Semester 1 Core Course in English (CCE – 1)
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of short story. The objective of the
paper is to familiarize the students with the form and with major writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
Course Content:
Literary Form: Short Story
Text: Macmillan Stories for Colleges– Edited by K. G. Seshadri
Publishers: Macmillan Publishers India Limited. Seventh Impression,
2010
ISBN: 10-0333-921445, and 13-978-0333-921449.
Titles of short stories for study:
1. The Robe of Peace-O. Henry. 2. The Miracle of Puran Bhagat-Rudyard
Kipling. 3. The Truth about Pyecraft-H.G. Wells. 4. Quality-John Galsworthy. 5.
Mabel-William Somerset Maugham. 6. The Hammer of God-G.K. Chesterton. 7.
A Cup of Tea-Catherine Mansfield. 8. The Far and the Near-Thomas Wolfe. 9.
Half-a-Rupee Worth-R.K. Narayan. 10. Bachcha Lieutenant-Manohar
Malgonkar
Unit 1 Definition, Elements of short stories - character, setting, plot, conflict, theme
Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 2 Nature, Scope and Types of Short Stories Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 3 Short Stories 1 to 3 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 4Short Stories 4 to 6 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 5 Short Stories 7 to 10 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Semester End exam:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Bangalore: Prison Books, 1993.
Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981. Anand, M.R.
"Introduction." Comparative Indian Literature. Vol. 2.
Ed. K.M. George. New York: Macmillan, 1966.132-133.
Bates, H.G. The Modern Short Story from 1809 to 1953. London: Robert Hale, 1988.
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. The Scope of Fiction. New York: Appleton
Crafts, 1960.
Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. New Delhi: Clarion Books, 1980.
Das, Sisir Kumar. (Ed.). A History of Indian Literature: 1800-1910: Western Impact,
Indian Response. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1991.
Gelfant, Blanche and Lawrence Graver (Eds.). The Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Hart, James (ed.) The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford, Gr. Brit.:
Oxford UP, 1995.
Isweren, Manjeri. "The Role of the Story Teller in the Modern World." The Aryan
Path. Dec. 1957. 216-217.
Kempton, K.P. The Short Story. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1954. Magill, Frank. (Ed.)
Short Story Writers. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997.
Matthews, Brander. The Philosophy of The Short Story. New York: Longmans, Green,
1901.
Mundra, J.N. and C.L. Sahani. Advanced Literary Essays. 4th Edition, Bareilly: Prakash
Book Depot, 1965.
"A Study of Prose Fiction," by Bliss Perry, Chapter XII, The Short-Story, pp. 300-334.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902.
Rao, M. Rama (Ed.). "The Short Story in Modern Indian Literature." Fiction and the
Reading Public in India. Mysore: Mysore UP, 1967.
Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London: Longman, 1983.
"Short Story." The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. Micropaedia vol. 10.
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998.
Semester – 1 Core Course in English (CCE – 2)
Summer, Hollis (Ed.). Discussions of the Short Story. Boston: Heath, 1963.
Venugopal, C.V. The Indian Short Story in English: A Survey. Bareilly: Prakash Book
Depot. 1976.
Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature. London: Methuen, 1992.
Watson, Noelle (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of lyric. The objective of the paper
is to familiarize the students with the form and with major creative writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
Course Content:
Form: Lyric
Text: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Editor: Board of Editors. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2014.
ISBN: 978-81-25-5606-5
Note: the following poems are to be taught and asked in the exam.
1. Sonnet 144 - William Shakespeare
2. Holy Sonnet 14 - John Donne
3. The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
4. Daddy -Sylvia Plath
5. Do Not Go Gentle into That Night -Dylan Thomas
6. Ode to a Nightingale -John Keats
7. Dejection: An Ode -S.T. Coleridge
8. Ode to Solitude -Alexander Pope
9. The Ballad of Father Gilligan -W.B. Yeats
10. A Lament -P.B. Shelley
Unit 1: Origin and Development of the genre Teaching time: 05 hours
Unit 2: Lyric Types: Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Ballad: 10 hours
Unit 3: Characteristics of Lyric Teaching time: 5 hours
Concepts of poetic techniques -regarding structure, rhyme, meter, alliteration, lines
and stanza, assonance etc. with reference to the prescribed works
Unit 4: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Teaching time: 25 hours
Semester end examination:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Poems) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Alexander, L. G. 1963. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for the Overseas Students.
