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BS HONOURS ENGLISH
SEMESTERWISE BREAKDOWN OF COURSES
FIRST SEMESTER (NEW)

Course Course Title Cr Hrs
Codes
GC 101 Study Skills 3
GC 102 History 3
ELL 103 Reading & Writing Skills 3
ELL 104 Introduction to Literary Studies 3
ELL 105 Introduction to Language 3
ELL 106 Listening and Speaking Skills 3
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SECOND SEMESTER (NEW)

Codes
GC 107 Introduction to IT Skills 3
GC 108 Pakistan Studies 3
ELL 109 Communication and Presentation Skills 3
ELL 110 Composition and Writing Skills 3
ELL 111 General Linguistics 3
ELL 112 Classical & Renaissance Drama 3
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THIRD SEMESTER (New)

Codes
GC 201 Human Rights and Citizenship 3
GC 202 Islamic Studies 3
ELL 203 Academic Writing 3
ELL 204 Phonetics & Phonology 3
ELL 205 Short Fiction 3
ELL 206 Classical Poetry 3
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FOURTH SEMESTER (New)

Course Codes Course Title Cr Hrs
GC 207 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3
ELL 208 Introduction to Research Methodology 3
ELL 209 Novel (18th & 19th Century) 3
ELL 210 Romantic and Victorian Poetry 3
ELL 211 Literary Prose 3
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BS BRIDGING SEMESTER
FIFTH SEMESTER (New)

GC 301 Introduction to International Relations 3
GC 302 Introduction to Environmental Studies 3

ELL 303 Introduction to Pakistani Literature in English 3
ELL 304 Introduction to Literary Criticism & Theory 3
ELL 305 Sociolinguistics 3
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SIXTH SEMESTER (New)

GC 306 Islamic History and Culture 3
ELL 307 Modern Poetry 3
ELL 308 Modern Drama 3
ELL 309 Modern Novel 3
ELL 310 Grammar & Syntax 3
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SEVENTH SEMESTER (New)

Course Code Course Title Cr
Hrs
GC 401 Introduction to Translation Studies 3
ELL 402 Semantics & Pragmatics 3
ELL 403 Stylistics 3
ELL 404 American Literature 3
ELL 405 Introduction to Literary Theory 3
ELL 406 Postmodern Fiction 3
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EIGTH SEMESTER (NEW)

Course Code Course Title Cr
Hrs
ELL 410 Discourse Studies 3
ELL 411 Psycholinguistics 3
ELL 412 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) 3
ELL 413 Postcolonial Literature 3
ELL 414 Popular Fiction 3
ELL 415 Introduction to Women’s Writings 3
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First Semester
Course: Study Skills

st
Level: BS 1
Course Code: GC 101
Course Description:
The prime purpose of this course is to help out students in their first year of learning in a new environment and
a new system. It is designed to help them learn “how to learn” and enable them to take immediate control of
their learning. It further assists them to devise and follow” study systems” which are learning processes learners
use to study a particular subject. The course provides guidelines to help students think critically and concentrate
to develop effective combinations of various learning strategies, wide variety of methods, different study
techniques and styles, and other available resources in order to immediately see a positive difference in both
their academic performance and the life choices they make.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to:
• help students learn basic self-management and study skills
• create and follow combinations of skills to minimize the risk of failure
• help them identify their goals of learning
• help them become confident and successful in the new learning environment
Course Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students are expected to:
• know and apply self-management skills to direct their academic performance and life choices
• understand the ways in which they learn easily
• define their own goals and preferences as they embark on their university career
• use the vital study skills and strategies
• create and use study systems, think critically, concentrate, read and listen with understanding
• develop and implement strategies to manage their time effectively
• develop effective test and examination taking skills
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Seeking Success in University
• Knowing your campus and its resources
• Form An Academic Support Group
• Know Where to Find Help
• Stay Informed
• Get Involved
2. Motivating Yourself to Learn
• Assess Academic Strengths and Weaknesses
• Discover and use your learning style
• Develop Critical Thinking & Study Skills
• Adapt learning style to teaching method
3. Using Critical Thinking Strategies
• Examine Your Assumption
• Make Predictions
• Read With A Purpose
• Sharpen Your Interpretations
• Find Implications in What You Learn
• Read and Understand Graphics
• Evaluate what you learn
4. Setting Goals and Solving Problems
• Set goals for success in college
• How to develop a positive attitude
5. Sharpening Your Classroom Skills
• Prepare for Class
• Become an Active Listener
• Develop A Personal Note-Taking System
• Guidelines for Note Taking
• The Informal Outline/Key Words System
• The Cornell Method
• Matching Note-Taking Style and Learning Style
• Learn To Make Effective Presentations
End Term
6. Making the Most of Your Time
• How to GRAB Some Time
• Scheduling Your Time
• Time Management and Learning Style
• Procrastination
7. Creating Your Study System
• SQ3R: The Basic System
• Devising Your Study System
8. Organizing Information for Study
• Memorization
• Concept or Information Maps
• Comparison Charts
• Time Lines
• Process Diagrams
• Informal Outlines
• Branching Diagrams
9. Controlling Your Concentration
• Concentrations
• Eliminate Distractions
• Use A Study System
• Strategies to Improve Concentration
10. Preparing for Tests
• How To Prepare for Tests: Three Steps
• Develop a Test-taking Routine
• Master Objective Tests
• Know How to Answer Essay Questions
11. Becoming an Active Reader
• Reading Actively
• Find the Main Idea, Details, and Implications
• Using a Textbook Marking System
12. Building Career Skills
• Working in the New Economy
• Where the Jobs will be
• Choosing Your Future
• Your course of Study
• Your Plan
• What Employers Want
• Career Skills to Develop
• Workplace Ethics
• From University to Work
• Your Resume and Cover Letter
• The Interview
Recommended Readings:
• Bain, Ken. (2012). What the best college students do.
• Kanar, Carol C. (2001). The Confident Student. Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Mcmillan, Kathleen. (2011). The Study skills book. Pearson.
• Pauk, Walter. How to Study in College.
• Wallace, M.J. (1980). Study Skills in English.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)
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Course: History
st
Level: BS 1
Course Code: ELL 102
Course Description:
The course is designed to make sense of the past, and includes the whole world, not just part of it. This
integrative approach to world history embraces peoples around the globe from paleolithic to modern times. The
main subject is humankind and how humans have thought, behaved, and interacted across the ages. The course
encourages comparison of historical developments in different parts of the world, thereby helping students
improve skills of analytical comparison. To compare is to look for and analyze both similarities and differences
in historical patterns and events. Comparative study tests the soundness of generalizations, highlights the variety
and complexity of human experience, fits events into larger patterns, uncovers connections between seemingly
unconnected developments, and challenges the idea that any single group or country has had a history that is
exceptional to all others.
Course Objectives:
1. Explain large-scale and long-term historical developments of regional, interregional, and global scope.
2. Analyze ways in which human groups have come into contact and interacted with one another,
including systems of communication, migration, commercial exchange, conquest, and cultural
diffusion.
3. Assess the significance of key turning points in world history.
4. Describe the development and explain the significance of distinctive forms of political, social,
and economic organization.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
A. What is History?
1. HistoryandHistorian
2. Historian and his facts
3. Historicaldescriptions
4. Historical interpretations
5. The role of“men”in History
6. Nature and scopeof History
B. Kinds of History
1. Political history
2. Militaryhistory
3. Cultural history
4. Social history
5. Economichistory
6. Religious history
7. Intellectual history
8. Historyof science
9. Historyofart
10. Women’s history
C. Approaches to History
1. Nationalistapproach
2. Elite approach
3. Subaltern approach
4. Marxistapproach
5. Popularapproach
6. Feministapproach
7. Orientalistapproach
8. Modernistapproach
9. Post-modernistapproach
10.Vernacularapproach
Final Term
D. Structure of History
1. Economicstructure
2. Social structure
3. Scientificstructure
4. Methodological structurism
5. Realist Structure
6. Historical materialism
E. Miscellaneous Concepts
1. Historiography
2. Philosophyof history
3. Causation
4. Research Methodology
5. Objectivityand Subjectivity
6. Post-Modernism
7. Historical Determinism
F. Thinkers
1. Herodotus
2. IbnKhaldun
3. Michel Foucault
4. Karl Marx
5. Friedrich Nietzsche
Suggested Readings:
• Carlo,Ginzburg.Clues,MythsandtheHistoricalMetehod.Baltimore:JohnHopkins
University Press, 1992.
• Carr, E.H.What is History? Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.
• Cohen, Bernard. An Anthropologistamong Historiansand otherEssay. London: Oxford UniversityPress,
1988.
• Collingwood, R.G. TheIdea of History.London:Oxford UniversityPress,1978.
• Fritz,Stern.VaritiesofHistory:FromVoltairetothePresent.NewYork:WorldPublishing, 1972.
• Gawronski, Donald. V.History:Meaning and Methods.Foresman, 1969.
• Guha, Ranjit.TheSmall Voiceof History.Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010.
• Steedman,Caroline.Dust:TheArchiveandCulturalHistory. ManchesterUniversityPress, 2002.
• Streusand, Douglas E. TheFormation ofMughal Empire.Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 1989.

• Troup, AnnaGreen andKathleen. TheHouses of History:A Critical Reader in Twentieth Century
History and Theory.New York: ManchesterUniversityPress, 1999.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Reading & Writing Skills

st
Level: BS 1
Course Description:
Success at the university level mainly depends on the mastery of some fundamental academic skills including
reading and writing. In order to help students take a deep approach in reading and writing academic texts, they
need to be taught effective learning strategies and techniques to improve reading and writing skills so that
student can effectively read the text and express their viewpoint by using grammatically correct structures. The
course consists of two major parts: reading part includes recognizing and writing a topic sentence, skimming,
scanning, use of cohesive devices, identifying facts and opinions, guess meanings of unfamiliar words and
writing part includes knowledge and use of various grammatical components such as parts of speech, tenses,
voice, narration, modals etc. in practical contexts.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
• enable students identify main idea/topic sentences
• help them find specific information quickly
• make them distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information according to the purpose of reading
• enable them recognize and interpret cohesive devices
• guide them distinguish between fact and opinion
• facilitate them to use grammar for various practical situations
Course Outcome:
• read and interpret a text
• express themselves by using appropriate grammatical structures
• demonstrate writing skills
• apply important reading techniques to academic texts
• to identify and summarize information
• prepare and present effective writing assignments of different types
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Reading Skills
• Identify Main Idea / Topic sentences
• Skimming, Scanning, and Inference / Find Specific and General Information Quickly
• Distinguish Between Relevant and Irrelevant Information According to Purpose for Reading
• Recognize and Interpret Cohesive Devices
• Distinguish Between Fact and Opinion
• Guess the Meanings of Unfamiliar Words Using Context Clues
• Use the Dictionary for Finding Out Meanings and Use of Unfamiliar Words
• Practice Exercises With Every Above Mentioned Aspect of Reading
End Term
2. Writing Skills
• Parts of Speech
• Phrase, clause and sentence structure
• Combining sentences
• Tenses: meaning and use
• Modals
• Use of active and passive voice
• Reported Speech
• Writing good sentences
• Error Free writing
• Paragraph Writing with topic sentence
• Summary writing
Note: Teachers need to include practice activities, exercises and worksheets on the provided topics.
Recommended Books:
• Howe, D. H, Kirkpatrick, T. A., & Kirkpatrick, D. L. (2004). Oxford English for undergraduates. Karachi:
Oxford University Press.
• Eastwood, J. (2004).English Practice Grammar (New edition with tests and answers). Karachi: Oxford
University Press.
• Murphy, R. (2003). Grammar in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Introduction to Literary Studies

st
Level: BS 1
Course Description:
This course introduces the student to literature as cultural and historical phenomena. This entails a study of the
history and culture of various periods from renaissance to the present, over which English literature has been
written. The emergence and development of various genres of literature that is poetry, drama, prose and fiction,
over different periods in history, is also of great significance. The meanings and use of various literary terms
and their role in the close reading of texts also forms an important part of this course. A number of short
excerpts from primary texts are taken to illustrate major issues of literary studies. This will also, very briefly
touch upon different theoretical approaches to literature to introduce the student to literary critique and
evaluation. A general understanding of literary theory as a broad field of philosophical concepts and principals,
which when practically applied to different excerpts taken from the primary texts representing different ages in
the history of literature, serves to identify different topics of literary criticism because interpretation of a text
can be done in different ways depending on the author and the context of any literary production.
Objectives/Aims of the Course:

1. To study the history and practice of English as a scholarly discipline.
2. To study the history and development of each genre by studying excerpts from various literary texts.
3. To familiarize the student with literary terms and their usage in close reading of texts and analyzing
literature within different critical frameworks.
4. To briefly develop a concept of different theoretical approaches in literary criticism.

5. To analyze and criticize the works of literature in their cultural and historical contexts.
6. To assess the influence of literary movements in Britain on English literature from all parts of the world.
Core Texts:
1. William Henry Hudson. Introduction to the Study of Literature (1913)
2. Andrew Sanders. The Short Oxford History of English Literature (1994)
3. Mario Klarer. Introduction to Literary Studies (1999)
4 J. H. Miller. On Literature (2002)
Note: The teacher will use Sander’s history with any one of the three books on literature
as core texts. The book by Mario Klarer will cover maximum course outline.
Genres,concepts,ages and ,isms should be focused.
Outcomes of the Course:
1. To understand that literature is a cultural reflection of its time of production and it provides an insight
into its literary age and history.
2. To understand that various literary pieces provide different views of the same time period because
subjectivity of every author is reflected through his/her work.
3. To observe that literature reflects language change.

4. To understand that literature is intertextual and the study of its history is crucial for correct and an
indepth understanding of allusiveness in texts.
5. To analyze and criticize English texts from all over the world through an appreciation of the influence of
European and English literary movements on them.
Further/ Suggested Readings:

Albert, E. (1979). History of English Literature (5th ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, M. (2000). A History of English Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Blamires, H. (1984). A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge.
Carter, R., & McRae, J. (1997). The Routledge History of Literature in English, Britain and Ireland. London :
Routledge.
Chin, B. A., Wolfe, D., Copeland, J., & Dudzinski, M. A. (2001). Glencoe Literature: British Literature. New
York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Compton-Rickett, A. (1912). A History of English Literature. London: T. C. and E. C. Jack.
Daiches, D. (1968). A Critical History of English Literature. London: Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd.
Fletcher, R. H. (1919). A History of English Literature. Boston: R. G. Badger.
Legouis, E., & Cazamian, L. (1960). A History of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent and Sons.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Introduction to Language
st
Level: BS 1
Course Description:
Language is central to human experience. This course provides a comprehensive overview of language origin,
evolution of language as human faculty, and traces the history of English language in order to provide an idea
how languages develop. The part on the history of the English language covers story of English language from
beginning to the present. The course also includes a brief introduction to the history of linguistics with special
reference to various schools of thought which have contributed significantly to the development of Linguistics.
Course Objectives:
• give students a comprehensive overview of language as human faculty
• assist students analyze different stories about the origin of language
• provide students an overview of how a language develops, through a comprehensive exposure to English
language development
• enable them to identify major theoretical additions in the development of Linguistics
Course Outcomes:
By the end of this course, students are expected to:
• demonstrate sound knowledge about language and language origin theories
• differentiate human language from animal communication through proper arguments
• interpret the process of language development
• exhibit knowledge about various stages in development of English language
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Language Origin
• Language as a divine gift
• Natural sound source theories
• Social interaction source theories
• The Physical adaptation sources
• The genetic source
2. Speech vs Writing
• Primacy of speech
• Speech vs. Writing
• Origin of writing
• Types of writing systems
3. Language as Human Faculty
• Human Language vs animal communication
• Characteristics of Language: Design features
• Animals lack language: A controversy
4. Language Families
• What is a language family?
• Language Families in the World: A Brief Overview
5. Historical Linguistics
• What is linguistics?
• What is historical linguistics?
• What does historical linguistics study? (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic
changes)
• Methods of Language reconstruction
End Term
Evolution of English Language
6. Old & Middle English Periods

• Grammatical categories
• Inflections
• Grammatical gender
7. Renaissance
• Old, Middle, and Modern English (grammatical categories)
• Shakespeare
8. 18 th
Century
• Major characteristics of the age

• Problem of refining and fixing the language
• Swift’s proposal
• Johnson’s Dictionary
• Grammarians
• Vocabulary formation
• Introduction of passives
9. 19th Century
• Important events and influences
• Sources of new words
• Pidgins and Creoles
• Spelling reforms
• Development of Dictionary
• Verb-adverb combination
10. English Language in America
• Americanism
• Archive Features
• Difference between the British and American English
Development of Modern Linguistics
11. Modern Linguistics

• Emergence of Modern Linguistics: Saussure
• Structuralism
• American Structuralism
• The Prague School
12. Contemporary Approaches to Linguistics
• Functional Linguistics
Recommended Books:
• Bough, A.C. & Cable, T. (2002). A History of English Language. London: Prentice Hall, Inc.
• Campbell, L. (2001), ‘The history of linguistics’, in M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds), The Handbook of
Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 81-104.
• Joseph, J.E. (2002), From Whitney to Chomsky: essays in the history of American
linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
th th
• Yule, George. (2006). The Study of Language: 4 / 5 Edition, Cambridge University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
SECOND SEMESTER

GC 107 Introduction to IT Skills 3
GC 108 Pakistan Studies 3
ELL 109 Communication and Presentation Skills 3
ELL 110 Composition and Writing Skills 3
ELL 111 General Linguistics 3
ELL 112 Classical & Renaissance Drama 3
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Second Semester
Course: Introduction to IT Skills

nd
Level: BS 2
Course Code: GC 107
Course Description
Information technology literacy has become a fundamental requirement for any major. An understanding of the
principles underlying digital devices, computer hardware, software, telecommunications, networking and
multimedia is an integral part of any IT curriculum. This course provides a sound foundation on the basic
theoretical and practical principles behind these technologies and discusses up to date issues surrounding them
including social aspects and how they impact everyday life.
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, students will:
• Understand the fundamentals of information technology
• Learn core concepts of computing and modern systems
• Understand modern software programs and packages
• Learn about upcoming IT technologies
Course Contents:
Basic Definitions & Concepts, Hardware: Computer Systems & Components. Storage Devices, Number
Systems, Software: Operating Systems, Programming and Application Software, Introduction to Programming,
Databases and Information Systems, Networks, Data Communication, The Internet, Browsers and Search
Engines, The Internet: Email, Collaborative Computing and Social Networking, The Internet: E-Commerce, IT
Security and other issues, IT Project.
Required Skills:
These basic competencies are assumed on the first day of class. Students must assume responsibility for
learning these skills if he/she does not already possess them. If an instructor finds that you do not have the
required skills and knowledge, you may be asked to withdraw from the course.
1. Basic Knowledge of Computers

• Understand basic computer hardware components and terminology
• Understand the concepts and basic functions of a common computer operating system
• Start up, log on, and shut down a computer system properly
• Use a mouse pointing device and keyboard
• Use Help and know how to troubleshoot routine problems
• Identify and use icons (folders, files, applications, and shortcuts/aliases)
• Minimize, maximize and move windows
• Identify common types of file extensions (e.g. doc, docx, pdf, html, jpg, gif, xls,ppt, pptx, rtf, txt, exe)
• Check how much space is left on a drive or other storage device
• Back up files
• Download and install software on a hard disk
• Understand and manage the file structure of a computer
• Check for and install operating system updates
2. Proficiency in Using Productivity Software
• Create documents of various types and save in a desired location
• Retrieve an existing document from the saved location
• Select, copy, and paste text in a document or desired location
• Print a document
• Name, rename, copy and delete files
• Understand and know how to use the following types of software programs:
• Word processing (example: MS Word, Google Doc, Writer)
• Presentation (example: PowerPoint, Impress)
• Spreadsheet (example: Excel, Calc)
• PDF reader (example: Acrobat Reader, Preview)
• Compression software (example: WinZip, StuffIt, 7-Zip)
3. Electronic Communication Skills

