Course Outline-Summer-2022

Instructor’s Information

Name Designation Email Address Phone Office Room

Md. Kawser Ahmed Assistant Professor kawser.iubat@gmail.com 01751539582 922

Monday 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Consultation Hours Tuesday 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Wednesday 11:00 am-12:00 pm

Course Information
Credit
Course Code Course Title Section(s) Type of instruction Semester
Hours
Socio Political Interactive Lecture,
HIS 109 A 3 Summer- 2022
History of England Discussion, Group Work
This course, in a broad historical scope, studies the social and political history of England. It intends to understand
if and how the culture, society, and history of England are shaped by different European and national movements
and events and how these movements also shaped the development of English literary periods. The course has a
particular focus on the process and politics of the formation of the United Kingdom.
Course Description
Recommended Texts:
 Trevelyan, G. M., English Social History, (1944). Longman: UK
 Baugh, Albert C, A History of the English Language, (2013). 6th Edition, Rutledge: Abingdon
 Cecil, David Lord (1957). The fine art of reading and other literary studies. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill.
 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) & Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)(1913). The Victorian
age in literature. Henry Holt, Williams and Norgate: New York.
English Institute & Said, Edward W & English Institute (U.S.) (1980). Literature and society.Johns Hopkins
University Press: Baltimore.
Evans, Benjamin Ifor. Sir &Bergonzi, Bernard, 1929-(1976). A short history of Englishliterature (4th ed., rev. and
enl). Penguin: Harmondsworth.
Ford. Boris (1970). The Pelican guide to English literature. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Renwick, W.L. (William Lindsay) (1963). English literature, 1789-1815. Clarendon Press:Oxford

Class Schedule

DAYS TIME ROOM

Sunday 10.40 AM-11.40 AM
707
Monday 10.40 AM-11.40 AM
707
Tuesday 10.40 AM-11.40 AM
707
Course Learning Outcomes (CLO):

On successful completion of this course, it is expected that the students will

CLO 01 - have knowledge of the key events in the social and cultural history of England

CLO 02 - develop understandings of the role of the socio-political events in shaping the literary works produced in the periods

CLO 03 - become familiar with the stages in the historical development of the English language

CLO 04 - develop the ability to speak and write about the social, literary and cultural history of England

CLO 05 - be able to make connections between the causes and effects of historical events across national boundaries

CLO 06 - be able to analyze and evaluate local and contemporary events in the light of past events
Program Learning Outcomes (PLO):

POs Graduate Attributes

Literary and Linguistic Knowledge

PLO 1: Demonstrate mastery of the discipline by detailing the development and current practices of literary and linguistic theories,
rhetoric, and grammar
Knowledge on Other Subjects
PLO 2: Demonstrate fundamental knowledge about cultural anthropology, learners’ native language and literature, socio-political
history of England, psychology, philosophical thoughts and environmental science
Practical Ability
PLO 3: Demonstrate mastery of the discipline by characterizing, instantiating, and critiquing the dominant critical theories,
methodologies, and practices in the field.
Critical Thinking
PLO 4: Demonstrate a critical awareness and knowledge of the literary, cultural, artistic, socio-historical and theoretical contexts in
which literature is written, produced and read.
Lifelong learning
PLO 5: Recognize the importance of lifelong learning and develop the motivation and ability to be engaged in independent
learning for long term
Ethics
PLO 6:
Grow sense of ethics and practices social and ethical values both in personal and professional life
Communication
PLO 7: Communicate the thoughts and ideas to the audience and accomplished in four language skills
Transferrable Skills
PLO 8: Develop a variety of transferable and employability skills through practice and application, such as analysis, judgment,
attention to detail, technical ability and professional knowledge
Analysis
PLO 9: Analyze the internal structure of contemporary English, including knowledge of its phonetics and phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, lexis, discourse analysis and pragmatics
Modern Tool Usage
PLO:10 Use ICT to produce documents and other materials using a computer primarily through word processing but where
appropriate using other software
 Text Creation
PLO:11
Articulate knowledge and understanding both in oral and written form appropriate and applicable to different audience.
Application
PLO:12 Benefit from interdisciplinary nature of both English literature and linguistics by linking them to other related studies
through subject areas such as English language teaching, ESP, Creative Writing, Editing and Media
Problem Analysis
PLO:13 Identify appropriate areas where analysis is indispensible to reach a conclusion both in literary and linguistic contexts and
provide appropriate interpretations and recommend relevant suggestions
 Mapping of the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) and Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Domains
Level
Delivery
CLOs Assessment

Psychomotor
Method

Cognitive

Affective
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

- have knowledge of the key Examination

Lecture
events in the social and cultural √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Discussion
history of England Assignments
- develop understandings of the
Examination
role of the socio-political events in Lecture
√ √ √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
shaping the literary works Discussion
Assignments
produced in the periods
- become familiar with the stages Examination
Lecture
in the historical development of √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Discussion
the English language Assignments
- develop the ability to speak and Examination
Lecture
write about the social, literary and √ √ √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Discussion
cultural history of England Assignments
- be able to make connections
Examination
between the causes and effects of Lecture
√ √ √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
historical events across national Discussion
Assignments
boundaries
- be able to analyze and evaluate Examination
Lecture
local and contemporary events in √ Quiz √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Discussion
the light of past events Assignments
 Course Calendar: Fall 2021
Department of English and Modern Languages
HIS 109: Socio Political History of England

Lesson Outcomes Teaching

Lesson

Skills to be Title of the

(Students will be able Tasks to be completed Resources Method/ Assessment
Focused Chapter
to…) Approach

Slides Class
Know and understand Greetings Interactive
Speaking Participation
01 the rationale of the Orientation – 1 Ice-breaking lecture and
Listening Course Question-
course Rationale of the course discussion
Outline Answer
Class
Know and understand Greetings Slides Interactive
Speaking Participation
02 the rationale of the Orientation – 2 Ice-breaking Course lecture and
Listening Question-
course Rationale of the course Outline discussion
Answer
Know and understand Class
Objectives, rationale, Slides Interactive
Speaking the objectives, Introduction to the Participation
03 scopes and rules of the Course lecture and
Listening rationale, scopes and Course – 1 Question-
course Outline discussion
rules of the course Answer
Know and understand Class
Objectives, rationale, Slides Interactive
Speaking the objectives, Introduction to the Participation
04 scopes and rules of the Course lecture and
Listening rationale, scopes and Course – 2 Question-
course Outline discussion
rules of the course Answer
Know and understand Class
Objectives, rationale, Slides Interactive
Speaking the objectives, Introduction to the Participation
05 scopes and rules of the Course lecture and
Listening rationale, scopes and Course – 3 Question-
course Outline discussion
rules of the course Answer
Understand historical
Knowledge
Know the background The Norman background of the Norman Slides Interactive Class
Reading
06 and significance of the Conquest (William Conquest and William the Handouts lecture and Participation
Speaking
Norman Conquest the Conqueror) Conqueror Textbook(s) discussion
Listening
 Scandinavian Understand borrowings and
Vocabulary Understand broadly Class
Influence upon loan words Slides Interactive
Speaking how Scandinavian Participation
07 English Language: Learn Foreign like Handouts lecture and
Listening influenced English Mini Quiz
Borrowings and Loan Scandinavian influence Textbook(s) discussion
Pronunciation languages Session
words upon English
Vocabulary Anglo-Saxon Detect diversity of Old Class
Perceive Anglo Saxon’s Slides Interactive
Reading Language English languages Participation
08 linguistic variations Handouts lecture and
Speaking Diversification and Understand its major Question-
and literary aspects Textbook(s) discussion
Listening Literary Features literary features Answer
Understand social life and
Knowledge Make out social and Slides Interactive Class
Chaucer’s England social class in terms of
09 Speaking literary England during Handouts lecture and Participation
and Social Pictures literature produced in
Listening Chaucer’s Age Textbook(s) discussion
Chaucer’s Age
Get a good Analyse grammatical
Vocabulary Middle English:
understanding on components like nouns, Slides Interactive Class
Pronunciation Function of
10 grammars and verbs or pronouns and Handouts lecture and Participation
Speaking Grammars and
borrowings of various forms of Textbook(s) discussion
Listening Medieval English Borrowings
borrowed
words
Conceptualize a wide Understand literary genres Slides Class
Reading Literary Features Interactive
vista of literary like poetry Handouts Participation
11 Speaking during the Middle lecture and
aspects Read major writers and Video Clips Question-
Listening English Period discussion
of the Middle English majors works Answer
Period
Read the Golden Age of
Knowledge Comprehend familial Elizabeth I’s Reign Slides
English literature and Interactive Class
Reading and salient political and Expansion of Handouts
12 political dominance during lecture and Participation
Speaking strata of Queen British Political Video Clips
Elizabeth I’s reign discussion
Listening Elizabeth I Domain Textbook(s)
Know about the
Concentrate upon agrarian,
Knowledge picture of England Slides Interactive Class
Shakespeare’s religious and political
13 Speaking from society and Handouts lecture and Participation
England aspects of England in
Listening common life of citizens Textbook(s) discussion
Shakespeare’s Age
to Queen’s court
Vocabulary Shakespearean
Visualize how much
Pronunciation English in Identify a collection words, Slides Interactive
Shakespeare
14 Speaking
contributed for the
Renaissance phrases and syntaxes used Handouts lecture and Quiz-I
Listening (Vocabularies and in sonnets and dramas Textbook(s) discussion
proliferation of English
Writing Grammars)
 Knowledge Know about the House Tudor Dynasty: Understand the appearance Class
Slides Interactive
Reading of Tudors like six Contemporary of Tudor monarchs and Participation
15 Handouts lecture and
Speaking monarchs and political England stability of England after a Question-
Textbook(s) discussion
Listening regimes ostensibly longtime chaos Answer
Understand major Stuart Dynasty: Largely make out religious Slides Class
Knowledge Interactive
royal upheavals and Contemporary strife, a large scale civil war Handouts Participation
16 Speaking lecture and
movements happened England and execution and Video Clips Question-
Listening discussion
in the Stuart Period ascension of kings Textbook(s) Answer
Find out major tenets of Class
Get a gruesome image Slides Interactive
Speaking Commonwealth Commonwealth Period and Participation
17 and rigid regime of Handouts lecture and
Listening Period (1649-1660) the rise and dethronement Question-
Oliver Cromwell discussion
of Oliver Cromwell Answer

18 FIRST TERM EXAMINATION

Know historical Broadly understand major
Reading background of the causes and after effects and Slides Interactive Class
The English Civil War
19 Speaking English Civil War and relevancy of monarchs and Handouts lecture and Participation
(1642)
Listening its legitimacy in parliament in the English discussion
citizens’ life Civil War
Read successive stories of
Categorize monarchial the recovery of English
Class
Knowledge English politics into The Restoration kingdom from monarchical Slides Interactive
Participation
20 Speaking parliament and major England (1660-1700) system and reflection of Handouts lecture and
Question-
Listening trends of Restoration and Literary Features society in light of Textbook(s) discussion
Answer
literature contemporary literature

Perceive the
Read the chief factors
justification of the
behind the Glorious Class
Glorious Revolution The Glorious Slides Interactive
Speaking Revolution, James II, fall of Participation
21 and contemporary Revolution Handouts lecture and
Listening James and conquer of Question-
autocratic government (1688) discussion
Parliament Answer
and citizens’ feelings
 Widely understand The Romantic Know social divisions,
Knowledge Slides Interactive Class
English society and Period: Socio and political turmoil, agrarian
22 Speaking Handouts lecture and Participation
politics in the Political Aspects of picture and of common
Listening discussion
Romantic Period England people’s life of England
Illustrate the mechanized
Understand the
and industry based
Reading Industrial Revolution Slides Interactive
The Industrial economy Question-
23 Speaking as a life vitality to the Handouts lecture and
Revolution (1760) Depict seamy side of the Answer
Listening present modern discussion
Industrial Revolution in
civilization
contemporary England
Know how the French Read widely major causes
Revolution unified and after effects of the
Knowledge
common citizens French Revolution Interactive
Reading The French Slides Question-
24 against revolutionary Understand the slogan of lecture and
Speaking Revolution (1789) Handouts Answer
government and the the French Revolution and discussion
Listening
establishment of relevancy to contemporary
French Consulate to British literature
Understand salient trends of
Find a good Romantic literature like
Knowledge Slides Interactive Class
understanding about Literary Trends in poetry
25 Speaking Handouts lecture and Participation
major literary features the Romantic Period Familiarize themselves with
Listening Textbook(s) discussion
of the Romantic Period major poets of the
Romantic Age
Cover a compact Read agrarian society,
Knowledge The Victorian Slides Interactive Class
image of Victorian industrial influence and
26 Speaking England: Social and Handouts lecture and Participation
society, life style and Reform Bill of 1867 and
Listening Political Background Textbook(s) discussion
politics Queen Victoria’s regime
Specifically understand Victorian Era: Know salient controversies
Reading Slides Interactive
some key controversial Science vs. Religion between Science and
27 Speaking
dogmas of the Victorian Social and Religion, Industrial Society
Handouts lecture and Quiz-II
Listening discussion
Victorian Period Agrarian Pictures and Agrarian Society
Mark the major
Read literary features of Slides
differences of the Literary Trends Interactive Class
Reading the Victorian literature and Handouts
28 Victorian literature during the Victorian lecture and Participation
Speaking popular poets and major Video Clips
with Elizabethan and Period discussion
Listening novelists
Romantic ones
 Find the Edwardian Read frivolous but stylish Class
The Edwardian Era Slides Interactive
Reading Era as elegance and social life, debase of Participation
29 (1901-1914): Political Handouts lecture and
Speaking luxury and moral morality and political Question-
Features discussion
Listening looseness anarchy Answer
Visualize how World
Knowledge War I changed social, Understand major causes Slides Class
World War I and Interactive
Reading religious and political and aftermaths of World Handouts Participation
30 Contemporary lecture and
Speaking life and outlined key War I and sufferings and Video Clips Question-
England discussion
Listening lessons for human achievements for England Answer
civilization

31 MID TERM EXAMINATION

Get knowledge about
literary ideals of Understand literary features Class
Knowledge Literary Trends Slides Interactive
Modern Age and in accordance with popular Participation
32 Speaking during the Modern Handouts lecture and
reflection of wars, British and Irish poets and Question-
Listening Period discussion
clashes and immorality dramatists Answer
upon them
Know political and
Read the Post War Britain, Class
Reading social England after The Georgian Era Slides Interactive
political upheavals, Participation
33 Speaking World War I and (1910-1936): Political Handouts lecture and
discoveries and inventions Question-
Listening turbulences happened Features discussion
and depression in economy Answer
during that period
Know World War II as
the exhibition of Axis Read major causes of World Slides Class
Knowledge World War II and Interactive
Power against the War II and its aftermaths Handouts Participation
34 Speaking Contemporary lecture and
Allies and and involvement of England Video Clips Question-
Listening England discussion
resurrection of the in WWII as an Allied one Answer
world from
demolition
Cover a historically Read Irish struggle for
Conflict between
long cherished democracy by Irish Class
Reading England and Ireland: Interactive
relationships between Republican Army (IRA), Slides Participation
35 Speaking Contemporary lecture and
England and Ireland English regime either social, Handouts Question-
Listening Religious and discussion
on religion, political or cultural upon Answer
Political England
democracy, indecency Ireland
 and suffrage

Read chronological inclusion

Understand application English in Nineteenth of derivations, borrowings
Knowledge
of English in 19th and and Twentieth and word formations from Class
Vocabulary Slides Interactive
20th century world on Centuries (Science many different cultures and Participation
36 Pronunciation Handouts lecture and
many different social, and Technology, regions for colonial Question-
Speaking Textbook(s) discussion
industrial and Wars and Social expansions and linguistic Answer
Listening
technological aspects Factors) accommodation and
acculturation

Review of
37
Classes

39 FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CLASS POLICY

Each student is required to:

1. attend classes and participate in examinations

Course Requirements 2. submit accomplished assignments/perform presentation either in group or solo

3. participate in group work and respond to instructions; and
4. Pass the examinations with a minimum of D (-) grade

Attendance
Class Policy
Students are expected to attend all the classes.
 Classroom decorum
Students are required to:
1. wear proper dress during the class
2. speak in English in class
3. Avoid making any type of noise in the class and
4. Report to class on time

Examination/ Evaluation
1. Quizzes may be announced or unannounced.
2. Term examinations are always announced.
3. Cheating is strictly prohibited. A student who is caught cheating will be given a score of
“0” for the first offense. For the second offense, he/she will automatically be suspended
from the course.
4. Students who missed exams, or quizzes may only be excused for any of the following
reasons:
a. participation in a University/ Department approved field trip or activity (must
be cleared one week in advance);
b. personal illness (must present medical certificate); and death or serious
illness in the immediate family

GRADING SYSTEM IUBAT Grading Policy:

 Grade
Marks Range Letter Grade
Examinations Percentage Points
90-100 A 4.0
First Term Examination 20% 87-89 B+ 3.7
Mid Term Examination 20% 84-86 B 3.4
Final Examination 35% 80-83 B- 3.1
Quizzes/ Class Tests 5% 77-79 C+ 2.8
Attendance 5% 74-76 C 2.5
Assignments/Term papers/Presentation 15% 70-73 C- 2.2
65-69 D+ 1.5
Total 100% 60-64 D 1.0
Below 60 F 0.0

Course Instructor’s Profile

Md. Kawser Ahmed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Modern Languages of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
(IUBAT). He achieved Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics & ELT and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Department of English of the University of Dhaka. He
concentrates on research interests in the arena of English Language Teaching and Learning within and beyond Native Country, Pedagogical Aspects in English
Language, Teaching Techniques and Strategies, Learner Autonomy and Learner Centeredness, Speaking as a Skill of Enigma and Analysis on Errors of Non-native
Learners.
He has been a member of Bangladesh English language Teachers’ Association (BELTA) and The AsiaTEFL. He has attended a number of national and international
seminars and conferences on the practicality of English Language Teaching (ELT), English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and
English Language Teaching (ELT) in the context of present globalized world organized by BELTA, US Embassy, American Center and British Council. He has
published a number of quality research articles on English Language Teaching (ELT) which have been indexed in different academic and research sites and wings of
the world.
You can find more information about his research work at Md. Kawser Ahmed- https://scholar.google.com
https://www.academia.edu/profile/ Md._Kawser_Ahmed.
 Course Instructor Md. Kawser Ahmed

Approved by:

Advisor to the Department Chairman Coordinator

Dr. BijoyLalBasu Dr. Momtazur Rahman A T M SirajulAlom

Advisor Professor and Chair Assistant Professor and Coordinator
Department of English and Modern Department of English and Modern Department of English and Modern
Languages, IUBAT Languages, IUBAT Languages, IUBAT