ALLIED - ALLIED PAPER – I - BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I - (BRB1A)
Core I Year & ISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Drama – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsElements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic comedy,
Revenge Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque
Unit - 2: Poetry – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsSubjective and Objective poetryNarrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the BalladLyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the ElegyDramatic MonologuePoetic DramaProsody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and
allegory
Unit - 3: Prose – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsThe Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, satirical, Critical)The Short StoryThe Biography and the AutobiographyTravel Writing
Unit - 4: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)An Introduction to Bible Translation – Tyndale, CoverdaleThe University WitsElizabethan and Jacobean DramaComedy of Humour
Unit - 5: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 – 1800)Comedy of MannersNeo-ClassicismSentimental and Anti-sentimental comediesPre-Romantics
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SEMESTER II
Title of theCourse/ Paper CORE- BRITISH LITERATURE II
Core I Year & IISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: IntroductionImpact of the Industrial, Agrarian, and the French Revolution on the English Society, Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of Education
Unit - 2: Prose1. Dream Children- A Reverie – Charles Lamb2. On Going a Journey – William Hazlitt3. Of King’s Treasuries – John Ruskin (An Extract from
Sesame and Lillies)
Unit - 3: Poetry1. Lucy Gray- William Wordsworth2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Coleridge3. Ozymandias- Shelley4. Ode to a Nightingale - Keats5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson6. Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold7. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
Unit - 4: DramaThe Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Unit - 5: FictionGreat Expectations – Charles Dickens
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
CORE -REGIONAL INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Core I Year & IISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: IntroductionConcept of Indian Literature, Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in Indian Aesthetics___________________________________________________________Unit - 2: Poetry
1. Is Poetry always worthy when it’s old? –Kalidasa2. What She Said – Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3(Tamil)3. What She Said to her Girlfriend – Kapilar, Akanaanoor 82(Tamil)4. Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore5. Six Rubaiiyats – Mirza Arif (Urdu)
____________________________________________________________Unit - 3: Short Stories
1. Roots – Ismat Chugtai (Urdu)2. The Shroud – Munshi Premchand (Hindi)3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder – Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)4. Poovan Banana – Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)
____________________________________________________________Unit - 4: DramaWedding Album – Girish Karnad__________________________________________________________Unit - 5: FictionBeasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ALLIED - BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II
Core I Year & IISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Drama (Continued)Well made play (Drama of Ideas – Shaw and Ibsen), Existential Drama, Comedy of menace, Kitchen-sink drama, Problem Play, Didactic Drama (Propaganda play), Oct-act play.
Unit - 2: The NovelEpistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Fiction, Historical Novel, Detective Novel, Bildungsroman, Stream of Consciousness, Avant-garde, Science Fiction
Unit - 3: The Romantic Age (1798 – 1832)Romanticism with respect to Prose – Lamb, HazlittPoetry – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Keats Novels – Jane Austen
Unit - 4: The Victorian Age (1832 – 1901)Pre- Raphaelite movement – D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti Humanitarian Movement – Methodist, Anti-Slavery and Salvation ArmyAesthetic Movement - Walter PatterVictorian Poets - Tennyson, BrowningVictorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, ThackerayVictorian Writers - Carlyle, RuskinImpressionistic Writers - Proust, JoyceSymbolist Movement - Yeats
Unit - 5: The Modern Age (Post 1901)Imagist Poetry- Ezra PoundPoets of the Thirties- Wilfred Owen, AudenEssay- Huxley Drama- GB ShawNovel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf
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SEMESTER III
Title of the Course/
CORE-BRITISH LITERATURE III
Core II Year & III Semester
Course outline
Unit - 1: IntroductionSocial impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State
Unit - 2: ProseTradition and Individual Talent – TS EliotThe Art of Fiction – Henry James
Unit - 3: PoetryTheWreck of the Deutschland – G.M. HopkinsEaster, 1916 – W.B. YeatsAnthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred OwenThe Unknown Citizen – W. H. AudenThe Thought Fox – Ted Hughes
Unit - 4: DramaPygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Unit - 5: FictionAnimal Farm – George Orwell
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Title of the Course/
CORE-MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND USAGE
Core II Year & III Semester
Course outline
1. INTRODUCTION
The Evolution of Standard English
____________________________________________________________2. LANGUAGE AND REGIONAL VARIATION Regional language, Accent, Dialect, Dialectology Regional dialects, Style, Slang and Jargon___________________________________________________________ 3. AREAS OF DIFFICULTY IN THE USAGE OF
ENGLISHLANGUAGE FOR II LANGUAGE USERS
Basic Grammar-Parts of speech, Modals and Auxiliaries, Types of sentences, and Indirect Speech, Question tags____________________________________________________________4. LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC SPEECH EVENTS
Drafting an Invitation, Minutes of the Meeting,Welcome Address, Proposing Vote of thanks____________________________________________________________
5. ENGLISH IN THE INTERNET ERA
Internet and English vocabulary, Role and Scope ofOnline English dictionaries, Language and the advent of technology, Useful online resources such as YouTube and Google Scholar
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Title of theCourse/ Paper ALLIED- MYTH AND LITERATURE Core II Year & III
SemesterCourse outline
Unit-I- IntroductionBeginnings of myth, natural phenomena as myth, myth and legends
Unit – II Greek and Roman Mythology1. Hercules – (Cleaning of Aegean Tables, Atlas and Hercules)2. Ulysses and Cyclops, Ulysses and Circe, the story of Penelope3. Romulus and Remus4. Dido, Queen of Carthage5. Cupid & Psyche6. Orpheus & Eurydice7. Echo & Narcissus
Unit – III Celtic Mythology1. Oisin in the Land of Forever Young
Unit – IV Legends1. Arthurian Cycle (The Holy Grail)2. Robin hood Cycle
Unit – V Hindu Mythology
1. Stories from Ramayana The Story of Mareecha The Burning of Lanka
2. Stories from Mahabharatha Kurukshetra-The battle & the deception of Bheema The Dog The Bhagavad Gita
3. Stories from Puranas, Epics and Vedas The Story of Nala and Damayanti The Story of Nacheeketa and Yama The Story of Ganga The Story of Sakuntala
SEMESTER IV
Title of theCourse/
CORE-AMERICAN LITERATURE – I
Core II Year & IVSemester
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Course outline
UNIT I – INTRODUCTIONPuritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolishment of Slavery
UNIT II – PROSE1. Self-Reliance-R.W. Emerson2. Where I Lived and What I Lived for – H.D.Thoreau3. Gettysburg Address- Abraham Lincoln
UNIT III – POETRY1. Nature – H.W.Longfellow2. A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment- Anne
Bradstreet3. Brahma- R.W.Emerson4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking- Walt Whitman5. O Captain! My Captain- Walt Whitman6. There is a certain Slant of light- Emily Dickinson
UNIT IV – SHORT STORIES1. The Cask of Amontillado- Edgar Allan Poe2. Bartleby, the Scrivener- Henry Melville3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse- O. Henry4. Pigeon Feathers- John Updike
UNIT V – FICTION1. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Title of the Course/
CORE-FILM AND LITERATURE
Core II Year & IV Semester
Course outline
UNIT 1: Introduction
Adaptation Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter 1- “ Beginning to theorize adaptation”
The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre ( narrative film, avant-grante film, film noir, documentary), Themes tropes-cue-suspense-themes-functions-motif-parallelism-development-unity / disunity
Film Narrative: Title-story-plot- narration (Restricted and omniscient)- duration-motivation-motif-parallelism – character traits-cause and effects-exposition-climax-point of view.
__________________________________________________________
UNIT 2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction
Danny Boyle’s Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)
__________________________________________________________
UNIT 3: Adaptation of fantasy Science Fiction
Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005)
__________________________________________________________
UNIT 4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films
Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) Rajiv Menon’s Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)
__________________________________________________________
UNIT 5: Components of a Film Review
Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis, Argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ALLIED - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Core II Year & IVSemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: INTRODUCTION Definition of language, spoken and written language Diachronic & Synchronic approaches of language study Linguistics – definition, nature and scope
Unit - 2: ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 1.Speech Organs 2.Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs) 3.Syllables, Stress and Intonation 4.Transcription (exercises)Unit - 3: GRAMMAR 1.Definition of Grammar 2.Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional
Unit - 4: SYNTAX 1.Structural analysis (I.C. analysis) 2.Deep and Surface structure
Unit - 5: SEMANTICS 1.Word, morphemes 2.Word meaning association (semantics)
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SEMESTER V
Title of theCourse/
CORE-AMERICAN LITERATURE - II
Core III Year & V Semester
Course outline
UNIT I – INTRODUCTION
Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse, Multiculturalism
UNIT II – POETRY
1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell8. An Agony. As Now – Amiri Baraka
UNIT III – DRAMA
1. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
UNIT IV – SHORT STORIES
1. This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow3. Separating – John Updlike4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
UNIT V – FICTION
1. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
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Title of theCourse/
CORE-POST COLONIAL LITERATURE
Core III Year & V Semester
Course outline
Unit - 1 Introduction Colonialism/settler colonialism, concepts of identity, insider/ outsider, home, displacement assimilation, nationhood, Australian history, confrontation and conflicts between settlers/aboriginal cultures- Literature-Aboriginal tradition/ bush culture/oral literature, convictism- Australian Legend/the national myth (e.g. The Wild Colonial Boy),-Post-war immigration to Australia/ Immigrant experience-Recent developments in Australian writing
Unit – 2 Short Stories
“Mate” – Kate Grenville and “One Sunday in February 1942” – Thomas Keneally
Unit – 3 Poetry
Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson, No more Boomerang – Kath Walker, and The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray, Myths and Legends: The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle Song 1 from Macmillan Anthology of Australian Lit. The Wild Colonial Boy
Unit – 4 Drama
Ned Kelly – Douglas Stewart
Unit – 5 Novel
Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
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Title of theCourse/
CORE-WOMEN’S WRITING
Core III Year & VSemester
Course outline
UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz society, theories.
Ecriture feminine
Female, feminist, feminity
Waves of Feminism, Post feminism
Tenets of Feminism- Liberal, Radical Socialist, Cyber feminism.
Patriarchy, Androgyny, Double marginalization, Stereotyping, male gaze, objectification
Womanism
Language and gender
UNIT 2 PROSE
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with strictures on Political and Moral Subjects- Mary Wollstonecraft
Ain’t I a woman?- Sojourner Truth ( Speech)
UNIT 3 POETRY Persephone, Falling –Rita Dove Journey to the Interior- Margaret Atwood Request to a year – Judith Wright Medusa – Sylvia Plath A Sunset of the city- Gwendolyn Brooks The Old Playhouse- Kamala Das
UNIT 4 DRAMA Trifles- Susan Glaspell
UNIT 5 SHORT STORIES Draupathi – Mahasweta Devi
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The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilmar Forest- Ambai
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Title of theCourse/
CORE-INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORIES
Core III Year & V Semester
Course outline
UNIT I – INTRODUCTION1. Literary theory from Aristotle to F.R.Leavis
____________________________________________________________UNIT II – STRUCTURALISM
1. The scope of structuralism2. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction
____________________________________________________________UNIT III – POST-MODERNISM AND PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
1. Post-Modernism2. Psychoanalytic Criticism
____________________________________________________________UNIT IV – FEMINIST AND MARXIST CRITICISM
1. Feminist Criticism2. Marxist Criticism
____________________________________________________________UNIT V – POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM
1. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism2. Post-Colonial Criticism3. Ecocriticism
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ELECTIVE – INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES
Elective III Year & VSemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Introduction
Definition and Scope of Translation, Translation and Culture, Types of Translation
Unit - 2: History
A Brief History of Translation
Unit - 3: Issues in Translation1. Decoding and Recoding2. Problems of Equivalence3. Loss and Gain4. Gender and Translation
Unit - 4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift
Unit - 5: Comparative AnalysisA Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkkural by G.U.Pope and Rajaji (Selected Verses)
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SEMESTER VI
Title of the Course/
CORE- CONTEMPORARYLITERATURE
Core III Year & VI Semester
Course outline
UNIT – I INTRODUCTION
Multiculturalism, Diasporic writing, Displacement and Alienation, Identity crisis, Theme of acculturation, Assimilation Globalization, Hybridity.
UNIT-I I PROSE & SHORT STORIES
1. Joseph Anton: A Memoir – Salman Rushdie2. The Bomb and I- Arundhati Roy3. The Medicine Bag- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World- Gabriel Garcia
Marquez5. Unaccustomed Earth- JhumpaLahiri
UNIT-III POETRY
1. Black Berry Picking – Seamus Heaney2. A Far Cry from Africa- Derek Walcott3. Hamlet- Wole Soyinka4. I Know why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
UNIT-IV DRAMA
1. Harvest – ManjulaPadmanabhan
UNIT- V FICTION
1. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
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Title of the Course/
CORE-POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH II (CANADIAN LITERATURE)
Core III Year & VI Semester
Course outline
UNIT-I: INTRODUCTION Post-colonial Literature, Origins of Canadian Literature, Oral
Traditions Including Myths, Folklore,and Legends, The First Nations: Native Literature,Colonization and the Colonizers: British and French and Economically Colonized by the Americans, The Garrison Mentality as a Common Theme in Canadian Literature, Recent developments and Mainstream writers
UNIT- II PROSE1. Godzilla vs. Post-colonial- Thomas King2. Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy- Robert Kroetsch
UNIT-III POETRY1. First Neighbours- P.K. Page2. Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga- A.M.Klein3. The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson4. Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A.J.M.SmithUNIT-IV DRAMA
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga
UNIT – SHORT STORIES AND FICTION1. Face – Alice Munro2. “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town)-
Stephen Leacock3. Cannibal Woman- Ron Geyshick4. The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
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Title of the Course/Paper
CORE-SHAKESPEARE
Elective III Year & VISemester
Course outline
UNIT 1: Introduction
The Age of Shakespeare Life of Shakespeare
Shakespearean theatre
Shakespearean audience
Shakespearean players
Shakespeare Canon
Shakespeare’s Texts:Quartos and Folios
Shakespeare and Classical conventions
Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, histories, romances,problem-plays
UNIT 2-Tragedy Macbeth
UNIT 3-Comedy Twelfth Night
UNIT 4-History Richard II
UNIT 5 Critical Essays 1.”From Hamlet to Lear” from Shakespeare in a Changing World -Arnold kettle 2. “On the tragedies of Shakespeare”- Charles Lamb from The English Critical Tradition- Ed. S.Ramaswami& V.S. Sethuraman ( Vol.I)
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ELECTIVE – WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Core III Year &VISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Introduction
Goethe’s concept of World Literature, Tragedy of Fate, French Revolution, Realistic Drama of Ibsen and Chekhov, Multiculturalism, Realism, Concept of the Absurd, Postmodernism
Unit - 2: Poetry1. The Gate of Hell: Canto III ( Inferno) – Dante Alighieri2. Ithaca- Constantine Petrou Cavafy3. The Burning of the Books- Bertolt Brecht4. Lot’s Wife- Anna Akhmatova5. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska
Unit - 3: Drama 1. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Unit - 4: Short Stories 1. The Guest- Albert Camus 2. The Convert – Guy de Maupassant 3. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4. One Autumn Night- Maxim Gorky 5. The Blizzard – Alexander Pushki 6. The Fairy Amoureuse – Emile Zola
Unit - 5: Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
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Title of theCourse/ Paper
ELECTIVE- JOURNALISM
Core III Year &VISemester
Course outline
Unit - 1: Introduction1. Introduction to Journalism2. A Short History of Journalism in India3. Ethics of Journalism
UNIT II – The Press
1. Freedom of Press and Threats to PressFreedom2. The Government and thePress3. Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of Court, Slander,
Copyright Laws, Press Regulation Act, Press Registration Act, Laws ofPrivileges
UNIT III – Reporting News1. Role of the Reporter and theEditor2. Types of News Reporting – Straight, Interpretive, Investigative,
Scoop,Sting3. Headlines – Editorial, Feature Writing, Personal Column, Reviews,
Interviews and PressConferences4. Reporting – News values, Human Interest, Story Angle,Obituaries
UNIT IV – Layouts, Advertising and News Agencies1. Make-up of a newspaper – Editing,Proof-Reading2. Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News Agencies, Press Council
ofIndia3. Advertisements – Types and SocialResponsibility
UNIT V – Electronic and New Media1. Electronic Media – Radio,Television2. Emergence of New Age Media – Definition and conceptualization
of the New Media3. Ethics and social Responsibilities of New Media
ExercisesEditing, Proof- Reading, Feature Writing, News Reporting, Planning interviews and Reviews