Longmans.
Blackstone, Bernard. Practical English Prosody. Longmans.
Goose, Edmund. 1990. Appreciation of Poetry. Orient BlackSwan Ltd. Palgrave,
F. T. Golden Treasury. Macmillan: London, New York Online support:
Cary, John. Practical English Prosody and Versification
http://www.archive.org/details/practicalenglis00caregoog
*[1 credit = 1 hour of teaching per week (1 credit Course = 15 hours of lectures per
semester; 3 credits = 3 hours of instruction per week (3 credit Course = 45 hours of
lectures per semester)
Functional English I (FE1) B. A. SEMESTER – I (For Regular Students Only)
Course Objective:
To initiate the students in the study of phonetics
To make students aware about the vowels and consonants and their
pronunciations
To make students aware about human speech mechanism
Course Content:
Unit I : Introduction to Phonetics, Phonetic Symbols
Unit II : Airstream Mechanism
Unit III: Organs of Speech
Unit IV: Classification of Consonants
Unit V : Classification of Vowels
Definitions: Linguistics, Phonetics, Airstream mechanism, Voiced and Voiceless
sounds, Oral, Nasal, Nasalized sounds, Vowels, Consonants, Plosives etc.
Diagrams: Organs of Speech, Vocal cords, Soft Palate
Transcription: 5 words to be transcribed, 5 transcribed words to be identified.
Semester end Exams: 50 Marks
1. Objective questions 10
2. Definitions (2/4) 05
3. Short notes (2/4) 10
4. Long Questions (1/2) 10
5. Diagram (1/2) 05
6. Transcription 10
Prescribed TEXTBOOK: A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students by T.
Balasubramanian, CIEFL, Hyderabad
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of short story. The objective of the
paper is to familiarize the students with the form and with major writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
Course Content:
Literary Form: Short Story
Text: Macmillan Stories for Colleges– Edited by K. G. Seshadri
Publishers: Macmillan Publishers India Limited. Seventh Impression,
2010
ISBN: 10-0333-921445, and 13-978-0333-921449.
Titles of short stories for study:
1. The Robe of Peace-O. Henry. 2. The Miracle of Puran Bhagat-Rudyard
Kipling. 3. The Truth about Pyecraft-H.G. Wells. 4. Quality-John Galsworthy. 5.
Mabel-William Somerset Maugham. 6. The Hammer of God-G.K. Chesterton. 7.
A Cup of Tea-Catherine Mansfield. 8. The Far and the Near-Thomas Wolfe. 9.
Half-a-Rupee Worth-R.K. Narayan. 10. Bachcha Lieutenant-Manohar
Malgonkar
Unit 1 Definition, Elements of short stories - character, setting, plot, conflict, theme
Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 2 Nature, Scope and Types of Short Stories Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 3 Short Stories 1 to 3 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 4Short Stories 4 to 6 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 5 Short Stories 7 to 10 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Semester End exam:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Bangalore: Prison Books, 1993.
Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981. Anand, M.R.
"Introduction." Comparative Indian Literature. Vol. 2.
Ed. K.M. George. New York: Macmillan, 1966.132-133.
Bates, H.G. The Modern Short Story from 1809 to 1953. London: Robert Hale, 1988.
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. The Scope of Fiction. New York: Appleton
Crafts, 1960.
Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. New Delhi: Clarion Books, 1980.
Das, Sisir Kumar. (Ed.). A History of Indian Literature: 1800-1910: Western Impact,
Indian Response. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1991.
Gelfant, Blanche and Lawrence Graver (Eds.). The Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Hart, James (ed.) The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford, Gr. Brit.:
Oxford UP, 1995.
Isweren, Manjeri. "The Role of the Story Teller in the Modern World." The Aryan
Path. Dec. 1957. 216-217.
Kempton, K.P. The Short Story. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1954. Magill, Frank. (Ed.)
Short Story Writers. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997.
Matthews, Brander. The Philosophy of The Short Story. New York: Longmans, Green,
1901.
Mundra, J.N. and C.L. Sahani. Advanced Literary Essays. 4th Edition, Bareilly: Prakash
Book Depot, 1965.
"A Study of Prose Fiction," by Bliss Perry, Chapter XII, The Short-Story, pp. 300-334.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902.
Rao, M. Rama (Ed.). "The Short Story in Modern Indian Literature." Fiction and the
Reading Public in India. Mysore: Mysore UP, 1967.
Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London: Longman, 1983.
"Short Story." The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. Micropaedia vol. 10.
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998.
Semester – 1 Core Course in English (CCE – 2)
Summer, Hollis (Ed.). Discussions of the Short Story. Boston: Heath, 1963.
Venugopal, C.V. The Indian Short Story in English: A Survey. Bareilly: Prakash Book
Depot. 1976.
Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature. London: Methuen, 1992.
Watson, Noelle (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of lyric. The objective of the paper
is to familiarize the students with the form and with major creative writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
Course Content:
Form: Lyric
Text: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Editor: Board of Editors. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2014.
ISBN: 978-81-25-5606-5
Note: the following poems are to be taught and asked in the exam.
1. Sonnet 144 - William Shakespeare
2. Holy Sonnet 14 - John Donne
3. The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
4. Daddy -Sylvia Plath
5. Do Not Go Gentle into That Night -Dylan Thomas
6. Ode to a Nightingale -John Keats
7. Dejection: An Ode -S.T. Coleridge
8. Ode to Solitude -Alexander Pope
9. The Ballad of Father Gilligan -W.B. Yeats
10. A Lament -P.B. Shelley
Unit 1: Origin and Development of the genre Teaching time: 05 hours
Unit 2: Lyric Types: Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Ballad: 10 hours
Unit 3: Characteristics of Lyric Teaching time: 5 hours
Concepts of poetic techniques -regarding structure, rhyme, meter, alliteration, lines
and stanza, assonance etc. with reference to the prescribed works
Unit 4: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Teaching time: 25 hours
Semester end examination:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Poems) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Alexander, L. G. 1963. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for the Overseas Students.
Longmans.
Blackstone, Bernard. Practical English Prosody. Longmans.
Goose, Edmund. 1990. Appreciation of Poetry. Orient BlackSwan Ltd. Palgrave,
F. T. Golden Treasury. Macmillan: London, New York Online support:
Cary, John. Practical English Prosody and Versification
http://www.archive.org/details/practicalenglis00caregoog
*[1 credit = 1 hour of teaching per week (1 credit Course = 15 hours of lectures per
semester; 3 credits = 3 hours of instruction per week (3 credit Course = 45 hours of
lectures per semester)
Functional English I (FE1) B. A. SEMESTER – I (For Regular Students Only)
Course Objective:
To initiate the students in the study of phonetics
To make students aware about the vowels and consonants and their
pronunciations
To make students aware about human speech mechanism
Course Content:
Unit I : Introduction to Phonetics, Phonetic Symbols
Unit II : Airstream Mechanism
Unit III: Organs of Speech
Unit IV: Classification of Consonants
Unit V : Classification of Vowels
Definitions: Linguistics, Phonetics, Airstream mechanism, Voiced and Voiceless
sounds, Oral, Nasal, Nasalized sounds, Vowels, Consonants, Plosives etc.
Diagrams: Organs of Speech, Vocal cords, Soft Palate
Transcription: 5 words to be transcribed, 5 transcribed words to be identified.
Semester end Exams: 50 Marks
1. Objective questions 10
2. Definitions (2/4) 05
3. Short notes (2/4) 10
4. Long Questions (1/2) 10
5. Diagram (1/2) 05
6. Transcription 10
Prescribed TEXTBOOK: A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students by T.
Balasubramanian, CIEFL, Hyderabad
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