Full Syllabus: English Discipline Khulna University

A. Welcome Message of Discipline Head
Welcome to the e-page of English Discipline! As you take a tour through this page en route to the
website of Khulna University, I hope you will actualize that the faculty and staff in our discipline
recognize the pivotal role English plays not only in university education but, indeed, in the
understanding of human life and activity. Our eminent faculty teaches a wide range of diverse and
engaging classes at both undergraduate and graduate levels, ranging from American and British
literature, literary theory, linguistics, performance studies, academic and professional writing, English
language teaching, and translation studies—to name just a few. As Head of the Discipline, I see our
mission as providing the best education in the understanding of language, literature, and literacy, in
the value of critical reading and effective writing, in the knowing and applying of ethics and logic,
and in the mode of critical thinking at exemplary levels. I appreciate your interest in our discipline
and programs and would encourage you to stay in touch with us if you have any questions or
suggestions.
Best wishes,
Professor Dr. Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman
Head
English Discipline
B. Fact and History of the Discipline
Arts and Humanities School started its academic activities in 1999. At present, it comprises only
English Discipline and Bangla Language and Literature Discipline, English Discipline being the
older of the two.
The School has a firm conviction that subjects related to arts and humanities are essential in defining
and developing people’s esthetic, ethical and practical judgments, enterprises and activities. With this
view in mind, it offers in English Discipline courses related to language, literature, psychology,
sociology, philosophy, political science, etc. All these branches of knowledge require further

specialization and enrichment through opening of newer disciplines. For a human being to be
mentally sound and psychologically efficient, such disciplines are indispensable.
English Discipline presently offers three academic programs, the first two of which are regular and
the rest is paid: 4-year undergraduate program for the degree of BA (Hon’s) in English, 1-yaer
graduate program for the degree of MA, and 1-year graduate program for the degree of MA in
English Language. Since the Discipline’s inception, twelve batches have successfully completed their
undergraduate program.
The Discipline is proud to offer some of the latest fields of knowledge in theory, language, and
literature. Courses on theory, linguistics, English Language Teaching (ELT), performance and
translation studies are few of the noteworthy mentions.
Extra-curricular Activities
English Discipline has made its mark in such diverse areas as culture and sports. Besides, showing
excellence in games like cricket, football, and handball, its students regularly win competitions in
debate, quiz, music, and recitation. English Discipline bagged 16 out of 42 medals in National
Education Week Competition 2002. It also became runners up in Nerob-Nayayik Inter-Discipline
Debate Competition 2001 and stood same in Inter-Discipline Quiz Competition 2002. Recently, it
won the champions trophy of Inter-Discipline Handball Tournament 2014 (in male category). These
activities and achievements provide mental refreshment and grow confidence in the future builders
and leaders of twenty-century Bangladesh. These successes and at the Inter-Discipline Sports and
Cultural competitions like cricket, handball, debate, quiz, and National Education Week
Competitions bear out the commitment and efforts of the students and teachers of Discipline in
both curricular and extra-curricular activities.

C. Mission of the Discipline
The mission of English Discipline at Khulna University is to cultivate understanding, knowledge,
and appreciation of the English language, its speakers and writers, and its literatures and cultures,
such that students and discipline members use the language creatively, critically, and effectively to
participate ethically in civic and professional life. Students looking for a great General Education or
elective course have an opportunities to explore such subjects as British, American, and World
literature, academic and professional writing, literary and cultural theory, linguistics, etc. Faculty
members are committed to quality research and scholarship, generous public service, and exemplary
teaching, working directly with students in relatively small classes to allow close attention. Our
mission as educators is to enable students to become the finest readers and writers of literary texts
that they can be. Because those texts in their infinite variety take as their subjects our fellow humans,
our histories, and our cultures, we aim in effect to equip our students both to read the world, and
write the future, with subtlety, acumen and precision. English Discipline is not doctrinaire,
promoting one approach or ideology, but is pluralistic and takes pride in the variety of emphases and
perspectives it teaches.

D. Academic Syllabuses
N.B. Syllabuses of BA (Hon’s) in English, MA in English, and MA in English Language are given in
separate files.
KHULNA UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
Four-Year Undergraduate Syllabus
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Minimum Requirement of earned credit for the award of BA (Hons) Degree
: 120
Credit offered in the entire programme : 130
Credit in Core Courses : 113
Credit in Optional Courses : 17
Credit in Theory Courses : 123
Credit in Sessional Courses : 07
A R M Mostafizar Rahman
Head
English Discipline

KHULNA UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
FOUR-YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS
COURSE SUMMARY
FIRST YEAR: FIRST TERM
Course No Title of the Course Status Nature Cont Hr Credit
Eng 1101 Introduction to Literary Studies Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1103 History of English Literature Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1105 Introduction to Poetry Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1110 Sessional: English Grammar Core Sessional 03 1.5
CSE 1156 Sessional: Computer Skills Development Core Sessional 03 1.5
Theory : 12 Sessional : 03
Core : 15 Optional : Nil
Total 18 15
FIRST YEAR: SECOND TERM
Eng 1201 Introduction to Prose Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1203 Introduction to Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1205 Academic Writing Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1210 Sessional: Drama Core Sessional 03 1.5
Eng 1212 Sessional : Academic Writing Core Sessional 03 1.5
Total 18 15

SECOND YEAR: FIRST TERM
Eng 2101 History of English Language Core Theory 03 03
Eng 2103 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2105 Basic Language Skills Core Theory 03 03
HSS 2107 Introduction to Bangla Literature Optional Theory 04 04
Eng 2110 Sessional: Language Skills Development Core Sessional 02 01
Core : 11 Optional : 04
Total 16 15
SECOND YEAR: SECOND TERM
Eng 2201 Poetry from Chaucer to Milton Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2203 Language through Literature Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2205 Romantic Poetry Core Theory 04 04
HSS 2207 Bangladesh Studies Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Theory :15 Sessional : Nil
Core :12 Optional :03
Total 15 15
THIRD YEAR: FIRST TERM
Eng 3101 Literary Non-fiction in English Core Theory 04 04
Eng 3103 Literary Criticism Core Theory 03 03
Eng 3105 Linguistics I Core Theory 04 04
Eng 3107 Victorian Poetry Core Theory 04 04
HSS 3109 Language, Education and Development Optiona
l
Theory 04 04
Theory : 19 Sessional : Nil
Total 19 19

THIRD YEAR: SECOND TERM
Eng 3201 English Fiction till 20th Century Core Theory 04 04
Eng 3203 Literary Theory Core Theory 04 04
Eng 3205 Linguistics II Core Theory 03 03
Eng 3207 Shakespearean Drama Core Theory 04 04
HSS 3209 Philosophy Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Total 18 18
FOURTH YEAR: FIRST TERM
Eng 4101 20th Century English Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4103 American Literature: Poetry and Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4105 Research Methodology Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4107 Studies in Translation Core Theory 04 04
HSS 4109 Indigenous Studies Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Total 18 18
FOURTH YEAR: SECOND TERM
Eng 4201 20th Century English Poetry and Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4203 English Language Teaching (ELT) Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4205 American Literature: Fiction Core Theory 04 04

Eng 4210 Project Core Thesis 04 04
Total 15 15
Head
English Discipline
KHULNA UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
(To be effective from Session 2010-2011)
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Minimum earned credits required for awarding of BA (Hons.) Degree
: 132
Credit offered in the entire programme : 140

Head
English Discipline

KHULNA UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
FOUR-YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS
COURSE SUMMARY
Eng 1101 Introduction to Literary Studies Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1110 Sessional: English Grammar Core Sessional 04 02
CSE 1156 Sessional: Computer Skills Development Core Sessional 04 02

Total 20 16
Eng 1201 Introduction to Prose Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1205 Academic Writing Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1210 Sessional: Drama Core Sessional 04 02
Eng 1212 Sessional : Academic Writing Core Sessional 04 02
Total 20 16
Eng 2103 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2105 Basic Language Skills Core Theory 03 03
HSS 2107 Bangla -I Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2110 Sessional: Language Skills Development Core Sessional 04 02
Total 18 16

HSS 2207 Bangladesh Studies Optiona
l
Theory 04 04
HSS 2209 Bangla -II Optiona
l
Theory 04 04
Theory :20 Sessional : Nil
Core :12 Optional :08
Total 20 20
Eng 3101 Literary Non-fiction in English Core Theory 04 04
HSS 3109 Language, Education and Development Optiona
l
Theory 04 04
Total 19 19

Eng 3201 English Fiction till 20th Century Core Theory 04 04
Eng 3203 Literary Theory Core Theory 04 04
l
Theory 03 03
Total 18 18
Eng 4101 20th Century English Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4103 American Literature: Poetry and Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4107 Studies in Translation Core Theory 04 04
HSS 4109 Indigenous Studies Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Total 18 18

Eng 4201 20th Century English Poetry and Drama Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4203 English Language Teaching (ELT) Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4205 American Literature: Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4210 Sessional: ELT Core Sessional 04 02
Eng 4212 Project Core Project 04 04
Total 19 17
Head
English Discipline
DETAILED SYLLABUS
Course No: Eng 1101 Course Title: Introduction to Literary Studies
Course Status: Core Contact Hour: 04 Credit: 04
Section A
1. Author: biographical information of the author, historical background, relevance to literary
movement, speaker, narrator; Genre: types of poetry and prose; fiction, non-fiction
2. Theme and Treatment: Theme and subject matter; Mood; Tone
3. Figurative language: Image, simile, metaphor, symbol, allusion, hyperbole, personification, paradox,
irony, oxymoron, apostrophe, metonymy, synecdoche, connotation, denotation; Vocabulary;
Sentence patterns
4. Sound patterns and Prosody: Assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, caesura, scansion
Section B

1. Structure, Setting, Character: Structure and plot construction; Setting: time and place; Characters and
Characterization
2. Literary movements: Brief knowledge of classicism, renaissance, neo-classicism, romanticism,
impressionism, expressionism, modernism
3. Literary theory: Brief orientation to major literary theories like feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism,
postmodernism, postcolonialism, poststructuralism
Recommended References:
Course No: Eng 1103 Course Title: History of English Literature
Section A:
Early English Literature; Middle English Literature; Elizabethan Literature; Restoration Literature
Section B:
Industrial Revolution; French Revolution; Romanticism; Victorian Literature and Modernism, postcolonial
Literatures
1. Legouis, E., A Short History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
2. Daiches, D., A Critical History of English Literature vol- I to IV (Allied Publishers Ltd., 1992)
3. Rigg, A.G., A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422 (Cambridge University Press,1992)
4. Legouis, E., and Cazamian, A Short History of English Literature
Course No: Eng 1105 Course Title: Introduction to Poetry
Section A:
1. Shakespeare: Sonnet130& 116, When I do count the clock that tells the time; My mistress' eyes are
nothing like the sun
2. Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
3. Donne: The Good-Morrow
4. Blake: Infant Sorrow

5. Wordsworth: The World is Too much With Us
6. Keats: Ode to Autumn
7. Browning: My Last Duchess
8. Tennyson: Break, Break, Break
Section B:
1. T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
2. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
3. Frost: Mending Wall
4. Auden: The Shield of Achilles
5. Pound: The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
6. Larkin: Church Going
7. Heaney: Digging
Course No: Eng 1110 Course Title: Sessional: English Grammar
Sessional on English Grammar will focus on students’ development of English Grammar. The following
topics will be discussed and practiced in the class: Using a Dictionary, Study of words: structure, types and
transformations; Phrase and clause: types and structures; Sentence: types, structures and transformations;
Beyond the sentence; Punctuation. Students will be asked to demonstrate their ability in producing
grammatically correct and appropriate sentences.
Core Materials:
1. Quirk, Randolph. And Greenbaum, Sidney. A University of Grammar of English, Chennai:
Longman, 2000
1. Hornby, A.S. Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
2. Thompson and Martinet, A Practical English Grammar
3. Baker, Ann, Ship or Sheep, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Course No: Eng 1156 Course Title: Sessional: Computer Skills Development
Students will be acquainted with the basic application and operation of computer.
Course No: Eng 1201 Course Title: Introduction to Prose
Section A
1. Francis Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies
2. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
3. Addison and Steele: Coverley Papers (selections)
4. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia: Dream Children: a Reverie, Bachelor’s Complaint
5. Thoreau: Observation
Section B
1. Forster: What I Believe
2. Mansfield: The Garden-Party
3. Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
4. Maugham: Rain
5. Gordimer: The Moment before the Gun Went Off
6. Jhumpa Lahiri: When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dinner
Course No: Eng 1203 Course Title: Introduction to Drama
Section A
1. Sophocles: King Oedipus
2. Aristotle: Poetics (selection)
Section B

1. Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
2. J. M. Synge: Riders to the sea
Course No: Eng 1205 Course Title: Academic Writing
Section A
Reading to write: critical reading of essays; obtaining information and note-taking; Synthesizing diverse
information and making logical connections; Discourse and pragmatic values and properties in academic
writing; Diction and word choice in academic writing; Reader awareness in writing; Clarity in writing; Writing
literary essays on theme, character, plot, structure, etc., article and book review
Section B
Thinking critically and analytically on an issue/theme; Logical sequencing of the information into a thematic
pattern; Setting the tone of formal writing; Arguing with convincing evidence; Constituents and structure in
writing; Documentation and incorporating quotes; Writing assignments, attempting examination questions;
research paper writing, presentation slide designing
Course No: Eng 1210 Course Title: Sessional: Drama
Sessional will be based on Aristotle: Poetics (selection) and Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Course No: Eng 1212 Course Title: Sessional: Academic Writing
Sessional will aim to improve students’ academic writing activities and tasks

Course No: Eng 2101 Course Title: History of English Language
Section A:
Genetic and Typological properties of English; Origins of English; Old English; Foreign influences
on Old English; the Norman Conquest and its influence on English; Middle English, Reestablishment of
English;
Section B:
Early Modern English; English in the scientific age; English in America; English in India; English as
a world language; World Englishes; English today and tomorrow
1. Yule, George. The study of language, CUP, 2002.
2. Lyovin, Anatole. V. An Introduction to the Languages of the World, OUP, 1996.
3. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, CUP, 1995.
Course No: Eng 2103 Course Title: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Section A
1. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
2. Shakespeare: Macbeth
Section B
1. Jonson: Volpone
2. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Course No: Eng 2105 Course Title: Basic Language Skills

Section A:
1. Language –as a means of communication; Oral communication: nature, function and types;
Advantages and disadvantages; Guidelines for effective oral communication
2. Listening and Speaking: Features of language for listening and speaking: Phonetic features, Grammar,
Vocabulary, Audience awareness, Context; Speaker- listener rapport; Body language: Perspectives,
importance and types; Advantages and limitations; Effective use of body language; Guidelines for
improving listening and speaking skills
3. Situations and tasks: Interview, Telephonic conversation, Discussion, Presentation, Debate,
Conversation, Public speaking etc
Section B:
1. Reading comprehension: Perspectives and Strategies: intensive and extensive reading, scanning, skimming,
reader’s expectation and interpretation, contextual understanding and understanding the whole text, critical
analysis and evaluation of text; Reading Situations and tasks: reading academic texts, reading newspaper and
magazine, reading seminar paper
2. Writing: Perspectives and Approaches to Writing: Product Approach and Process Approach
3. Modes of Writing: definition, classification, description, narrative, argumentative, cause and effect; Art of good
writing; Writing Situations and tasks: abstracting and summarizing, précis writing, paragraph and essay writing,
letters and applications, creative writing
1. Sharma, R.C & Mohan, K. Business Correspondence and Report Writing (2nd Ed.), New Delhi: Tata
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1999.
2. Gordon, R.L. Interviewing Strategy, Techniques and Tactics, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois 1976.
3. Pease, A. Body Language (New Ed.), New Delhi: Sudha Publications Pvt.Ltd., 1999.
4. Heffernan, A.W.J. Writing: A College Handbook, Fifth Edition, New York and London: Norton, 2000.
5. Lewis, Norman , How to Read Better and Faster
Course No: Eng 2107 Course Title: Bangla -I
Course Status: Optional Contact Hour: 04 Credit: 04
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Course No: Eng 2110 Course Title: Sessional: Basic Language Skills
The sessional course aims to improve the English language abilities of the students so that they can better
understand, appreciate and enjoy English language and literature. The purpose of the course is to refresh and
reactivate the students’ previously acquired knowledge of the language. As such, they will be asked to write
reports/ submit assignments on their experience of how English is used for practical purposes in the society.
This may lead to surveying different institutions like schools and colleges, the British Council at Dhaka, the
American Centre etc.
1. Sharma, R.C & Mohan, K. Business Correspondence and Report Writing (2nd Ed.), New Delhi: Tata
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1999.
2. Gordon, R.L. Interviewing Strategy, Techniques and Tactics, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois 1976.
3. Pease, A. Body Language (New Ed.), New Delhi: Sudha Publications Pvt.Ltd., 1999.
4. Heffernan, A.W.J. Writing: A College Handbook, Fifth Edition, New York and London: Norton, 2000.
5. Lewis, Norman , How to Read Better and Faster
Course No: Eng 2201 Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
Section A

1. Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
2. Spenser: The Faeriee Queene Book- I; Cantos I-II
3. John Donne: Go and Catch a Falling Star, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,
The Sunne Rising, The Ecstasy
Section B
1. Milton: Paradise Lost Book I, To Blindness
2. George Herbert: Death, Denial, Virtue
3. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, The definition of Love
4. Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Course No: Eng 2203 Course Title: Language through Literature
Section A
1. Approaches to the study of Literature; Style and Stylistics; Linguistics, Stylistics and Literary Criticism; Literary vs Non- Literary
language; Deviation
2. Linguistic description of literary texts: Analysis at word, clause and sentence levels
3. Developing language skills through novels and short stories
Section B
1. Using Literature in the Language classroom; Literature and the Language learners, Evaluation of literary texts as language
materials, Reading Literature cross-culturally
2. Developing language skills through poetry and plays
3. Reflecting on the literature lesson; literature and self-access
Course No: Eng 2205 Course Title: Romantic Poetry
Section A

1. Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Selections)
2. Wordsworth: The Prelude Book 1,Tintern Abbey, Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Michael
3. Coleridge: The rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode
Section B
1. Byron: Don Juan I
2. Shelly: Ode to the West Wind, Ode to a Skylark
3. Keats: “Odes”
Course No: Eng 2207 Course Title: Bangladesh Studies
Section A:
1. Emergence of Bangladesh: Origin of the Name “Bangladesh”, Political Developments of Bengal,
especially of the Eastern Bengal during (a) Ancient Period (b) Medieval Period (1204-1765), The Battle
of Palasi, Black Hole Tragedy, Permanent Settlement, Titumir (c) British Rule (1765-1947); Political
and Economic Background towards Language Movement (1952) and Independence (1970-1971);
Liberation War (1971); Outline of the Geography of the Country
2. Culture and Heritage: Language; Education; Population Growth; Class Formation; Migration and
Issues of Urbanization; Industrialization and Modernization; Religions: Varieties of Religious
Traditions; Buddhism; Hinduism; Rise of Islam.
3. Colonial Period and Modernity: (a) Social Structure of Pre-Colonial Bengal (b) Social Structure of
Colonial Bengal (c) Social Structure and change in Contemporary Bangladesh (d) Social structure of
Bengal Villages and Agricultural Reforms (e) Rural Power Structure of Bangladesh (f) Crime and
Corruption
Section B:
1. Constitution: Constitution of Bangladesh and Major Amendments; Politics and Governance: Issue of
Democratization and Civil Society; Party System of Bangladesh and its Characteristics; Nationalism;
Parliamentary System; The Executive, The Legislature and Judiciary Branch of the Government; Local
Government and Upazila System; Foreign Policy: Goals and Objectives of SAARC and Bangladesh
2. Women & Gender Status: Contemporary Women and Gender Issues and Bangladesh
3. Natural Resources; Global Warming and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Disaster Management in
Contemporary Bangladesh.

1. Ahsan, Rosie Majid and Hafiza Khatun (eds.). 2004. Disaster and the Silent Gender: Contemporary
Studies in Geography. Dhaka: Bangladesh Geographical Society.
2. A M A Muhith, Bangladesh: Emergence of a Nation
3. Drabek, Thomas, E. 1986. Human System Response to Disaster: An Inventory of Sociological
Findings. London:Springer-verlag.
4. Khan, Akbar Ali. 1996. Discovery of Bangladesh.
5. Morrison, Barric. 1980.Political centers and Cultural Regions in Early Bengal Majumdar, R.C History of
Ancient Bengal.
6. Ray, Niharranjan. Bangalir Ithihas.
7. Sen, Rangalal. Political Elites of Bangladesh.
8. Maniruzzaman, Talukdar. Bangladesh Revolution and its Aftermath.
Course No: Eng 2209 Course Title: Bangla -II
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Course No: Eng 3101 Course Title: Literary Non-fiction in English
Section A
1. Francis Bacon: Essays (Of Marriage and single life, Of Ambition)
2. Milton: Aereopagitica (as in Norton Anthology of English Literature)
3. Johnson: Lives of the Poets: Milton
4. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia (Two Races of Men, Old China)
5. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Part I & II)
Section B
1. J. S. Mill: Autobiography (Chapter 5), On Liberty (as in Norton Anthology of English Literature)
2. Aldous Huxley: Tragedy and Whole Truth
3. George Orwell: Shooting an elephant
4. Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (as in Norton Anthology of English Literature)
5. D. H. Lawrence: Cocksure women and Hensure men
6. Woolf : A Room of one’s own
Course No: Eng 3103 Course Title: Literary Criticism
Section A
1. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
2. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14,17)
3. Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
4. Arnold: The function of Criticism at the present time
Section B

1. Eliot: Tradition and individual Talent
2. D. H. Lawrence: Why the Novel Matters
3. Northrop Frye: Anatomy of criticism(Chapter 2)
Course No: Eng 3105 Course Title: Linguistics - I
Section A:
1. Language: Definition and Characteristics; Properties of Language; Misconception about languages; Function of Language:
Phatic, Directive, Informative, Emotive, Verdictive, Metalingual etc.
2. Origin of language: divine source, natural-sound source, oral-gesture source, physiological adaptation, glossogenetics;
Development of human language
3. Society, Culture and Language: Varieties of Language: Social variation, Regional variation, Personal
Variation; Registrar, Diglossia, Pidgin, Creoles, Code switching, shifting and maintaining, Acculturation and
accommodation theories
Section B:
1. Linguistics: Its definition and scope; Branches of linguistics: Historical linguistics, Descriptive linguistics,
Psycholinguistics, Comparative linguistics, Applied linguistics etc.
2. Language Families of the world: Indo-European, Afro-Asian, Ural-Altaic, Sino-Tibetan, Malayo- Polynesian etc.
4. Linguistic theories: structuralism, universal grammar, behaviourism, cognitivism
1. Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Second Edition, New York: CUP, 1997., G.
The Study of Language, Second Edition, New York: CUP, 1997.
2. Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, New York: CUP, 1997.
3. Verma, S.K. & Krishnaswamy, N. Modern Linguistics, New Delhi, OUP, 1997.
Course No: Eng 3107 Course Title: Victorian Poetry
Section A

1. Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together, A Grammarian’s Funeral, Fra Lippo Lippi , Rabbi Ben
Ezra, Porphyria’s Lover
2. Mathew Arnold: Dover Beach, The Scholar Gipsy
3. E. B. Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese (4 sonnets from Norton Anthology selections)
Section B
1. Tennyson: Lotus Eaters, In Memoriam (selections), Ulysses; Tears, Idle Tears
2. Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel
3. Hopkins: Pied Beauty, Spring and FallFelix Randal, God’s Grandeur,
Course No: Eng 3109 Course Title: Language, Education and Development
Section A
1. National education system in Bangladesh and developing countries: patterns and priorities; Historical
development of national education system in Bangladesh, Rammohan, Vidyasagar, Rabindranath,
Rokeya shakhawat;
2. National education system in national and global economy; Education and employment; Trends in
international priorities for education and development
3. Education in divisive society and culture: equity and empowerment issues; Human rights and
education; Education in multilingualism and multilingualism; Disability and education; Gender and
education; Child labour and education
Section B
1. Education policy and planning; the role of international organization in education policy and
planning; Language in education policy and planning; Privatization and marketization of education
2. Governance issues in education: decentralization, community participation and school management;
Life-long learning: curriculum reform; alternative modes of educational delivery (non-formal,
distance and adult education); Multimedia and education
3. Research methods in education

1. Halsey, A, Lauder et al. Education: Culture, Economy and Society, Oxford: OUP, 1977.
2. Psacharopoulos, G. and Woodhall, M. Education and Development, Oxford: OUP, 1985.
3. World Bank, Priorities and Strategies for Education: A World Bank Review, Washington: World Bank, 1995
Course No: Eng 3201 Course Title: English Fiction till 20th Century
Section A
1. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
2. Fielding: Joseph Andrews
3. Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Section B
1. Bronte: Wuthering Heights
2. Dickens: Tale of Two Cities
3. Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Course No: Eng 3203 Course Title: Literary Theory
Section A
1. Cleanth Brooks: The Formalist Critics
2. Jonathan Culler: The Linguistic Foundation
3. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan: Strangers to Ourselves: Psychoanalysis
4. Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Section B
1. Roland Barthes: Death of the Author
2. Edward Said: Introduction to Orientalism
3. Judith Fetterley: On the Politics of Literature
4. Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
Course No: Eng 3205 Course Title: Linguistics-II
Section A:
1. Phonetics and Phonology; Branches of Phonetics; Organs of Speech and mechanism of Speech production.
2. Segmentation: Vowels and Consonants- their production, description and classification; Syllable; Stress; Intonation, Rhythm.
3. Morphology: Definition and Scope; Concepts of Morpheme; Types of Morpheme; Word and Word formation processes.
Section B:
1. Syntax: Definition and Scope; Syntactic processes; Phrase structure rules; Immediate Constituent (IC) Analysis;
Deep and Surface structures; Transformational- Generative (TG) grammar.
2. Semantics: Definition and Scope; Aspects of word meaning: Denotative meaning, Connotative meaning, Social
meaning
3. Some terms and concepts: Grammaticality and Appropriacy; Form and Function; Use and Usage; Lexical and
grammatical meaning, Sense and reference, Sentence meaning and utterance meaning

1. Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Second Edition, New York: CUP, 1997., G.
The Study of Language, Second Edition, New York: CUP, 1997.
2. Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, New York: CUP, 1997.
3. Verma, S.K. & Krishnaswamy, N. Modern Linguistics, New Delhi, OUP, 1997.
4. Mitchell, Rosamund, Second Language Learning Theories (London: Arnold,1998)
5. Toolan, Michael, Language in Literature (London: Arnold,1998)
6. Kortmann, B., Unfderstanding Semantics (London: Arnold, 2000)
7. Yule, G. The Study of Language, Second Edition, New York: CUP, 1997.
8. Syal, P. & Jindal, D.V. Linguistics, New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 1998.
9. Lyons, John. Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
Course No: Eng 3207 Course Title: Shakespearen Drama
Section A:
The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Section B:
Hamlet, King Lear
Course No: Eng 3209 Course Title: Philosophy
Section A
1. Philosophy: Definition, Origin, Nature, Meaning and Scope; Philosophy & Theology; Philosophy &
Religion; Philosophy & Poetry; Philosophy & Science
2. Epistemology: Theories of Knowledge, Rationalism Empiricism, Apriorism, Intuitionism
3. Idealism: Subjective Idealism (Berkeley),Phenomenalistic Idealism (Kant),Absolute Idealism (Fichte),
Transcendental Idealism (Schelling) ,Objective Realism (Hegel)
4. Materialism, Dialectic Materialism (Marx)
5. Appearance & Reality

Section B
1. The Philosophy of God: Theism, Deism, Pantheism; Transcendence and Immanence of God,
Agnosticism, The Problem of Evil
2. The Philosophy of Mind/Soul
3. Axiology: The Nature of Value, Pragmatic Theory of Value, Philosophy of Beauty, Theories of
Beauty, Aesthetic Imagination
4. Ethics and Morality
Course No: Eng 4101 Course Title: 20th Century English Fiction
Section A
1. Forster : A Passage to India
2. Conrad : Heart of Darkness
Section B
1. Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
2. Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Course No: Eng 4103 Course Title: American Literature: Poetry and Drama
Section A
1. Walt Whitman: Selections, Song of Myself (1, 52)
2. Frost: Selections, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3. Emily Dickinson: Selections (435, 712)

4. Allen Ginsberg: A Super Market in California, Jessore Road
5. Plath: Ariel
6. Adrienne Rich: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Section B
1. Miller: Death of a Salesman
2. O’Neill: The Hairy Ape
3. Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
Course No: Eng 4105 Course Title: Research Methodology
Section A:
1. Research: Definition and types; Relationship between theory and research
2. Steps in Research: Identification and formulation of research problem, Choice of variables, Hypothesis and
research questions, Choice of research methods, Data collection, analysis and presentation
3. Research Methods: Content analysis, Descriptive methods: questionnaire survey, interview, Action Research,
observation
Section B:
1. Sample designing: definition and importance of sampling; Types of sampling: convenient, random, systematic,
stratified, cluster and multi-stage cluster sampling
2. Research proposal: definition and functions; Elements of a research proposal; Typical format of a proposal
3. Research paper writing: Documentation-MLA or APA styles; Elements and structure of a research report
1. Aminuzzaman, S.M., Introduction to Social Research, Dhaka: Bangladesh: Bangladesh publishers,
1991.
2. Blaxter, L. , How to do Research, London: Open University Press, 1999.
3. Sufian, A.J.M., Methods and Techniques of Social Research, Dhaka: Bangladesh: The University Press Ltd., 1998.
4. Blackstorm, C.H et. al. Survey Research, Evanston: North Western University Press, 1963.
5. Bogden, R., et al., Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods, New York: Wiley, 1975.

6. Cochran, W.G., Sampling Techniques, New York: Wiley, 1963.
7. Good, Carter, V., Introduction to Education Research, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.,
1959.
Course No: Eng 4107 Course Title: Studies in Translation
Section A
1. Translation: scope and significance; Translation, Language and culture
2. Translation and literature, History of Literary translation
3. Literary Translation Theories
4. Spivak: The Politics of Translation
Section B
1. Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali
2. Father James(trans): Gitanjali
3. Mahasweta Devi: Translation as Manipulation
4. Fakrul Alam(trans): On Translating Jibananda Das’s Poetry, Jibanananda Das’s Poetry(selections)
5. Fakrul Alam: The Rebel
6. Sudhindranath Dutta : Translations
7. Bisnu Dey : Translations
1. Susan Basnett : Translation Studies
2. Andre Lefevere : Translation, Rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame
3. Sujit Mukherjee : Translation as Discovery
4. Gayatri Spivak : “Politics of Translation”
5. Schulte, Rainer
and John Biguenet eds: Theories of Translation
Course No: Eng 4109 Course Title: Indigenous Studies
Section A

Perspective on indigenous groups; Critique on liberal perspectives; Debates on self determination of
indigenous people; Identity of indigenous people; Indigenous concept of land rights and their struggle;
Political and civil rights of indigenous people; Indigenous language issues; Education for indigenous people;
Environment, climate change and indigenous people; Case studies on indigenous people
Section B
Indigenous knowledge and Bangladeshi heritage; Indigenous Bangladeshi cultures and communities;
Geographical distribution of indigenous people in Bangladesh; Bangladeshi indigenous law and governance;
Urbanization and the indigenous people; Socio-cultural and environmental impact of modernization;
Development mainstreaming and intervention of indigenous people; Indigenous festivals;
Indigenous contemporary dance; Indigenous literature and creative writing
* Field survey of different indigenous communities across the country will be made.
1. A.D.Smith. (1986). The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Abedin, Z. (1997). CHT: That Sheds Blood. Dhaka: Ramon Publishers.
3. Ali, A. (1998). Santals of Bangladesh. Midnapur: Institute of Social Research & Applied Anthropology.
4. Ansari, S. A. (Daya Publishing House). Monipur: Tribal Demography and Socio-economic Development. New
Delhi: 1991.
5. Archer, W. (1984). Tribal Laws and Justice: A report on the Santal. New Delhi: Concept Publishing
Company
6. Azad, S. (2003). Adivasi language. Dhaka: Nourose Kitabsthan
7. Barth, F. (1969). Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Boston: Little & Brown
8. Bleie, T. (2006). Tribal Peoples, Nationalism and the Human Rights Challenge. Dhaka: The University Press
Limited
9. Gomes, S. (1988). The Paharias: A Glimpse of Tribal Life in Northwestern Bangladesh. Dhaka: Caritas
Bangladesh
Course No: Eng 4201 Course Title: 20th Century English Poetry and Drama
Section A

1. W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Wild Swans at Coole, A Prayer for My
Daughter, No Second Troy
2. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
3. W.H. Auden: Muse des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W. B. Yeats
4. Ted Hughes: The Seven Sorrows, River, Pike
Section B
1. Osborne: Look Back in Anger
2. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
3. Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
Course No: Eng 4203 Course Title: English Language Teaching (ELT)
Section A:
1. Approach, Method and Technique; Methods in ELT: Grammar-Translation method,
Direct method, Audio-Lingual method, Communicative Language Teaching , ELT in Bangladesh
2. Materials: Forms, Features and Functions of materials; Principles of material production.
Section B:
1. Syllabus and Curriculum: Features and Functions; Needs Analysis; Approaches to Language Syllabus
Designing: Grammatical, Structural, Situational, Notional-functional and Communicative.
2. Practice Teaching: Designing lesson plans; Class Observation; Feed back; Mode of Teaching: Teacher talk,
Pair work, Group work etc; Classroom management.
3. Teaching: Teaching the four basic skills, Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary; Teaching language through
Literature.
1. Cook, Vivian: Second Language Learning and Language Teaching (second edition, Arnold)
2. Alderson, J.C. and Hughes A: Issues in Language Testing, ELT Docs. II British Council.
3. Corder, S.P: Introducing Applied Linguistics
4. Riberd, Wilga: Teaching Foreign Language Skills
Course No: Eng 4205 Course Title: American Literature: Fiction
Section A

1. Melville: Moby Dick (Moby Dick, The Whiteness of the Whale)
2. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Section B
1. Bellow: Seize the Day
2. Morrison: The Bluest Eye
Course No: Eng 4210 Course Title: Sessional: ELT
Course No: Eng 4212 Course Title: Project
English Discipline
Khulna University
B A (Honours) Existing (Session 2011-2012) B A (Honours) Revised (Session 2011-2012)

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(Prof. Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman)
Head
English Discipline, KU
Khulna University
English Discipline
Khulna University
M A in English Existing (Session 2009-2010) M A in English Proposed (Session 2009-2010)
Course No. Eng 5203 Course Title: Special Author:
Shakespeare
Course Status: Core Contact Hours: 04 Credits: 04
Section A
Course No. Eng 5203 Course Title: Special Author:
Shakespeare
Course Status: Core Contact Hours: 04 Credits: 04
Section A: Selections from the Sonnets; Richard III

Section B
Recommended Reference:
Section B : The Tempest; Post-colonial critique to study The
Tempest
Recommended Reference:
Head
English Discipline
Khulna University

English Discipline
Khulna University
Correction in Second Year Course Curriculum
(20011-12)
Existing
Course
No
Title of
the
Course
Stat
us
Nature Cont
act
Hour
s
Credit
Eng
2101
History of
English
Language
Cor
e
Theory 03 03
Eng
2103
Elizabetha
n and
Jacobean
Drama
Cor
e
Theory 04 04
Eng
2105
Basic
Language
Skills
Cor
e
Theory 03 03
HSS
2107
Bangla -I Cor
e
Theory 04 04
Eng
2110
Sessional:
Language
Skills
Developm
ent
Cor
e
Sessional 04 02
Theory : 14
Sessional : 02
Core : 16
Optional : Nil
Total 18 16
Correction in Second Year Course Curriculum (20011-12)
Proposed
Course No Title of the
Course
Status Nature Contact
Hours
Credit
Eng 2101 History of
English
Language
Core Theory 03 03
Eng 2103 Elizabethan
and Jacobean
Drama
Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2105 Basic
Language
Skills
Core Theory 03 03
Bangla
2107
Bangla -I Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2110 Sessional:
Language
Skills
Development
Core Sessional 04 02
Total 18 16

Course
No
Title of
the Course
Status Natu
re
Co
nt
Hr
Credit
Eng
2201
Poetry
from
Chaucer
to Milton
Core Theor
y
04 04
Eng
2203
Language
through
Literature
Core Theor
y
04 04
Eng
2205
Romantic
Poetry
Core Theor
y
04 04
HSS
2207
Banglades
h Studies
Option
al
Theor
y
04 04
HSS
2209
Bangla -
II
Option
al
Theor
y
04 04
Theory :20
Sessional : Nil
Core :12
Optional :08
Total 20 20
Course
No
Title of
the
Course
Status Nature Cont Hr Credit
Eng
2201
Poetry
from
Chaucer
to
Milton
Core Theory 04 04
Eng
2203
Languag
e
through
Literatur
e
Core Theory 04 04
Eng
2205
Romanti
c Poetry
Core Theory 04 04
HSS
2207
Banglade
sh
Studies
Optional Theory 04 04
Bangla
2209
Bangla
-II
Core Theory 04 04

Theory :20
Sessional : Nil
Core :12
Optional :08
Total 20 20
Head
English Discipline
Khulna University

KHULNAUNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DISCIPLINE
The syllabus will come into effect from the academic session 2014-2015, and it will be applicable for those
students who will take admission into BA (Hons) First Year program in the abovementioned session.
Minimum Requirement of earned credit for the award of BA (Hons) Degree : 132
Credit offered in the entire program : 144
Project : 03
Professor Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman
Head
English Discipline
COURSE SUMMARY
Course No. Title of the Course Status Nature Cont.Hr. Credit
Eng 1105 Introduction to Prose—Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1110 Sessional on English Grammar Core Sessional 03 1.5
Eng 1112 Sessional on Listening and Speaking Core Sessional 03 1.5
CSE 1156 Sessional on Computer Skills Development Core Sessional 03 1.5
Theory : 11 Sessional : 4.5
Core : 15.5 Optional : Nil
Total 20 15.5

Course No. Title of the Course Status Nature Cont. Hr. Credit
Eng 1201 Introduction to Prose—Non-Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 1205 Reading and Writing Core Theory 03 03
Eng 1207 History of American Literature Core Theory 03 03
Eng 1210 Sessional on Drama Core Sessional 03 1.5
Eng 1212 Sessional on Reading and Writing Core Sessional 03 1.5
Total 20 17
Eng 2107 Performance Studies Optional Theory 03 03
HSS 2151 Emergence of Bangladesh Optional Theory 03 03
Eng 2110 Sessional on Stylistics Core Sessional 03 1.5
Core : 10.5 Optional : 06
Total 18 16.5
Course No. Title of the Course Status Nature Cont.
Hr.
Credit
Eng 2201 English Drama from Elizabethan to
Restoration Period
Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2205 English Novel from Defoe to Hardy Core Theory 04 04
Eng 2207 Classics in Translation Core Theory 03 03
HSS 2251 Sociology Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Eng 2210 Sessional on Language through Literature Core Sessional 03 1.5
Eng 2212 Sessional on Novel from Defoe to Hardy Core Sessional 03 1.5
Theory :16 Sessional : 03
Core :16 Optional : 03
Total 22 19

Course No. Title of the Course Status Nature Cont.
Hr.
Credit
Eng 3103 Literary Theory I Core Theory 03 03
Ban 3151 Bangla Literature Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
HSS 3153 Education and Development Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Eng 3110 Sessional on Romantic and Victorian
Poetry
Core Sessional 03 1.5
Total 20 18.5
Eng 3201 American Poetry Core Theory 03 03
Eng 3203 Literary Theory II Core Theory 03 03
Ban 3251 Bangla Linguistics Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
l
Theory 03 03
Eng 3210 Sessional on Shakespearean Drama Core Sessional 03 1.5
Total 22 20.5
Eng 4101 Twentieth Century English Fiction Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4103 American Drama Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4107 Continental Literature Core Theory 03 03

Eng 4109 Postcolonial Literature Optiona
l
Theory 03 03
Eng 4110 Sessional on American Drama Core Sessional 03 1.5
Eng 4112 Sessional on English for Employability Core Sessional 03 1.5
Theory :16 Sessional : 03
Core :16 Optional : 03
Total 22 19
Eng 4201 Twentieth Century English Poetry and
Drama
Core Theory 04 04
Eng 4203 English Language Teaching Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4205 American Fiction Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4207 Translation Studies Core Theory 03 03
Eng 4210 Sessional on English Language Teaching Core Sessional 02 01
Eng 4212 Sessional on Twentieth Century English
Poetry and Drama
Core Sessional 02 01
Eng 4214 Project Core Project 06 03
Theory : 13 Sessional : 02 Project: 03
Total 23 18
Detailed Syllabus with Suggested Texts and References
1st
YEAR 1st
TERM
Course No.: Eng 1101 Course Title: Introduction to Poetry
The course aims to instill in the students the passion and love for poetry. The students will read the
significant poems written by the major poets. By taking the course, they will be able to critically appreciate
poetry.
Section A

9. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130: “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”; Sonnet 18: “Shall I
compare thee to a Summer’s day”
10. John Donne: “The Canonization”
11. William Blake: “The Sick Rose”
12. Christina Rossetti: “An Apple-Gathering”
13. Robert Herrick: “To Daffodils”
14. Robert Browning: “The Patriot”
Section B
8. W B Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
9. Robert Frost: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
10. Ezra Pound: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
11. Adrienne Rich: “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
12. Seamus Heaney: “Digging”
13. Kaiser Haq: “Ode On The Lungi”
Suggested Texts:
Byam, Nina, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. 2 vols. New York: Norton,
2012. Print.
Ferguson, Margaret W., et al., eds.: The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: Norton, 2005.
Print.
Greenblatt, Stephen, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed. 6 vols. New York:
Norton, 2012. Print.
Haq, Kaiser. Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems. Dhaka: UPL, 2012. Print.
Zaman, Niaz, ed. American Voices: An American Literature Reader. 2 vols. Dhaka: writers.ink, 2006.
Print.
Suggested References:
Abrams, M. H. and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, eds. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Stamford: Cengage
Learning, 2014. Print.
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Cuddon J. A., ed. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin Books, 1999. Print.
Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1995. Print.
Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. Massachussets: HardPress, 1960. Print.

Martin, Stephen. English Literature: A Student Guide. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Wainright, Jeffrey. Poetry: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1103 Course Title: History of English Literature
The course aims to provide the students with an understanding of significant sociopolitical and cultural
events in the history of England that impacted English literature.
Section A
1. Early English Literature
2. Middle English Literature
3. Renaissance and Elizabethan Literature
4. Restoration Literature
Section B
1. Literature of the Romantic Revival
2. Victorian Literature
3. Modern Literature
4. Postmodern Literature
Daiches, D. A Critical History of English Literature. 4 vols. Mumbai: Allied, 2005. Print.
Evans, Ifor. A Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1990. Print.
Legouis, E. A Short History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon , 1989. Print.
Legouis, E., and Louis Cazamian. History of English Literature. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1996. Print.
Long, William J. English Literature. Charleston: BiblioBaazar, 2006. Print.

Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1105 Course Title: Introduction to Prose—Fiction
By attending the course, the students will learn about the genres such as novel, short story, novella, science
fiction, etc. They will also be familiar with literary terms and devices such as popular culture, theme, point of
view, setting, style, narrative technique, etc.
Section A
7. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Part I)
8. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Coverley Papers (“Sir Roger at the Church”)
9. Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia (“Old China”)
10. Edgar Allan Poe: “Tell-Tale Heart”
11. Katherine Mansfield: “Her First Ball”
Section B
1. Rudyard Kipling: “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”
2. H. G. Wells: “The Empire of the Ants”
3. George Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant”
4. W. Somerset Maugham: “The Luncheon”
5. R. K. Narayan: “An Astrologer’s Day”
Suggested Texts:
Byam, Nina, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. 2 vols. New York: Norton,
2012. Print.
Hammond, John, ed. The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. London: Phoenix P, 2000.Print.
Kennedy, J. Gerald, ed. The Portable Poe. London: Penguin, 2006. Print.

Narayan, R. K. “An Astrologer’s Day” and Other Stories. New Delhi: Ind-Us, 1981. Print.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings. Ed. Clement Hawes. Massachussets: Houghton Mifflin,
2004. Print.
Zaman, Niaz, ed. American Voices: An American Literature Reader. 2 vols. Dhaka: writers.ink, 2006.
Print.
Abrams, M. H. and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, eds. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Stamford: Cengage
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Prose. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Cuddon J. A., ed. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin, 1999. Print.
Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1995. Print.
Haque, Ahsanul, et al., eds. Prose of Our Time. 2nd ed. Dhaka: Nawroze, 1993. Print.
Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. Massachussets: HardPress, 1960. Print.
Khatri, Chhote Lal. R. K. Narayan: Reflections and Re-evaluation. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1110 Course Title: Sessional on English Grammar
Course Status: Core Contact Hour: 03 Credit: 1.5
Sessional on English Grammar aims to develop the students’ command on English Grammar. The following
topics will be discussed and practiced in the class: study of words: types and transformations; phrase and
clause: types and structures; Sentence: types, structures and transformations; punctuation; Students will be
asked to demonstrate their ability in producing grammatically correct and appropriate sentences.
Suggested Texts:
Leech, Geoffrey, and Jan Svartvik. A Communicative Grammar of English. Essex: Longman, 2010. Print.
Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Chennai: Longman, 2000.
Print.
Baker, Ann. Ship or Sheep. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Print.
Hornby, A.S. Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. Oxford: OUP, 2005. Print.

Sinclair, John, et al., ed. Collins Cobuild English Usage for Learners. Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2004. Print.
Sinha, R P. Current English Grammar and Usage with Composition. Oxford: OUP, 2012. Print.
Swan, Michael. Practical English Usage. 3rd ed. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print.
Thomson, A. J. and A. V. Martinet. A Practical English Grammar. 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 1986. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1112 Course Title: Sessional on Listening and Speaking
The sessional course aims to improve listening and speaking skills of the students so that they can better
understand, appreciate and enjoy English language and literature. The purpose of the course is to refresh and
reactivate the students’ previously acquired knowledge of the language. As such, they will be asked to
participate in various oral situations like conversation, monologue, role-play, debate, etc. They will also
experience listening based tasks such as listening to dictation, news, recitation, speeches, taking various types
of tests on listening, etc.
Gordon, R.L. Interviewing Strategy, Techniques and Tactics. Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1976. Print.
Pease, A. Body Language. New Delhi: Sudha Publications, 1999. Print.
Simpson, J. A, and E. S. C. Weiner. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 20 Vols. Oxford: OUP,
1991. Print.
Course No: CSE 1156 Course Title: Sessional on Computer Skills Development
Students will be acquainted with the basic application and operation of computer.
Duffy, Jennifer. Illustrated Course Guide: Microsoft Word 2010 Basic. Massachusetts: Cengage Learning,
2010. Print.
Miller, Michael. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics. Indiana: Que Publishing, 2007. Print.
---. Easy Computer Basics: Windows 7 Edition. New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2009. Print.
Pinard, Katherine T., et al. Microsoft Word 2007: Introductory. Massachusetts: Cengage Learning, 2007.
Print.

Stephen, Moira. Teach Yourself Basic Computer Skills. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Print.
Story, Laura, and Dawna Walls. Microsoft Office 2007 Fundamentals. Massachusetts: Cengage Learning,
2007. Print.
---. Microsoft Office 2010 Fundamentals. Massachusetts: Cengage Learning, 2010. Print.
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Course No.: Eng 1201 Course Title: Introduction to Prose—Non-Fiction
The course aims to give the students an orientation with a variety of English prose of different periods.
Section A
6. Francis Bacon : “Of Marriage and Single life”, “Of Studies”
7. Samuel Johnson : Lives of the Poets: Milton
8. James Baldwin : “Stranger in the Village”
9. E. M. Forster : “What I Believe”
Section B
1. J. S. Mill : Autobiography (Chapter 5)
2. Aldous Huxley : “Tragedy and the Whole Truth”
3. Matthew Arnold : “Culture and Anarchy” (as in Norton Anthology)
4. Virginia Woolf : “Modern Fiction”
Suggested Texts:
Leitch, Vincent B., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Print.

Anderson, Chris. Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. Chris Anderson. Michigan: U of
Michigan P, 2008. Print.
Carolyn, Forché, and Philip Gerard, eds. Writing Creative Nonfiction. Ohio: Writer’s Digest, 2001. Print.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and
Scholarship. Hanover: UP of New England, 1999. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1203 Course Title: Introduction to Drama
The course will help the students understand different types of dramatic work, such as tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy as well as ingredients of drama like action, plot, conflict, characterization, style, etc.
Section A
3. Sophocles : King Oedipus
4. Aristotle : Poetics (selections)
Section B
3. Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
4. J.M. Synge : Riders to the Sea
Suggested Texts:
Aristotle. Poetics. Ed. John Baxter and Patrick Atherton. Trans. George Whalley. Quebec: McGill-
Queen's Press, 1997. Print.
Grene, David. Introduction. Oedipus: The King. By Sophocles. Trans. David Grene. Chicago: The U of
Chicago P, 2010. Print.
Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. New York: Courier Dover, 2012. Print.
Synge, J. M. Riders to the Sea. New York: Hayes Barton, 2008. Print.
Mathews, P. J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Print.
Ormand, Kirk, ed. A Companion to Sophocles. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.

Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg, ed. Essays on Aristotle’s Poetics. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1992. Print.
Rousseau, G. S., ed. Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.
Rush, David. A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Illinois: SIU Press, 2005. Print.
Synge, J. M. “Riders to the Sea” and “The Playboy of the Western World”. Ed. R. K. Kaul. New Delhi: OUP,
2011. Print.
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Course No.: Eng 1205 Course title: Reading and Writing
Section A: Reading
1. Perspectives on reading comprehension; Elements of reading: vocabulary, syntax and meaning
2. Reading strategies: intensive and extensive reading; scanning and skimming; prediction and inference; reader’s
expectation and interpretation; contextual understanding and understanding the whole text; critical reading and
analysis; effective note-taking
3. Reading tasks: reading academic texts; reading newspaper, and magazines
Section B: Writing
1. Understanding academic writing: Features of academic writing; Elements of academic writing; Approaches to
writing: Product and Process; Generating ideas for a writing task; Logically synthesizing and organizing diverse
information; Developing focus in academic writing; Drafting and supporting ideas with evidence; Integrating
data and graphics in texts; Maintaining academic style; Revising, critiquing and evaluating texts
2. Modes of writing: Descriptive writing, Argumentative writing, Narrative writing, Comparative and contrastive
writing
3. Writing tasks: paragraph, essay, summary, précis, abstract, letter of application, assignments, examination paper
writing and writing & designing presentation slides
Hefferman, A. W. J. Writing: A College Handbook. 5th ed. New York: Norton, 2000. Print.
Gillett, A., Hammond, A., and M. Martala. Successful Academic Writing. London: Pearson Longman, 2009. Print.
Greenall, S. and M. Swan. Effective Reading. Melbourne: CUP, 2001. Print.
McCormack, J. and J. Slaght. English for Academic Study: Extended Writing and Research Skills, Reading: New York:
Garnet Publishing. 2005. Print.
Sowton, C. 50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing, Reading. New York: Garnet Publishing, 2012. Print.
Philpot, S., and L. Curnic. Academic Skills: Reading, Writing, and Study Skills. Oxford: Headway, 2012. Print.
Rogers, L. Writing Skills. London: DELTA, 2011. Print.
Spears, D. M. Improving Reading Skills. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000. Print.
Tibbitts, E. L. Exercises in Reading Comprehension. Essex: Longman, 1982. Print.

Course No.: Eng 1207 Course Title: History of American Literature
The course aims to familiarise the students with the major socio-political and cultural turns in the history of American
literature.
Section A
1. The Colonial Period
2. The Revolutionary Age
3. The American Independence
4. The American Renaissance
Section B
1. The Realistic Period
2. The Naturalistic Movement
3. The Great Economic Depression
4. The Jazz Age and the Lost Generation
Bercovitch, Sacvan, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of American Literature. 8 vols. Cambridge: CUP,
2008. Print.
Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
---. A Brief History of American Literature. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
Martin, Linda Wagner-. A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present. New Jersey: John Wiley &
Sons, 2012. Print.
Course No.: Eng 1210 Course Title: Sessional on Drama
This course will ensure the students’ participation in creative recreation of drama. Students will be asked to
prepare plot, spectacle, character etc. based on their reading of Poetics and She Stoops to Conquer and will also be
asked to perform.
Course No: Eng 1212 Course Title: Sessional on Reading and Writing
The course aims to improve the students’ reading and writing skills through practicing different activities in
the class. The activities will include: Devising different techniques for the students from the beginners level to

the advanced in order to facilitate their critical approaches to reading texts; Obtaining information and note-
taking; Synthesizing diverse information and making logical connections; Diction and word choice in
academic reading and writing; Writing essays on theme, character, plot, structure, etc., article and book
review; Logical sequencing of the information into a thematic pattern; Documentation: MLA and APA style-
sheets; Ethics in writing, etc.
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Course No.: Eng 2101 Course Title: History of English Language
The course is designed to familiarise the students with the history of English Language with a focus on its
development over the centuries.
Section A
1. Genetic and Typological properties of English
2. Origins of English
3. Old English
4. Foreign influences on Old English
5. The Norman Conquest and its influence on English
6. Middle English
7. Reestablishment of English
Section B
1. Early Modern English
2. English in the Age of Science
3. English in the Age of Imperial Expansion
4. English in America
5. English in India
6. English as a World Language
7. World Englishes
Barber, Charles, Joan C. Beal, and Philip A. Shaw. The English Language.2nd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Print.
Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language.5th ed. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 3rd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2010. Print.
Lyovin, Anatole V. An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford: OUP, 1996. Print.
Yule, George. The Study of Language. 4th ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2010. Print.

Course No.: Eng 2103 Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
The course will introduce major English poets from the medieval period to the 18th century. They will read
the significant poems written over a period of six centuries.
Section A
4. Geoffrey Chaucer: “The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales”
5. Edmund Spenser: Amoretti (Sonnet 1, 54, 75, 79)
6. John Donne: “Go and Catch a Falling Star”, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Good-
Morrow”, “Holy Sonnet X”
Section B
5. John Milton : Paradise Lost (Book I)
6. Andrew Marvell : “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Definition of Love”
7. Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Suggested Texts:
Ferguson, Margaret W., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: Norton, 2005. Print.
Baines, Paul, and Alexander Pope. Routledge Guides to Literature. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Bloom, Harold, ed. John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010. Print.
Burlinson, Christopher. Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser.
Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2006. Print.
Fairer, David. English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1789. London: Longman, 2003. Print.
Lethbridge, J. B., ed. Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. New Jersey: Associated UP, 2006.
Print.
Mandel, Jerome. Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the Canterbury Tales. London: Associated UP,
1992. Print.
Rudd, G A. Geoffrey Chaucer: Routledge Guides to Literature. London: Routledge, 2001. Print.

Smith, A. J. Metaphysical Wit. Cambridge: CUP, 1991. Print.
Course No.: Eng 2105 Course Title: Literary Criticism
The course aims to orient the students with the concept of literary criticism. It will consider the critical essays
which have significantly impacted the study of literature.
Section A
5. William Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
6. S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter 13,14)
7. Matthew Arnold: “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
Section B
4. T. S. Eliot: “The Metaphysical Poets”
5. Terry Eagleton: “The Rise of English”
6. Frantz Fanon: “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness” (as in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism)
Suggested Texts:
Greenblatt, Stephen, et al., eds.The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed.6 vols. New York:
Leich, Vinsent B., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Print.
Booker, M. Keith. A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Longman, 1996.
Print.
Cianci, Giovanni, and Jason Harding, eds. T. S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition. Cambridge: CUP,
2007. Print.
Compagnon, Antoine. Literature Theory and Common Sense. New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2004. Print.
Day, Gary. Literary Criticism: A New History. Edinburg: Edinburg UP, 2008. Print.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. London: Blackwell, 2003. Print.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2004. Print.

Gorjup, Branko. Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009. Print.
Habib, M. A. R. Literary Criticism from Plato to Present: An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Print.
Course No.: Eng 2107 Course Title: Performance Studies
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines performance in all its expansiveness. It critically
examines the embodiment of written and spoken human communication in a variety of social and cultural
contexts and practices, including ritual, play, narrative, storytelling, folklore, and popular media. Performance
studies scholars employ multiple methods to study the ways humans embody and enact their identities and
relationships in everyday life. In this course, students will become familiar with a broad range of conceptual
perspectives and scholarly applications of performance studies. This course is about recognising the way we
are all performers in our everyday lives and the ways performance scholarship pedagogically allows us insight
into human communication.
By the end of this course, students should be able to: Identify intersections among performance studies,
Distinguish major theoretical threads in performance studies, Enact research that employs theories and
practices germane to performance studies.
Section A
1. Performance and performance studies: definition, range and features
2. Types of performance: Performativity and Performance in everyday life, ritual, play, narrative, storytelling,
folklore, sports
3. Performing Identities (Private and Public), Performing gender
Section B
1. Bodies, objects, place; Text vs play; Ritual and play;
2. Performance interventions
3. Introducing Key performance theorists: Marvin Carlson, Peter Brook, Victor Turner, Patrice Pavis, Richard
Schechner, Rustom Bharucha
Bennett, Susan. Theater Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge,
1998. Print.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009. Print.
Bharucha, Rustom. The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theater in an Age of Globalization.
London: The Athlone Press, 2000. Print.

---. Theater and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Print.
Bial, Henry. “What is Performance Studies?” The Performance Studies Reader. NewYork: Routledge,
2007.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. Print.
Brook, Peter. The Empty Stage: A Book about the Theater: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate. London:
Penguin, 2008. Print.
Butler, Judith. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution.” Theatre Journal 40.4 (1988): 519-531.
Print.
Carlson, Marvin. The Haunted Stage: The Theater as Memory Machine. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001.
Print.
Fischer-Lichte, Erika. Theater, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theater. London: Routledge,
2008. Print.
Goffman, Erving. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1959. 1-16. Print.
Holledge, Julie, and Joanne Tompkins. Women’s Intercultural Performance. London: Routledge, 2000.
Print.
Knowles, Ric. Theater and Interculturalism. Palgrave Macmillan: 2010. Print.
McAuley, Gay. “Performance Analysis: Theory and Practice.” About Performance: Performance:
Performance Analysis. Sydney: U of Sydney P, 1998.1-12. Print.
Pavis, Patrice. Analyzing Performance: Theater, Dance, and Film. Trans. David Williams. Ann Arbor: The
U of Michigan P, 2011. Print.
Postlewait, Thomas. The Cambridge Introduction to Theater Historiography. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Print.
Rutherford, J. “The Third Space: Interview with Homi Bhabha.” Identity, Culture, Difference. Ed. J.
Rutherford. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990. 207-21. Print.
Sanders, Julie. Adaptation and Appropriation. London: Routledge, 2006. Print.
Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Schneider, Rebecca. The Explicit Body in Performance. London: Routledge, 1997. Print.
Sen, Amartya. Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. New Delhi: Penguin, 2007. Print.
Turner, Victor. “Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual.” Ritual and Theatre: The Human
Seriousness of Play. New York: PAJ Publications, 1982. Print.
Boulton, Marjorie.The Anatomy of Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print.

Chakraborti, M. Principles of English Rehtoric and Prosody. Calcutta: Worspress, 1988.Print.
Cuddon, J. A., ed. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin, 1999. Print.
Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature.2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1995. Print.
Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature.Massachussets: HardPress, 1960. Print.
Course No: HSS 2151 Course Title: Emergence of Bangladesh
Section A
1. Partition of Bengal in 1905
2. Non-cooperation Movement
3. Lahore Resolution in 1940
4. 1943 Bengal Famine
5. Partition in 1947, and founding of Pakistan
Section B
1. Language Movement in 1952 and its aftermath
2. National Elections in 1954
3. Imposition of Martial Law in 1958
4. Rise of Bengali Nationalism
5. 6 Points Movement in 1966, Mass Uprising in 1969, and General Elections in 1970
6. March 7 Speech by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Operation Searchlight, Declaration of
Independence, War of Liberation, and Founding of Bangladesh
7. Formation of the Constitution of Bangladesh
Ahsan, Rosie Majid, and Hafiza Khatun, eds. Disaster and the Silent Gender: Contemporary Studies in
Geography. Dhaka: Bangladesh Geographical Society, 2004. Print.
Khan, Akbar Ali. Discovery of Bangladesh: Explorations into Dynamics of a Hidden Nation. Dhaka: UPL,
1996. Print.
Majumdar, R. C. History of Ancient Bengal. Calcutta: G. Bharadwaj, 1971. Print.
Maniruzzaman, Talukder. Bangladesh Revolution and Its Aftermath. 2nd ed. Dhaka: UPL, 2003. Print.
Morrison, Barrie M. Political Centers and Cultural Regions in Early Bengal. Michigan: U of Michigan P,
2009. Print.
Muhith, A. M. A. Bangladesh: Emergence of a Nation. 2nd ed. Dhaka: UPL, 1992. Print.
Ray, Niharranjan. Bangalir Ithihash: Adiparba. Rev. ed. Calcutta: Saksharata Prakashan,1980. Print.
Uddin, Sufia M. Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation: Religion,
Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation. California: U of North Carolina P, 2006. Print.

Course No.: Eng 2110 Course Title: Sessional on Stylistics
The sessional course aims to expose the students to literary terms, devices, figures of speech, imagery, simile,
metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, understatement, overstatement, rhythm and rhyme; major verse forms
like lyric, sonnet, dramatic monologue and various metrical feet. Extracts from poetry, prose, novel and
drama will be set to check the students’ understanding of different genres. They will be asked to make
approaches to literary pieces on the basis of their knowledge of rhetoric and prosody.
Abrams, M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, eds. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Stamford: Cengage
Bhattacharyya, Arunodoy. Studies in English Rhetoric and Prosody.3rd ed. Kolkata: Booksway, 2009.
Print.
Bose, R N, P N Ganguly, and T S Sterling. Elements of Rhetoric and Prosody. 24th ed. Calcutta:
Chukreverthy, Chatterjee and Company, 1992. Print.
Boulton, Marjorie.The Anatomy of Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Chakraborti, M. Principles of English Rehtoric and Prosody. Calcutta: Worspress, 1988.Print.
Cuddon, J. A., ed. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin, 1999. Print.
Gill, Richard. Mastering English Literature.2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1995. Print.
Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature.Massachussets: HardPress, 1960. Print.
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Course No.: Eng 2201 Course Title: English Drama from Elizabethan to Restoration Period
Section A

3. Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
4. Ben Jonson : Volpone
Section B
1. John Dryden : All for Love
2. William Congreve : The Way of the World
Suggested Texts:
Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Ed. Brian Gibbons. London: A&C Black, 2014. Print.
Dryden, John. All for Love. Nebraska: U of Nebraska P, 1972. Print.
Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus. Rev. ed. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2014. Print.
Jonson, Ben. “Volpone” and “The Alchemist”. New York: Dover Publications, 2004. Print.
Bloom, Harold. Elizabethan Drama. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2004. Print.
Cheney, Patrick, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: CUP, 2004. Print.
Harp, Richard, and Stanley Stewar.eds.The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. Print.
Hirsh, James E., ed. New Perspectives on Ben Jonson. London: Associated UP, 1997. Print.
Hopkins, David. John Dryden. Devon: Northcote House, 2004. Print.
Hunter, G. K. English Drama 1586-1642: The Age of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. Print.
Hopkins, Lisa. Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008.Print.
Kinsley, John, and Helen Kinsley, eds. John Dryden: The Critical Heritage. New York: Routledge, 1971. Print.
Lindsay, Alexander, and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. William Congreve: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge,
1991. Print.
Meyer, Edward. Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Drama. Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2007. Print.
Neill, Michael. Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon,
1998.Print.
Course No.: Eng 2203 Course Title: Language through Literature
Section A

4. Approaches to the study of Literature; Style and Stylistics; Linguistics, Stylistics and Literary Criticism; Literary
vs Non- Literary language; Deviation
5. Linguistic description of literary texts: Analysis at word, clause and sentence levels
6. Developing language skills through reading novels and short stories
Section B
4. Using Literature in the Language classroom; Literature and the Language learners, Evaluation of literary texts
as language materials, Reading Literature cross-culturally
5. Developing language skills through poetry and plays
6. Reflecting on the literature lesson; literature and self-access
Carroli, Piera. Literature in Second Language Education: Enhancing the Role of Texts in Learning. London: Continuum,
2008. Print.
Perdue, H. Avis . Language through Nature, Literature, and Art. London: Read Books, 2008. Print.
Simpson, Paul. Language through Literature: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2001. Print.
Tomlinson, Brian, ed. Developing Materials for Language Teaching. London: Continuum , 2003. Print.
Course No.: Eng 2205 Course Title: English Novel from Defoe to Hardy
The course will make the students aware of the rise and growth of English novel. They will get to know about
plot, setting, characterization, point of view and techniques which the novelists use in their work.
Section A
1. Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
2. Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
Section B
1. Emile Brontë : Wuthering Heights
3. Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd

Suggested Texts:
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Oxford: OUP, 2008. Print.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 2006. Print.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Maryland: Serenity Publishers, 2009. Print.
Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. New York: The New York Public Library, 2011. Print.
Bhattacharyya, Jibesh . Emile Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2007. Print.
Copeland, Edward, and Juliet McMaster, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge: CUP, 2011.
Print.
Cox, R. G., ed. Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 2005.
Hardy, Barbara. Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction. London: The Athlone Press,
2000.
Johnson, Claudia L. Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen and Marriage. London: Continuum Books, 2009. Print.
Kramer, Dale, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Print.
Merre, Robert James. Daniel Defoe: Contrarian. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2013. Print.
Morgan, Rosemarie, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy. Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Print.
Richett, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Print.
Roosen, William James. Daniel Defoe and Diplomacy. New Jersey: Associated UP, 1986.
Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1986. Print.
Course No.: Eng 2207 Course Title: Classics in Translation
Classics originated in different European cultures recur in different ways in many English writings. The
course aims at familiarizing the students with world classics in their noted contemporary English translations.
Section A
1. Homer : The Iliad (“The Rage of Achilles”)
2. Euripides : Medea
Section B
1. Aeschylus : Agamemnon
2. Aristophanes : The Frogs
3. Anonymous : Beowulf (Translated by Seamus Heaney)

Suggested Texts:
Aeschylus. Oresteia. Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones. California: U of California P, 1993. Print.
Aristophanes. The Peace, the Birds, the Frogs. Trans. Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Massachusetts: Harvard
UP, 1985. Print.
Beowulf. Trans. Seamus Heaney. New York: Faber & Faber, 2009. Print.
Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1990. Print.
Mitchell-Boyask, Robin. Introduction. Medea. By Euripides. Trans. Diane Arnson Svarlien. Indiana:
Hackett Publishing, 2008. Print.
Bake, Peter Stuart, ed. The Beowulf Reader. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. Print.
Biles, Zachary P. Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition. Cambridge: CUP, 2011. Print.
Bowi, A. M. Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy. Cambridge: CUP, 1993. Print.
Ford, Andrew. Homer: The Poetry of the Past. New York: Cornell UP, 1992. Print.
Gwara, Scott. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf. New York: Brill, 2009.Print.
Mastronarde, Donald J. The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context. Cambridge: CUP,
2010. Print.
Michelin, Anne Norris. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition.Wisconsin: The U of Wisconsin P, 1987.
Print.
Morris, Ian, and Barry B. Powell, eds. A New Companion to Homer. New York: Brill, 1997.Print.
Russo, Carlo Ferdinando. Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Rutherford, R. B. Homer. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.Print.
Staver, Ruth Johnston. A Companion to Beowulf. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. Print.
Torrance, Isabelle. Metapoetry in Euripides. Oxford: OUP, 2013.Print.
Course No.: HSS 2251 Course Title: Sociology
Section A

1. Sociology : Definition, Development, Scope and Fields, Nature, Relevance in Literature
2. Relationship of Sociology with other branches of knowledge: History, Economics, Political Science and
Anthropology
3. Social Institutions and Associations: Society, Family, Organization, Group, Community, Education, Religion
4. Culture and Civilization: Socialization, Deviance and Social Control, Social Interaction, Cultural Lag
5. Social and Political Theories by: August Comte, Max Weber, Herbert Spenser, Karl Marx, etc.
Section B
1. Social Stratification and Social Mobility
2. Transitional Structure of Village Community
3. Migration: Its Causes and Impact on Society
4. Social Problems: Population, Poverty, Unemployment, Juvenile Delinquency, Political Instability, Role of
Politicians
5. Tribal People of Bangladesh: Their Problems of Identities, Their role in Social Building
Aby, Stephen H., James Nalen, and Lori Fielding. Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. 3rd ed.
Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2005. Print.
Giddens, Anthony, et al. Introduction to Sociology. 9th ed. New York: Norton, 2013. Print.
Henslin, James M. Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings. 14th ed. New York: Free Press, 2007. Print.
John, Scott, and Gordon Marshall, eds. A Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd ed. Oxford: OUP, 2009. Print.
Ritzer, George. Modern Sociological Theory. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. Print.
Schaefer, Richard T. Sociology: A Brief Introduction. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Print.
Course No.: Eng 2210 Course Title: Sessional on Language through Literature
The sessional course aims to see the use of language in literature.
Course No.: Eng 2212 Course Title: Sessional on English Novel from Defoe to Hardy
Sessional will be based on Robinson Crusoe and Wuthering Heights. The students will come to know about story-
telling as well as be trained in genre shifting by adapting the extracts from the novels into short scenes and/or
poems. They may be asked to present the extracts in posters as well.
3rd YEAR 1st TERM

Course No.: Eng 3101 Course Title: Romantic Poetry
The students will know about the poetry of the Romantic Revival in English literature. They will read the
major works of the Romantic Movement.
Section A
4. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Selections)
5. William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
6. S.T. Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Kubla Khan”, “Dejection: An Ode”
Section B
4. Lord Byron: Don Juan (Canto I)
5. P. B. Shelley: “Ode to West Wind”, “Adonais” (Selections)
6. John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “To Autumn”
Suggested Texts:
Ferguson, Margaret W., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: Norton, 2005. Print.
Abrams, M. H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. London: Norton,
2002. Print.
---, ed. English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York: OUP, 1975. Print.
---. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York: OUP, 1971. Print.
Bowra, Maurice. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford: OUP, 1966. Print.
Gaull, Marilyn. English Romanticism. London: Norton, 1988. Print.
Favret, Mary A., and Nicola J. Watson. At the Limits of Romanticism. Indiana: Indiana UP, 1994. Print.

Heath, Duncan, and Judy Boreham. Introducing Romanticism. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2005. Print.
Wu, Duncan. Romanticism: An Anthology. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.
Course No.: Eng 3103 Course Title: Literary Theory I
This course is designed for the students to get oriented with the basics of literary theory in order that they can
see literature placed in the nodal point of the interdisciplinary network.
Section A
1. What is Literary Theory: Definition, Nature and Scope; Literature, Literary Criticism and Literary Theory;
Recurrent Ideas in Critical Theory.
2. Formalisms: Arnold’s Academic Heritage; Anglo-American New Criticism; Russian Formalism.
3. Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Language and Structure; The Theory of the Sign; Narratology;
Intertextuality; ‘Depth’ and ‘Surface’ Readings; Ferdinand de Saussure; Roman Jakobson; Jacques Derrida;
Michel Foucault.
4. Psychoanalytic Criticism: The Concept of the Unconscious; The Instinctual Drives; The Structure of
Psychic Personality; Freudian Psychoanalysis; Neo-Freudianism; Object Relations; Sigmund Freud; Jacques
Lacan
Section B
1. Marxism: Class; Ideology; Hegemony; General Marxist Literary Criticism; Frankfurt School; George
Lukacs; Louis Althusser; Terry Eagleton.
2. Feminism: Gender; Women and Literature; Sexual Identity; Anglo-American Feminist Criticism; French
Feminist Theory; Virginia Woolf; Kate Millett; Elaine Showalter; Julia Kristeva.
3. Postcolonialism: Background; Orientalism; Colonized and Colonizer; The Subaltern; Postcolonial
Literature; Frantz Fanon; Edward Said; Homi K Bhabha; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
4. Postmodernism: Discourse; Metanarrative; Simulacra; Virtuality; From Modernism to Postmodernism;
Jean Baudrillard; Jean-Francois Lyotard. Manuel Castelle
Berry, Peter. Beginning Theory. 3rd ed. New Delhi: Viva, 2010. Print.
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2011. Print.
---. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotic, Literature, Deconstruction. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Dobie, Ann. Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. 3rd ed. New York: Cengage Learning, 2011.
Print.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. London: Blackwell, 2003. Print.

---. Marxism and Literary Criticism. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 2006. Print.
Leitch, Vincent B. et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
Print.
Neu, Jerome, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Freud. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Print.
Freud, Annna, ed. The Essentials of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud. London: Random House, 2008. Print.
Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2000. Print.
Selden, Raman, et al. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary literary Theory. 5th ed. London: Pearson Education, 2006.
Print.
Webster, Roger. Studying Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. London: Arnold, 1996. Print.
Course No.: Eng 3105 Course Title: Linguistics I
Section A
1. Language: Definition and characteristics; Misconception about language; Origin of language: divine
source, natural sound source, oral-gesture source, glossogenetics, physiological adaptation; Functions
of language: phatic, directive, emotive, informative, verdictive, metalingual, etc.
2. History of linguistics: The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and after, 19th century linguistics, and
linguistics in 20th century
3. Language, society and culture: Language variation-regional, social and personal; Language choice-
domains and other determinants; Linguistic determinism and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Language
universals
Section B
1. Linguistics: definition and scope; Introduction to the major branches of linguistics: historical
linguistics, descriptive linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics
2. Classification of languages: Genetic, typological and sociolinguistics; Major language families of the
world
3. Linguistic theories: Structuralism, formalism, universal grammar, behaviourism, cognitivism,
accommodation, and acculturation
Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. New York: CUP, 1997. Print.
Lyons, J. Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP, 1981. Print.
Lyovin, A. V. An Introduction to the Languages of the World. New York: OUP, 1997. Print.
Robins, R. H. A Short History of Linguistics. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.
Radford, A., et al. A. Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Print.
Syal, P., and D. V. Jindal. Linguistics. New Delhi: Prentice Hall, 1998. Print.
Varshney, L. R. An Introductory Textbook of Linguistics and Phonetics. Bareilly: Student Store, 1995. Print.
Verma, S. K., and Krishnaswamy, N. Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 1997. Print.
Yule, G. The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Print.

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