• Email, using a common email program (example: MS Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail)
• Compose, Send, Reply, Forward messages
• Add attachments to a message
• Retrieve attachments from an email message
• Copy, paste and print message content
• Organize email folders
• Understand what an electronic discussion list is and how to sign up and leave one (example: Listserv,
Listproc)
4. Internet Skills
• Set up an Internet connection and connect to the Internet
• Have a working knowledge of the World Wide Web and its functions, including basic site for navigation,
searching, and installing and upgrading a Web browser
• Use a browser effectively, including bookmarks, history, toolbar, forward and back buttons
• Use search engines and directories to find information on the Web
• Download files and images from a Web page
• Understand and effectively navigate the hyperlink structure of the Web
• Understand how keep your information safe while using the Internet
5. Moving Files
• Transfer files by uploading or downloading
• View and change folder/document security settings
• Copy files from hard disk to storage devices and vice versa
1. Computer Applications for Business, 2nd Edition, DDC Publishing, 275 Madison Avenue, New York,
NY10016.
2. Shelly Cashman Waggoner, Discovering Computers 98, International Thomson Publishing Company, One
Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142.
3. Robert D. Shepherd, Introduction to Computers and Technology, Paradigm Publishing Inc., 875 Montreal
Way, St. Paul, MN 55102.
4. Bruce J. McLaren, Understanding and Using the Internet, West Publishing Company, 610 Opperman
Drive, P. 0. Box 64526, St. Paul, MN 55164.
5. Nita Hewitt Rutkosky, Microsoft Office Professional, Paradigm Publishing Company, 875 Montreal
Way,St Paul, MN 55102.
6. V. Wayne Klemin and Ken Harsha, Microcomputers, A Practical Approach to Software

Applications,McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY 10016.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Pakistan Studies
Level: BS
Course Code: GC 108
Course Description:
The subject aims at enhancing students' knowledge about history, culture and geography of Pakistan and to
provide an insight into the political and social history of Paksitan from its inception to the present day. The
course introduces the various aspects of the political struggle that led to the creation of Pakistan. It also
examines concepts of nationhood and patriotism in the light of present day circumstances.
Course Objectives:
• To understand the spirit of freedom struggle in the creation of Pakistan.
• To study the process of governance and national development in the early years of creation of Pakistan.
• To examine the external and internal challenges the country faced after its independence.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
Unit No.1 Introduction
a) Advent of Islam in South Asia
b) Muslim Cultural Heritage in Indo-Pakistan
c) Hindu Muslim relations throughout Muslim period
d) Efforts for the revival of Islam in the Sub-continent
Unit No.2 Ideology of Pakistan
a) Aims and objects of Pakistan’s formation
b) Ideology of Pakistan – its importance
c) Basis of Pakistan’s Ideology
d) Pakistan Ideology in Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam’s writings
Unit No.3 Evolution of Muslim Society in the Sub-continent
a) Emergence of Muslim Society in South Asia
b) Muslim Society – its emergence progress in South Asia
c) Decline of Muslim society, scholars and institutions
d) National Reformation movements
e) Efforts for reformation – role of Shah Ahmad Sir Hindi, Shah Waliullah and his followers
f) Role of Educational Institutions:
DarulUloomDio Band; Aligarh University; Nadwat-ul-Uloom; Jamia Islamia, Dehli;
Anjuman Himayat-i-Islami and other Institutions such as Sind Madrassa and Islamia College,
Peshawar
Unit No.4 Political Struggle for Pakistan Movement
a) Constitutional reforms and Muslims
b) Separate elections for Muslims
c) Khilafat movement
Unit No.5 Pakistan Movement
a) Evolution of Muslim nationality (1857-1930)
b) Independence of India; its problems and Muslims
c) Iqbal’s address at Allahabad (1930)
d) Ch. Rehmat ali and Pakistan National Movement
e) Elections (1937) and the attitude of Congress Government towards Muslims
f) Pakistan Resolution
g) Elections (1945-46); Constitutional problems and transfer of power.
Unit No.6 Struggle for Pakistan
a) Role of the Muslims living in minority provinces
b) Role of the Muslims living in majority provinces
(Punjab, Sind, N.W.F.P., Baluchistan)
End Term
Unit No.7 Contribution of different classes in Pakistan Movement
a) Role of religious scholars (Ulema)
b) Role of men of letters and journalists
c) Role of youth and students
d) Role of women
Unit No.8 Emergence of Pakistan:
a) Plan of India’s Division and the emergence of Pakistan
b) Division of Provinces and Referendum
c) Important events (during the partition)
Unit No.9 Efforts for the implementation of Islamic System in Pakistan
a) Importance of Islamization
b) Objective resolution (1949)
c) Islamic articles in Pakistan’s Constitution of 1956, 1962 and 1973
d) Implementation of Shariah; efforts and contributions
e) Tehrik-e-Nizam-e-Mustafa, 1970
f) Steps taken towards the goal after 1970
g) Study of Islamic Institution such as Zakat, Shariah Courts andthe Council for Islamic
Ideology
h) Our goals; formation of a perfect Islamic Society
Unit No.10 Pakistan – Land and Peoples
a) Geography: Location: Geographical importance; study of Rural and Urban areas
b) Natural resources and their use
c) Agriculture and Industry
d) Population, Manpower and Education
e) Economic and Social Welfare
Unit No.11 Pakistan and Islamic World
a) Unity of the Islamic World (Philosophy and Practice)
b) Liberation Movements for Islamic States and Pakistan’s role
c) Pakistan’s relation with Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan
d) Pakistan’s efforts for the unity of the Islamic World
1. I.H. Qureshi The Struggle for Pakistan, Karachi, 1965
2. ___________ Ulema in Politics, Karachi, 1974
3. ___________ ed. A Short History of Pakistan Book IV,Alien Rule and Rise of Muslim Nationalism,
Karachi, 1967
4. Richard Symonds The Waking of Pakistan, London, 1950
5. K.U. Qureshi A Geography of Pakistan, London, 1977
6. Suhail Hassan Pakistan NaguzeerTha, Karachi 1969
7. Rafiq, Muhammad ShTehrikwa Tarikh –e- Pakistan, Lahore, 1977
8. Nawai PakistanRoznamaChiragh Rah, Karachi
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Communication and Presentation Skills

Level: BS
Course Description:
For professional growth and future development, effective presentation skills and interactive and interpersonal
communicative skills are very important. This course offers methods, techniques, and drills significant and
useful in optimizing communication and presentation skills of the learners, enabling them to face divergent
groups of audience with poise and confidence. The course has been divided into modules relating to the
essentials, content, gestures, technology, and variety associated with communication and presentations skills.
Presentation skills part focuses on preparing students for long-life skill of preparing and giving presentations.
Communication is a vital part of our daily routine. The communication skills course focuses on developing
good communication skills among students.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
• help students identify essential components of a presentation
• develop the awareness, knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective academic
presentations and communicate clearly
• help students learn various presentation and communication styles and techniques
• provide techniques to facilitate effective interpersonal and interactive communication

• guide how to build stronger relationships through powerful communication
Course Outcomes:
By the end of the course, the students are expected to:
• skillfully organize and confidently deliver presentations
• be able to present with confidence in different settings
• demonstrate understanding of how audiences can be motivated and persuaded
• develop presentations to achieve their aims
• understand the communication process
• remove the barriers to effective communication
• learn communication skills
• be able to plan communication strategies
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Introduction
• Understanding the purpose of Communication
• Analyze the Audience

• Communicating with words as well as with body language
2. Writing with a Purpose
• Define your Purpose
• Writing for your Reader
• The 4 Cs of Successful writing
o Correct
o Compelling
o Clear
o Concise
3. Presentation skills
• Your look, posture, gesture, eye contact
• Using tonal Variety
• Speaking with energy
• Presenting your visuals
End Term
4. Delivering your presentation
• Central message
• Brainstorming
• Using a mind map
• Designing your presentation using power point
• Practising and delivering your presentation
• Feedback and evaluation of your presentation
5. Speaking with Confidence
a) The importance of Public Speaking

b) Learn about your Audience
c) Understanding your Audience
d) Listener Analysis
6. Communicating Effectively
• Job Interviews and Communicating Skills
o a.1) Do your homework
o a.2) Know your purpose
o a.3) Watch your body language
o a.4) Prepare through Practice
o b) Prepare Questions of your Own
• Communicating with Customers
7. Communication in a Team
• The Five Rules for Effective Listening
• Don’t interrupt
• Don’t jump to conclusion
• Don’t judge the messenger
• Don’t be self – centered
• Don’t tune out
Note: More contents can be added by the teacher as per needs of the students.
Recommended Books:
• Carnegie, Dale. ( ). How to Win Friends & Influence People.
• Giblin, Les. Skill with People.
• Newton, Paul. How to communicate effectively.
• Tracy, Brian. Speak to Win.
• Reynolds, Garr. Presentation Zen.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Composition Writing

nd
Level: BS 2
Course Description:
The course focuses on the basic strategies of composition and writing skills. Good writing skills not only help
students obtain good grades but also optimize their chances to excel in professional life. The course includes
modes of collecting information and arranging it in appropriate manner such as chronological order, cause and
effect, compare and contrast, general to specific etc. It enables the students to write, edit, rewrite, redraft and
proofread their own document for writing effective compositions. Because of the use of a significant amount of
written communication on daily basis, sharp writing skills have always been valued highly in academic as well
as professional spheres.
Course Objectives:
• assist students identify the audience, message, and the purpose of writing
• develop rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking
• enable them express themselves in a variety of writing styles
• help students write well organized academic texts including examination answers with topic/thesis
statement and supporting details.
• make students write argumentative essays and course assignments

Course outcome:
• use different mechanics of writing to produce various types of compositions effectively keeping in view
the purpose and the audience
• demonstrate rhetorical knowledge

• demonstrate critical thinking in well-organized forms of academic texts
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Writing Process
• Invention
✓ Generating Ideas (collecting information in various forms such as mind maps, tables, lists,
charts etc)
✓ Identifying Audience, Purpose, and Message
• Ordering Information
✓ Chronology for a narrative
✓ Stages of a process
✓ From general to specific and vice versa
✓ From most important to least important
✓ Advantages and disadvantages
✓ Comparison and contrast
✓ Problem solution pattern
• Drafting
✓ Free Writing
✓ Revising
✓ Editing
2. Paraphrasing
3. Cohesion and Coherence

• Cohesive Devices
• Paragraph unity
End Term
4. Summary and Precise Writing

5. Creative Writing
6. Essay Writing
• developing a thesis
• organizing an essay
• writing effective introduction and conclusion
• different types of essays
• use of various rhetorical modes including exposition, argumentation and analysis
Recommended Books:
• Goatly, A. (2000). Critical Reading and Writing: An Introductory Course. London: Taylor & Francis
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• Hacker, D. (1992). A Writer’s Reference. 2 ed. Boston: St. Martin’s
• Hamp-Lyons, L. &Heasley, B. (1987). Study writing: A course in written English for academic and
professional purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Howe, D. H, Kirkpatrick, T. A., & Kirkpatrick, D. L. (2004). Oxford English for Undergraduates.
Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• Kriszner, L.G & Mandell, S.R. (1989). Patterns For College Writing: Fourth Edition. USA: St. Martin’s
Press, Inc.
• Smazler, W. R. (1996). Write to be Read: Reading, Reflection and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: General Linguistics

nd
Level: BS 2
Course Description:
General Linguistics seeks to formulate general principles of language and thus provides learners with basic yet
comprehensive introduction to the field of Linguistics. It offers a wide range of concepts in theoretical
linguistics and its applications. In the sections focusing on the theoretical aspects of language structure, the
major focus is on sounds, how they are made and how they pattern together in speech (phonetics and
phonology); further, how words are constructed from smaller parts (morphology); the construction of sentences
(syntax) and sentence meaning (semantics). It also includes discussion on language in context and the way it is
structured in conversation (pragmatics). Placing the study of language in a broader context, the course covers
phenomenon of language acquisition and learning in children, language connection with brain
(Neurolinguistics), the varieties of language and some developments on sign language aspects.
Course Objectives:
• familiarize students to a wide range of topics in linguistic analysis and linguistic theory
• provide conceptual foundations of linguistics
• familiarize students with linguistic structures of mainly English language
• provide some sense of the ways in which knowledge and understanding develops in this field
Course Outcomes:
• exhibit sound knowledge in many aspects of linguistic study
• comprehend and explain the ways a language is structured, formulated and analyzed
• demonstrate connection of language with other fields of knowledge
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Levels of Language
• Bottom-up approach
• Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics
2. Phonetics & Phonology
• Phonetics: Articulatory, Acoustic, Auditory
• Phonology
3. Morphology
• Morpheme and its types
• Morph and Allomorph
• Morphological analysis
4. Syntax
• Traditional Grammar vs. Modern Linguistics
• Structural Analysis (Constituent Analysis, Tree Diagrams)
• Phrase Structure Grammar
• Transformational-Generative Grammar
5. Semantics
• Why meanings are important
• Types of meanings: Conceptual, associative, Thematic
• Lexical Semantics: Sematic features, Semantic roles, Lexical relationships
• Sentential Semantics: Tautology, contradictions, Paradox, Entailment, idioms, metaphors
Mid Term
6. Pragmatics
• Importance of context
• Types of context: Textual, Physical
• Deixis
• Inference vs. Reference
• Pragmatic theories: Speech act theory, Politeness theory, Cooperative principles, Conversational
Implicature
7. Word Formation Processes
(Coinage, Clipping, Compounding, Blending, Back formation, Borrowing & Loan translation,
Acronyms, Derivation)
8. Language and Brain
• Neurolinguistics?
• Parts of brain related to language
• Speech errors (Slip of tongue, Tip of tongue, Slip of ear)
• Language disorders (Aphasia)
• Localization theory
• Dichotomic Listening
9. Language Varieties
• The Standard Language
• Accent and Dialect
• Regional Dialects
• Pidgin and Creole
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
10. First Language Acquisition
• First language?
• Stages of First Language Acquisition: Cooing, Babbling, Holophrastic stage, Two-word stage,
Simple sentence stage
• Linguistic interpretations of FL acquisition stages
11. Second Language Learning
• Second language
• Learning or acquisition
• Barriers to second language learning
• Methods of second language teaching: GTM, Audio-lingual, Communicative approach
12. Sign Language
• Why need sign language
• American sign language
Note: Teachers can add linguistic examples from local languages and dialects of Pakistan for various topics.
Recommended Books:
• Akmajian, A. Demers, R. et al.(2001). Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. MIT.
• Falk, J. (1978). Linguistics and Language. USA: John Wiley & Sons.
• Parsad, Tarni. (2012). A Course in Linguistics. New Dehli: PHI.
• Radford, A. Atkinson, M. et al. (2009). Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
• Rajimwale, Sharad. (2006). Elements of General Linguistics.
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• Yule, George. (2006). The Study of Language: 4 / 5 Edition, Cambridge University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Classical & Renaissance Drama
nd
Level: BS 2
Course Description:
Drama is one of the most powerful medium of human expression which has enabled human beings across
cultures to understand the meanings of life. With a sound knowledge of key literary terms and an understanding
of different stages related to the development of theocentric elements of drama from Sophoclean age this course
traces the cultural process and artistic discourse of the genre of drama and its significance and growth in the
Renaissance times. The blend of Greek drama with selected dramas from the Renaissance period offers a unique
and in depth understanding about the different changes adopted and incepted in the genre of drama of
Elizabethan and Jacobean period. The basic scheme and structure of study includes introduction to characters,
themes, motifs & symbols along with the textual critical analysis and application of the most suitable literary
theories in order to explicating the variety of subject matter. Additionally, along with one comedy of
Shakespeare, the teachers have the liberty of choosing from any one tragedy of Shakespeare with the other
options to be incorporated in class assignments and class projects if they deem it relevant to the class strength.
Objectives / Aims of the Course:
This course is designed to

1. give a survey of classical and Renaissance drama in which the students will read works
of playwrights from classical writers such as Sophocles to the drama produced during
the Renaissance period.
2. introduce the students with different elements of drama and enable them to understand
the technical as well as cultural aspects of the genre of drama
3. enable the students to appreciate the theatrical aspects of drama with the possible
assignments to incorporate these aspects in class performances and class assignments
Outcome(s) of course:
1. The students will be able to develop and enhance their skills for any possible future ventures in practical
fields
2. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of the elements of drama to their critical reading.
3. With the basic understandings about the key terms and technical aspects under their belt the students
will be able to tackle with considerable ease the subsequent genre of modern drama which will follow in
the coming semesters
Core Texts:
Mid Term
1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BC)
2. Marlowe, Christopher The Tragical Historie of Doctor Faustus
End Term
3. Shakespeare, William King Lear (1606-8) Macbeth ( 1606)
4. Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night (1602)
Note: “Hamlet” and “As You like it” to be covered in Assignments and Quizzes
Recommended Books:
1. Ingram, R. P. Winnington, Sophocles: An Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, 1980.

2. Bowra: C. M. Bowra, Sophoclean tragedy (Oxford 1944).
3. Justina Gregory, (2005). A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Blackwell.
4. H. D. F. (2005) Kitto, Greek Tragedy, London and New York: Routledge.
5. 3. Shawn O’ Bryhim. (2002). Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four
Representative Plays, University of Texas Press.
6. 4. Constance B. Kuriyama. (2002) Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life Ithca: Cornell University
Press.
7. 5. Patrick Cheney. (2004) The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, Cambridge: C UP.
8. Barber, C. L. (1959) Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Princeton.
9. Bloom, Harold. S (1999) Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. London: Fourth Estate.
10. Bradley, A. C. (1929) Shakespearean Tragedy (22nd Ed.). London.
11. Chambers, E. K. (1925) Shakespeare: A Survey. New York: Hill and Wang, Macmillan.
12. Danby, John F. (1949) Shakespeare’s Doctrine of Nature. London.
13. Eagleton, Terry. (1986) William Shakespeare. New York: Blackwell.
14. Elliot, G. R. (1953) Flaming Minister. Durham, NC.
15. Erikson, Peter. (1991) Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Our-selves. Berkley: U of California P.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Third Semester

GC 201 Human Rights and Citizenship 3
GC 202 Islamic Studies 3
ELL 203 Academic Writing 3
ELL 204 Phonetics & Phonology 3
ELL 205 Short Fiction 3
ELL 206 Classical Poetry 3
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Course: Human Rights and Citizenship

rd
Level: BS 3
Course Code: GC 201
Course Description
This particular course deals with good citizenship values and human rights components. Although the course
does not strictly or necessarily fall under the category of English curriculum and syllabi, the contents/ topics
designed for this course must be studied and used by the teachers of English language and literature to offer a
comparative study with the textbooks they use for their classes.
Course Objectives
• To promote human values, in particular religious tolerance for others
• To promote HR, in particular those of the minorities and ethnic groups
• To develop a cross-cultural understanding, to recognize the value of difference
• To relate human progress through a sense of diversity, good citizenship & tolerance for social harmony.
Course Contents
• The Last address of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon Him)
• The United Nations Human Rights Charter.
The above may be studied for the understanding of the following:
• What is Human Rights (HR)?
• Evolution of the Concept of HR
• Four Fundamentals in HR: freedom, equality, justice, and human dignity
• Universal Declaration of HR
• Three Key Principles in HR: inalienability, indivisibility and universality
• Are HR Universal? (debate/ discussion etc.)
• HR in South Asia: Issues
• Rights of Women
• Rights of Children (debate/ discussion on child labour, etc.)
Recommended Readings
1. Dean, B. Joldoshalieva, R. &Sayani, F. (2006). Creating a Better World. Karachi, Pakistan: Aga Khan
University, Institute for Educational Development.
2. Ed. Williams, Isabel. (2008). Teaching Human Rights through English Education. Karachi: Oxford
University Press.
Course: Islamic Studies
rd
Level: BS 3
Course Code: GC 202
Course Description
Islamic studies provides an introduction to Islamic teachings, history in classical and modern periods, and
contemporary thought.
Course Objective
• To enhance understanding of issues related to faith and religious life.
Course Contents
Mid Term
1. Introduction to Quranic Studies
• Basic Concepts of Quran
• History of Quran
• Uloom-ul -Quran
2. Study of Selected Text of Holy Quran
• Verses of Surah Al-Baqra Related to Faith(Verse No-284-286)
• Verses of Surah Al-Hujrat Related to Adab Al-Nabi
3. Verse No-1-18
Verses of Surah Al-Mumanoon Related to Characteristics of faithful
4. Verse No-1-11
• Verses of Surah al-Furqan Related to Social Ethics (Verse No.63-77)
• Verses of Surah Al-Inam Related to Ihkam(Verse No-152-154)
5. Study of Selected Text of Holy Quran
• Verses of Surah Al-Ihzab Related to Adab al-Nabi (Verse No.6, 21, 40, 56, 57, 58.)
• Verses of Surah Al-Hashar (18,19, 20) Related to thinking, Day of Judgment
• Verses of Surah Al-Saf Related to Tafakar, Tadabar (Verse No-1,14)
6. Seerat of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) I
• Life of Muhammad Bin Abdullah ( Before Prophet Hood)
• Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Makkah
• Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Makkah
7. Seerat of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) II
• Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Madina
• Important Events of Life Holy Prophet in Madina
• Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Madina
8. Introduction to Sunnah
• Basic Concepts of Hadith
• History of Hadith
• Kinds of Hadith
• Uloom-ul-Hadith
• Sunnah & Hadith
• Legal Position of Sunnah
End Term
9. Introduction to Islamic Law & Jurisprudence

• Basic Concepts of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
• History & Importance of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
• Sources of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
• Nature of Differences in Islamic Law
10. Islam and Sectarianism
11. Islamic Culture & Civilization
• Basic Concepts of Islamic Culture & Civilization
• Historical Development of Islamic Culture & Civilization
• Characteristics of Islamic Culture & Civilization
• Islamic Culture & Civilization and Contemporary Issues
12. Islam & Science
• Basic Concepts of Islam & Science
• Contributions of Muslims in the Development of Science
• Quranic & Science
13. Islamic Economic System
• Basic Concepts of Islamic Economic System
• Means of Distribution of wealth in Islamic Economics
• Islamic Concept of Riba
• Islamic Ways of Trade & Commerce
14. Political System of Islam
• Basic Concepts of Islamic Political System
• Islamic Concept of Sovereignty
• Basic Institutions of Govt. in Islam
15. Islamic History
• Period of khilafat-e-rashida
• Period of Umayyads
• Period of Abbasids
16. Social System of Islam
• Basic concepts of social system of Islam
• Elements of family
• Ethical values of Islam
• Ahmad Hasan, “Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence” Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic
University, Islamabad (1993)
• Dr. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, “Introduction to Al Sharia Al Islamia” AllamaIqbal Open University, Islamabad
(2001)
• H.S. Bhatia, “Studies in Islamic Law, Religion and Society” Deep & Deep Publications New Delhi (1989)
• Hameed ullah Muhammad, ‘Introduction to Islam Maulana Muhammad Yousaf Islahi,”
• Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Emergence of Islam” , IRI, Islamabad
• Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Muslim Conduct of State”
• Hussain Hamid Hassan, “An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Law” Leaf Publication Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Mir Waliullah, “Muslim Jurisprudence and the Quranic Law of Crimes” Islamic Book Service (1982)
Course: Academic Writing

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Level: BS 3
Course Description:
The course envisions the process of academic writing as epistemological- a way of coming to know. It is
designed in a way that writing becomes a deed of self-reflection and self-expression for the students within the
specified boundaries of the two disciplines of linguistics and literature. Since academic writing is written for a
group of scholarly experts, it is formal and logic and relies on the traditional conventions of essay construction.
The course places a fair amount of emphasis on reading recognizing the fact that effective writing is an outcome
of effective and purposeful reading.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to assist:
• students develop their writing through a series of steps, the first of which is critical reading of passages
drawn from linguistics and literature.
• students practice writing to refine their macro level as well as micro level compositional skills.
• students train to employ in their essays, various rhetorical modes viz argument, cause and effect,
narration, description, comparison and contrast, exemplification and classification.
• students identify strategies to develop awareness of their progress as effective and conscientious writers.
Course outcome:

• identify main and supporting ideas in challenging texts and critically respond in their own writing
• distinguish between fact and opinion and take a critical stance towards ideas raising questions and
evaluating concepts.
• demonstrate knowledge of basic essay structure including introduction, body and conclusion while
employing the rhetorical modes mentioned in point no.3 of Objectives.
• employ various stages of writing including pre- writing, writing and re-writing.
• demonstrate an application of effective paragraphing principles.
• set goals for themselves and practice self-reflection by maintaining a progress journal that reports the
critical thinking development as well as the development of the craft of writing.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Features of Academic Writing
2. The Writing Process
• Writing Foundations
✓ Background to Writing
✓ Avoiding Plagiarism
✓ From Titles to Outlines
✓ Paraphrasing
✓ Summary Writing
✓ Combining Sources
• Writing Stages
✓ Planning Essays
✓ Organizing Paragraphs
✓ Organizing the Main Body
✓ Introductions
✓ Conclusions
✓ Rewriting and Proof-reading
3. Elements of Writing
• Argument
• Cause and Effect
• Cohesion
• Comparison
• Definitions
• Discussion
• Generalizations
• Numbers
• Opening Paragraphs
• Reference and Quotations
• Restatement and Repetition
• Style
• Synonyms
• Visual Information
End Term
4.` Accuracy in Writing

• Abbreviations
• Academic Vocabulary
• Parts of Speech
• Punctuation
• Time Words and Phrases
• Verbs (Formality, Modal, Passives, of Reference, Tenses)
5. Writing Models
• Writing summaries of articles
• Report writing
• Analysis and synthesis of academic material in writing
• Presenting an argument in assignments/term-papers and examination answers
• Writing formal letters
• Writing different kinds of applications (leave, job, complaint, etc.)
• Preparing a Curriculum Vitae (CV), (bio-data)
• Essays
Recommended Books:
• Axelrod, R. B and Cooper, C. R. (2002). Reading Critical Writing Well: A Reader and Guide.
• Bailey, S. (2006). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students Second Edition. London:
Routledge.
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• Barnet, S. and Bedau, H. (2004). Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Writing. 6 ed.
• Behrens & Rosen. (2007). Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum.
• Bowker, N. (Ed.) (2007). Academic Writing. Massey University.
• Gardner, P. S. (2005). New Directions: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking.
• Jordan, K. M. and Plakans, L. (2003). Reading and Writing for Academic Success.
• Jordon, R. R. (1999). Academic Writing Course. CUP.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Course: Phonetics & Phonology

rd
Level: BS 3
Course Description:
This course explores speech sounds as physical entities (phonetics) and as linguistic units (phonology). In
viewing sounds as physical elements, the focus is on articulatory description. In this part of the course, the goal
is to learn to produce, transcribe, and describe in articulatory terms many of the sounds known to occur in
human languages. In the next part of the course, the focus is on sounds as members of a particular linguistic
system.
Course Objectives:
• assist students learn a number of technical terms related to the course
• familiarize students with sounds and sound patterning, particularly in English Language
• develop knowledge of segmental and supra-segmental speech
• help students understand the features of connected speech
Course Outcomes:
• demonstrate understanding of the core areas within Phonetics and Phonology
• transcribe English language on phonetic patterns
• pronounce words on vocabulary patterns
• identify and differentiate different speech processes
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Basic definitions
• Phonetics
• Articulatory, Auditory & Acoustic Phonetics
• Phonology
• Phoneme
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Diphthongs
• Triphthongs
• Voicing
• Aspiration
• Minimal pairs
2. Organs of Speech
3. Phonemes
• Consonants(place and manner of articulation)
• Vowels (vowel trapezium/quadrilateral)
• Monophthongs
• Diphthongs
• Triphthongs
4. Rules
• Rules of Voicing
• Rules of /r/
• Rules of /ŋ/
End Term
5. Practice of phonemic transcription
6. Definitions
• Homophones
• Homographs
• Homonyms
• Homophenes
7. Fluency Devices
• Assimilation
• Elision
• Weak forms/Strong forms
• linking
8. Sound Values
9. Stress and Intonation
10. Practice of phonemic transcription
Recommended Books:
• Collins, B. and Mees, I. (2003) Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students. London
& NY: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
• Clark, J and Yallop, C. (1995). An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 2nd edition. Cambridge, Mass:
Blackwell.
• Davenport, Mike & S. J. Hannahs. (2010). Introducing Phonetics & Phonology, 3rd edition. Hodder
Education
• Roach, Peter. (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. 4th Edition. Cambridge.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Short Fiction

rd
Level: BS 3
Course Description:
This course is a fertile field for students to broaden their vision with respect to English literature in general and
short fiction in particular, written in different cultures with different language use. It actively engages the
readers into a critical study of different texts which represent a variety of cultures. The short stories in this
course have been selected from a wide range of cultures and so highlight the similarities and differences in the
writings of different short story writers; and how different writers reflect the social as well as cultural events
through their writing depicting a variety of themes in different styles. The authors included in this course belong
to different parts of the world so the works included are quite diverse not only in their form and language but
also in themes. The issues and themes reflected or implied in these stories are illusiory love, conformity,
poverty, the power of words, transformation of identities, feudal structure of rural Punjab, racism in the
backdrop of Civil War, political imprisonment, appearance vs reality, feminism, female violence, insanity,
women’s emotional complexity, and slavery etc.
Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course are
1. To provide an exposure to some classics in short fiction both in theme and form
2. To familiarize students with short fiction in English literature by the most recognized and awarded
authors
3. To nurture the ability to think critically and promote intellectual growth of the students
4. To develop sensitivity towards cultural diversity through a critical study of the selected works and
involve them on a personal and emotional level by relating the stories with their own experiences
5. To make them experience a genuine language context through these stories from different parts of the
world
Course Outcomes:
The outcomes of teaching this course are that the students will have
1. The knowledge and understanding of the genre of short fiction
2. Learned about diverse writers of short fiction around the world

3. The ability to present coherent and forceful arguments related to the content/themes of the short stories.
4. The ability to comprehend short stories in a better way
5. A habit of reading and critically analyzing any given literary work
Core Texts:
Mid Term
1. The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
2. The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy
3. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Darling Anton Chekhov
5. Hearts and Hands O’ Henry
6. The Necklace Guy De Maupassant
End Term
7. The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad
8. The Other Side of the Hedge E. M. Forster
9. Eveline James Joyce
10. The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy
11. A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka
12. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. Two Words Isabel Allende
14. A Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfield
Assignments, Presentations and Quizzes

15. Everything that Rises Must Converge Flannery O’ Connor
16. The Story of An Hour Kate Chopin

17. The Richer The Poorer Dorothy West
18. The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses Bessie Head
19. Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl
20. Bingo Tariq Rahman
21. The Kingdom of Cards Rabindranath Tagore
Suggested Readings/Reference Books:
Core Text: A Reader Comprising the core text will be provided to the students.
1. Rubenstein, Roberta, and Charles R. Larson. Worlds of Fiction. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall,
2002. Print.
2. Wilson, Kathleen. Short Stories for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly
Studied Short Stories. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Print.
3. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde; a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall,
1969. Print.
4. Hardy, Thomas, Michael Millgate, Florence E. Hardy, and Florence E. Hardy. The Life and Work of
Thomas Hardy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Print.
5. Symons, Julian. The Life and Works of Edgar Allen Poe. , 2014. Print
6. Poe, Edgar A. The Cask of Amontillado. Charlottesville, Va: University of Virginia Library Electronic
Text Center, 1993. Internet resource.
7. Chekhov, Anton P, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Anton Chekhov's Short Stories: Texts of the Stories,
Backgrounds, Criticism. , 1979. Print.
8. Long, E H. O. Henry, the Man and His Work. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949.
Print.
9. Maupassant, Guy , Clara Bell, Florence Crew-Jones, and Fanny Rousseau-Wallach. The Works of Guy
De Maupassant. New York: Printed privately for subscribers only, 1909. Print.
10. Maupassant, Guy , George B. Ives, and Guy . Maupassant. Guy De Maupassant. , 1903. Print.
11. Gillon, Adam. Joseph Conrad. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Print.
12. Wilde, Alan. Art and Order: A Study of E.m. Forster. New York: New York University Press, 1964.
Print.
13. Forster, E M, Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth M. L. Walls. The Bbc Talks of E.m. Forster,
1929-1960: A Selected Edition. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Print.
14. Tolstoy, Leo, and Robert Court. Leo Tolstoy Collected Short Stories. Mankato, MN: Peterson Pub,
2002. Print.
15. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959. Print.
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Course: Classical Poetry
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Level: BS 3
Course Description:
This course focuses on the study of poetry from Geoffrey Chaucer to Alexander Pope. The term ‘classical’
understandably refers to the lasting appeal and artistic pleasure of the poetical works selected for this course.
Though belonging to different poetical genres, the poetry of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Pope
have stood the tests of time and no further study in this genre of literature is possible without studying these
bench marks of English poetry. The teachers of classical poetry need to inculcate a spirit of studying the
aesthetic concerns of the times of these poetical masterpieces along with giving a holistic understanding of
different genres of poetry, namely; epic, ballad, sonnet, lyric, and elegy etc. Offering a study of the congenial
humor and gentle satire of Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales (c. 1389), the puritanical strain of Milton’s
epic Paradise Lost (1667), the fiery quality of Love and divine poetry of the metaphysical poet John Donne,
some sonnets of William Shakespeare and the aforementioned mock epic of Alexander Pope, this course is
designed to cover the classical aspects of English poetry. By teaching the fundamentals of poetry that this
course entails the teachers may introduce a diversity of poetic expressions that will help the students to further
their inquiry into this genre in the coming semesters.
Aims and Objectives:

This course aims to;
1. Trace the generic specific historical development of classical poetry, but also to develop a keen
awareness of poetic language and tone.
2. Introduce various forms and styles of the genre of poetry by creating an in-depth understanding
of this genre in the students.
Core Texts:
Mid Term
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
• An Introduction (Generic introduction to The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, “without detailed
textual study”. Moreover, the characters of Monk, Knight, Prioress and Parson are to be focused).
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
• Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
John Donne (1572-1631):
Love Poems:
• Song
• The Sun Rising
• Aire and Angels
• The Good Morrow
• Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Holy Sonnets:
• Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

• Death be not proud, though some have called thee
End Term
John Milton (1608-1674):
• Paradise Lost. Book I (1667)
• Paradise Lost Book 9 (The main contention and critical summary, Without detailed textual reading)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744):
• Rape of the Lock (1712)
Course Outcomes:
1. The cognitive abilities thus exercised by the students will enable them to appreciate other forms of
poetry they will be studying in the coming semesters like a combination of elegy, ode, lyric, ballad, free
verse, and many other types.
2. There is lot of scope for further analysis and research into the secrets of versification: tone and mood,
metre, rhythm, rhyme, and such technical details, which the students will be able to appreciate
aesthetically.
3. The course will enrich the students with variety of means of appreciating the mechanisms of musicality
through words placed in poetic order and realize the epigrammatic quality of this medium for conveying
different thoughts in diverse themes.
• Abbs, P. & Richardson, J. The Forms of Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1995.
• Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature (7th Edition). New York: Harper and Collins.
1996.
• Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1977.
• Kamran, Rubina and Syed Farrukh Zad. Ed. A Quintessence of Classical Poetry. National University of
Modern Languages, Islamabad.
• Kennedy, X. J. Gioia, D. An Introduction to Poetry: (8th Edition). New York: Harper Collins College
Publishers. 1994.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
FOURTH SEMESTER
GC 207 Intro to Entrepreneurship 3
ELL 208 Introduction to Research Methodology 3
ELL 209 Novel (18th & 19th Century) 3
ELL 210 Romantic and Victorian Poetry 3
ELL 211 Literary Prose 3
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Course Title: Entrepreneurship
Course Code: GC 402
Level: BS 4th
Course Description:
• This course provides the students with an introduction to the concepts and capabilities necessary to
successfully commercialize new ideas.
• Entrepreneurship is about more than coming up with an idea or starting a business. It is also about identifying
and validating good opportunities and then creating, communicating, and capturing value from those
opportunities over time. This includes new firms as well as firms in corporate and non-profit settings.
• This course will emphasize new venture formation.
Objectives:
• To understand and handle your own and corporate business this course will equip the students with
appropriate subject knowledge and practical skills for managing business investments and fundraising for
start-ups.
• A thorough emphasize on writing the winning business plan and
• Transforming the idea into a proto type
• Initiate a start-up will provide a sound platform for a successful business which will contribute and boost
economic activity in Pakistan.
Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the nature of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial processes

2. Evaluate business opportunities
3. Learn how to identify and solve major entrepreneurial issues
4. Gain first-hand experience of starting a new venture via developing a business plan.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Introduction
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Nature and Importance of Entrepreneurship
• Myths about Entrepreneurship
• Types of entrepreneurial ventures
• Process of entrepreneurship
2. Developing Successful Business Ideas
• Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas
• Finding gaps
• Techniques for generating ideas
• process of generating creative ideas
3. Industry and Competitor Analysis

• Industry Analysis
• Industry Trends
• The Five Forces Model
• Competitor Analysis
4. Writing a Business Plan
• The Business Plan
• Outline of the Business Plan
• Presenting the Business Plan to Investors
End Term
5. Building a New-Venture Team

• Creating New Venture Team
• Rounding Out the Team
• Customer Advisory Board
6. Getting Funding or Financing

• The Importance of Funding or Financing
• Sources of Equity Funding
• Sources of Debt Financing
• Creative Sources of Financing
7. The Importance of Intellectual Property

• Patents
• Trade Marks
• Copyrights
• Trade Secrets
8. Franchising
• What is franchising and how does it work?
• Establishing a franchise system
• Buying a franchise
Recommended Books:
• Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4th Edition.Bruce R. Barringer, Oklahoma
State University R. Duane Ireland, Texas A&M University©2012 |Pearson
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker Harper Collins publishers UK
• Patterns of Entrepreneurship by Jack M Kaplan

• Naqi, Dr. S. M, Entrepreneurship – A Recipe for Economic Development: Lahore, Naqi Hyder&
Associates
• Kuratko Donald F and Hodgetts (2001) Richard M, Entrepreneurship- A Contemporary Approach: New
York, South-Western, Thomas Learning
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Class Participation/ presentation/ Assignment/ Project: (Marks: 20)
Course: Introduction to Research Methodology
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Level: BS 4
Course Description:
The course introduces the basics of the research to the undergraduate students. It includes language of research,
ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and
mixed methods approaches. It is designed to assist students understand the difference between different forms
of research writings like book, thesis and research paper.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to enable students to:
• develop an understanding of research terminology
• create awareness of the ethical principles of research, ethical challenges and approval processes
• differentiate among quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to research
learn the steps involved in research process
• identify the components of a literature review process
understand the difference between research paper, thesis and book writing
develop knowledge about different components of a synopsis and a research paper
Couse Outcomes:
frame the research problem with correct research methodology
apply research methods and process knowledge to produce quality term paper
critically analyze the published research
prepare a synopsis
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Introduction to Research: The Wh-Questions of Research (What? Why? Who, Where? How?)
2. Research process overview
3. Research methods: Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed method research
4. Types of Qualitative and Quantitative researches
5. Thinking like a researcher: Understanding concepts, constructs, variables, and definitions
6. Problems and Hypotheses: Defining the research problem, Formulation of the research hypotheses
End Term
7. Reviewing literature
8. Data collection
9. Data processing and analysis
11. Difference between research paper, thesis and book writing
12. Parts of a synopsis
13. Research ethics and plagiarism
14. Research paper formatting: MLA and APA
Bhattacherjee, Anol. (2012). Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices. University of South
Florida.
Bryman, Alan & Bell, Emma (2011). Business Research Methods (Third Edition), Oxford University Press.
Chawla, Deepak &Sondhi, Neena (2011). Research methodology: Concepts and cases, Vikas Publishing House
Pvt. Ltd. Delhi.
Creswell, J. W. (2014) .Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodsapproaches. 4th Ed..
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kerlinger, F.N., & Lee, H.B. (2000). Foundations of Behavioural Research (Fourth Edition), Harcourt Inc.
Rubin, Allen & Babbie, Earl (2009). Essential Research Methods for Social Work, Cengage Learning Inc.,
USA.
Pawar, B.S. (2009). Theory building for hypothesis specification in organizational studies, Response Books,
New Delhi.
Neuman, W.L. (2008). Social research methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches, Pearson Education.
Walliman, Nicholas. (2001). Your Research Project. Sage Publications.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Novel (18th & 19th Century)
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Level: BS 4
Course Description:
This course aims to introduce the students to the origin and development of relatively late-emerging genre of
literature, Novel, with a view to developing their understanding how it is different from other genres of
literature, poetry and drama. The students are given an in-depth understanding of the making and mechanics of
a novel, the role of narrator, narrative styles and techniques, and the art of characterization. The teacher is also
expected to explain how a full-length fictional prose narrative is different from flash fiction, short story and
novella. Discussing the emergence of novel since eighteenth century, this course brings out the significance of
this genre as discoursed, for example, in great detail in Ian Watt’s seminal book, Rise of the Novel (1955). While
teaching novel, teachers are supposed to consult and have a sound understanding of some of the ground
breaking books as Rise of the Novel (1955) by Ian Watt, Aspects of the Novel (1927) by E M Forster, and The
English Novel (1953) by Walter Allen. With a deeper understanding of the elements of fiction, the teachers will
be able to impart a holistic definition of this genre starting from the basic “long fictional prose narrative” to a
relatively complex definition of novel as can be extracted from Ian Watt’s book that “novel is a diverse and
quite holistic depiction of human life which may be defined as a form of literary prose; a vehicle for imitating
reality and culture in a particular way; with certain characteristics of realism; an attempt for the rejection of the
accepted universals; and setting unprecedented value on originality.” An understanding of these phrases and
elements which constitute a novel will enable the students to have a profound understanding of this genre and
equip them to grasp the complexities of modern fiction course in the coming semesters.
Course Objectives:
This course will enable the students
To have a full understanding of 18th and 19th century novel which is rich in diversity as well as creativity.
To closely study the English society of these centuries and its impact upon human lives, and its complex
psychological phenomena.
To develop an insight into various factors responsible for the appeal of the subject matter of these novels which
was not only enjoyed by readers of the centuries in which they were written but by Victorian readers or even for
modern readers of contemporary times.
Core Texts:
Mid Term
Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (1742)
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Charles Dickens Hard Times (1854)
End Term
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native (1878)
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Course Outcomes:
To develop a clearer sense of some of the social, artistic, political, religious, and economic influences that had
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shaped the 18 and 19 century novel.
Studying the historical factors responsible for the emergence of novel in the two centuries will enable the
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students to appreciate its evolution into the Modern English Novel of the 20 and 21 century with its distinct
and defining features very different from its original form.
They will also be able to identify and respond to elements of literary experimentation in the field of novel
writing.
Recommended Books:
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel.(Pelican Paperback)
Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction. Jonathan Cape,
Church, Richard The Growth of the English Novel.
Watt, Ian The Rise of Novel. ChattoWindus, London, (1955-7)
Kettle, Arnold Introduction to the English Novel (vol. .I& II)
Allen, Walter The English Novel
Battestin, Martin C. The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art: A study of Joseph Andrews
Butt, John Fielding
Collins, Philip, Dickens: The Critical Heritage, 1971
Smith, Grahame, Charles Dickens: A Literary Life, 1996
Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 1997
MacDonaugh, Oliver, Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds. 1993
Gard, Roger. Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity, 1998
Neill, Edward. The Politics of Jane Austen, 1999
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. London, 1996.
Beer, Gillian. George Eliot. Brighton, 1986.
Hardy, Barbara. The Novels of George Eliot. London, 1959.
Thomas, Jane. Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent, 1999
Elliot, Albert Pettigrew. Fatalism in the Works of Thomas Hardy, 1935
4. Bloom, Harold. (1988) George Eliot's the Mill on the Floss (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations).
Chelsea House Pub.
Neill, Edward. (1999). Trial by Ordeal: Thomas Hardy and the Critics (Literary Criticism in Perspective).
Camden House.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course Title: Romantic & Victorian Poetry

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Level: BS 4
Course Description:
This course analyzes representative examples of British poetry of the nineteenth century that is from the French
Revolution to the first stirrings of modernism in the early 1900s. It comprises of the poetry of two eras which
came one after each other, namely; Romantic and the Victorian age. The first half of this module extends from
the mid-1770s to the 1830s, a period marked by what Wordsworth referred to as those ‘great national events’
which were ‘almost daily taking place’: the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars, imperial
expansion, industrialization, and the growth of the political reform movement. The production and consumption
of books took on a heightened political significance in these decades and this selection includes selection from
the ‘big six’ Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, P.B. Shelley, Byron). The second half of this
course includes the poetry of the poets who are called as ‘cunning terminators of Romanticism’ by some critics.
This era, marked by the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837, known as Victorian age, spans till her death in
1901. The Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as central to themselves and to their culture,
and Victorian poetry strove to find an aesthetic form to represent this sense of the human will. Through close
study of the metre, rhyme and rhythm of a wide range of poems - including monologue, lyric and elegy - the
technical questions of poetics are related, in the work of these poets, to issues of psychology, ethics and social
change.
Course Objectives:
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the literary culture of this rich and exciting period, which, in
the first half, begins in the year of America’s declaration of independence and ends with the British reform act
of 1832 and from there onwards till the first decade of the twentieth century.
Romantic Poetry
This part of the course aims
at pointing out the ways in which the poets of the Romantic era reflected upon their world.
at defining and identifying “Romanticism

At analyzing the impact of poetry on the society
at generating a discussion as to how much like poetry of Romantic age changed the world view of generations
to come
at introducing students to the poetic specimens of the “Big Six” of the Romantic period.
Victorian Poetry:-
This portion of the course aims at:

Introducing students to basic poetic form.
The students will be assisted in developing a taste for appreciating the pleasure that different forms of poetry
generate.
The reading of the poetry will be aided by a knowledge of deciphering the prevalent rhyme and meter in a
poem.
Innovative study of the work of major Victorian poets
Exciting contribution to renewed interest in formalist readings of poetry
Illuminating study of important but hitherto neglected aspect of Victorian literature and culture
Core Text:-The Longmans Anthology of British Literature vol 2A ,2B
Course Outline:-
Mid Term
William Wordsworth:-
The World is Too Much with us
Ode to Intimation of Immortality
We Are Seven
S.T .Coleridge:-
Dejection: An Ode
Christabel
Kubla Khan
John Keats:-
La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
A Thing of Beauty
Ode to Nightingale
Ode on the Grecian Urn
P.B. Shelly:-
Ode To The West Wind
Ozymandis
Ode To A Sky Lark
Lord Byron:-
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
William Blake :-
The Sick Rose
A Poison Tree
The Tygre
End Term
Alfred Lord Tennyson:-
The Lotos Eaters

St Agnes Eve
Robert Browning : -
Porphyria’s Lover
My Last Duchess
Mathew Arnold :-
Dover Beach
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Choices 1, 2 ,3
Cristina Rossetti
Song
After Death
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
From the Triumph of Time

(I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother)
Course Outcome:-
Upon successful completion of this course the students should be able to appreciate:
Romantic and Victorian poetry, identify the different forms employed, themes expedited, styles incorporated.
By the end of the module you will be expected to demonstrate:
Knowledge of a range of writers and works from these periods
A sense of the characteristics of some of the literary genres of the periods
An awareness of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which works were written and read
An understanding of the relation between cultural change and writing.
Further/Suggested readings:-
M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic theory and the Critical Tradition (1958)
Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (1993)
Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961)
Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (1982)
Joseph Bristow, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)
Cynthia Chase, ed., Romanticism (1993)
Stephen Copley and John Whale, eds. Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832
(1992)
Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1986)

Richard Cronin et al, ed., A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)
Aidan Day, Romanticism (1995)
Paula Feldman and Theresa Kelley, ed., Romantic Women Writers (1995)
Margaret Homans, Women Writers and Poetic Identity (1980)
Linda K. Hughes, The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010)
Iain McCalman, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999)
Anne Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (1993)
Marlon B. Ross, The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry (1989)
Sharon Ruston, Romanticism (2007)
Janet Todd, Sensibility: An Introduction (1986)
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958)

Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Literary Prose

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Level: BS 4
Course Description:
Derived from Latin expression prosaoratio (literally, straightforward or direct speech), English literary prose
has emerged as an influential genre of English literature. To imbue the spirit of appreciating the words of great
minds of human history, this particular course is designed to enable the students to understand the use of
arguments and rhetorical devices in prose writings and utilize thoughts therein for practical life. The essays
selected in this course integrate some basic characteristics of literary prose in this selection, namely narrative,
expository, descriptive, persuasive and analytical. This course, therefore, helps in developing reasoning abilities
in young and receptive minds of students. Since this course is designed to make students conversant with basics
of literary prose writings, their message and their merits, the teachers are supposed to point out other modes of
prose expressions like letters, diaries, travelogue, biographies/ autobiographies etc. which may be dealt with
individually later on once the students have whetted their cognitive skills against an array of prose styles and
profound rhetoric of the selected prose writers. Teachers may also exercise the option of explaining two essays
of a writer and giving the third for the class assignment etc. This course offers a selection of some seminal
essays intended for inculcating an understanding of a wide variety of thoughts that are now standard fare for
contemporary times.
Course Objectives:
This course aims at achieving the following
Students will develop an appreciation of how theformal elements of language and genre shape meaning.
Students will gain a knowledge of a major tradition of literature written in English.
An appreciation for the diversity of the literary and social voices within a piece of literature.
It will also help the students to develop the ability to read works of literary, rhetorical and cultural criticism.
Most importantly students will become accomplished, active, readers who appreciate ambiguity and complexity.
Core Texts:
An Anthology of English Prose. NUML.
Selected essays from Unpopular Essays (1950) by Bertrand Russell.
Course Outline:
Mid Term
Francis Bacon (1561-1626):
Of Studies
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) :

In praise of Chimney Sweepers
Poor Relations
That you must love me and love myDog
Dream Children
John Ruskin (1819-1900):
Work, a selection from Crown of the Wild Olive (1871)
End Term
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Self-Reliance
John Stuart Mill (1806-83)
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) :

Minutes on Indian Education
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):
The Future of Mankind.

Ideas That Have Helped Mankind.
Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind.
Students will develop a passion for literary prose and enhance their skills for use of effective language
for communicating. They will cultivate their capacityto judge the aesthetic and ethical value of literary
texts and be able to articulate the standards behind their Judgments. They will appreciate the expressive
use of language as a fundamental and sustaining human activity.
Recommended Books:
Vickers, Brian Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose. Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Walker, Hugh The English Essays and Essayists. S. Chand & Co. Delhi, 1959
Quintana, Ricardo Swift: An Introduction. O.U.P. 1966
Quintana, Ricardo The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift. London, 1936.
Davis, Herbert The Satires of Jonathan Swift. New York, 1947.
Gravil, Richard, ed. Gulliver’s Travels (Case-book Series). Macmillan, 1974.
Barnett, George Leonard. Charles Lamb: The Evolution of Elia. Indiana UP 1964.
Park, Roy, ed. Lamb as Critic. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1980; U Nebraska P, 1980.
Lucas, E. V. Life of Charles Lamb. London: Macmillan, 1905.
Courtney, Winifred F. Young Charles Lamb: 1775-1802. New York: New York UP, 1982.
LaValley, A. J. Carlyle and the Ideal of the Modern, 1968
Cowling, Maurice. Mill and Liberalism, 1990
Gray, John. Mill on Liberty: A Defense, 1983
Schneewind, J. B. Mill:A Collection of Critical Essays, 1968
Schoeman, R. (ed.) Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century.
Leavis, John. Bertrand Russell, Philosopher and Humanist.
Carr, Brian. Bertrand Russell: An Introduction.
Schlipp, P. (ed.) The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Course Title: Introduction to Mathematics
Course Level: BS English / Bridging Semester
Course Code:
Course Credit: 3 Credit Hours
Note for Teachers: The course outline must be shared with all students in the first teaching session.
Course Description
This course is an introductory mathematics course which will cover basic skills in numeracy, algebra, linear
function, probability, and statistics. This course aims to provide a foundation in basic mathematical skills and
introduction to their application to problem solving. This course provides a sound foundation on the basic
mathematical and statistical principles to be used in the future research studies of the students.
Course Objectives
• make students understand the fundamentals of mathematics and statistics
• Learn core concepts of estimation and testing of hypothesis
• Understand how to calculate confidence intervals
• Learn about problem solving and analytical reasoning
Course Learning Outcomes

CLO1 develop the knowledge and skills for problem solving.
CLO2 develop abstract, logical and critical thinking.
CLO3 understand symmetrical distributions while dealing with data during their research.
CLO4 depict understanding to the statistical tools to be utilized.
CLO5 become confident in using mathematics to analyze.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Linear Equations; Single variable Linear Equations
b. Multiple Variable Linear Equations
c. Quadratic Equations with real and complex roots.
2. a. Percentages; Percentage Increase & decrease.

b. Profit/Loss, Cost price & selling price
c. Ratios & Proportions
3. a. Trigonometry and its identities

b. Circles, Chords, Arcs
c. Congruent Triangles, Parallelograms.
4. a. Matrices, Equal Matrices, Symmetric/Skew symmetric Matrices

b. Operations on Matrices (Addition, subtraction, multiplication)
c. Matrix Inverses (multiplicative, Additive)
5. a. Matrix Inversion/Cramer’s Rule

b. Area of triangle, circle, rectangle, square
c. Volume & Surface Areas
6. a. Sequence & Series
b. Arithmetic Progression
c. Geometric Progression
d. Harmonic Progression
7. a. Permutations & Combinations

b. Basics of Geometry
c. Angles and Lines
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8. a. Data; Ungrouped/Grouped data. Frequency distribution table

b. Arithmetic Mean, Mode
c. Median
9. a. Variance & Standard Deviations

b. Skewness and Kurtosis
10. a Probability and its basics
b. Addition and multiplication Laws in probability
11. a. Correlation of two Variables
b. Rank Correlation
12. a. Estimation
b. Confidence Intervals
c. Basic Concepts in testing hypothesis
13. a. Testing of Hypothesis

b. z Test
c. t Test
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• Shayib, M. A. Applied Statistics. (1 ed.). ISBN: 978-87-403-0493-0
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• Elementary Statistics: A step by step Approach by: Allan G. Bluman 5 Edition
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• Walpole R. E. “Introduction to Statistics” 3 edt ; Macmillan Publishing Co.NY 1982.
• An introduction to Mathematics: Alfred North Whitehead, 2017.
• Prof. Sher Muhammad Chaudhry, Prof. Dr. Shahid Kamal. Introduction to Statistical Theory. Ilmi Kitab
Khana.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES

Department of English (UGS)
Course Title: Academic Writing for Research

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Course Level: BS English 3 Semester / Bridging Semester
Course Description:
This course will provide key techniques, guidelines and suggestions to improve learners’ academic writing. It
will give hands-on experience in drafting, organising and revising academic texts. It is designed in a way that it
deals with the writing of academic texts in the fields of linguistics and literature. Since academic writing is done
for a group of scholarly experts, it carries with a set of characteristics that every student must know at this stage.
The course also places a fair amount of emphasis on the reading of research articles, case studies, and theses in
a bid to develop students’ firsthand experience with, and understanding of, academic writing at the practice
level.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to ensure that:
• students develop their academic writing skills through a series of steps, the first of which is critical
reading of passages drawn from the fields of linguistics and literature.
• students practice academic writing to learn and refine the skill

• students train to employ, in their essays, various rhetorical modes, such as argument, cause and effect,
narration, description, comparison and contrast, exemplification and classification.
• students identify strategies to develop awareness of their progress as effective and conscientious writers.
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

• CLO 1: identify the main and supporting ideas in challenging texts and critically respond to them in
their own writing
• CLO 2: distinguish between fact and opinion and take a critical stance towards ideas raising questions
and evaluating concepts
• CLO 3: demonstrate knowledge of basic academic essay structure, including introduction, body and
conclusion while employing the rhetorical modes and acknowledging the relevant sources
• CLO 4: write texts in academic language, using the relevant principles

Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Introduction to Academic Writing
Purpose
Common Types,
General Features
Types of Academic reports: Difficulties and Constraints
2. Planning the Writing

Reading - Literature review
Understand Titles and Plan the Writing Process

Writing Structure
Finding and ACKNOWLEDGING suitable Sources
Developing Critical Approaches
3. Managing the Sources

Finding relevant information
Note-taking
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Purpose and content of summary
4. Combining Sources
Presenting and organizing a number of sources
Critical approach towards data
Combining sources
5. Organizing Paragraphs
Paragraph structure - Development of ideas in academic language
Introducing paragraphs
Linking paragraphs
6. Writing Introductions, Discussion and Conclusion
Contents and Structure of Introductions,

Discussion and Conclusions
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7. Writing about Methodology and Results

Structure, Vocabulary and
Examples for Methodology and Results
8. Elements of Writing
Argument and Discussion
Cause and Effect

Cohesion
Comparisons
Definitions, Examples and Generalisation

Problems and Solutions
Visual information and Types of visual presentation
Functions and Principles of Visuals
Making the right choice and Creating the best design

Describing visuals and labelling
9. Abstract and Title

Structure, Purpose, and Qualities of an Abstract
Purpose and Qualities of Titles
10. Actual writing process

Course Summary
Getting first draft ready

First draft Revising
Rewriting and Proofreading Review
11. References and Quotations

Purpose of references and citations
Main reference system
Use of quotations and Organizing the references
Recommended Books:
• Axelrod, R. B and Cooper, C. R. (2002). Reading Critical Writing Well: A Reader and Guide.
• Bailey, S. (2006). Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students Second Edition. London:
Routledge.
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• Barnet, S. and Bedau, H. (2004). Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Writing. 6 ed.
• Behrens & Rosen. (2007). Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum.
• Bowker, N. (Ed.) (2007). Academic Writing. Massey University.
• Gardner, P. S. (2005). New Directions: Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking.
• Jordan, K. M. and Plakans, L. (2003). Reading and Writing for Academic Success.
• Jordon, R. R. (1999). Academic Writing Course. CUP.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Mid Term: Marks: 30
Class Participation/ presentations: Marks: 10
Final project: Marks: 10
End Term: Marks: 50
Course Outline prepared by: Dr. Inayat Ullah
Head, Department of English (UGS)
Course Title: Introduction to Literary Studies

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Course Level: BS 1 / Bridging Semester
Course Description:
This course introduces literature as a cultural and historical phenomenon. The emergence and development of
various genres of literature that is poetry, drama, prose and fiction, over different periods in history, is also great
significance in this course. This course will also, very briefly touch upon different theoretical approaches to
literature to introduce the student to literary critique and evaluation. A general understanding of literary theory
as a broad field of philosophical concepts and principals, which when practically applied to different excerpts
taken from the primary texts representing different ages in the history of literature, serves to identify different
topics of literary criticism because interpretation of a text can be done in different ways depending on the author
and the context of any literary production.
Objectives of the Course:
7. To study the history and practice of English as a scholarly discipline.

8. To study the history and development of each genre by studying excerpts from various literary texts.
9. To develop a concept of different theoretical approaches in literary criticism.

6. To understand that literature is a cultural reflection of its time of production and it provides an insight
into its literary age and history.
7. To comprehend that various literary pieces provide different views of the same time period because
subjectivity of every author is reflected through his/her work.
8. To understand that literature is intertextual and the study of its history is crucial for correct and an in-
depth understanding of allusiveness in texts.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. What is Literature? What is a Text?

• Why Study Literature: The Rationale?
• What is Literature?
• Genre, text type and discourse
• Primary & Secondary Sources
2. Major Genres in Textual Studies
• Fiction
Plot, characters, narrative perspective, setting
• Poetry
Lexical-thematic dimension, visual dimension, rhythmic-acoustic dimension
• Drama
Text, transformation, performance
• Film
Spatial dimension, temporal dimension, acoustic dimension
3. Periods of English Literature (Old English to Augustan Age)

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• Old English Period (5 to 11 century)
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• Middle English Period (12 to 15 century)
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• Renaissance (16 to 17 century)
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• Augustan Age (18 century)
4. Periods of English Literature (Romantic Period to Postmodernism)

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• Romantic Period (First half of 19 century)
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• Victorian Age (Second half of 19 century)
• Modernism (First to Second World War)
• Postmodernism (1960s and 1970s)
5. Periods of American Literature

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• Colonial or Puritan Age (17 to 18 century)
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• Romantic Period and Transcendentalism (First half of 19 century)
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• Realism and Naturalism (Second half of 19 century)
• Modernism (First to Second World War)
• Postmodernism (1960s and 1970s)
•
End Term
6. Text-Oriented Theoretical Approaches to Study Literature

• Philology
• Rhetoric and Stylistics
• Formalism and Structuralism
• New Criticism
• Semiotics and Deconstruction
7. Author-Oriented Theoretical Approaches to Study Literature

• Biographical criticism
• Psychoanalytic criticism
• Phenomenology
8. Reader-Oriented Theoretical Approaches to Study Literature

• Reception Theory
• Reception History
• Reader-Response Criticism
9. Context-Oriented Theoretical Approaches to Study Literature

• Literary History
• Marxist Literary Theory
• Feminist Literary Theory
• New Historicism and Cultural Studies
• Postcolonial Theory
• Ecocritical Theory
10. How to write a scholarly paper

• Research in literary studies – The basics
• Elements of a literary studies research article
Core Texts:
1. William Henry Hudson. Introduction to the Study of Literature (1913)
2. Andrew Sanders. The Short Oxford History of English Literature (1994)
3. Mario Klarer. Introduction to Literary Studies (1999)
4 J. H. Miller. On Literature (2002)

Albert, E. (1979). History of English Literature (5th ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, M. (2000). A History of English Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Blamires, H. (1984). A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge.
Carter, R., & McRae, J. (1997). The Routledge History of Literature in English, Britain and Ireland. London :
Routledge.
Chin, B. A., Wolfe, D., Copeland, J., & Dudzinski, M. A. (2001). Glencoe Literature: British Literature. New
York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Compton-Rickett, A. (1912). A History of English Literature. London: T. C. and E. C. Jack.

Daiches, D. (1968). A Critical History of English Literature. London: Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd.
Fletcher, R. H. (1919). A History of English Literature. Boston: R. G. Badger.
Legouis, E., & Cazamian, L. (1960). A History of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent and Sons.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100

Course: Introduction to Language Studies
Level: BS Bridging Semester
Course Description:
Language is central to human experience. This course provides a comprehensive overview of language origin, evolution
of language as human faculty, and traces the history of English language in order to provide an idea how languages
develop. It seeks to formulate general principles of language and thus provides learners with basic yet comprehensive
introduction to the field of Linguistics. It offers a wide range of concepts in theoretical linguistics and its applications. In the
sections focusing on the theoretical aspects of language structure, the major focus is on sounds, how they are made and
how they pattern together in speech (phonetics and phonology); further, how words are constructed from smaller parts
(morphology); the construction of sentences (syntax) and sentence meaning (semantics). It also includes discussion on
language in context and the way it is structured in conversation (pragmatics). Placing the study of language in a broader
context, the course covers phenomenon of language acquisition and learning in children, language connection with brain
(Neurolinguistics), the varieties of language and some developments on sign language aspects.
Course Objectives:
• give students a comprehensive overview of language as human faculty
• assist students analyze different stories about the origin of language
• familiarize students with sounds and sound patterning, particularly in English Language
• familiarize students to a wide range of topics in linguistic analysis and linguistic theory
• provide some sense of the ways in which knowledge and understanding develops in this field

CLO 1 demonstrate sound knowledge about language and language origin theories
CLO 2 differentiate human language from animal communication through proper arguments
CLO 3 exhibit sound knowledge in many aspects of linguistic study
CLO 4 comprehend and explain the ways a language is structured, formulated and analyzed
CLO 5 demonstrate connection of language with other fields of knowledge
Course Contents:
Mid Term
13. Language Origin
• Language as a divine gift
• Natural sound source theories
• Social interaction source theories
• The Physical adaptation sources
• The genetic source
14. Language Families
• What is a language family?
• Language Families in the World: A Brief Overview
15. World Englishes
• Americanism
• Archive Features
• Difference between the British and American English
16. Phonetics & Phonology
• Phonetics: Articulatory, Acoustic, Auditory
• Phonology
17. Morphology
• Morpheme and its types
• Morph and Allomorph
• Morphological analysis Practice of Phonemic Transcription
End Term
18. Syntax
• Traditional Grammar vs. Modern Linguistics
• Structural Analysis (Constituent Analysis, Tree Diagrams)
• Phrase Structure Grammar
• Transformational-Generative Grammar
19. Semantics
• Why meanings are important
• Types of meanings: Conceptual, associative, Thematic
• Lexical Semantics: Sematic features, Semantic roles, Lexical relationships
• Sentential Semantics: Tautology, contradictions, Paradox, Entailment, idioms, metaphors
20. Pragmatics
• Importance of context
• Types of context: Textual, Physical
• Deixis
• Inference vs. Reference
• Pragmatic theories: Speech act theory, Politeness theory, Cooperative principles, Conversational
Implicature
21. Language and Brain

• Neurolinguistics?
• Parts of brain related to language
• Speech errors (Slip of tongue, Tip of tongue, Slip of ear)
• Language disorders (Aphasia)
• Localization theory
• Dichotomic Listening
22. Language Varieties
• The Standard Language
• Accent and Dialect Regional Dialects
• Pidgin and Creole Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Recommended Books:
• Bough, A.C. & Cable, T. (2002). A History of English Language. London: Prentice Hall, Inc.
• Campbell, L. (2001), ‘The history of linguistics’, in M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds), The Handbook of Linguistics.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 81-104.
• Joseph, J.E. (2002), From Whitney to Chomsky: essays in the history of American linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.
• Yule, George. (2006). The Study of Language: 4 / 5
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Edition, Cambridge University Press.
Roach, Peter. (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. 4th Edition. Cambridge
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Course Title: Management Skills
Course Code:
Credit Hours: 3+0
Course Description:
The course basically describes what management is? Why management is important? What managers do?
And how managers utilize organizational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational
goals? This course will cover the principles, roles and functions of Management. Focusing upon skills
and competencies of 21st Century Managers, an effort will be made to incorporate current issues and
technological advancements with the primary concepts of this discipline. This is an introductory course
about the management of organizations. It provides instructions in principles of management that have
general applicability to all types of enterprises; basic management philosophy and decision making;
principles involved in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; and recent concepts in management.
Course Objectives:
• Describe how the need to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness has guided the evolution of
management theory
• Describe the various personality traits that affect how managers think, feel, and behave
• Discuss the management global challenges
• Understand the nature of managerial decision making, differentiate between programmed and non-
programmed decisions, and explain why non-programmed decision making is a complex, uncertain
process.
• Understanding formal steps in organizational planning process
• Define organizational control and explain how it increases organizational effectiveness.
• Describe the four steps in the control process and the way it operates over time.
• Identify the main output controls, and discuss their advantages and disadvantages as means of
coordinating and motivating employees.
• Explain what leadership is, when leaders are effective and ineffective, and the sources of power that
enable managers to be effective leaders.
• Identify the traits that show the strongest relationship to leadership, the behaviors leaders engage in, and
the limitations of the trait and behavioral and contingency models of leadership.
• Develop understanding of effective leadership and management in organizations.
• Understanding group dynamics and role of leadership in resolving group conflicts and effective
communication gaining organizational competitive advantage.
1. To learn the basic concepts of the Four Pillars of Management – Planning, Organizing, Controlling &
Leading
2. To learn the Basic Concepts of Management through ‘Management
Analytical Situations (MAS)’.
3. The course offers a realistic preview of what it means to manage.
4. The course helps students to begin to transform your professional
identity from individual contributor to manager.
5. The course helps students to confront both the task learning and
personal learning involved in becoming a manager.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Introduction to Management
• Why It Matters: Introduction to Management
• Introduction to Management
• What Is Management?
• Introduction to Primary Functions of Management
• Primary Functions of Management
• Introduction to Types of Managers and Their Roles
• Types of Managers
• Management Roles
• Introduction to the Advantages of Managing People Well
• The Advantages of Managing People Well
2. History of Management
• Why It Matters: History of Management
• Introduction to Scientific Management
• Scientific Management
• Introduction to Bureaucratic Management
• Bureaucratic Management
• Introduction to Humanistic Management
• Humanistic Management
• Introduction to Current Developments in Management Practices
• Current Developments in Management Practices
3. Planning and Mission

• Why It Matters: Planning and Mission
• Introduction to Mission, Vision, and Values
• Mission, Vision, and Values
• Introduction to Pros and Cons of Planning
• Pros and Cons of Planning
• Introduction to the Planning Cycle
• The Planning Cycle
• Introduction to Types of Plans and Common Planning Tools
• Types of Plans and Common Planning Tools
4. Environments and Strategic Management

• Why It Matters: Environments and Strategic Management
• Introduction to the Role of Strategy in Management
• The Role of Strategy in Management
• Introduction to Common Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment
• Common Frameworks for Evaluating the Business Environment
• Introduction to Common Frameworks for Situational Analysis
• Common Frameworks for Situational Analysis
• How Environment Affects Strategy
5. Decision Making
• Why It Matters: Decision Making
• Introduction to Barriers to Individual Decision Making and Styles of Decision Making
• Barriers to Individual Decision Making
• Styles of Decision Making
• Decision Making Process
• Introduction to Rational Decision Making vs. Other Types of Decision Making
• Rational Decision Making vs. Other Types of Decision Making
End Term
6. Organizational Structures
• Why It Matters: Organizational Structures
• Introduction to the Purpose of Organization
• The Purpose of Organization
• Introduction to Common Organizational Structures
• Common Organizational Structures
7. Leadership
• Why It Matters: Leadership
• Introduction to Leadership
• What Is Leadership?
• Introduction to What Makes an Effective Leader
• What Makes an Effective Leader?
• Introduction to Situational Theories of Leadership
• Situational Theories of Leadership
• Introduction to Transformational and Transactional Theories of Leadership
• Transformational and Transactional Theories of Leadership
8. Motivation
• Why It Matters: Motivation
• Introduction to the Importance of Employee Motivation
• The Importance of Employee Motivation
• Introduction to Needs-Based Theories of Motivation
• Introduction to Process-Based Theories of Motivation
9. Control
• Why It Matters: Control
• Introduction to Control in the Business Setting
• What Does Control Mean in the Business Setting?
• Introduction to the Control Process
• The Control Process
• Introduction to Levels and Types of Control
• Levels and Types of Control
Recommended Books:
• Contemporary Management by Garith Jones & George (9 th
Edition)
• Courtland L Bovee, John V Thill, Marian Burk Wood, George P. Thill, Management, international
Edition.
• Stephen P. Robbins, Mary Coulter, Management, 12 edition. th
• Analytical discussions on “Seven Habits of highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey 1989.
• Rich Dad Poor Dad By Robert Kyosaki
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
Course: Introduction to IT Skills – Bridging Semester

Level: BS 5th Semester
Course Code: GC 107
Course Description
Information technology literacy has become a fundamental requirement for any major. An understanding of the principles
underlying digital devices, computer hardware, software, telecommunications, networking and multimedia is an integral
part of any IT curriculum. This course provides a sound foundation on the basic theoretical and practical principles behind
these technologies and discusses up to date issues surrounding them including social aspects and how they impact
everyday life.
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, students will:
• Understand the fundamentals of information technology
• Learn core concepts of computing and modern systems
• Understand modern software programs and packages
• Learn about upcoming IT technologies
CLO 1 Have sound knowledge and understanding about computer system
CLO 2 Differentiate between different aspects of computer system and how it can help them in their domain.
CLO 3 Demonstrate that they can use a personal computer or mobile device for accessing the internet and use basic
computer applications such as e-mail, Powerpoint, Excel and Word
CLO 4 Demonstrate that they can use digital technology in research, analysis, and critical inquiry
Course Contents:
Mid Term
Basic Definitions & Concepts,
• Computer, Data processing
• Characteristics of Computer
• Basic organization, Input output units and its functions
• The system concept.
Hardware: Computer Systems & Components.

• Term software and its relationship with hardware, Relationship between hardware software
• types of software, system / application software, COTS / Bespoke
• Ways of acquiring software
• Firmware, middleware
Storage Devices,
• Primary / secondary storage, Classification of common secondary storage devices
• Difference between sequential and direct access
• Types of secondary storage devices, advantages / disadvantages, application, uses.
Number Systems,
• Non positional / positional number system
• Decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal number systems
• Conversions among these number systems.
Operating Systems Concepts,
• Definition and need for Operating system, main functions
• Process management, multiprogramming, multithreading, and multitasking
• memory management
End Mid
Networks, Data Communication,

• Basic elements of communication system, techniques.
• Types of computer networks, network topologies
• Communication protocols and their use in computer network.
The Internet, Browsers and Search Engines,

• The internet’s basic services, WWW
• Browsers, search engines, uses of internet
• 3G vs 4G vs 5G
• Collaborative Computing
• Social Networking and its types, E-Commerce and its types,
Basics of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint, IT Project.

Practical Portion
• Basics of MS Word
• Basics of MS Excel
• Basics of MS Powerpoint
1. Introduction to Computers, Peter Norton, 7th Edition
2. Computer Applications for Business, 2nd Edition, DDC Publishing, 275 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016.
3. Robert D. Shepherd, Introduction to Computers and Technology, Paradigm Publishing Inc., 875 Montreal Way, St. Paul,
MN 55102.
4. Bruce J. McLaren, Understanding and Using the Internet, West Publishing Company, 610 Opperman Drive, P. 0. Box
64526, St. Paul, MN 55164.
5. Go! With Microsoft Office 2016, Volume 1, Pearson/Prentice Hall
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
FIFTH SEMESTER (New)

GC 301 Introduction to International Relations 3
GC 302 Introduction to Environmental Studies 3

ELL 303 Introduction to Pakistani Literature in English 3
ELL 304 Introduction to Literary Criticism & Theory 3
ELL 305 Sociolinguistics 3
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Fifth Semester
Course: Introduction to Interantions Relations

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Level: BS 5
Course Code: GC 301
Course Description:
This course offers an introduction to contemporary analysis of international relations. Students will learn major
theories of international relations and apply them to understand international situations and issues in the modern
world. Emphases are on clearly comprehending the relationship between international conflicts and cooperation
and on recognizing the shift from “internationalization” to “globalization”. Extensive use of internet
information, articles from professional journals and newspapers will enable students to update information
about imminent international issues today and to think about them critically.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate comprehension of theories of international relations including realism, idealism, liberalism,

neorealism, integrationism, interdependence, dependency, world system and regime;
2. Tell exact locations of major countries on a world map and explain what problems those countries are facing;
3. Demonstrate understanding of the causes and processes of modern international issues;
4. Differentiate the concept of internationalization from that of globalization;
5. Skillfully use extensive sources of information including internet, government publications, professional
journals, and newspaper;
6. Demonstrate critical thinking skills through research paper writing and discussion.
Course Contents:
Course topics will include the following:

Mid Term
1. What is international relations?

2. Theories of international relations
3. Brief history of modern international relations
4. National perspectives of different nations
5. Power
6. Balance of power
7. International security
End Term
8. Principal causes of war

9. International political economy
10. International trade & monetary system
11. International law
12. International organization
13. International integration and transnational participation
14. Future world order
Suggested Readings:
• Allan, Stuart (2010) The Routledge companion to news and journalism. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Andrew Cottey (2007) ‘Ch.1: Security in the new Europe’, in Security in the new Europe. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 5–31. Available at: https://contentstore.cla.co.uk//secure/link?id=9416ad17-
7936-e711-80c9-005056af4099.
• Ba, A. and Hoffmann, M. J. (2003) ‘Making and Remaking the World for IR 101: A Resource for
Teaching Social Constructivism in Introductory Classes’, International Studies Perspectives, 4(1), pp.
15–33. doi: 10.1111/1528-3577.04102.
• Bache, Ian, George, Stephen and Bulmer, Simon (2011) Politics in the European Union. 3rd ed. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
• Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (2011a) The globalization of world politics: an
introduction to international relations. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (2011n) The globalization of world politics: an
introduction to international relations. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bennett (1994) ‘The news about foreign policy’, in Taken by storm: the media, public opinion, and U.S.
foreign policy in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 12–40.
• Berdal, M. (2004) ‘The UN after Iraq’, Survival, 46(3), pp. 83–101. doi:
10.1080/00396330412331343743.
• Blair, T. (2001) The power of community can change the world.

• Bomberg, Elizabeth E., Peterson, John and Stubb, Alexander C-G. (2008) The European Union: how
does it work? 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Brooks, S. G. and Wohlforth, W. C. (2002) ‘American primacy in perspective’, Foreign affairs. [New
York: Council on Foreign Relations], 81(4), pp. 20–33.
• Brown, Chris (2005) ‘US hegemony and world order’, in Understanding international relations. 3rd ed.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 232–254.
• Calhoun, Craig J., Price, Paul and Timmer, Ashley S. (2002) Understanding September 11. New York:
New Press.
• Chris Brown (2005) ‘US hegemony and world order’, in Understanding international relations. 3rd ed.
[Perth, Australia]: Ebook Library, pp. 232–254. Available at: http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-
materials/SESS1102_46625.pdf.
• Christopher Hill and Michael Smith (2011) ‘Acting for Europe: reassessing the EU’s place in
international relations’, in International relations and the European Union. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 458–481. Available at: http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-
materials/SESS1102_60047.pdf.
• Cottey, Andrew (2007) ‘Security in the new Europe’, in Security in the new Europe. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 5–31.
• Cox, M. (1990) ‘From the Truman Doctrine to the Second Superpower Detente : the rise and fall of the
Cold War’, Journal of peace research. London: Sage Publications [etc.], 27(1), pp. 25–41.
• Cox, M. (2009) ‘Rethinking the End of The Cold War’, Review of International Studies, 20(02). doi:
10.1017/S0260210500117887.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Introduction to Environemtal Studies

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Level: BS 5
Course Code: GC 302
Course Description
In the last few decades “environment” has become a buzz word. A basic understanding of this term has become
necessary in every field of life. Therefore, this course is designed for non-environmental science students
keeping in view their diverse background of science and non-science subjects. This course only provides a basic
understanding of the environment around us which is necessary to understand the environmental problems we
face in our everyday life. This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the environment, its
components and its processes. The course will also provide a brief history and background of the environmental
movements.
The course is designed to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the environmental pollution, its causes
and impact on human beings and ecosystem. Course will take a multidisciplinary approach and will cover
contemporary environmental problems. Course will be beneficial in general to all students but particularly for
students of economics, sociology, communication studies, management sciences and law due to wide scale
application of these concepts in these fields.
The course will provide an introduction to a range of "global environmental challenges" facing humanity. It will
provide the necessary background to understanding the policies, politics, governance and ethics, and decision-
making processes that underpin the causes of, and responses to, environmental change. It will include an
appreciation of the social construction of the term global environmental challenges and the implications of this.
Course Objectives
The course is designed to:
• provide students with a basic understanding of the environment, its components and processes.
• develop student capabilities to understand the man-environment interaction and ways human can impact
environment.
• Provide: (1) an introduction of human attitude towards environment and how it has changed overtime, (2)
overview of the pollution; its causes and impacts, (3) understanding of the role of human activities in
causing environmental pollution, (4) outline of the factors including physic-chemical, biological and
socio-economic which contribute to accelerate or de-accelerate the rate of pollution.
Course Contents
Mid Term
Environment; definition and concept; ecosystem, its component; material and energy flow in an ecosystem;
Terrestial and aquatic ecosystems; biomes and their distribution; Atmosphere; composition, air pollution, causes
and its impacts. Hydrosphere; water distribution on earth, water quality and quantity problems. Lithosphere;
earth structure, soil resources, pollution and problem. Human population and resource use, Human attitude
towards environment; history and background.
Environmental Pollution: Concept, history and background, Pollution sources and types: point and non-point
sources. Air pollution; sources, types of pollutants, sources and fate, impacts on human health and on
environment,
End Term
Water pollution; water quality and quantity problems, sources, types of pollutants, sources and fate, impacts on
human health and on environment, Solid Waste, Noise Pollution, Toxic chemicals in environment, approaches
to manage environmental pollution.
Global Environmental Problems: Ozone Depletion; history, science, world response. Climate change: a myth or
reality, Conflicting Theories, climate change scientific basis, its impacts, world response, climate change
politics. Acid Rain. Human Population and sustainability, International environmental laws.
1. th
Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, Botkin, D.B & Keller, E.A. 9 Ed. John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
2. Environmental Science: systems and solutions, McKinney, M.L., Schoch, R.M. &Yonavjak, L. 5 th
Ed. Jones
& Bartlett Publishers, 2013
3. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future, Wright, R.T. &Nebel, B.J. 10
th
Ed. Pearson
Educational, 2007.
4. th
Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, Botkin, D.B & Keller, E.A. 9 Ed. John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
Ed. Jones
6. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future, Wright, R.T. &Nebel, B.J. 10
th
Ed. Pearson
Educational, 2007.
7. Environmental Science: working with the Earth.11 Ed. Miller, G., Tyler. Cengage Learning, 2005.
th
8. Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, Botkin, D.B & Keller, E.A. 9 Ed. John Wiley & Sons,
th
2013.
Ed. Jones
10. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future, Wright, R.T. &Nebel, B.J. 10 Ed. Pearson
th
Educational, 2007.
11. Environmental Science: working with the Earth.11 th
Ed. Miller, G., Tyler. Cengage Learning, 2005. Algore
Documentary: “ An inconvenient Truth
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Course: Introduction to Pakistani Literature in English

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Level: BS 5
Course Description:
The course traces the development of Pakistani writers in English who have challenged social and ideological
norms through their works. It will encourage discussions, analyses, and appreciation of collective issues
plaguing Pakistani society since its birth and life of a Pakistani family as depicted in the selected memoir of
Sara Suleri. Pakistani fiction in English since partition has evolved and adapted itself to the changing times.
Through this course, the students of undergraduate level will get an opportunity to study the development of
Pakistani fiction in English over time. Through contemporary writings, they will also learn how the local idiom
and sentiment is now an important part of Pakistani English fiction.
Course Objectives:
• to give students an insight into the changing trends in Pakistani English literature
• to analyze the themes, characters, plot and style of the suggested works in the light of the cultural,
economic and historical scenario in Pakistan.
Course Contents/Core Texts:

Mid Term
1. The Heart Divided (1948) , a novel Mumtaz Shahnawaz (1912-48)
2. Cracking India (1988) a novel BapsiSidhwa
End Term
3. Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) Mohsin Hamid (1971-)
4. Meatless days (1989) A Memoir Sara Suleri (1953-)
(Our lady of Alice Bhatti (2008) Mohammad Hanif (1964-)may be covered in

Assignments, presentations and Quizzes)
Course Outcomes:
• to demonstrate ability to analyze text critically.
• to show an understanding of different trends in Pakistani fiction in English.
Suggested Readings:
1. Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory:Classes, Nations,Literatures (London, 1992)

2. Aroosa , Kanwal. Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction. Beyond 9/11. ( Plagrave
Macmillan UK, 2015 )
3. Chambers, Claire. British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers ( Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012)
4. Clements, Madeline. Writing Islam From a South Asian Muslim Perspective (Springer 2015)
5. Cilano, Cara. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State. ( Routledge , 2013)
6. J. Sell. Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing ( Palgrave Macmillan 2012)
7. Jajja, Mohammad Ayub. “The Heart Divided: A Post Colonial Perspective on Partition” Pakistan
Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS) Vol. 32, No. 2 (2012), pp. 297-307
8. Rehman, Tariq. A History of Pakistani English Literature ( Lahore, 1991)
9. Ahmed, Rehana, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing (
Routledge, 2012)
10. Ranasinha, Ruvani. Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction: Gender, Narration
and Globalisation( Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
11. Shamsie, Muneeza. A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology Of Pakistani writing in English (Oxford
1998)
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory
Level: BS
Course Description:
This course introduces some of the most vital debates in the tradition of English literary criticism from Plato
and Aristotle in the Greek times to T. S. Eliot in early twentieth century. Equipped with the ability of analyzing
and appreciating this literary tradition through all these centuries, the students would be able to grasp arguments
in classical and romantic schools of literary criticism, represented by critics like Samuel Johnson, Mathew
Arnold, T. S. Eliot, and F. R. Leavis on the one hand, and Philip Sidney, Wordsworth, and Coleridge on the
other. That would help students be conversant with ‘practical criticism’ / ‘close reading’ and ideas-led’ criticism
respectively. By concentrating on this rich canonical tradition, students will be able to learn how each
generation of critics has responded to critical theorizing and creative works of not only their own times but also
the ages preceding them. What is likely to excite and engage the students is debates like Plato’s theory of
imitation and his standpoint on poets, challenged not only by his contemporary and disciple, Aristotle, but also
by Philip Sidney and others. Similarly, the import of Mathew Arnold’s view---one needs to study poetry of at
least two different cultures, the more different the better---will be transformative for students of literature.
Moreover, this course will ground the students in familiar critical concepts and thus prepare them to grasp the
complexities of literary and cultural theory in later semesters.
Course Objectives:
It is an intensive course in literary criticism focusing on the following aspects
• It would prepare the learners of literature and language to understand the historical background to literary
criticism, exploring its developmental changes from Plato till T.S Eliot
• It would focus on the poetic and dramatic forms in order to highlight some significant trends and
concepts in world literature in general and English literature in particular.
• It would also provide a brief introduction to the contemporary literary theories.
Core Texts:
Aristotle to Modern Times

Mid Term
1. The Greek Critics
• Plato (427-347 BC): Selections from The Republic (c. 380 BC)
• Aristotle (394-322 BC): The Poetics (c. 335 BC)
2. Renaissance to Eighteenth Century Critics

• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): An Apology for Poetry (1595)
• b) John Dryden (1631-1700): Essay on Dramatic Poesy (1668)
• c) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): “From Milton” (1779-81)
End Term
3. The Romantic Critics
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798-1802)
• S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834): Biographia Literaria (Chapters xiv, xv, xvi, xvii) (1817)
4. The Victorian Critics

• Matthew Arnold (1822-1888):
o Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1865)
5. Modern Critics
• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): “Tradition & the Individual Talent” (1921)
6. A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theories
• Following his commendation for a critic to possess one great literature besides his own, the students
would be adept enough for their future inquiry in the field of literary and quite recent cultural theory.
• The background knowledge provided in this course about the grand tradition of literary analyses will
prepare the students to concentrate more specifically on the subject of Literary Theory and generally the
norms and requirements for writing a piece of critical appreciation regarding a work of literature and
consequently enable them to aspire to be a literary theorist in future.
Recommended Books:
1. Barry, P. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester
UP, 1995
2. Booker, Keith M. A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Longman
Publishers, 1996.
3. Kamran, Robina and Farrukh Zad. Ed. A Quintessence of Literary Criticism. National University of
Modern Languages, Islamabad.
4. Leitch, Vincent B. (General Editor). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York &
London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001 (or later editions
5. Lodge, David. Ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. Longman, 1988.
6. Newton, K. M. ed. Twentieth Century literary Theory: A Reader. Second Edition. New York: St.
Martin‘s, 1998 (or later editions)
7. Selected Terminology from any Contemporary Dictionary of Literary Terms.

8. Selden, R. & Widdowson P. A Reader‘s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory (3rd Edition). New
York: Harvester, 1993.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course Title: Sociolinguistics

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Level: BS 5
Course Description:
This course provides a general introduction to Sociolinguistics. It examines language use in society, with a
particular focus on the connections between language and different aspects of the society. In particular, this
course is intended to provide the students with two general topics, i.e. micro-level and macro-level analysis of
the relationship between language and society. The micro-level analysis includes various functions of language
in society, solidarity and politeness, code-switching, kinesics, style, bilingual individuals, etc.; the macro-level
analysis incorporates speech community, language planning, social and regional variations, bilingual
community, etc. In addition, this source also gives the students information about methodological concerns in
investigating sociolinguistic phenomena.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
• explore the relationship between language and society
• discover the relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic variables such as gender, social class, age
etc.
• elaborate the main sociolinguistic concepts used to analyze these relationships

• strengthen the ability of students to apply sociolinguistic principles and research in everyday situations
Course Outcome:
• exhibit a theoretical grounding in the field of sociolinguistics
• understand the relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic variables such as gender, social class and
age
• carry out research in the field

Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
• The Scientific Investigation of Language
• Relationship between language and society
• Sociolinguistics and sociology of linguistics
• Key concepts
2. Language and Dialect
• Dialect, Sociolect, Idiolect
• Regional Dialects
• Standard Language
• Received Pronunciation
• Register and Style
3. Pidgin and Creole
• An Introduction
• Theories of origin of Pidgin and Creole
• Creolization and Decreolization
4. Language Diversity and Speech Communities
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Dimensions, Manifestations and Effects of Bilingualism
5. Borrowing
• Difference between Code-switching and Borrowing
• Social Factors involved in Code-switching and Borrowing
End Term
6. Variation and Change
• Regional Variations
• Relating Linguistic Variation to Social Variation
7. Language, Culture and Thought
• Linguistic and Cultural Relativity
• Language and Thought
• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Kinship Systems
• Taboo and Euphemisms
• Rules for rituals
8. Language and Gender
• Male-Female Language Differences
• Linguistic inequality
9. Ethnography of Communication
• Varieties of talk
• Systematics of verbal interaction
• Frame Analysis
10. Language Extinction & Language Death
11. Language Policy & Planning
Recommended Books:
• Coupland N. & Jaworski, A. (1997). Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Course book. London: Macmillan.
• Coupland, Nikolas & Adam Jaworski (eds) (2009). The New Sociolinguistic Reader London: Macmillan.
• Holmes, Janet. (2013). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 4th edition. London: Pearson, Longman.
• Hudson, R.A. (1996). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, A. Deumert& William L. Leap (2000). Introducing Sociolinguistics.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Meyerhoff, M. (2006) Introducing sociolinguistics. Routledge: London/N.Y.
• Stockwell, P. (2003) Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students, London: Routledge
• Trudgill, Peter. (1983). Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth:
Penguin.
• Trudgill, Peter. (1992). Introducing Language and Society, London: Penguin.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
SIXTH SEMESTER
GC 306 Islamic History and Culture 3
ELL 307 Modern Poetry 3
ELL 308 Modern Drama 3
ELL 309 Modern Novel 3
ELL 310 Grammar & Syntax 3
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Sixth Semester
Course Title: Islamic History & Culture
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Level: BS 6
Course Code: GC 306
Course Description
This is a general introductory course about Islamic history and culture. It will necessarily entail frequent
references to the rise of Islamic civilization, since the time of the Holy Prophet to the fall of Mughal Empire in
the Subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire. Special emphasis may be given to Muslim contributions in the
development of arts, crafts, sciences, medicine and particularly to the translations of Greco-Roman works of
philosophy and literature; and how they contributed to the beginning of European Renaissance.
Course Objectives
The course will focus on three aspects: the formative period of Islam; its medieval achievements; and its
modern situation. Upon completion, students should be able to develop their own understanding of the Islamic
history, culture and religion.
Course Contents
Mid Term
1. Introduction to History and the philosophy of history; why study history Pre- Islamic period. Religious,
political and social systems before Islam. TheComing of Islam. Period of the Prophet (SAW).
2. Life at Makkah.
3. The Prophet (SAW) at Medina.
4. The Caliphate and the Four Rightly-guided Caliphs. The Umayyad Caliphate
End Term
5. The Abbasid Period.
6. Umayyad Dynasty in Spain Islam and Muslims in India Definition of Culture in Islam.
7. Foundations of Islamic culture.
8. Islamic art, civilization and culture.
9. Science, technology, philosophy and administration.
Suggested Readings
Abdul Hakim Khalifa. Islamic Ideology.
Ali. Amir Syed. History of Sarsons
Hitti, Philip K. The History of the Arabs
Maududi. Syed Abul Ala. Why Islam? Mazhar-ul-Haq. History of Islam

Nadvi. Abul Hassan. Pillars of Islam. Nadvi. Moeenud Din. Tareekh-e-Islam
Nicholson. R. The History of the Arabs. Pikthal. M. M. The Cultural Side of Islam. Roy. M. N. Historical Role
of Islam.
Safiur Rehman Mubarakpoori. Al- Raheeq al- Maqhtoom
Shustery, A. M. A. Outlines of Islamic Culture: historical and Cultural Aspects.
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Course: Modern Poetry
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Level: BS 6
Course Description:
This course aims at teaching critical analysis of modern poetry and, thus, developing an understanding of the
aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which it was produced. The beginning and ending of modernist
period are arbitrary, however, it is generally agreed that works written between 1890 and 1950 in North
America and Western Europe follow the modernist tradition. The course will examine the roles of poets like
T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, who are credited with radical shifts in style and content from their predecessors, to
introduce modernist aesthetics in poetry. The students will do close reading of poems to discern differences in
poetic style and idiom of authors.
Course Objectives:
to identify and critically examine form, style and themes in modernist poetry.
to study historical and cultural developments in which modernist poetry evolved and later gave way to
confessional and other forms of poetry.
Course Contents/Core Texts
Mid Term
1. T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men,

The Waste Land,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro

A Girl
An Immortality
3. W.B. Yeats Among School Children

Second Coming
Easter 1916
End Term
4. W.H Auden Sep 1st, 1939.

As I Walked Out One Morning
The Unknown Citizen
5. Ted Hughes That Morning
Hawk Roosting
Thought Fox
Hawk’s Monologue
7. Philip Larkin Mr. Bleaney

Church Going
Course Outcomes:
Students are expected
to demonstrate understanding of aesthetics of modernist poetry.
to do a critical analysis of poems through close reading of the text.
Further Readings:
Blair, John G. The Poetic Art of W.H. Auden (n.p., n.d.).

Drew, Elizabeth T.S. Eliot: The Design of his Poetry.(London, 1950)
Gardener, Helen. The Art of T.S. Eliot. (London, 1968)
Jeffares, A.N. W.B. Yeats, Man and Poet.(London, 1949)
Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. (London 1961 ed)
Macneice, Louis The Poetry of W.B. Yeats.( London, 1967)
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. (New Jersey, 1981)
Unterecker, J. W.B. Yeats: A Reader’s Guide (London, 1988).
Ferguson, M. Salter, M. J., Stallworthy, J. (2005). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W.W.
Norton & Co.
Untermeyer, L. (2011). Modern British Poetry. Whitefish, MT: Literary Licensing
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Modern Drama
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Level: BS 6
Course Description:
Modern day dramatic performances, live as well as those treated in different mediums of film and television
owe a lot to the genre of drama of antiquity. Building upon the prior knowledge about the key elements of the
literary terms and techniques of Drama learnt by students in the course of Classical Drama this course will
present some modern plays of the late nineteenth and twentieth century which have influenced the development
of English drama (Though the knowledge of literary terms acquired in Classical Drama will be of great help, yet
this course can be studied as an entirely independent module). The dramas suggested for this course lend a
considerable amount of variety to different forms of tragedy and comedy. The course is designed to impart,
discuss, evaluate, and above all enjoy the spirit of modern drama. The socio-cultural aspects of society reflected
in the drama of the selected age will also be highlighted along with its significance in our modern world.
Course Objectives:
An overview of some of the most influential dramatists of modern age and their works with reference to
their themes and dramatic techniques.
An emphasis on how certain dramatists are related to new ideas about the role of the theatre and its method.
A number of literary texts are read together with critical and theoretical discussions.
Course Outcomes:
The students will be equipped with an ability to apply a variety of literary theories to these modern dramas that
may not have been discussed previously.
The course will enhance the ingenious spirit of inquiry in students to conceive the plays in entirely new
paradigms and perspectives.
These new perspectives will allow the students to relate with these dramas in the modern day and age.
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House, (1879)
2. Shaw, G. B. Arms and the Man (1894)(To be taught) /
Man and Superman (1905) (can be covered in assignment)
3. Brecht, Bertolt Life of Galileo (1943) (can be covered in assignment/project/assignment)
End Term
4. Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot, (1953)
5. Harold Pinter The Caretaker (1960)
6. Anton Chekov Cherry Orchard (1904) (can be covered in
assignments/project/presentations)
Recommended Books:
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber. 1996

Esslin, Martin The Theater of the Absurd. New York, Doubleday Anchor Books 1961.
Evans, T. F. George Bernard Shaw. Routledge. 2013
Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Rupa and Co. Calcutta, 1961.
Kenner, Hugh Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study. New York, Grove Press, 1961.
Mayor, Laura Reis. Four Major Plays of Ibsen. Penguin Group USA. 2008
Rayfield Donald. Anton Chekov: A Life. Northwest University Press. 1997
Tornquist, Egil. Ibsen’s The Doll’s House. Cambridge University Press. 1995
White, John J. Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Theory. Camden House. 2004
Williams, Raymond Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. Penguin in association with Chatto andWindus.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Modern Novel
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Level: BS 6
Course Description:
With a background knowledge of the types of fictions, the diversity in the art of characterization, i.e. round, flat,
and stock characters etc. and all the associated details students have learnt in the course of classical novel, this
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course focuses the novels of 20 century. Through this course on Modern fiction, the students are able to grasp
different techniques used and art/literary movements used in novel writing. For instance, questioning modes of
imperialism in the Heart of Darkness (1902),
stream-of-consciousness technique used in Woolf and Joyce’s works and, similarly, questions about
cultures and humanity at large raised in the novels of Forster and Golding respectively. The basic questions
raised against imperialism in works of Conrad will aid the students to study postcolonial
novel in the later semesters. Students will appreciate the fact novel is the leading genre of modern literature that
caters to the literary needs of modern readers. The diversity of themes explored in the novels of this course will
excite the students to think critically and make them realize the importance of this genre of literature which, as
is apparent from its nomenclature, has the capacity to incorporate any level of ingenuity of thought in its
narrative.
Course Objectives:
Mid Term
Joseph ConradThe Heart of Darkness (1899-1902)
E.M. Forster A Passage to India (1924)
Final Term
Virginia Woolf To the Light House (1927)
William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) (Can be covered in
Assignment/Project/Presentation)
1. This course will survey the fiction of novelists who represent the artistic and
cultural aspects of modern narratives.
2. The students are to examine different aspects of modern novels considering the
style, point of view, tone, structure, and culture which contribute to the development of modern
fict
ion
.
3. Emphasis in this course is not on teaching the students a few modern novels but
to enable them for reading and analyzing a modern novel.
4. To acquaint and familiarize students with the changing social and literary trends
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of 20 century as an aftermath and effects of WWI and later World War 2.
Outcomes of Course:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Know how Modern fiction operates and presents itself.
Have clear distinction between novels in the past and present.
Analyze Modern fiction by its own set of tools and modern standards.
Understand the importance of the birth of postcolonial novel as a natural consequence of the questions raised in
some of the novels they have studied in this course.
Recommended Books;
Allen, Walter The English Novel 1954.
Baker, R. S. The Dark Historical Page: Social Satire and Historicism in the Novels ofAldous Huxley, 1921-
1939. London, 1982.
Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley, 2 vols. London, 1973-4
Bowering, Peter. Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels. London, 1969.
Beer, J. B. The Achievement of Forster. London, 1962.
Burgess, Anthony. Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973), Harcourt (March 1975).
Caramagno, Thomas C. The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive
Illness. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992 1992.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9c600998/
8. Cavaliero, Glen. A Reading of E. M. Forster. London, 1979.

Church, Richard The Growth of the English Novel. 1951.
Das, G. K. and Beer, John (ed.) E. M. Forster: A Human Exploration. London, 1979.
11. Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1959, revised edition 1983.
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel.(Pelican Paperback), 1927.

Furbank, P. N. E. M. Forster: The Growth of the Novelist, 1879-1914. London, 1977.
Hopper, Keith, Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist, Cork
University Press: May 1995.

Kettle, Arnold. Introduction to the English Novel (vols. I & II) 1951.
King, James. Virginia Woolf NY: W.W. Norton, 1994
Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction. Jonathan Cape. New York: 1929.
Lyndall Gordon. Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life New York: Norton, 1984; 1991
Najder, Zdzisław. Conrad under Familial Eyes, Cambridge University Press, 1984
-------------------- Joseph Conrad: a Chronicle, new edition, Camden House, 2007.
Stape, J.H. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Watt, Ian The Rise of Novel. London :Chatto&Windus, ,1957.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Grammar & Syntax
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Level: BS 6
Course Description:
Syntax is concerned with sentence structure - how words are combined to form phrases, how phrases are
combined to form larger phrases, clauses and sentences, and how clauses are combined to form complex
sentences. Ability to identify constituents and agreement constraints helps students to improve and correct their
academic writing. The course is practical in focus and aims to teach students essential skills for the linguistic
description and analysis of a language. The course also includes basic syntactic theories.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
acquaint students with basics of syntax

enable students to identify various parts of speech through structural signals introduce the
major syntactic structures of the English language to students
enable students to recognize various grammatical constructions familiarize
students with some elementary syntactic theories
Course Outcomes:
exhibit an understanding of the structure of language understand

grammar and grammatical notions in depth
demonstrate knowledge about compositionality, constituency and dependency relations and be able to
identify constituent structure at an advanced level
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Syntax
2. Some concepts and misconceptions What is the study of syntax about? Use of linguistic examples
3. Why not just use examples from English? How to read linguistic examples
4. Why do languages have syntax?
5. Structure of Phrase
6. NP: Noun Phrase
7. VP: Verb Phrase
8. AP: Adjective Phrase
9. AdvP: Adverb Phrase
10. PP: Preposition Phrase Grammar with phrases

11. Clause
12. Clause and sentence
13. Main and sub-ordinate clauses Clause constructions
14. Recognizing clauses
15. Grammatical Functions Introduction

16. Subject
End Term
17. Direct and indirect object Complements
18. Modifiers
19. Form and Function together
20. Head, Complements and Modifiers What is a head?

21. Head and its dependents
22. Projections from lexical heads to modifiers
23. Differences between modifiers and complements PS Rules, X Rules and Features
24. Constituents and Tree diagrams
25. What is a constituent?
26. Evidence of structure in sentences
27. Some syntactic tests for constituent structure Introduction to constituent structure trees
28. Relationships within the tree
29. Developing detailed tree diagrams and tests for constituent structure Anintroduction to the bar notation
30. Phrase Structure Grammar
31. Transformational Generative Grammar
32. Generative Grammar
33. Properties of Generative Grammar Deep &Surface structures

34. Transformational GrammarTransformational Rules
35. Basics of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Recommended Books:
Miller, Jim. (2002). An Introduction to English Syntax. Edinburg University Press.

Prasad, Tarni. (2012). A course in Linguistics. New Delhi: PHI Publications.
Sells, Peter & Kim, Jong-Bok. (2007). English Syntax: An Introduction.
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Tallerman, M. (2015). Understanding syntax (4 ed). Routledge, London.
Wekker, H., &Haegeman, L. M. (1985). A modern course in English syntax. Croom Helm. Valin,
Jr., Robert. (2001). An Introduction to Syntax. Cambridge University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100

SEVENTH SEMESTER
Course Code Course Title Cr Hrs
GC 401 Introduction to Translation Studies 3
ELL 402 Semantics & Pragmatics 3
ELL 403 Stylistics 3
ELL 404 American Literature 3
ELL 405 Introduction to Literary Theory 3
ELL 406 Postmodern Fiction 3
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Seventh Semester
Course: Introduction to Translation Studies
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Level: BS 7
Course Code: GC 401
Course Description:
Translation studies is an academic interdisciplinary dealing with the systematic study of the theory,
description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. This course examines the theory
and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural perspectives. The course covers a wide
range of issues and debates in translation studies and aims to provide students with an overview of the
history of translation studies, different translation theories and various approaches to translation. The basic
premise of this course is, if translators are adequately aware of the theoretical and historical dimensions of
the discipline they will be able to produce better translations. Besides, this course also focuses on the
application of various methods and approaches to different texts.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
impart knowledge of the notable translation theories to students prepare

them to critically reflect on different translation theories
enable students to apply the methods and strategies discussed in the theories of translation acquaint
them with the ideological and political nature of translation
enable them to produce grammatically and stylistically appropriate translations
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this program the students are expected to:
develop critical thinking on translation as an interlinguistic and intercultural activity.

understand the key concepts of the academic discipline of translation studies
learn to implement the diverse approaches to translation prevalent within translation studies in the form of
various translation strategies
broaden and deepen understanding of a variety of issues in relation to translation, such as gender,
power relations, and religion
demonstrate reasonably enhanced research skills
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. What is translation?
2. A brief look at the history with special focus on the 20 th st

and 21 centuries
3. The problem of equivalence at word level and beyond
4. Kinds of translation: word-for-word, sense-for-sense
5. Translation and cultural issues
6. Translating idioms and metaphors
7. Translation, genre and register
8. Foreignization and domestication
9. Functional theories of translation
Final Term
10. Polysystem theories of translation
11. Postcolonial theories of translation
12. Translation and neologism: Confronting the novel
13. Translation and literature
14. Translation in the era of information technology
15. Translation, ideology and politics
16. Translation and interpretation
17. Translation and globalization
18. Research issues in translation

Baker, Mona, and Gabriela Saldanha, eds. (2009). Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies.
Routledge.
Bassnett, Susan. (2013). Translation studies. Routledge.

Munday, Jeremy. (2016). Introducing translation studies: Theories and applications. Routledge.
Snell-Hornby, Mary. (1988). Translation studies: An integrated approach. John Benjamins Publishing.
Venuti, Lawrence. (2012). The translation studies reader. Routledge.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Semantics & Pragmatics
th
Level: BS 7
Course Description:
This course gives an introduction to the science of linguistic meaning. There are two branches to this
discipline: semantics, the study of conventional, "compositional meaning", and pragmatics, the study of
interactional meaning. There are other contributaries: philosophy, logic, syntax, and psychology. The
course gives an understanding of the concepts of semantics and pragmatics and of some of the technical
tools that are used in the field.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
introduce students with the technical terms required to describe meaning help
students learn to apply modern semantic and pragmatic theories
assist students identify lexical relations between sentences
teach students categorize types of speech acts including performatives, indirect speech acts and sentence
types
Course Outcomes:
have understanding of the nature of meaning as expressed through language
understand the basic principles of semantics and pragmatics as applied to English
know about logical relations relevant to linguistic analysis, such as negation, modality, scope,
presupposition and implication
Course Contents:
Mid Term
1. Meaning matters
2. What is meaning?
3. Theories of meanings Types of meanings

4. Semantics vs. Pragmatics
5. Lexical Semantics
6. Sentential Semantics
7. Tense, Aspect, Mood & Reference
8. Tense and aspect systems in the English verb Mood & Modality
Textual reference: Anaphora, Antecedent, Cataphoric reference
Final Term
9. Meaning in context: Pragmatics
10. Context and its types
11. Context and Pragmatics
12. Metaphoric expression
13. What is metaphor
14. Different types of metaphor Meanings and metaphors
15. Deixis & Presupposition
16. Meanings in interaction Utterance meaning Implicature

17. Relevance Theory Cooperative Theory
18. Speech Act Theory
19. Politeness Theory

Recommended Books:
Saeed, John I. (2009). Semantics. (3rd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell
Rundy, P (2008) Doing Pragmatics, 3rd edn, London: Hodder Education.
Hofmann, Th R (1993) Realms of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics, London and New York:
Longman.
Lakoff, G and Johnson, M (2003) Metaphors We Live By, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Thomas, J (1995) Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics, Harlow, Essex: Longman.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course Title: Stylistics
th
Level: BS 7
Course Description:
This is an interdisciplinary course which deals with some of the ways in which texts, particularly literary
texts, can be examined from a linguistic perspective. Text is the focus of this course. It will be seen how a
text may be handled to examine the specific language that reflects the determinant elements of the
communication: the speaker/ writer; the recipient (listener/ reader), the occasion which led to producing
the text. This course aims to assist students in exploring (primarily literary) texts. The course also covers
the topics related to the ways and means writers opt for in the process of producing the text and expressing
it in the way they deem to best serve their purpose.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
assist students understand style and stylistics
explain what is involved in a stylistic analysis of a literary text
describe the methods of each type of stylistics and stylistic analysis define the
concept of foregrounding
assist students to learn the techniques involved in stylistic analysis of various types of texts
Course Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students:
exhibit comprehensive understanding of stylistics as analysis device apply

stylistic analysis to various forms of literary texts
Course Contents:
Mid Term
Introduction
What is stylistics?
Historical Evolution of Stylistics The Nature of Stylistics
The Goals of Stylistics
The concept of style and stylistics: Meaning of stylistics and its approaches
Style as choice Style as the Man Style as Deviation

Style as Conformity
Style as Period or Time Style asSituation
Types of Stylistics I
Features of Linguistic Stylistics Lexical Repetition
Semantico-Syntactic Level
Semantic/Grammatical Level Phonological
Level
Graphological Level
Types of Stylistics II
Reader-Response Stylistics Affective Stylistics

Pragmatic Stylistics Pedagogical Stylistics Forensic Stylistics
Levels of Linguistic Analysis: The Lexico-Semantic Level
Semantics Lexico-semantics Lexical Relations Types of Words
Denotative/Connotative Meanings Idiomatic Meaning
End Term
Levels of Linguistic Analysis: The Syntactic Level
Units of Grammar The Group
The Clause
The Sentence
The notion of Rank shifting Voice
Foregrounding
Meaning of Foregrounding Types of Foregrounding
Stylistic analysis: Practical Application
Sample stylistic analysis of poem
Sample stylistic analysis of short story Sample stylistic analysis of novel

Sample stylistic analysis of authentic texts:
Magazine oNewspaperoSong
Speech o Brochure
Recommended Books:
Chapman, R. (1973). Linguistics and Literature: An Introduction to Literary Stylistics, Rowman and
Littlefield, London.
Short, Mick. (1996). Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Longman
Leech, Geoffrey & Mick Short (1981). Style in fiction: A linguistic introduction to English
fictionalprose. London/New York: Longman Group Ltd.
Semino, Elena & Jonathan Culpeper (1995). Stylistics. In JefVerschueren, Jan-Ola Östman& Jan
Blommaert (Eds.), Handbook of pragmatics (pp. 513-520). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing Co.
Wales, Katie (1989). A dictionary of stylistics. London/New York: Longman.
Widdowson, H. G. (1975). Stylistics and the teaching of literature. London: Longman.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course Title: American Literature

th
Level: BS 7
Course Description:
American literature has traversed and extended from pre-colonial days to contemporary
times. Historical, Political, societal and technological changes—all had telling impacts on
it. This course is designed to give an in-depth study of the American experience as
portrayed in the works of major writers of American literature. The course focuses on both
historico-political literary themes. Furthermore, it also emphasizes connecting the diverse
Western movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism,
Modernism, etc. as they influence multiple trends in American literary heritage and
nationalism with reference to the representative writers chosen. It considers a range of texts
- including, novels, short stories, essays, and poetry - and their efforts to define the notion
of American identity. There may be several ways to access American literature---by either
following simple chronology or connecting through themes and genres. This course aims at
exposing the students to various literary trends in American literature by grouping them
under different genres.
Course outcomes:
By the end of this course students will have developed close familiarity with the American
literary scene through analysis, interpretation and appreciation of the many aspects of
American literature.
Course Contents:
Introduction to early American colonial period to 1776
Mid Term
Essays and Short Stories
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Excerpts from Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence as Adopted by Congress (July 4,1776) Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) The Fall of the House of Usher
Poetry
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)Success is counted sweetest Because I could not stop for death This is my
letter to the world
I heard a Fly Buzz
Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
T.S. Eliot(1888-1965)
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
Mending Wall
The Road not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Edward EstlinCummings(1894-1962)
O Sweet spontaneous
The Cambridge ladies who live in Furnished Souls Anyone lived in a pretty how town
End Term
Novel
F Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)The Great

Gatsby
Drama
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Death of a Salesman/The Crucible
Note: The following contents are to be covered in Assignments/Projects/Quizzes etc.
Essays and Short Stories
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Bartleby, the

Scrivener
Poetry
Robert Frost
Birches
Fire and Ice
After Apple Picking
Hart Crane(1899-1932)
From The bridge (To Brooklyn Bridge) Chaplinesque

At Melville’s Tomb
Voyages
Novel
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
A Farewell to Arms
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The sound and the Fury

Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)/ Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)Uncle Tom’s
Cabin/ excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Drama
Eugene O’ Neill(1888-1953)Long Day’s Journey into Night
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Eight Semester
rse Code Course Title Cr

Hrs
Discourse Studies 3
Psycholinguistics 3
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) 3
Postcolonial Literature 3
Popular Fiction 3
Introduction to Women’s Writings 3
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Course Title: Discourse Studies

Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
Simply defined as ‘language in use’, discourse is something

concerned more with ‘use behind language’. With such political
implications, discourses are important to comprehend and
appreciate. The present course is designed for a basic level
introduction to ‘Discourse Analysis’ as well as ‘Critical Discourse
Analysis’ for under-graduate students. It introduces the main and
most widely used approaches to discourse analysis. It aims to
develop learners’ critical thinking about how discourses are used in
context and how they reflect and shape our world. The course
draws upon students’ prior understanding of basic linguistic
concepts and provides learners with analytical tools and strategies
to explore features of written and spoken texts.
Course Objectives:
introduce discourse analysis as a method of text analysis

and a research enquiry in language teaching and other
contexts relevant to Applied and Socio-Linguistics
familiarize learners with practical applications of discourse

analysis techniques to real world situations
to acquaint students with a wide variety of discourses
To introduce learners to practical applications of critical

discourse analysis techniques to real world discourses
Course Outcomes:
demonstrate a theoretical grounding in the field of discourse

studies which will enable them to analyze written and
spoken text for various teaching and research related
purposes
exhibit an awareness of text features which are necessary for

building cohesion and coherence identify core features of
conversations as discourse
understand relationship between language,

power and society apply discourse analysis
theories to a sample text
Course Contents:
Section 1: Beginning with Discourse Analysis
Introduction to Discourse
What is Discourse?
Features of
Discourse Text and
Discourse
Types of Discourse: Written, Spoken, Media, Political etc.
Discourse Analysis
What is Discourse Analysis?
A Short History of Discourse

Analysis Major Contributors
Grammatical Analysis of Discourse Cohesion & Coherence
Cohesive Devices Theme & Rheme
Thematic Progression
Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Language in context
Speech Act Theory
Co-operative Principles
Conversational Implicature Politeness Theory
Analysis of Conversation as
Discourse Conversation as
Discourse
Structure of conversation Analyzing a
conversation
Section 2: Proceeding with Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Ideology: Beginning Critical

Discourse Analysis What is ideology
Ideology in Discourse
What is critical Discourse

Analysis A brief history of
CDA
Foucault & CDA
Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Brief overview
Fairclough and CDA
Language and Society
Relational-Dialectal Approach-Basics
Van Dijk and CDA
Socio-Cognitive Model- Basics
Doing Analysis
How to conduct research Choosing a
Discourse
Choosing a perspective
Choosing a suitable method
A Tool for Analysis: choosing DA, CA or CDA
Recommended Books:
Alba-Juez, Laura. (2009). Perspectives on Discourse Analysis:

Theory and Practice. Cambridge.
Blommaert, J. (2005). Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.
Bloor, M., & Bloor, T. (2007). The practice of critical discourse

analysis. An introduction. London: Hodder Arnold.
Caldas-Coulthard, C. R., & Coulthard, M. (Eds. (). An

Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis. London:
Continuum.
Gee, James Paul. (1999). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis:

Theory and Method. Routledge.
Locke, T. (2004). Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
Paltridge, Brian. (2006). Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum
Rogers, R. (Ed.). (2011). An introduction to critical discourse

analysis in education. Second Edition. London: Routledge.
Schiffrin, D., Tannen, D., & Hamilton, H. (Eds.). (2001).

Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (Eds.). (2009). Methods of critical

discourse analysis. Second revised edition. London: Sage
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Psycholinguistics
Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive introduction to the

science of connection between language, mind and brain. It
examines language networking with both mind (abstract
conceptualization of physical brain) and brain (actual grey matter in
skull). Many facts of language as a tool of human communication
have been successfully described in Linguistics. However,
language is a psychological phenomenon by nature. It is impossible
to acquire deep knowledge about it without using psychological
approaches and the present course bridges this gap. The course
covers foundational, theoretical as well as applied topics in
Psycholinguistics.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
help students identify the different aspects of language and

the role it plays in the cognitive development and activities
enable students comprehend the major approaches to

psycholinguistics, with particular emphasis on recent
developments in the area
explain the psychological nature of language
provide a brief idea of neuro-foundations of language
Course Outcomes:
demonstrate various psychological aspects of language usage
develop a scientific attitude towards language development,

comprehension and recognition processes
demonstrate the knowledge on specific issues in psychological

nature of language
Course Contents:
Introduction to Psycholinguistics
What is language and mind connection
The history and methods of

psycholinguistics Models in
Psycholinguistics
Where did language come from? Do Animals have
language?
The Foundations of Language
The biological basis of

language The cognitive
basis of language The
social basis of language
Relation between language and thought

Language Development
Introduction
The language acquisition

device How children
develop language
Phonological development
Lexical and Semantic development Syntactic
development
Language Recognition
Recognizing visual words
What makes word recognition

easier (or harder) Models of visual
word recognition
Reading & Recognition The writing system
A model of reading
The processes of normal

reading Recognizing
speech
Models of speech recognition
Language Comprehension
Comprehension: Intro
Memory for text and

inferences Reference and
ambiguity
Models of text processing
Individual differences in comprehension skills
Language Production
Introduction
Slips of tongue
Syntactic planning Lexicalization
Phonological encoding
Language and Brain

Language parts in Brain Language
Disorders
Neuroscience & Language
Neuroscience of language learning: Critical period
Neuroscience of language recognition/

comprehension Neuroscience of
language/ text processing
Neuroscience of speech production
Recommended Books:
Carroll, David W. (2008). Psychology of Language. 5th ed.

Thomson Wadsworth.
Fernandez, E.M. & Smith Cairns, H. (2010) Fundamentals of

Psycholinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
Field, J. (2003). Psycholinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. .

Routledge
Fromkin, V. Rodman & R. Hymas, N. (2003). An Introduction to

Language. USA: Thompson.
Harley, Trevor A. (2014). The Psychology of Language: From

data to theory. 4th Edition. London: Psychology Press (Taylor
& Francis group)
Ingram, J. C. L. (2007). Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and its Disorders (Cambridge
Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge University Press.ISBN-10: 0521796407
(Paperback) •
Stemmer, B. and Whitaker, H.A. (2010). Handbook of the

Neuroscience of Language. Academic Press. ISBN-10:
008045352X
Assessment:
Total marks: 100

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Course Title: Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
The course includes comprehensive introduction to the field of

TEFL along with basic introduction of some well-known language
teaching methodologies. This course offers guidelines to help
students learn everything from creating lesson plans, teaching
major components of language learning, understanding different
teaching methods etc. This language course enables students
acquire the skills they need to teach English as a foreign language.
The course also includes instructions in classroom management
and lesson planning, teaching specific skills such as: reading,
writing, listening, speaking. Additionally, teachers-in training learn
how to handle error correction, and how to use aids, literature,
books, and other activities in the classroom.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to:
make students comprehend basic concepts in TEFL
give them an overview of well-known language

teaching methodologies engage students in
learner-centered and communicative lessons
help students develop coherent and effective lesson plans

learn good principles and practices of classroom management teach listening,
speaking, pronunciation, reading, writing
enable them to teach using literature, aids and CALL in language

classroom
Course Outcomes:
have a foundation in language teaching practice
demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in TEFL
create, comprehend and apply effective lesson planning

techniques
exhibit sufficient awareness of the structural, lexical,

phonological and discursive features of English as a foreign
language
learn necessary skills and techniques for effective classroom

management
Course Contents:
Introduction
Introduction to TEFL
Foreign Language vs. Second

Language TEFL in Pakistan
Language Acquisition and Learning
Overview of language learning theories
Traditional Language Teaching Methods
Grammar Translation
Method Direct Method
GTM and DM use in Pakistan
Some more Teaching methods
Audio-Lingual Method
Cooperative Language
Learning Task Based
Language Teaching
Eclectic Approach
Language Skills Teaching
Listening Skill
Speaking Skill
Reading Skill
Writing Skill
Classroom Management Skills
Teaching resources (use of aids, course books, supplementary

material)
Using Literature to Teach Language
Assessment & Error correction
Emerging Trends of Teaching English Language: Uses of

Technology in Language Teaching and Learning: Blogs, computer
assisted language software, digital portfolios, distance education,
Electronic Chatting, E-Pen Pals, Electronic Presentations, and
Electronic Text Corpora
Lesson Planning
Role of Teacher.
Note: The division of marks for this subject is 40% -60%. 40 %

marks for the exams; whereas, 60% marks are for practical
work including quiz, class performance, assignments,
exercises, practical activities, lesson planning and final micro
teaching (practical demonstration) activity
Recommended Books:
Borg, S. (2014). Teacher research in Pakistan: enhancing the

teaching and learning of English. British Council, UK.
Baruah. T. (2002). The English Teacher’s handbook. Sterling

Publishers. India
Celce-Murcia, Marianne, ed. (Second edition 1991)

Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Heinle
& Heinle.
Doff, Adrian. (1988). Teach English: A training course for teachers:

Trainer’s Handbook & Teacher’s
Workbook. Cambridge Teacher Training and Development,

Cambridge University Press.
Larsen-Freeman, Diane. (2000). Techniques and Principles in

Language Teaching. Oxford University Press. Second Edition.
Lindsay, Paul. (2000). Teaching English Worldwide. Alta Book

Center Publishers.
Shaw, C. & McDonough, J. (2004). Materials and Methods in

ELT:A teacher’s guide. Blackwell. UK Richards, Jack C. and
Rodgers, Theodore S. (2001). Approaches and Methods in
Language
Teaching. Cambridge University Press. Second edition.
Ur, Penny. (1995). A Course in Language Teaching: Practice

and Theory. Cambridge University Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Postcolonial Literature

Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
This course is based on a study of some seminal and

significant postcolonial literary texts (selected poetry, drama and
fiction) in order to introduce the student to the colonial project and
see how the colonial experience helped shape literature as a result
of military, political, social and cultural encounters between the
colonizers and the colonized. The postcolonial literature(s) can be
roughly divided into three overlapping phases. The first type comes
from the period of contact between the colonial powers and the
colonized, the second type is the response of the natives to the
colonizers, and the third is contemporary literature which comes
from the parts that were earlier colonized, and also from the
diasporic authors. This study is also useful in assessing the
developments which have taken place in this field over time and
relate with the material conditions of the contemporary world and,
consequently, with relevant theoretical concepts as well. An
introduction to the key concepts and terms related to Postcolonial
Studies is also part of this course.
Objectives/Aims of the Course:
To develop an understanding of the key concepts and terms

related to the postcolonial studies.
To study the selected literature employing the postcolonial

concepts in order to analyze this literature.
To see how these readings relate with the contemporary realities,

issues and debates of the world and to understand the
importance of this field of study in the developments taking
place in the world.
Core Texts:
Poetry
Derek Walcott. A Far Cry from Africa (1962)
Louise Bennet. Selected Poems (1983)
Wole Soyinka. Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems (1988)

A.K. Ramanujan. Collected Poems (2011)
(Note: Four to five poems, out of each of these collections, may be
selected by the concerned teacher.)
Drama
Wole Soyinka. A Dance of the Forests (1963)
Derek Walcott. Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970)
Jack Davis. Honey Spot (1985)
Fiction
Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart (1958), a novel.

Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel.
Rohinton Mistry. Tales From Firozsha Baag (1987), a collection of

short stories.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Devil on the Cross (1982), a novel.
(Note: Two short stories from this collection may be selected by the
concerned teacher.)
To identify the postcolonial issues and conflicts through the

reading of the texts.
To see what the text in question is discussing and critiquing.
To analyze the emerging themes and understand their

significance in relation to the conflicts of the contemporary
world.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1989). The Empire Writes
Back. London : Routledge.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial

Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1998). Post-Colonial

Studies - The Key Concepts. London, New York: Routledge.
Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
Fanon, F. (1963). The Wretched of the Earth. (C. Farrington,

Trans.) New York: Grove Weidenfield.
Innes, C. L. (2007). The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial

Literature in English. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Loomba, A. (1998). Colonialism/ Postcolonialism. London:

Routledge.
Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. London: Routledge.
Said, E. W. (1994). Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage

Books.
Spivak, G. (1988). Marxism and Interpretation of Culture: Can the

Subaltern Speak? (C. Nelson, & L.
Grossberg, Eds.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois

Press.
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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Course: Popular Fiction

Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
This course helps students understand different popular texts in the

genre of fiction and the subgenres of
fiction, across the world. This course will broaden students’ vision
with respect to English literature in
general and popular fiction in particular, written in different cultures

with different language use. The popular fiction texts in this course
have been selected from a wide range of cultures so that students
can experience different cultures as well as writing styles in these
texts. This course makes an interesting read for the students as
they will come across different writers’ interests, stories, characters,
conflicts/issues and themes etc. Responding to these diverse texts
will be challenging to the students as well making them think
critically and formulate their own meanings and ideas as they come
across each text. The works selected for this course have been
taken from different writers who belong to different
parts of the world and communities. This diversity is reflected in

these authors’ work though they reflect
other communities as well, the ones they have not lived in. These
works fulfill the needs of the modern day reader to read a good
literary piece of work that they can relate to as these works are
related to contemporary themes and elements. For example
suspense, mystery, crime, love, trust deceit, destiny, redemption,
guilt, friendship, death etc. These works can also be analyzed
through different critical theories like Female Violence,
Psychological Violence, Magical Realism, Feminism, and Cultural
Hybridity etc. These works can make students think critically and
motivate them to do further research and studies related to the
selected works.
Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course are
To expose the students to what is popular, read and appreciated

worldwide in the genre of fiction
To familiarize students with popular fiction in English literature

written by the most recognized authors
To construct the ability to think critically and promote intellectual

growth of the students
To nurture sensitivity towards cultural diversity through a critical
study of the selected works
Core Texts:
A Reader Comprising the core text will be provided to the students.
Agatha Christie (1890-

1. And Then There Were None (1939) 1976)
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) J. K. Rowling (1965-)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-
3. The Hobbit (1937) 1973)
4. Shutter Island (2003) Dennis Lehane (1965-)
5. Burnt Shadows (2009) Kamila Shamsie (1973-)
Mary Shelley (1797-
6. Frankenstein (1818) 1851)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams (1962-
7. (1979) 2001)
Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) (1850-1894)
9. Cinder (2012) Marissa Meyer (1984-)
10
. The Diary of a Social Butterfly (2008) Moni Mohsin (1963-)
Course Outcomes:
The outcomes of teaching this course are that the students will
have
Gained insight and developed a sense of understanding of new

perspectives.
The increased knowledge of the target culture and a heightened

awareness of humanity and conflict
The ability to create meaning coming across a particular text and

view it from different perspectives
Developed motivation and certain ideas as to what kind of

research can be done on such texts
Suggested Readings/Reference Books:
Anatol, Giselle L. Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport,

Conn: Praeger, 2003. Print.
Bloom, Clive. Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. Houndmills,

Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Print.
Botting, Fred. Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory.

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1991. Print.
Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie, an Autobiography. New York,
N.Y: Harper, 2011. Print.
Gelder, Ken. Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a

Literary Field. London: Routledge, 2004. Internet resource.
Glover, David, and Scott McCracken. The Cambridge Companion

to Popular Fiction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2012. Print.
Gupta, Suman. Re-reading Harry Potter. Houndmills, Basingstoke,

Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print.
Hanlon, Michael, and Douglas Adams. The Science of the

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Macmillan, 2005.
Print.
Highfield, Roger. The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really

Works. New York: Viking, 2002. Print.
Hinckley, Karen, and Barbara Hinckley. American Best Sellers:
A Reader's Guide to Popular
Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Print.
Hogle, Jerrold E. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
Joosten, Melanie. Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie: Notes.

Melbourne: CAE Book Groups, 2011. Print.
La, Bella L. Marissa Meyer. , 2016. Print.
McCracken, Scott. Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction. Manchester:

Manchester University Press, 1998. Print.
Morgan, Janet P. Agatha Christie: A Biography. New York: Knopf,
1985. Print.
Nash, Walter. Language in Popular Fiction. London: Routledge,

1990. Print.
Neimark, Anne E, and Anne E. Neimark. Mythmaker: The Life of
J.r.r. Tolkien, Creator of the Hobbit
and the Lord of the Rings. Boston: Harcourt Children's Books,
2012. Print.
O'Dair, Marcus. The Rough Guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the

Galaxy. London: Rough Guides, 2009. Print.
Shapiro, Marc. J.k. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter. New
York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Print.
Shelley, Mary W, and J P. Hunter. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text,

Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism. ,
1996. Print.
Shippey, T A. J.r.r. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print.
Stevenson, Robert L, and Richard Dury. The Annotated Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde: Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Milan: A. Guerini, 1993. Print.
The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory
Paperback – June, 1983 by Glenn W. Most (Editor), William W.
Stowe (Editor)
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
______________________________
Course Title: Introduction to Women’s Writings
Level: BS 8th
Course Description:
Works written by women writers have come to hold a unique place

in literatures around the world. This course is designed to
familiarize students with an array of women’s writings belonging to
diverse cultures and located within multiple waves of feminism. The
rationale of selecting such a wide variety of writers belonging to
different ages is to highlight and underscore issues that women
face in different geographical, cultural, and temporal locations. The
course instructor would do well to either situate the works of
selected writers in the three waves of feminism or otherwise see if
certain texts do not correspond to any set feminist paradigm. The
teacher will also need to discuss the reasons for such deviations.
The course is therefore aimed at providing students with a
complete background for understanding literature produced by
female authors. Geared toward the construction of female selfhood
vis-à-vis constrictions of patriarchal discourse, women’s writings are
associated with extensive social and political changes across time
and space, the phenomena of colonialization / decolonization,
postcolonial, feminist, and postfeminist theory. Some of these
changes are radical, even revolutionary for the re-definition of
women’s roles in both private and public domains. The students will
also study how gender roles have changed, developed and evolved
over time, how women’s views of themselves are reflected in their
writings, and how race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic
status contribute to / intercept women’s reaching their subject
positions.
Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course are to:
• Enable the students to become familiar with the contribution of

women writers to English literature and investigate the nature
of this contribution.
• Understand the themes of women writers in their writing.
• Encourage students to appreciate the aesthetic, emotional,

symbolic, and intellectual language used by women writers.
• Create intellectual foundation for the students who may wish
to further pursue advanced courses in this domain.
Encourage the students to see women’s writings as a

distinct literary tradition that operate in interesting
ways in the context of contemporary debates in
feminism.
Develop critical thinking of students to be able to

respond individually to the texts.
Enable the students to develop academic writing and

research skills.
Core Texts:
POETRY
“No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte

“When I am Dead-My Dearest” by Christina Rossetti
“This is a Photograph of Me” by Margaret Atwood
“A Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou

“Be Nobody’s Darling” by Alice Walker
“Fearful Women” by Carolyn Kizer
II. NOVELS
Their Eyes were watching God (1937) by Zora Neil Hurston

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
The Blue Room (2009) Nafisa Rizvi
How it happened Shazaf Fatima Haidar
SHORT STORIES
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen

“The Gatekeeper’s Wife” by Rukhsana Ahmed
“A Pair of Jeans” by Qaisra Shahraz
“The Optimist” by Bina Shah
“Rubies for a Dog: A Fable” by Shahrukh Hussain
Note: Two of the last four stories may be used for class
assignments/ presentations and the rest may all be taught.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course the students would be able to:
Analyze the various literary devices, the themes,

and different social issues depicted in writings by
the women writers.
Critically analyze texts within different contexts
regarding feminist theory.
Analyze and discuss the ways in which the issues

about women operate in literary texts.
Enable them to write a research paper.
Boland Eavan. Object Lessons. NY: W.W. Norton, 1996

----------------- Outside History, Selected Poems 1980-1990. NY,
London: W.W. Norton, 1991
Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner Martin, The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the
United States. N.Y. Oxford UP, 1995
Dicker, Rory and Alison Piemeier. Catching a Wave: Reclaiming

Feminism for the 21st Century. Northeastern University Press,
2003
Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Pluto
Press, 2000
Eagleton, Mary. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Wiley-Black

Well, 2011
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic:
The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Yale Note: 2000
Kaplan, Cora. ‘Language and Gender’ in Sea Changes: Essays
on Culture and Feminism.
London: Verso, 1986

Ling, Amy. “ I'm Here: An Asian American Woman's Response”.
New Literary History, Vol. 19,
No. 1, Feminist Directions (Autumn, 1987), pp. 151-160. The
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Robbins, Ruth. Literary Feminisms. St. Martin’s Press, 2000
Woolf Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Penguin, 1979
Assessment:
Total marks: 100
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BS HONOURS ENGLISH

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SECOND SEMESTER (NEW)

THIRD SEMESTER (New)

FOURTH SEMESTER (New)

FIFTH SEMESTER (New)

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SIXTH SEMESTER (New)

SEVENTH SEMESTER (New)

EIGTH SEMESTER (NEW)

Course: Study Skills

• Collingwood, R.G. TheIdea of History.London:Oxford UniversityPress,1978.

• Streusand, Douglas E. TheFormation ofMughal Empire.Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 1989.

Course: Reading & Writing Skills

Course: Introduction to Literary Studies

Objectives/Aims of the Course:

4. To briefly develop a concept of different theoretical approaches in literary criticism.

3. To observe that literature reflects language change.

Further/ Suggested Readings:

6. Old & Middle English Periods

• Major characteristics of the age

11. Modern Linguistics

Course Codes Course Title Cr Hrs

Course: Introduction to IT Skills

1. Basic Knowledge of Computers

3. Electronic Communication Skills

6. V. Wayne Klemin and Ken Harsha, Microcomputers, A Practical Approach to Software

Course: Communication and Presentation Skills

• provide techniques to facilitate effective interpersonal and interactive communication

• Analyze the Audience

a) The importance of Public Speaking

Course: Composition Writing

• make students write argumentative essays and course assignments

• demonstrate rhetorical knowledge

3. Cohesion and Coherence

4. Summary and Precise Writing

Course: General Linguistics

Objectives / Aims of the Course:

This course is designed to

1. Ingram, R. P. Winnington, Sophocles: An Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Course Codes Course Title Cr Hrs

Course: Human Rights and Citizenship

9. Introduction to Islamic Law & Jurisprudence

Course: Academic Writing

By the end of the course, the students are expected to:

4.` Accuracy in Writing

Course: Phonetics & Phonology

Course: Short Fiction

The objectives of this course are

1. The knowledge and understanding of the genre of short fiction

2. Learned about diverse writers of short fiction around the world

1. The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde

2. The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy

3. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe

4. The Darling Anton Chekhov

5. Hearts and Hands O’ Henry

6. The Necklace Guy De Maupassant

8. The Other Side of the Hedge E. M. Forster

9. Eveline James Joyce

10. The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy

11. A Hunger Artist Franz Kafka

13. Two Words Isabel Allende

14. A Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfield