Bels102 Syllabus Co Po

BRAINWARE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS.) IN ENGLISH - 2022
BA (H) ENG. Programme Outcomes:
PO1. Understand the intricacies and nuances of the English language so the language can be used
effectively.
PO2. Explore, explain & critically evaluate how literary texts and the language in which they are
written shape perceptions of students’ understanding of social realities and their own selves.
PO3. Write official correspondences for effective business transactions.
PO4. Interpret complex data and present comprehensible and thorough reports after evaluation.
PO5. Adopt analytical and comprehension abilities to identify, recognize, evaluate and solve
problems in professional life.
PO6. Develop managerial skills to be prepared for better execution of work.
PO7. Be ready to appear for and perform well in interviews.
PO8. Acquire leadership qualities, team spirit and abilities to build rapport with the fellow
workers.
PO9. Develop soft skills to maintain a positive attitude and a harmonious relation with the
colleagues.
PO10. Competent in the art and science of interdisciplinary research.
PO11. Make the student industry and job-ready.
PO12. Develop competence in understanding, appreciating and respecting social diversity derived
from the representation of the points-of-view in literary texts, thereby facilitating conflict
resolution, and social harmony.

Course Code: BELS102
Course Name: European Classical Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Allotted Hours: 75+15
Course Objective: This paper introduces the students to the European works of classical literature.
The cultures of antiquity have subtly permeated into and moulded the literary and artistic
development of the ensuing ages. The objective of this course is to reflect the dynamic interrelation
between language and society, economic and political conditions, and religious beliefs and
philosophical ideas that constituted the culture of the West.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of English language.
Course Outcome: At the end of the course, students will be able:
CO1. To remember the socio-cultural-political, literary and philosophical paradigms of

ancient/Classical Greco-Roman literature.
CO2. To analyze the epic narrative form through an evaluation of classical Greco-Roman epics and its
representation of myths and legends.
CO3. To understand various literary theories produced during the Classical Age through the evaluation
of classical Greco-Roman dramas.
CO4. To apply the historical knowledge gained to account for the elevation of the cultural products of
a particular Age(s) to the level of the 'Classical' through the analysis of genre specific material.
CO5. To evaluate the lasting effects that Greco-Roman literatures have had on Western civilization as
a whole.
Module I: Background Contact Hours: 10
Greco-Roman Epic Tradition, Primary Epic, Secondary Epic

Satyr Plays
Tragedy and Comedy, the theory of Mimesis
The Athenian City State
Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome
Poetics by Aristotle (selections)
Module II: Narrative (any two) Contact Hours: 25


The Iliad by Homer (selection)

The Aeneid by Virgil (selection)
Metamorphoses by Ovid (selection)
Module III: Drama (any one) Contact Hours: 25
Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Pot of Gold by Plautus
Module IV: Verse (any two) Contact Hours: 15
Pindar/ Horace/ Sappho/ Catullus
Text Book(s):
● Poetics, Aristotle, Penguin Classics

● The Republic,Plato, Penguin Classics
● The Iliad, Homer, Penguin Classics
● The Three Theban Plays, Sophocles, Penguin Classics
● Metamorphoses, Ovid, Penguin Classics
Reference Book(s):
● Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough

● Plautus Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling
● Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall Rudd

Course Code: HU101
Course Name: English Communication
Contact(s): 1L
Credit(s): 1
Allotted Hours: 15 Hours
Course Objective: One of the critical links among human beings and an important thread that binds
society together is the ability to share thoughts, emotions and ideas through various means of
communication: both verbal and non-verbal. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to
the theory, fundamentals and tools of communication and to develop in them vital communication
skills which should be integral to personal, social and professional interactions.
Prerequisite(s): Basic Knowledge in English
CO1: To enable students to handle communication as a skill, while understanding and

remembering the types and techniques of the same.
CO2: To translate, understand, or interpret information based on prior learning.
CO3: To enhance the ability to read texts closely and apply human situations and characters,
develop a better understanding of societies and its needs.
CO4: Develop skills in formal writing in English and be able to analyse & evaluate their
applications in their professional life.
Module-I: Contact Hours: 5
Communication Theory: Definition of Communication, Types of Communication (Verbal &

Non Verbal; Formal & Informal; Intra-personal, Interpersonal, Extra-personal, Group, Mass),
Flows of Communication (Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal), Barriers of Communication
Module-II: Contact Hours: 5
Comprehension: Summary Paraphrasing

Analysis and Interpretation
Translation (from Indian language to English and vice-versa)

‘The Night Train at Deoli’- Ruskin Bond
Module-III : Contact Hours: 5
Writing Skills: Business Letters (Application, Complaints, Order, Collection, Sales

Promotional Letter), Notice, Memorandum, Agenda, Minutes, Advertisements
Text Book(s):
● The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories,Ruskin Bond, , Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.
Reference Book(s):
● Technical Communication, Meenakshi Raman, Principles and Practices, Andromeda Oxford
Ltd
● Effective Technical Communication,M. Ashraf Rizvi, McGraw Hill

Course Code: HU191
Course Name: English Communication Lab
Contact(s): 2P
Credit(s): 1
Allotted Hours: 15 Hours
Course Objective: The present course hopes to address some of the aspects of communication
through an interactive mode of teaching-learning process such as personal communication, social
interactions and communication in professional situations i.e. interviews, group discussions etc.
While, to an extent, the art of communication is natural to all living beings, in today’s world of
complexities, it has also acquired some elements of science. It is hoped that after studying this course,
students will find a difference in their personal and professional interactions.
Prerequisite(s): Basic Knowledge in English
CO 1: To enable students remember communicative skills of students through a learner centered

approach
CO 2: To evaluate the learner’s ability to read, write, listen and speak and understand.
CO 3: To apply grammatical competence, correct pronunciation,vocabulary, and sentence structure
CO 4: To facilitate a good command of the language and analyze the employability of the learners
Module-I: Contact Hours: 05
Listening Skills: Listening to audio clips, inspirational videos, telephonic conversations, aural
comprehension, Voice modulation and clarity
Module-II: Contact Hours: 05
Speaking Skills: Monologue- Self-introduction, Pronunciation practice through audio-visual

aids, Extempore, Public Speech, Group Discussion, Debate
Module-III Contact Hours: 05


Lab Activities: Student-designed quizzes, role play, skit, Dialogue- Situation-based
conversation
Semester 2
Course Code Course Name Course Credits Total Marks

Type L-T-P
BELS 201 CC-3 5-1-0 6 100

Indian Classical LiteraturE
BELS 202 CC-4 5-1-0 6 100

British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
ENV201 AECC-2 2-0-0 2 100

Environmental Science
Generic Elective-1 (Any one from the List of

GE** Generic Elective / Interdisciplinary Courses GE-2 4-0-0/5-0-0 4/5
200/100
from other Subjects)
GE** Generic Elective -1 (Practical/Tutorial) GE-2 0-0-4/0-1-0 2/1
Total 23/21 20 500/400
Course Name: Indian Classical Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course is aimed at providing the students with an insight into the ancient
literature of India. The curriculum dates back to late antiquity and addresses the oral tradition of the
great Indian epics, lyrics, drama and narratives. Its objective is not only to reflect the socio-political
scenario of ancient India but also to showcase how most modern languages have been either derived
from or directly influenced by Classical Indian Literature. Covering a wide range of issues still relevant
in the present times, this paper emphasises the cultural and literary traditions of India’s past,

facilitating the learners to appreciate the pluralistic and inclusive nature of Indian classical literature
and its attributes.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge in English
CO1. To remember the socio-economic-political-cultural context of the age that produced Indian
classical literature from its early beginning till 1100 AD.
CO2. To understand the pluralistic and inclusive nature of Indian classical literature and its
attributes.
CO3. To apply the historical knowledge gained to trace the evolution of literary culture(s) in India
with its contexts, issues of genres, themes and critical cultures.
CO4. To analyze the historically situated classical literature and diverse literary cultures from India,
mainly from Sanskrit, but also Tamil, Prakrit and Pali by focusing on major texts in the principal
genres.
CO5. To elaborate upon, analyze and evaluate various texts from comparative perspectives.
Indian Poetics
Kavya and its types
Theory of Rasa and Alamkara
Natyashastra by Bharata (selections)
Module II: Narrative (any two) Contact Hours:

25
The Ramayana by Valmiki (selections)

The Mahabharata by Vyasa (selections)
Silappadikaram by Ilango Adigal (selections)
Module III: Drama (any one) Contact Hours:

20
Abhijnana Shakuntalam by Kalidasa

Mrcchakatikam by Sudraka
Module IV: Verse Contact Hours:

20

Akam and Puram Verses/ Thirukkural (selections)

Meghaduta by Kalidasa
Text Book(s):
● Abhijnana Shakuntalam, Kalidasa, Penguin Classics

● Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, Ilango Adigal, Penguin Classics
● Natyashastra, Bharata, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal
● The Mahabharata Three Volumes, Vyasa, The University of Chicago Press
Reference Book(s):
● Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh

● Iravati Karve, Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
● Indian Philosophy, ed. Roy W. Perrett
● Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. Carol A.
Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer

Course Name: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course aims to acquaint students with the Jacobean and the 18th century
British poetry and drama and make them understand the two significant weapons of satire i.e irony
and humour. It talks about the emergence of metaphysical poetry, cavalier poetry and heroic poetry
with reference to the features of Neoclassicism and its influence on English society. It also focuses on
the difference between Restoration comedy and comedy of manners.
Prerequisite(s): Clear idea of the literature of the preceding age.
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able:
CO1.Remember and highlight the socio-historical aspects that ushered in the Romantic age
CO2.Understand and infer how socio-cultural elements shape and interact with the literary
conception in the Romantic age.
CO3. Apply and infer the resonances of the Gothic element in Romantic literature and the architecture
of the period .
CO4. Analyse the differences between reason and imagination and the predominance of imagination
in Romantic literature.
CO5. Evaluate on the spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as depicted by the
major poets and authors.
State and Religion, Political Unrest

Emergence of Market
The tradition of mock-epic and satire
The Comedy of Manners
Module II: Poetry Contact Hours: 30


Epic and Satire:

Paradise Lost by John Milton (selections)
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (selections)
Metaphysical Poetry (5 Poems):

John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
Module III: Drama (any two) Contact Hours: 30
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The Rover by Aphra Behn
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Text Book(s):
● Studies in Select Poems: Elizabethan to Romantic, Arunodoy Bhattacharya, Books Way

● The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster, WorldView Edition
Suggested Readings:
● The Holy Bible, Genesis

● Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan
● John Dryden, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, ed. Stephen Greenblatt

Course Code: ENV201

Course Name: Environmental Studies
Contact(s): 3L+1T
Credit(s): 4
Allotted Hours: 60
Course Objectives:
1. To understand and define terminology commonly used in environmental science
2. To analyze costs, trade-offs of various hazards and evaluate possible solutions to
environmental problems and related health issues.
3. To list common and adverse human impacts on soil, water, and air quality and suggest
sustainable strategies to reduce these impacts
4. To apply learned information to postulated environmental scenarios to predict potential
outcome
Pre-Requisite : Nil
Module I: Introduction to environmental studies Contact Hours: 02
Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies, components of environment-atmosphere,

hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. Scope and importance; Concept of sustainability and
sustainable development.
Module II: Natural Resources: Renewable and Non-renewable Resources Contact Hours: 08
Land Resources: Land degradation, soil erosion.
Forest Resources: Uses, types and importance, deforestation and its effects on environment,
forests biodiversity and tribal populations.
Water Resources: Use and over-exploitation of surface and ground water, floods, droughts,
conflicts over water (international & inter-state).
Energy resources: Renewable and non-renewable energy sources, use of alternate energy
sources, growing energy needs, case studies.
Module III: Natural Resources
Natural resources and associated problems:
a) Forest resources: Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, case studies. Timber extraction, mining,
dams and their effects on forest and tribal people. Forest fire and its effects.
b) Water resources: Use and over-utilization of surface and ground water, conflicts over water.

c) Mineral resources: Use and exploitation, environmental effects of extracting and using mineral
resources, case studies.
d) Food resources: World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and overgrazing, effects of
modern agriculture, fertilizer-pesticide problems, water logging, salinity, case studies.
e) Energy resources: Growing energy needs, renewable and non-renewable energy sources, use of
alternate energy sources, LPG fire emergency handling.
f) Land resources: Land as a resource, land degradation, man induced landslides, soil erosion and
desertification.
Module-IV: Biodiversity and Conservation Contact Hours: 06

i. Introduction – Definition: Levels of biological diversity: genetic, species and
ecosystem diversity
ii. Biogeography zones of India; biodiversity hot spots and India as a mega biodiversity
nation.
iii. Threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, man-wildlife conflicts,
biological
iv. invasions
v. Conservation of biodiversity: In-situ and Ex-situ conservation of biodiversity.
Module-VI: Environmental Policies & Practices Contact Hours: 08

Climate change, global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain and impacts on human
communities and agriculture.
Environment Laws: Environment Protection Act, Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act,
Water (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act, Wildlife Protection Act, Forest Conservation Act
International agreements: Montreal and Kyoto protocols and conservation on Biological Diversity
(CBD).
Tribal population and rights, and human, wildlife conflicts in Indian context
Module-VII: Human Communities and the Environment Contact Hours: 05
i. Human population and growth: Impacts on environment.

ii. Resettlement and rehabilitation of project affected persons.
iii. Disaster management: floods, earthquakes, cyclones and landslides.
iv. Environmental movements: Chipko, Silent valley, Bishnios of Rajasthan.
v. Environmental ethics: Role of Indian and other religions and cultures in environmental
vi. conservation.
vii. Environment and human health: Concept of health and diseases. Human health and
welfare.

Module-VIII: Field work Contact Hours: 04
a) Visit to an area to document environmental assets; river/forest/flora/fauna, etc.

b) Visit to a local polluted site – Urban/Rural/Industrial/Agricultural.
c) Study of common plants, insects, birds and basic principles of identification.
d) Study of simple ecosystems-pond, river etc.
Text Books:
1. Environmental Chemistry, A.K De, New Age International Pvt. Ltd.

2. Ecology and Environment, Sharma P.D., Rastogi Publications.
3. Environmental Chemistry, Sharma B.K., Krishna Prakashan Media (P) Ltd.
4. Environment and Ecology, Anil Kumar De & Arnab Kumar Dey, New Age International Pvt. Ltd.
5. Text Book of Environmental Studies, Asthana, D. K., S. Chand Publishing.
6. Fundamentals of Environmental Studies, M. Basu, S. Xavier, Cambridge University Press, India
7. Disaster Management by Harsh K. Gupta, University press
8. Disaster Science and Management, Tushar Bhattacharya, McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt.
Ltd.
9. Biodiversity, Environment and Disaster Management, Shailesh Shukla, Shamna Hussain,
Unique Publications.
10. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. M. Gadgil & R. Guha, 1993. Univ. of
California Press.
11. Global Ethics and Environment, B. Gleeson and N. Low (eds.) 1999. London, Routledge.
12. Environmental and Pollution Science I. L. Pepper, C. P. Gerba & M. L. Brusseau, 2011.
Academic Press.
13. Waste Water Treatement, M. N. Rao & A. K. Datta, 1987, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt.
Ltd.
14. World Commission on environment and Development. 1987. Our Common Future. Oxford
University Press.
15. www.nacwc.nic.in
16. www.opcw.org
Reference Books:

1. Environmental Science: Your World, Your Turn by Withgott, Jay, Pearson

2. Textbook of Environmental Studies for Undergraduate Courses, E. Bharucha,
Universities Press
3. Disaster Management Act 2005, Publisher by Govt. of India.
4. Encyclopedia of Disasters - Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies, Vol. 1
& 2, Angus M. Gunn, Greenwood Press, 2008.

Semester 3
Course
Course Code Type
Course Name L-T-P Credits Total
Marks
BELS 301 British Literature: 18th Century CC-5 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 302 British Romantic Literature CC-6 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 303 Indian Writing in English CC-7 5-1-0 6 100
A. Creative Writing
B. Technical Writing
BELS 394 SEC-1 0-0-4 2 100
Generic Elective-3 (Any one from
the List of Generic Elective /
Interdisciplinary Courses from
4-0-0/5-0-0
GE** other Subjects) GE-3 4/5
0-0-4/0-1-0
200/100
GE** Generic Elective -3 (Practical/Tutorial) GE-3 2/1
Total 28 500/600
30/28
Course Name: British Literature: 18th Century
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: Eighteenth-Century British literature can be broadly categorized into four periods:
the Restoration (1660-1700); the Augustan period (1700-1740); midcentury (1740-1770); and theAge
of Revolutions (1770-1800). This course provides students a sense of the literature within each period,
as well as enables students to track the development of genres across periods, and develop a sense

of eighteenth-century literature as a whole. The 18th century in British Literature is not a mere
vacation resort for the soul, but a seed-plot of the ideas that have shaped the modern world, and a
serious school in which one can learn much of human nature and of life. Among all other things this
paper seeks to inform the students of the essential framework for eighteenth-century studies thereby
supporting subsequent studies in Romantic literature, Victorian literature, and early modern British
literature.
CO1. To develop a thorough understanding of the three remarkable forms of literature: Essay, poetry
and drama of the 18th century.
CO2. To identify gradual changes from reason to emotion in British literature.
CO3. To apply human values as virtually mirrored in Thomas Gray’s poem.
CO4. To analyse the major features of neoclassicism and Enlightenment.
CO5. To evaluate the characteristics of 18th century literature, society, culture and politics.
The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism

Restoration Comedy
The Country and the City
The Novel and the Periodical Press
‘What is Enlightenment?’ by Immanuel Kant
Module II: Prose Contact Hours: 30
Prose
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (selections)
Novels (any one)

Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Module III: Poetry Contact Hours: 15


‘London’ by Samuel Johnson

‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray
Module IV: Drama (any one) Contact Hours: 15
The Way of the World by William Congreve

The Rivals by R. B. Sheridan
Text Book(s):
● Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, Penguin Classics.

● Pamela, Samuel Richardson, Penguin Classics.
● Robinson Crusoe , Daniel Defoe, Penguin Classics.
● The Way of the World, William Congreve,Orient Blackswan.
● The Rivals, R. B. Sheridan, Bloomsbury.
Reference Book(s):
● A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy Collier,1698.
● Literature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Stephen Copley
● Selected Writings: Samuel Johnson, ed. Peter Martin
● The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, ed. Stephen Greenblatt

Course Name: British Romantic Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course examines works of major English Romantic poets and later Romantic
novelists by situating them in their historical context of rapid social change and violent political
upheavals. The course offers students the opportunity to recognize the extent to which the Romantic
movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed European culture and
had profound implications for a modern understanding of the self, nature, reason, freedom, and the
role of artist as interpreter of all these. Emphasis is placed on the philosophical and theoretical
concepts that inform the Romantic movement,as well as on the broad scope of literary forms through
which the Romantic poetic imagination expressed itself.
CO1. To understand the concept and significance of nature in Romantic poetry.
CO2. To illustrate the distinction between reason and imagination and the predominance of
imagination in romantic literature.
CO3. To develop an insight and apply spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as
depicted by the romantic poets.
CO4. To explain the presence of Gothic elements in romantic literature.
CO5. To evaluate the features of romantic literature in the modern light.
Reason and Imagination

Conceptions of Nature
Literature and Revolution
The Gothic
The Romantic Lyric
‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth


Early Romantic Poetry:
The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience by William Blake (selections)
‘A Bard’s Epitaph’ & ‘Scots Wha Hae’ by Robert Burns
Romantic Poetry (3 poets):
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Childe Harold’ by Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (selections)
Module III: Prose Contact Hours: 30
Fiction (any one):

Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Walter Scott
Non-Fiction (any one):

Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincy
Text Book(s):
● ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth,1801.

● The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience, William Blake (selections).
‘A Bard’s Epitaph’ & ‘Scots Wha Hae’, Robert Burns.
● Studies in Select Poems: Elizabethan to Romantic, Arunodoy Bhattacharya, Books Way
Reference Book(s):
● Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling
● ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education,Jean-Jacques Rousseau, tr. Allan Bloom
● Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. George Watson

Course Name: Indian Writing in English
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course presents to the students the literary aspects of the writers (local,
naturalized and diasporic) in English, a foreign language to make them aware of the cultural nuances
represented in Indian Literature in the English language. This course introduces students to a wide
range of Indian Writing in English with special emphasis on issues such as the representation of
culture, identity, history, national and gender politics et al. This paper will help identify the relationship
between Indian Writing in English and its social context allowing for a critical response to such texts.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of English language
CO1. To learn and remember the values of spiritual refinement in human life.
CO2. To understand the need of wiping out social evils to dream of a healthier society.
CO3. To apply the understanding of Indian history to interpret Indian Literature produced in English
CO4. To analyze how well the Indian society, traditions and culture are reflected in Literature.
CO5. To evaluate the politics that underlies the rise of Indian writing in English.
The History of Colonization, Colonial Education

Indian English
Indian English Literature and its Readership

Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel

The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry
Modernism in Indian English Literature
Module II: Pre-Independence Contact Hours: 30
Poetry (5 poems)
H.L.V. Derozio, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt
Prose (any one)
R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao
Module III: Post-Independence Contact Hours: 30
Poetry (5 poems)
Robin S. Ngangom, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel
Prose (any one)
Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Shashi Despande
Drama (any one)
Asif Currimbhoy, Nissim Ezekiel, Mahesh Dattani
Text Book(s):
● Foreword to Kanthapura ,Raja Rao.

● Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
Reference Book(s):
● The Perishable Empire, Meenakshi Mukherjee.
● Modern Indian Poetry in English ed. Bruce King.

Course Code: BELS394A
Course Name: Creative Writing
Contact(s): 4P
Credit(s): 2
Course Objective: This course will focus on expressive writing in many different forms. Students will
explore the fundamentals of plotting, controlling point of view, creating characters and managing
them, and developing a concrete, active literary style. The course emphasizes the connections
between active reading, composing and substantial creative revision. They will critically analyze (and
respond to) professional writing. Originality and writing that shows thought will be emphasized.
CO1. To remember literary influence and literary history that shaped the literature of the consequent
ages.
CO2. To closely understand both canonical and modern/postmodern prose narratives and poems.
CO3. To apply the knowledge of editing and revision techniques, the world of publishing, and other
career-related aspects of writing.
CO4. To analyse the various forms and structures of fiction and poetry.
CO5. To create an extended work of fiction and poetry.
Module I: What is Creative Writing Contact Hours: 12
Introduction to creative writing

The evolution of creative writing
Creative writing vs Technical writing
Objectives of Creative Writing
Module II: The Art and Craft of Writing Contact Hours: 12
Writing the introduction and conclusion

Developing several cognitive skills: creative thinking, imagination, keen observation, remembering
Use of literary techniques: plot, setting, character, theme, point of view

Use of literary devices: simile, metaphor, symbolism, imagery, personification

Selection of Word or diction, sentence structure and paragraph division
Module III: Modes of Creative Writing Contact Hours: 12
Types of creative writing: paragraphs, personal essays, speeches, articles, story, poetry,
autobiography, script writing, diary entry and letters
Styles of writing: expository, descriptive, narrative, reflective, dialogues, argumentative
Module IV: Writing for the Media Contact Hours: 12
Writing for electronic media: radio, television, film

Writing for print media: newspaper, magazine, journal, advertisement
Writing for the digital media: blogs, websites, web pages, e-books, video games
Writing for the stage
Module V: Preparing for Publication Contact Hours: 12
Peer editing
Critiquing and responding to reviewer critiques
Revising
Proof-reading
Text Book(s):
● Creative writing: A Beginner’s Manual by Anjana Neira Dev and Others, Published by
Pearson, Delhi, 2009.

Course Code: BELS394B
Course Name: Technical Writing
Contact(s): 4P
Credit(s): 2
Course Objective: This course makes the students well equipped with the professional skills of
technical writing so that they can be better prepared for the job market. It makes them learn the
different types of writing and the tools to make writing more effective.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to write English
CO1. To identify strategies for information design, to include producing visually enhanced documents.
CO2. To understand larger texts in a clear, direct style for practical applications.
CO3. To clearly apply and convey specialized information from a technical field to a non-specialized
audience.
CO4. To analyse effectiveness and validity of information sources, such as web sites, business
documents, and professional journals.
CO5. To evaluate and use appropriate formats and conventions derived from individual disciplines.
Module I Contact Hours: 20
Communication: Language and communication, differences between speech and writing, distinct
features of speech, distinct features of writing.
Module II Contact Hours: 20
Writing Skills: Selection of topic, thesis statement, developing the thesis introductory, developmental,
transitional and concluding paragraphs, linguistic unity, coherence and cohesion, descriptive,
narrative, expository and argumentative writing
Module III Contact Hours: 20


Technical Writing: Scientific and technical subjects; formal and informal writings; formal
writings/reports, handbooks, manuals, letters, memorandum, notices, agenda, minutes
Text Book(s):
● Writing as thinking: A guided process approach, M.Frank
● Study Writing; A course in written English. For academic and professional purposes, Liz Hamp-
Lyons, Ben Heasley
Reference Book(s)
● A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J.
Svartik .
● “Technical Report Writing Today”, Daniel G. Riordan & Steven A. Panley.

Semester 4
Course
Course Code Type
Course Name L-T-P Credits Total Marks
BELS 401 British Literature: 19th Century CC-8 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 402 British Literature: The Early 20th Century CC-9 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 403 Popular Literature CC-10 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 404 A. Film Studies SEC-2 1-0-1 2 100
B. Translation Studies
C. Soft Skills
Generic Elective-4 (Any one from
the List of Generic Elective /
Interdisciplinary Courses from 4-0-0/5-
GE** other Subjects) GE-4 4/5
0-0
0-0-4/0-
1-0
200/100
GE** Generic Elective -4 (Practical/Tutorial) GE-4 2/1
Total 28 500/600
28/26
Course Code: BELS 401
Course Name: British Literature: 19th Century
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: If the nineteenth century was, as is sometimes assumed, an age of complacency
and confidence, it was also an age of anxiety and openness, experimentation and invention. The paper
examines the literature of this age of transition. investigate nineteenth-century experiments with
genre and literary mode. Throughout, this course will emphasise the ways in which the fiction, poetry,

drama and non-fiction prose written in Britain between 1800 and 1900 sought to invent new forms of
writing and styles of expression capable of coping with new doctrines, institutions, and ways of living.
CO1. To remember the literary, social, cultural and political scenario that led to the evolution
of modernist literature
CO2. To understand the prevailing controversy between science and religion in the Victorian
era.
CO3. To interpret the concept of marriage and sexuality and comprehend its impact on the
then society.
CO4. To analyze the massive literary outputs of the Victorian writers.
CO5. To assess and evaluate the themes, plot, characters and social milieu of the 19th century
novels.
Utilitarianism
Realism and Naturalism
Marriage and Sexuality
The Writer and Society
Faith and Doubt
The Dramatic Monologue
Module II: Poetry (10 Poems) Contact Hours: 30
Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Matthew Arnold
Fiction (any two):

Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy
Non-Fiction (any two):

John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle

Text Book(s):
● A Reader in Marxist Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel
● The Descent of Man in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, ed. Stephen
Greenblatt
Reference Book(s)
● The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, John
Stuart Mill, ed. Stephen Greenblatt.

Course Name: British Literature: Early 20th Century
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for
British culture. The novels, short stories, and poetry of the early 20th century critiqued existing forms
of identity, suggested new alternative forms, and provided readers with a space in which to reflect on
the ways in which they might transform themselves and their surroundings. This course will explore
some of the forms ofBritish literature which took place during the first half of the 20th century, and it
will consider the continuing relevance of these texts to our contemporary situation.
CO1 To remember the various artistic, historical and political events that have an inevitable influence
on the literature of the 20th century.
CO2 To understand the new narrative techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue
CO3. To interpret the decay and decadence of morality and human values in the modern age.
CO4. To analyze the aftermath of the movement and its impact on society.
CO5. To evaluate the various aspects of women’s movement along with the different causes that
contributed to the rise of such movement.
Modernism, Postmodernism and non-European Cultures

The Women’s Movement in the Early 20th Century
Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness
The Uses of Myth
The Avant Garde
Module II: Poetry (10 poems) Contact Hours: 25


W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas
Novel (one novel)

Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf
Short Story (5 short stories)

James Joyce, William Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield
Text Book(s):
● The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman.

● Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt
Reference Book(s):
● The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence by Raymond Williams

Course Name: Popular Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This paper seeks to acquaint students with some of the popular specimens of
literature tracing the reasons for their growing popularity and reflecting the contemporary “popular
taste”. Besides the theoretical background, this course may focus on specific authors who were/are
popular, and investigate the socio-cultural contexts that have granted them national/international
acclaim. This course will delve into the dynamics of literature as a medium of resistance, questioning
and problematizing ‘mainstream’ culture and assisting in the creation of countercultures.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of what popular literature constitutes and its importance to literary
studies.
CO1. To remember the features of and interpret the types and sub-types of popular literature.
CO2. To understand and differentiate between canonical and popular literature.
CO3. To show a deeper understanding of the roots of popular literature.
CO4. To analyze how to relate sense and nonsense in literature
CO5. To evaluate the intricacies of detective fiction, fantasy/mythology and romance which have a
mass appeal.
Coming of Age
The Canonical and the Popular
Caste, Gender and Identity
Ethics and Education in Children’s Literature
Sense and Nonsense
The Graphic Novel
Module II: Prose (any two clusters) Contact Hours: 20


Nonsense:
Lewis Carroll/ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Gothic Fiction:
Bram Stoker/ Oscar Wilde/ Robert Louis Stevenson
Detective Fiction:
Agatha Christie/ Arthur Conan Doyle
Coming of Age Story:

Shyam Selvadurai/ J. K. Rowling/ Stephen King
Non-Fiction:
Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam/ B. R. Ambedkar
Module III: Graphic Narrative Contact Hours: 25
Tintin/ Marvel Comics
Module IV: Poetry Contact Hours: 15
Edward Lear/ Sukumar Roy
Text Book(s):
● Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings

● Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India
Reference Book(s):
● Super Culture: American Popular Culture and Europe, ed. C.W.E. Bigsby
● English Literary History, vol. 45, 1978.

Course Code: BELS 404A
Course Name: Film Studies
Contact(s): 1L+1P
Credit(s): 2
Film Studies
Course Objectives: This course will examine the major positions and issues in film theory with an eye
to understand connections between the early days of film and contemporary approaches to
understanding film. Since the 1970s, film scholars have developed and modified a range of compelling
critical methods for the study of media texts: psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, cultural studies,
queer theory, audience/star studies, postcolonialism, genre analysis, among many others. Through
analysis and re‐examination of the major areas of film theory and criticism, this course will help to
situate the students as informed, critically engaged readers/viewers of global and indegenous media
texts and practices.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of the creative process in media and films.
CO1. To describe the relationship between film form and its historical and cultural contexts.
CO2 To understand and define the formal and stylistic elements of film.
CO3 To demonstrate a deep understanding of film theory and global film history, to be able to identify
significant movements and articulate key concepts.
CO4 To analyze familiarity with diverse forms of the moving image, including, for example, the feature
film, experimental and avant-garde cinema, video art and moving image installation, television and
digital media.
Module I: Concepts in Film Theory Contact Hours: 10
Construction (mainly through Eisenstein)

Representation (through Bazin and Kracauer)
Narrative (through semiotic theory)
Gaze (through Zizek)
Sexuality (gender, body; Laura Mulvey/ Richard Dyer)

Module II: Cinematic Conventions Contact Hours: 10
Any 2 of the following will be selected
Surrealism/ Expressionism/ Neorealism/ French Nouvelle Vague/ Soviet Avant-Garde
Module III: Conventions in Indian Cinema: Mainstreams and Alternatives Contact Hours: 10
Any 2 areas will be discussed through film analysis
Realism and Modernism (including Ray and Ghatak)/ The studio Social (analysis of representative
film)/ The 1950s new melodrama/ The 1970s mass film/ Contemporary styles (‘Bollywood’ and
others)
Text Book(s):
● How to Read a Film, James Monaco.

● Film Art: An Introduction, Bordwell & Thompson
Reference Book(s)
● Film as Art, Rudolf Arnheim. University of California Press.
● The Film Experience: An Introduction,Corrigan and Barry.

Course Code: BELS 404B
Course Name: Translation Studies
Contact(s): 1L+1P
Credit(s): 2
Course Objectives: In recent times Translation Studies has evolved as an academic

discipline. This paper will focus on the development and types of translation besides
exposing the fundamental concepts in translation studies. The aim of this paper is to
acquaint the students with the different translation processes to enable them to translate
literary and non-literary pieces from the source language to the target language.
Prerequisite(s): A fair idea of the importance of translation and interpretation as an academic

discipline and as a critically important communication enabler in a multicultural and
multilingual society.
CO1: To identify and define new and abstract translation problems and issues.
CO2: To understand the main tenets of translation theories, concepts and principles.
CO3: To apply the skills, techniques and practices associated with the discipline.
CO4: To develop original and creative responses to translation problems.
Unit I: Introducing Translation Contact Hours: 6
A brief history and significance of translation in a multi linguistic and multicultural society
like India.
Unit II: Types / Modes of Translation Contact Hours: 6
Semantic / Literal translation

Free / sense/ literary translation
Functional / communicative translation

Technical / Official
Transcreation
Audio-visual translation
Unit III: Basic Concepts in Translation Studies Contact Hours: 6
Equivalence, Language variety, Dialect, Idiolect, Register, Style, Mode, Code mixing /
Switching.
Unit IV: Process of Translation Contact Hours: 6
Analysis
Transference
Restructuring
Critical examination of standard translated literary/non-literary texts and critiquing
subtitles of English and Hindi films.
Unit V: Translation Exercises Contact

Hours: 6
Translation in Mass Communication / Advertising, subtitling, dubbing

Tasks of Translation in Business: Advertising
Discussions on issues of Translation and Gender by attempting translation for
media, films and advertisements from different languages.
Text Book(s):
● In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, Routledge,Baker, Mona, 2001.

● ---------------------- (Ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London and
New York: Routledge, 2001. (Readable entries on concepts and terms) Sherry Simon,
Gender in translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission. New York:
Routledge, 1996.
● A Linguistic Theory of Translation,Catford, I.C. London: OUP, 1965. Frishberg, Nancy
J. Interpreting: An Introduction. Registry of Interpreters, 1990.
● Translation and Interpreting: Reader and Workbook,Gargesh, Ravinder and Krishna
Kumar Goswami. (Eds.). New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.

Reference Book(s):
● A Model for Translation Quality Assessment, House, Juliana. Tubingen: Gunter Narr,
1977.
● Problems of Translation. Hyderabad, Lakshmi, H: Booklings Corporation, 1993.
● A Textbook of Translation, Newmark, Peter. London: Prentice Hall, 1988.
● The Theory and Practice of Translation, Nida, E.A. and C.R. Taber. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1974.
● Translation Across Cultures,Toury, Gideon. New Delhi : Bahri Publications Private
Limited, 1987

Course Code: BELS 404C
Course Name: Soft Skills
Contact(s): 1L+1P
Credit(s): 2
Course Objectives: Soft skills provide students with a strong conceptual and practical
framework to build, develop and manage teams. They play an important role in the
development of the students’ overall personality, thereby enhancing their career prospects.
This course is aimed to develop communication skills (oral, written and presentation) among
students. This training will also help students in career visioning and planning, effective
resume writing and dealing with placement consultants.
CO1: To understand how different types of situations impact conversations
CO2: To apply systematic approach to negotiating real-life interpersonal communication
CO3: To analyse critically and articulate ideas with confidence.
CO4:To build interpersonal communication skills through effective speaking and listening practices
CO5: To develop their power of communication to handle various personal and professional
situations and extend their communication skills to influence their lifelong learning.
Module I: Meetings Contact Hours: 3
Chairing, setting the agenda, controlling the conversation

Participating, turn taking, listening and taking notes

Being diplomatic, agreeing and disagreeing
Module II: Business Correspondence Contact Hours: 3
Emails – register, style, standard phrasing

Notes and memos
Business specific language phrases
Module III: Making Presentations Contact Hours: 4
Introducing a topic effectively

Linking and sequencing ideas
Concluding
Responding to questions
Module IV: Negotiating Contact Hours: 4
Key negotiating language, framing your argument

Negotiating with suppliers
Negotiating with customers
Module V: Reports Contact Hours: 4
Skim reading reports and news feeds

How to report information and ideas
Writing reports – style, register, conventions
Module VI: Social English Contact Hours: 4
The first five minutes

Speed networking – the elevator pitch
Small talk, turn taking
Business conventions
Module VII: Group Discussion Contact Hours: 4
Analyzing the topic


Dos and Don’ts

Framing the discussion
Module VIII: Human Values & Professional Ethics Contact Hours: 4
Conflict Management
Time Management
Leadership Skills
Teamwork
Emotional Intelligence
Text Book(s):
● English and Soft Skills. S.P. Dhanavel. Orient BlackSwan 2013

● English for Students of Commerce: Precis, Composition, Essays, Poems eds.
Kaushik,et al.
Reference Book(s)
● Advanced Skills for Communication in English. Orient Blackswan 2013.

Semester 5
Course
Course Code Type
BELS 501 American Literature CC-11 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 502 Modern European Drama CC-12 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 503 A. Modern Indian Writing in

English Translation
B. Literary Theory
C. Autobiography DSE-1 5-1-0 6 100
A. Literary Criticism
B. British Literature: Post World
War II
BELS 504 C. Science fiction and Detective DSE-2 5-1-0 6 100
Literature
Total 24 400
24
Course Name: American Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course introduces the students to American Literature. It aims to enable
students to understand the depth and diversity of American literature, keeping in mind the history

and culture of the United States of America, along with the major contributors to the development of
American culture and literature.
Prerequisite(s): A fair knowledge of the context of American history and culture with an
emphasis on literary periods.
CO1. To recognize the nuances of American English usage and diction.
CO2. To understand how the great American themes of self reliance, individualism, sin and
redemption were shaped through its rich and varied literature.
CO3 To analyze how multiculturalism was shaped through the context of rich and diverse American
literature .
CO4 To estimate how American society, culture and politics affect its literature.
CO5. To integrate the understanding of American literature in the broader context of English literature
as a whole.
The American Dream

Social Realism and the American Novel
Folklore and the American Novel
Black Women’s Writings
Questions of Form in American Poetry
Novel (any one)

Mark Twain, William Faulkner, George Orwell, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Stories (any two)

O. Henry, Washington Irving, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe
Non-Fiction (any one)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston
Module III: Poetry (5 poems) Contact Hours: 20


Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gwendolen Brooks, E.E. Cummings, William Calos Williams,
Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman, Alexie Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou
Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes
Text Book(s):
● Letters from an American Farmer,J.Hector St John de Crevecoeur.

● A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass,Frederick Douglass.
● Walden,Henry David Thoreau.
Reference Book(s):
● The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson.Oxford University
Press.
● Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison.Penguin.

Course Name: Modern European Drama
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: The aim of this course is to develop students' insight into Modern European Drama
through the study of specific texts and understand the role of theatre and drama in the introduction
and shaping of modernity. The syllabus is modeled to facilitate the learners to understand the socio-
cultural, historical and political context of the age that moulds the literature of the modern era and
understand how meaning is created in theatre and be able to comprehend the innovations introduced
into theatrical practice in the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of the modifications in the genre of drama since the Elizabethan age and
knowledge of the historical context and socio-political climate of the modern age.
CO5. To interpret the 20th century concept of Absurd drama and its development.
CO4. To appraise the socio political changes and the element of realism in modern European drama.
CO3. To differentiate between traditional drama and absurd drama and do a comparative study of
the same.
CO2 To interpret the works of great absurd dramatists and their realistic approach of modern
European dramatists.
CO1. To identify the modernist turn in 20th century European theatre.
Politics, Social Change and the Stage

Text and Performance
European Drama: Realism and Beyond
Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama
The Theatre of the Absurd

Module II: Realist and Naturalist Theatre (two plays) Contact Hours: 30
Henrik Ibsen/ Bernard Shaw/ August Strindberg/ Anton Chekhov
Module III: Epic-Theatre (one play) Contact Hours: 15
Bertolt Brecht
Module IV: Absurd Theatre (one play) Contact Hours: 15
Samuel Beckett/ Eugene Ionesco/ Harold Pinter
Text Book(s):
● An Actor Prepares,Constantin Stanislavski, tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood .

● Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and tr. John Willet.
Reference Book(s):
● The Death of Tragedy, George Steiner.


Course Name: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: The aim of this course is to bring forth the diversity of modern Indian literature in
translation, understand and creatively engage with the notion of nation and nationalism, and
appreciate the historical trajectories from colonial times till the present. This course will also focus on
the aesthetics of translation and approach Modern Indian Writing in English Translation from multiple
positions based on historical and social locations.
Prerequisite(s): A fair understanding of the multifaceted nature of cultural identities in the various
Indian literatures.
CO1. To remember the evolution of Indian Writing in English from the colonial phase till the present.
CO2. To understand Indian writers and their monumental works as an independent field of literature
in English.
CO3 To apply values and the human concern in the Indian context through the exposure of literary
texts in colonial and postcolonial periods.
CO4. To analyse ‘Indianness’ through the works of Indian writing in English; be acquainted with the
Indian way of perceiving the world and presenting their findings in their writings in an appreciable
way.
CO5. To evaluate the literary, cultural, historical, political impact of works of Indian writers in English
and thereby their role in bringing about social awareness and transformation.
The Aesthetics of Translation

Linguistic Regions and Languages
Modernity in Indian Literature

Caste, Gender and Resistance

Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature
Novels (any one):

Premchand/ Rabindranath Tagore/ Qurratulain Hyder
Short Story (five short stories):

Gurdial Singh/ Fakir Mohan Senapati/ Bhisham Sahni/ Sadat Hasan Manto/ Phanishwarnath Renu/
Ismat Chugtai
Testimonials (any one):

Bama/ G. Kalyan Rao
Module III: Poetry (any three poets) Contact Hours: 15
Rabindra Nath Tagore, G.M. Muktibodh, Amrita Pritam, Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Mahadevi Varma,
Namdeo Dhasal
Dharamveer Bharati/ Girish Karnad/ Mohan Rakesh/ Vijay Tendulkar/ Badal Sarkar
Text Book(s):
● ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’,Namwar Singh, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian Literature, no. 151
(Sept./Oct. 1992)
● Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches,B.R. Ambedkar,
vol. 1. Stree Samya.
Reference Book(s):
● Translation as Discovery, Sujit Mukherjee.
● After Amnesia,G.N. Devy.

Course Code: BELS 503 B
Course Name: Literary Theory
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Literary Theory
Course Objective : The objective of this course is to introduce the students to literary theories that
could be used as tools for analyzing and understanding literary texts. This course will also focus on the
understanding of historical and philosophical contexts that led to the development of literary theory
and its practices, along with the awareness of various literary theories and the way they enrich and
change our thinking about language, literature and society.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to reading and interpret literary works through a critical lens
CO1. To remember the historical development of criticism.
CO2. To understand the nature of literary criticism based on classical Greek paradigms.
CO3. To apply an aptitude for critical analysis of literary works and interpret literary works in the light
of various critical approaches.
CO4. To differentiate contrast major trends within literary theory of the 20th century.
CO5. To define and evaluate literary theory and criticism.
The East and the West

Questions of Alterity
Power, Language, and Representation
The State and Culture
Module II: Marxism Contact Hours: 16


Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Antonio Gramsci/ Louis Althusser/ Terry Eagleton/ Georg Lukacs

Module III: Feminism Contact Hours: 16
Judith Butler, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Luce Irigaray
Module IV: Structuralism and Post-structuralism Contact Hours: 16
Ferdinand de Saussure
Roman Jackobson/ Roland Barthes/ Mikhail Bakhtin
Michel Foucault/ Jacques Derrida/ Claude Levi-Strauss/ Jacques Lacan
Module V: Postcolonial Studies Contact

Hours: 16
Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi (selections)
Edward Said/ Aijaz Ahmad/ Ashis Nandy/ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Text Book(s):
● Literary Theory: An Introduction,Terry Eagleton. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Reference Book(s)
● Beginning Theory,Peter Barry. Viva Books.


Course Name: Autobiography
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Autobiography
Course Objective : The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the kind of writing
which seeks to represent and make sense of the experiences of the individual. This course will also
focus on the relationship between self and history, truth and fiction in private and public spheres,
explain the working of memory, politics of memory and its role in constructing identity, explain and
analyze how life writing provided alternatives to existing ways of writing history, and examine the
status of life writing as a literary form and the history of its reception.
Prerequisite(s): Fair idea of life-studies as a popular form of non-fiction.
CO1. To remember the ways in which a perceiving, living individual (the "subject") is treated in
biography, autobiography, and other literary genres such as poetry, fiction, and journalism.
CO2 To understand the structures of biography and autobiography as distinct forms of literature.
CO3 To apply arguments, rhetoric, fiction, photography, aesthetics, and evidence and look at its play
in the composing process of biography and autobiography.
CO4. To analyse an author's own ideology shapes reality in an autobiography or biography, including
how it raises questions about truth, factuality, objectivity, and subjectivity.
CO5. To evaluate biographical and autobiographical texts in connection to their historical and cultural
contexts.
Self and society

Role of memory in writing autobiography

Autobiography as resistance
Autobiography as rewriting history
Module II: Autobiography and Individual Contact Hours: 16
Jean-Jacques Rousseau/ Charles Dickens
Module III: Autobiography beyond Individual Contact Hours: 16
M. K. Gandhi/ Annie Besant
Module IV: Autobiography as an Alternative History Contact Hours: 16
Binodini Dasi/ Nelson Mandela/
Module V: Autobiography as Resistance Contact Hours: 16
Revathi/ Richard Wright/ Sharankumar Limbale
Text Book(s):
● Metaphors of Self: the meaning of autobiography,James Olney.

● Auto/biographical Discourses,Laura Marcus.
Reference Book(s):
● ‘Introduction’ in Autobiography,Linda Anderson,Routledge.
● Life/Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography, Edited by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck .

Course Name: Literary Criticism
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective : The objective of this course is to make the students understand the historical and
philosophical contexts that led to the development of literary criticism and its practice in different
traditions and periods. The learners will also understand fundamental literary and critical concepts
and underlying distinctions among them, and have knowledge about major critical movements and
critics in various critical traditions. The students will be able to identify theoretical and critical concepts
with critics/texts/movements with which they are associated and understand them in their contexts.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to read and interpret literary works through a critical lens
CO1. To understand dominant trends in literary criticism during the twentieth century.
CO2. To apply the knowledge of criticism to literature as a whole.
CO3. To analyse and acquaint themselves with the seminal works of principal literary critics and
theoreticians and thereby will have acquired a working knowledge of the key concepts and terms used
in contemporary literary theory.
CO4. To evaluate and effectively apply knowledge of practical criticism to appreciate and evaluate a
poem with reference to its structure, texture and tone.
CO5. To create knowledge and understanding of major critical and interpretive methods and different
approaches and will be able to apply them to primary literary works.
Summarizing and Critiquing

Point of View
Reading and Interpreting
Media Criticism

Plot and Setting

Citing from Critics’ Interpretations
Module II: Nature, Function and Scope of Literature Contact Hours: 14
Plato/ Aristotle/ Horace/ Longinus
William Wordsworth/ S.T. Coleridge/ Dryden
Module III: Role of a Critic Contact Hours: 14
Virginia Woolf/ T.S. Eliot/ I.A. Richard
Module IV: Literary Criticism, Race and Ethnicity Contact Hours: 14
Franz Fanon/ Edward Said/ Chinua Achebe/ Benedict Anderson/ Homi K. Bhabha
Module V: Literary Criticism and Gender Contact Hours: 14
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar/ Maggie Humm/ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick/ Kumkum Sangari/
Nabanita Devsen
Module VI: Neo-Criticism Contact Hours: 14
Wimsatt & Beardsley/ Cleanth Brooks
Text Book(s):
● An Experiment in Criticism,C.S. Lewis.Cambridge University Press.

● The Mirror and the Lamp,M.H. Abrams. Oxford University Press.
Reference Book(s)
● Concepts of Criticism,Rene Wellek, Stephen G. Nicholas.
● An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory,Taylor and Francis Eds.

Course Name: British Literature: Post World War II
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course is aimed at providing the students with an insight into the social-
historical-political-economic context of Post-World War II British Literature and identifying the
changes in England after World War II. The students will engage with the idea of the postmodern and
the rise of the postmodernist aesthetics, grasp the changing role of English in the new world order,
and see through a corpus of representative texts the rise of multiculturalism in England.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of the socio-historical context and literature of World War II
CO1. To remember the horrors of WWII and read 20th century British literature in that light.
CO2. To understand diverse literary genres including the poetry of Sassoon, Own and the like in
perspective.
CO3. To apply the socio-cultural condition of post-war Britain to British literature of the 20th century.
CO4. To analyse the socio-historical context of the second World War through literary criticism.
CO5. To evaluate the effects of WWII on the socio-political & cultural paradigm of Europe and study
its influences on the literature of the age.
Postmodernism in British Literature

Britishness after 1960s
Intertextuality and Experimentation
Literature and Counterculture


Novels (any 2 novelists)

John Fowles/ Jeanette Winterson/ Alan Sillitoe/ Kingsley Amis/ Doris Lessing
Short Stories (any 2 authors)

Roald Dahl/ Aldous Huxley/ Elizabeth Bowen/ Elizabeth Taylor
Module III: Poetry (5 poems) Contact Hours: 15
Phillip Larkin/ Ted Hughes/ Seamus Heaney/ Carol Anne Duffy
Module IV: Drama (1 play) Contact Hours: 20
Hanif Kureshi/ Noël Coward/ Alan Ayckbourn
Text Book(s):
● ‘Literature and Cultural Production’, in Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain,
Alan Sinfield.
● ‘The Redress of Poetry’, in The Redress of Poetry,Seamus Heaney.
Reference Book(s):
● ‘Culture and Change: 1960-1990’, in The Harvest of The Sixties:Patricia Waugh. Penguin
Classics.
● English Literature And Its Background, 1960-1990. OUP.

Course Name: Science Fiction and Detective Fiction
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Science fiction and Detective Literature
Course objective: The objective of this course is to introduce the students to the philosophical,
psychological and social issues that are an intrinsic part of the two genres: Science fiction and
Detective Literature, and think through the concept of progress and the role of technology in our life
and the interaction between technology and human behaviour, and engage with the social and
historical construction of crime.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of the two genres of Science fiction and detective fiction within the
broader context of literature and literary theory.
CO1. To remember the cultural significance of diverse literary genres.
CO2. To understand popular culture through a reading of sci-fi and detective fiction.
CO3. To apply feminist theories in understanding sci-fi & detective fictions as upholding the mind and
body binary.
CO4. To analyse the socio-historical influences that led to the rise of the said genres.
CO5. To evaluate the effects of sci-fi & detective fiction on the socio-political & cultural paradigm of
Europe and study its influences on the literature of the age.
Science Fiction:
Scientific Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Capitalism and Consumerism

Crime Fiction:
Constructions of Criminal Identity
Cultural Stereotypes in Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction and Cultural Nostalgia
Crime Fiction and Ethics
Censorship
Module II: Science Fiction Contact Hours: 30
Predecessor (any one):

Thomas Moore/ Jonathon Swift (selections)
Novels (one Novel):

Jules Verne/ H.G. Wells/ Isaac Asimov
Module III: Detective Fiction Contact Hours: 30
Predecessor (any one):

Voltaire/ Edgar Allan Poe/ Wilkie Collins
Novels (one Novel):

Arthur Conan Doyle/ Raymond Chandler/ H.R.F. Keating/ Agatha Christie
Text Book(s):
● ‘Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?’ The New Yorker, 20 June 1945,J. Edmund Wilson.
● Raffles and Miss Blandish,George Orwell.Penguin Classics.
Reference Book(s):
● The Guilty Vicarage,W.H. Auden.
● ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944,Raymond Chandler.

Semester 6
Course
Course Code Type
BELS 601 Women’s Writing CC-13 5-1-0 6 100
BELS 602 Postcolonial Literatures CC-14 5-1-0 6 100
A. Literature of the Indian Diaspora
B. Nineteenth Century
European Realism C.
Literature and
Cinema
BELS 603 DSE-3 5-1-0 6 100
C. Travel writing
A. Partition Literature
B. Research
Methodolog
BELS 604 yC. World DSE-4 5-1-0 6 100
Literatures
Total 24 400
24
Course Name: Women’s Writing
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Women’s Writing
Course Objective: This course aims to acquaint the students with the complex and multifaceted
literature by women of the world. It enables them to know the diversity of women’s experiences and
their varied cultural moorings by using the tool of women’s literary history, women’s studies and
feminist criticism.

Prerequisite(s): Fair knowledge of the feminist movement and the diversity of women’s experience
as expressed in their works.
CO1. To remember the historic struggle towards female and gender emancipation.
CO2. To understand the negative impact of female feticide and woman exploitation in society.
CO3. To apply their knowledge to comprehending the role of women for the betterment of society.
CO4. To analyse the revolutionary changes occured due to women empowerment.
CO5. To evaluate ideas of gender equality and women’s rights.
The Confessional Mode in Women's Writing

Sexual Politics
Race, Caste and Gender
Social Reform and Women’s Rights
Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Eunice De Souza,
Module III: Prose-Fiction Contact Hours: 30
Novels (any one):

Jane Austen, Alice Walker, Doris Lessing
Short Story (any three):

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Margaret Atwood, Mahashweta Devi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Amrita
Pritam
Module IV: Non-Fiction and Autobiography Contact Hours: 15
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ramabai Ranade, Rassundari Debi
Text Book(s):
● A Room of One's Own,Virginia Woolf. Penguin Classics.

● The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier.

Reference Book(s):
● Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History,ed Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid.
● Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Padmini Mongia

Course Name: Post Colonial Literatures
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Postcolonial Literatures
Course Objective: The objective of this course is to introduce the students to post colonial literature
that includes the theory and concepts of post colonial studies.It is to familiarize students with
development and practice of post colonial theory and enable them to make a critical analysis of a work
of art within the frames of post colonial studies.It also facilitates them to gain knowledge about the
terms and concepts exclusives of post colonial literature.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of imperialism and colonialism and the ability to read and interpret
literary works through a critical lens.
CO1. To remember the history of postcolonial movement in India and abroad through theorisation
and textual representations.
CO2. To understand concepts exclusive of the postcolonial school of thought.
CO3. To apply major theories and read reputed writers who practice those theories.
CO4. To analyse how a text reveals the politics of anti–colonialist resistance.
CO5. To evaluate the development of postcolonial literature.
De-colonization, Globalization and Literature

Literature and Identity Politics
Writing for the New World Audience
Region, Race, and Gender
Postcolonial Literatures and Questions of Form

Module II: Narrative (two long, three shorts) Contact Hours: 25
Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo, Khaled
Hosseini, Jorge Luis Borges
Module III: Poetry (10 Poems) Contact Hours: 25
Pablo Neruda, Derek Walcott, David Malouf, Mamang Dai, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Wole Soyinka
Module IV: Non-fiction (two essays) Contact Hours: 15
Franz Fanon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Text Book(s):
● Black Skin, White Masks,Franz Fanon, tr. Charles Lam Markmann.

● Decolonising the Mind, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Reference Book(s):
● Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell

Course Name: Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Course Objective: This course will begin by exploring an array of theories around the notions of
migration and diaspora. While these phenomena are connected to humanity from immemorial
times, Migration and Diaspora Studies have gained prominence in recent decades, boosted by the
multifarious and ever changing realities of an increasingly globalised world. Through the discussion
of several recent key theoretical works within these areas, the aim is to refine our understanding of
the complex realities of our Indian socio-cultural and political scenario. We shall also pay special
attention to historical processes which are at the basis of contemporary contexts.
Prerequisite(s): Understanding of the term Diaspora and the condition it suggests and basic
acquaintance with literary works of the Indian Diaspora
CO1. To understand the work of some recent authors of the Indian diaspora in Britain and North
America
CO2. To apply, in relation to some contemporary Indian diasporic writing, the postcolonial thematics
of diaspora literature.
CO3. To analyse the relation between geography and form, between location and representation, and
how these various factors determine the writing and reception of literature.
CO4. To evaluate the changing historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts of migration
from the Indian subcontinent, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
CO5. To create in oneself an insight into the complex, traumatic and fragmented history of South Asia,
which led to territorial, national and cultural reformulations, which in turn shaped modern South Asian
cultural imaginaries of home, identity and belonging.

The Diaspora
Nostalgia
New Medium
Alienation
Module II: Narratives (two long, three short) Contact Hours: 30
M. G. Vassanji, Rohinton Mistry, Meera Syal, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Kiran
Desai, Meena Alexander, Imraan Coovadia
Module III: Poetry (10 Poems) Contact Hours: 30
Meena Alexander, Usha Akella, Saleem Peeradina, Pramila Venkateswaran, Shanta Acharya,
Siddhartha Bose, Kavita Jindal, Daljit Nagra, Usha Kishore, Reginald Massey, Debjani Chatterjee
Text Book(s):
● “Introduction: The diasporic imaginary” in Mishra, V. Literature of the Indian diaspora.

● “Cultural Configurations of Diaspora,” in Kalra, V. Kaur, R. and Hutynuk, J. Diaspora &
hybridity.
Reference Book(s):
● “The New Empire within Britain,” in Rushdie, S. Imaginary Homelands.


Course Name: Nineteenth Century European Realism
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Nineteenth Century European Realism
Course Objective: This course demonstrates an awareness of the emergence of Realism and literary
movements in Europe in the Nineteenth Century by engaging with key texts of European Realism
and helps gain a deeper understanding of the social, economic and political conditions which gave
rise to this movement. This allows for a recognition of the diversity within this broad literary
movement while discerning the underlying affinities and patterns. Examining modern reassessments
of European Realism show an awareness of the rich and complex legacy of Nineteenth Century
European Realism, identify the challenges it faced and explore the causes of its decline in the
Twentieth Century.
Prerequisite(s): Nil
CO1. To remember Nihilism, Socialism, working class movements, abolishment of serfdom and the
emergence of state.
CO2. To understand how the idea of literary realism emerged in Europe in the Nineteenth century.
CO3. To interpret modern reassessments of European Realism.
CO4. To analyse concepts like female sexuality, class consciousness, marriage as a contract, and
commercialization in the nineteenth century.
CO5. To evaluate the decay and decadence of morality and human values in the modern age
History, Realism and the Novel Form

Ethics and the Novel
The Novel and its Readership in the 19th Century
Politics and the Russian Novel: Slavophiles and Westernizers

Module II: Realism (any one) Contact Hours: 25
Stendhal, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyvesky, Leo Tolstoy
Module III: Realism and Romanticism (any one) Contact Hours: 25
Gustave Flaubert, Honore de Balzac
Module IV: Realism and Naturalism Contact Hours: 15
Emile Zola
Text Book(s):
● The Modern Tradition,ed. Richard Ellmann
Reference Book(s):
● Studies in European Realism, Gyorgy Lukacs


Course Name: Literature and Cinema
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course demonstrates a systematic and historically-grounded knowledge of

literature and cinema as expressive arts while identifying and illustrating the distinction between
literary and cinematic arts of storytelling. This paper examines different theories of adaptation and
links them to contexts of expression and reception.
Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of the history of adaptation studies.
CO1. To understand the structures and techniques used in various forms of literature and film.
CO2. To apply terminology used in the analysis of literature and film, and explicate the ways it can be
used.
CO3. To analyse and employ the skills necessary to think critically and respond appropriately in both
written and oral forms to a variety of fictional texts.
CO4. To evaluate independent responses to a variety of imaginative texts.
CO5. To create a faculty critical approaches that may be employed in the study of literature and film.
Theories of Adaptation
Transformation and Transposition
Hollywood and ‘Bollywood’
Adaptation as Interpretation
James Monaco, ‘The language of film: signs and syntax’
Module II: Adaptation across Time (any one clusters) Contact Hours: 25

● William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and its adaptations: Romeo & Juliet (1968; dir.
Franco Zeffirelli); and Romeo + Juliet (1996; dir. Baz Luhrmann)
● Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man and its adaptation Earth (1998; dir. Deepa Mehta)
● Amrita Pritam, Pinjar and its adaptation: Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P. Dwivedi)
● E.M. Forster, Passage to India and its adaptation dir. David Lean (1984).
Module III: Adaptation across Culture (any one cluster) Contact Hours: 20
● William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and Othello and their adaptations: Angoor
(dir. Gulzar, 1982), Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003), Omkara (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj,
2006) respectively
● Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004).
● Rudaali (dir. Kalpana Lajmi, 1993) and Gangor or ‘Behind the Bodice’ (dir. Italo Spinelli, 2010)
Module III: Film and Literature in Popular Culture (any one cluster) Contact Hours: 15
● Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love, and its adaptation: From Russia with Love (1963; dir.
Terence Young, Eon Productions)
● J. K Rowling, Harry Potter Series and its cinematic adaptation
Text Book(s):
● ‘On the Art of Adaptation’, Daedalus,Linda Hutcheon, vol. 133, (2004).

● ‘Adaptation Studies at Crossroads’, Adaptation,Thomas Leitch, 2008.
Reference Book(s)
● ‘Filmi Shakespeare’, Litfilm, Poonam Trivedi Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, 2007.
● ‘Figures of Bond’, in Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading,Tony
Bennett and Janet Woollacott, ed. Tony Bennet (London and New York: Routledge, 1990).

Course Code: BELS 603D
Course Name: Travel Writing
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This paper will teach the students how to map the social-historical-political-
economic contexts of Travel Writing from regional, national and global perspectives while explaining
the origin and reception of Travel Writing in chosen locations and analyze travel writing in relation to
colonial and postcolonial positions.
Prerequisite(s): Fair understanding of the importance of travel writing as a genre and its diverse
concerns.
CO1. To understand a range of travel writing practices and genres.
CO2. To apply critical material pertaining to travel writing and develop in students an ability to
appreciate Travel Writing.
CO3. To analyse the nexus between reading and writing works of travel writing.
CO4. To evaluate contemporary travel writing contexts (social, historical, political, cultural).
CO5. To create in students the ability to produce travel writing demonstrating a range of
contemporary techniques and styles.
Travel Writing and Ethnography

Gender and Travel
Globalization and Travel
Travel and Religion
Orientalism and Travel
Module II: Early Travel Writings (any one, selections) Contact Hours: 20

Ibn Batuta, Al Biruni, Marco Polo
Module III: Travel Writing during Renaissance (any one, selections) Contact Hours: 20
Bartolomé de las Casas, Richard Hakluyt, Walter Raleigh
Module IV: 19th and 20th Century (any two) Contact Hours: 20
Mark Twain, Ernesto Che Guevara, William Dalrymple, Rahul Sankrityayan, Nahid Gandhi, Elisabeth
Bumiller
Text Book(s):
● Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Young (Cambridge:
CUP,2002)
● Postcolonial Travel Writings: Critical Explorations, ed. Justin D Edwards and Rune Graulund
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Reference Book(s)
● Travel Writing: The Self and The Other (Routledge, 2012)
● Travel Writing and Empire (New Delhi: Katha, 2004)

Course Name: Partition Literature
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course explains historical and socio-cultural factors responsible for the
Partition of Indian Sub-continent and demonstrates critical understanding of manifestations of the
experience of the partition in various art forms. The paper links and analyzes the eco-socio-
historical-cultural contexts and dimensions related to the Partition of India e.g. nation, nationalism,
communication, violence, exile, homelessness, refugee, rehabilitation, resettlement, border and
borderlands (colonialism and post colonialism), literary responses to the partition in different parts
of Indian continent and interpret them.
Prerequisite(s): Understanding of the historical and socio-political context of the Partition
CO1. To remember the trauma of the Partition and the subsequent creation of the idea of nationhood.
CO2. To understand the impact of events that led to the Partition, and its aftermath.
CO3. To analyse the sensibility with which the writers have chalked out the predicament of those
suffering as a result of this traumatic national event.
CO4. To evaluate Partition as a phenomenon through an evaluation of memory and trauma.
CO5. To create in the students the understanding of the socio-cultural ramifications of the Partition
and its effect on the literature of the Indian subcontinent.
Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition

Communalism and Violence
Homelessness and Exile
Women in the Partition


Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jibananda Das, Gulzar
Module III: Narrative (one long and three short) Contact Hours: 25
Khuswant Singh, Intizar Husain, Amitav Ghosh, Dibyendu Palit, Manik Bandhopadhya, Saadat Hasan
Manto, Asaduddin, Lalithambika Antharajanam, Krishan Chander
Module IV: Films Contact Hours: 15
Subarnarekha (dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1965), Garam Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974), Khamosh Paani:
Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003).
Text Book(s):
● Borders and Boundaries,Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin. (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
● Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).
Reference Book(s)
● The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India,Urvashi Butalia. (Delhi: Kali for
Women, 2000).

Course Name: Research Methodology
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course trains in the development of a simple questionnaire to elicit specific
information and collect data based on a survey and arrive at inferences using a small sample while
discussing and drafting a plan for carrying out a piece of work systematically.
Prerequisite(s): Nil
CO1. To remember different methodologies and techniques used in research work.
CO2. To understand basic computer skills necessary for the conduct of research.
CO3. To comprehend and apply research articles in their academic discipline.
CO4. To analyse research concepts and issues
CO5. To evaluate the basic function and working of analytical instruments used in research.
Module I: Research and the Initial Issues Contact Hours: 15
Research as systematic investigation

Identifying research problem, Formulating research questions
Formulating research objectives
Writing a research synopsis
Module II: Literature review Contact Hours: 20
Selecting review areas based on the research objectives

Primary, secondary and tertiary sources, and related theory/s
Gathering, reading and analysing literature and related theory
Writing the review with implications for the research question
Module III: Hypotheses and formulation of research design Contact Hours: 20


Formulating hypotheses based on research objectives

Formulation of research design: qualitative, quantitative, combinatory steps in research design
Theory application
Data collection tools, comparison tools, text analysis tools
Data analysis and interpretation
Module IV: Results and documentation Contact

Hours: 20
Preparing tables, charts, and graphs to present data

Collating the findings
Testing hypotheses; Generalisation of results
Writing a dissertation
MLA/APA citation: in-text and works cited pages
Plagiarism and related problems
Text Book(s):
● Modern Languages Association, MLA Handbook

Reference Book(s)
● Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, C.R. Kothari & Gaurav Garg.

Course Name: World Literatures
Contact(s): 5L+1T
Credit(s): 6
Course Objective: This course introduces students to the concept of World Literature. It tries to
explore the trans-cultural and cross-cultural literary traditions and literatures from various social,
political and cultural backgrounds. It also focuses on the limitations and nuances of the term world
literature and discusses other related and equivalent terms.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to read and interpret literary works through a critical lens.
CO1. To describe the concept of World Literature and its evolution in relation to other related
concepts e.g. national literature, general literature, comparative literature and Vishwa Sahitya.
CO2. To understand the connectedness and diversity of human experiences and literary responses to
them in different parts of the world.
CO3. To discuss and show the ways in which literary texts from different cultures and time periods are
interconnected.
CO4. To analyse the effects of war, religion, technology, economic development, racism, and culture
on world literature from antiquity.
CO5. To evaluate important similarities and differences between the various literary forms, periods,
and histories in both western and nonwestern literatures.
The Idea of World Literature

World Literature and Comparative Literature
Memory, Displacement and Diaspora
Hybridity, Race and Culture
Adult Reception of Children’s Literature

Literary Translation and the Circulation of Literary Texts

Aesthetics and Politics in Poetry
‘Definition’, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Survey and Introduction, Ulrich Weisstein
Module II: Poetry (10 poems) Contact Hours: 25
Mirza Ghalib, Rabindranath Tagore, Gabriel Okara, Judith Wright, Kishwar Naheed, Shu Ting, Jean
Arasanayagam
Module III: Narrative (one long, three shorts) Contact Hours: 25
E. M. Forster, V.S. Naipaul, Marie Clements, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Julio Cortazar, Marjane
Satrapi, Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lee Maracle
Module IV: Drama (one play) Contact Hours: 15
Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka
Text Book(s):
● Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice, ed. Sarah Lawall

● How to Read World Literature? David Damrosch. Penguin Classics.
Reference Book(s)
● ‘Conjectures on World Literature’, New Left Review, vol.1 (2000), Franco Moretti. OUP.
● ‘Introduction’, in World Literature: A Reader Theo D’haen et. al., eds.

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BRAINWARE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

BA (H) ENG. Programme Outcomes:

PO3. Write official correspondences for effective business transactions.

PO6. Develop managerial skills to be prepared for better execution of work.

PO7. Be ready to appear for and perform well in interviews.

PO10. Competent in the art and science of interdisciplinary research.

PO11. Make the student industry and job-ready.

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Course Code: BELS102

Course Name: European Classical Literature

Allotted Hours: 75+15

Prerequisite(s): Basic knowledge of English language.

Course Outcome: At the end of the course, students will be able:

CO1. To remember the socio-cultural-political, literary and philosophical paradigms of

Module I: Background Contact Hours: 10

Greco-Roman Epic Tradition, Primary Epic, Secondary Epic

Module II: Narrative (any two) Contact Hours: 25

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Iliad by Homer (selection)

Module III: Drama (any one) Contact Hours: 25

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Module IV: Verse (any two) Contact Hours: 15

Pindar/ Horace/ Sappho/ Catullus

● Poetics, Aristotle, Penguin Classics

● Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Course Code: HU101

Course Name: English Communication

Allotted Hours: 15 Hours

Prerequisite(s): Basic Knowledge in English

Course Outcome: At the end of the course, students will be able:

CO1: To enable students to handle communication as a skill, while understanding and

CO2: To translate, understand, or interpret information based on prior learning.

Module-I: Contact Hours: 5

Communication Theory: Definition of Communication, Types of Communication (Verbal &

Module-II: Contact Hours: 5

Comprehension: Summary Paraphrasing

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

‘The Night Train at Deoli’- Ruskin Bond

Module-III : Contact Hours: 5

Writing Skills: Business Letters (Application, Complaints, Order, Collection, Sales

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Course Code: HU191

Course Name: English Communication Lab

Allotted Hours: 15 Hours

Prerequisite(s): Basic Knowledge in English

Course Outcome: At the end of the course, students will be able:

CO 1: To enable students remember communicative skills of students through a learner centered

Module-I: Contact Hours: 05

Module-II: Contact Hours: 05

Speaking Skills: Monologue- Self-introduction, Pronunciation practice through audio-visual

Module-III Contact Hours: 05

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Lab Activities: Student-designed quizzes, role play, skit, Dialogue- Situation-based

Course Code Course Name Course Credits Total Marks

BELS 201 CC-3 5-1-0 6 100

BELS 202 CC-4 5-1-0 6 100

ENV201 AECC-2 2-0-0 2 100

Generic Elective-1 (Any one from the List of

Course Code: BELS201

Course Name: Indian Classical Literature

Allotted Hours: 75+15

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES