English

STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

SYLLABUS
(Effective from the academic year 2019–2020)
PROSE
CODE:19EL/MC/PR13 CREDITS:3
L T P:3 1 0
TOTAL TEACHING HOURS:52
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• To train students to critically analyse prose texts
• To train students in reading for ideas
• To hone academic writing skills in students
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to
• demonstrate an understanding of the generic features of prose forms

• identify the themes of varied prose texts
• identify rhetorical devices in prose texts
• critically analyse a variety of texts
• organise their thoughts and ideas in a logical manner while writing essays
Unit 1
Essays (15 Hours)
1.1 Kinds of Essays
1.2 Joseph Addison Ladies’ Headdress
1.3 Sam Roberts Celebrating The Semicolon in a Most
Unlikely Location, The New York Times, 18
Feb. 2008
1.4 Ramchandra Guha The Locality and the Nation, The Hindu, Sunday
Magazine, 31 August 2003
1.5 George Mikes Tea
Unit 2
Speeches & Letters (8 Hours)
2.1 Features of Speeches and Letters
2.2 Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
2.3 J. K. Rowling Commencement Address at Harvard
University, June 2008
2.4 Charles Dickens Letter to his Wife
Unit 3
Life Writing (9 Hours)
3.1 Introduction to Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Diaries
3.2 Rajmohan Gandhi from The Good Boatman (pp 179-187)
3.3 Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
Chapters 1-5
3.4 Temsula Ao Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody
Rags, Part III, “Evening College”, “A New
Identity”
Unit 4
Travel Writing (12 Hours)
4.1 Kinds of Travel Writing and their features
4.2 Pico Iyer Falling off the Map (Bhutan)
4.3 Hugh and Colleen Gantzer Lapland Tales: Saga of the Shaman’s Stone, The
Hindu, 21 Feb 2015.
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (8 Hours)
5.1 Essay: Organisation; Beginning, Emphasis, Transition, Ending
Unit 5: Not for Testing
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. W W Norton & Co., 2005.
Gandhi, M.K. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Trans. Mahadev Desai. Navjivan
Publishing House, 1948.
Jamison, Leslie. The Best American Essays 2017. Houghton Mifflin, 2017.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Times Books,
1995.
Ozick, Cynthia. The Best American Essays 1998. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Shelston, Alan. Biography. Methuen, 1977.
Walker, Hugh. The English Essays and Essayists. S. Chand & Co. 1966.
Winkler, Antony C. Readings for Writers. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.grammarcheck.net/how-write-essay-like-pros/
http://www.bucks.edu/media/bcccmedialibrary/pdf/howtowritealiteraryanalysisessay_10.15.0
7_001.pdf
PATTERN OF ASSESSMENT:
Continuous Assessment Test: Total marks: 50 Duration: 90 minutes
Section A –Two out of four 150-word essays 2 x 10 = 20 marks
Section B –One out of two 300-word essays 1 x 15 = 15 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1 x 15 = 15 marks
Other Components: Total Marks: 50

Assignment/Seminar/Presentation/Take Home Test/Open Book Test/Scheduled Class Work –
Passage Analysis etc / Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation
End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

Section A –Four out of six 150-word essays 4 x 10 = 40 marks
Section B –Two out of four 400-word essays 2 x 20 = 40 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1 x 20 = 20 marks
SYLLABUS
POETRY
CODE:19EL/MC/PT13 CREDITS:3
L T P:3 1 0
COURSE OBJECTIVES
● To enable students to learn how to read poetry with reference to form and context
● To train students to identify features related to poetic forms and issues related to
contexts
● To train students to critically appreciate a variety of poems

● read and appreciate different kinds of poetry
● identify poetic forms
● identify poetic devices
● critically analyse a variety of poems
● demonstrate an understanding of the contexts
Unit 1
Poetic Forms and Devices (22 Hours)
1.1 The Sonnet
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
1.2 The Ode
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
1.3 The Elegy
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1.4 The Lyric
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
1.5 The Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
1.6 Song Lyrics
John Lennon Imagine
1.7 Simile
1.8 Metaphor
1.9 Image
1.10 Symbol
1.11 Synecdoche
1.12 Metonymy
Unit 2
Poetry of the British Isles (8 Hours)
2.1 Jackie Kay In My Country
2.2 Seamus Heaney Digging
2.3 Carol Ann Duffy Standing Female Nude
2.4 John Donne A Valediction of Weeping
Unit 3
American Poetry (8 Hours)
3.1 T.S. Eliot The Preludes
3.2 Joy Harjo Remember
3.3 Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman
3.4 William Carlos Williams The Red Wheel Barrow
Unit 4
Postcolonial Poetry (8 Hours)
4.1 Anita Heiss The Colours of Aboriginality
4.2 Wole Soyinka Telephone Conversation
4.3 Derek Walcott A Far Cry From Africa
4.4 Allen Curnow House and Land
Unit 5
Analysis of poems not prescribed on the syllabus – handouts to be given to students
by course instructor
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007.
Erdrich, Heid.E. New Poets of Native Nations .Greywolf Press, 2018.
Heaney, Seamus. Collected Poems: 1988-2013. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.
Matterson, Stephen and Darryl Jones. Studying Poetry. OUP, 2000.
Perkins, David. Modern American Poetry 1945-2000 - An Introduction. Blackwell
Publishers, 2006.
Rosenthal, M.L. The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II. OUP,
1967.
Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984. Longman
Inc., 1985.
JOURNALS
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (online)
Wasafiri
Postcolonial Studies
WEB RESOURCES
www.poets.org
www.poetryfoundation.org
www.literarydevices.org
http://criticalflame.org/(online)
https://www.aprweb.org/(online)
Continuous Assessment Test: Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90
minutes
Section A–One out of two 150 word essays on poetic forms 1 x 10 = 10 marks
(prescribed poems from Unit 1)
Section B –Two out of four 75 word essay on poetic devices 2 x 5 = 10 marks
(unseen poems)
Section C –Two out of four 300 word essays 2 x 15 = 30 marks
on content, form, tone & style (Units 2, 3 & 4)

Passage Analysis /Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation

Section A – three out of five 150 word essays 3 x 10 = 30 marks
on poetic forms (prescribed poems from Unit 1)
Section B – two out of four 75 word essays each 2 x 5 = 10 marks
on poetic devices (unseen poems)
Section C –four out of six 300 word essays 4 x 15 = 60 marks
on content, form, tone & style (Units 2, 3 & 4)
SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
CODE:19EL/AC/LG15 CREDITS:5
L T P:5 0 0
● To introduce students to the fundamental concepts of linguistics
● To inculcate in students a scientific approach to language
● To equip them with tools to analyse linguistic units
● To introduce them to the relationship between language, culture and society

● understand issues related to the structure and functioning of language

● analyse sounds and identify patterns of sounds in languages
● compare and contrast language in terms of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax
and semantics
● understand how language, society and culture are related
Unit 1
Language as Communication (15 Hours)
1.1 Characteristics of Human Language
1.2 Human Language as a Signifying System
Saussure: Langue and Parole, Syntagm and Paradigm, Arbitrary Nature of Sign,
Linear Nature of the Signifier
1.3 Varieties of Language – Dialect, Idiolect, Register
Unit 2
Phonology (15 Hours)
2.1 Segmental Phonemes
2.1.1 Cardinal Vowel Scale
2.1.2 Classification of Vowels and Consonants in English
2.2 Supra-Segmental Features
2.2.1 Word and Sentence Stress
2.2.2 Intonation
Unit 3
Morphology (10 Hours)
3.1 Morphemes
3.1.1 Bound and Free Morphemes
3.1.2 Derivatives – Root and Affix
3.1.3 Zero and Empty Morph
Unit 4
Grammar (15 Hours)
4.1 Traditional Grammar
4.2 Five Basic Sentence Patterns
4.3 I.C. Analysis
Unit 5
Semantics (10 Hours)
5.1 Synonymy, Antonymy, Polysemy
5.2 Hyponymy and Homonymy
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Balasubramanian, T. A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students. Macmillan India
Ltd., 1981.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language Cambridge UP,
2003.
Palmer, Frank. Semantics: A New Outline. Cambridge UP, 1977.
---. Grammar, second ed. Penguin, 1971.
Yule, George. The Study of Language – An Introduction. Oxford UP, 1970.
Piller, Ingrid. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied
Sociolinguistics. Oxford UP, 2016.
Pullum.Geoffrey K. Linguistics: Why it Matters. Wiley, 2018
Continuous Assessment Test: Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90
minutes
Section A 20 marks
Phonemic transcription 5x1 =5 marks
IC analysis, 2x2.5=5 marks
Identifying sentence patterns 5x1 = 5 marks
Morphemic analysis –no choice 5x1=5 marks
(Alternative questions, to replace Phonemic transcription and IC analysis,
to be set for differently-abled students.)
Section B - Three out of five 75-word essays 3x5 = 15 marks
Section C – One out of three 300-word essay 1x15= 15 marks

Oral test on phonetics 20 marks
Transcription 10 marks
I.C. Analysis 10 marks
Identifying Sentence Patterns 10 marks

Section A – Phonemic transcription of ten words 10x1= 10 marks
Section B – Identifying sentence pattern of five sentences 5x2=10 marks
Morphemic analysis of ten words 10x1=10 marks
IC Analysis of two sentences 2x2½=5 marks
Section C – Four out of six 75 word-essays 4x5=20 marks
Three out of five 300 word-essays 3x15=45 marks
(Alternative questions, to replace phonemic transcription and IC analysis,
to be set for differently-abled students.)
SYLLABUS
(Effective from the academic year 2019-2020)
DRAMA
CODE:19EL/MC/DR23 CREDITS:3
L T P:3 1 0

● To introduce drama as a social product and a literary form
● To familiarise students with representative samples of genres and sub-genres
● To facilitate a close reading of plays
● To train students to use concepts and techniques in the critical analysis of drama

● identify the various dramatic forms, techniques and devices
● employ analytical skills for a critical interpretation and appreciation of drama
● apply literary concepts pertaining to drama, with regard to canonical as well as
contemporary plays
Unit 1
Aspects of Drama (7 Hours)
1.1 Plot
1.2 Characterisation
1.3 Setting
1.4 Structure
1.5 The Unities
Unit 2
Types of Drama (7 Hours)
2.1 Comedy
2.2 Tragedy
2.3 Tragicomedy
Unit 3 (10 Hours)

3.1 Shakespeare As You Like it
Unit 4 (20 Hours)

4.1 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
4.2 Bertolt Brecht Caucasian Chalk Circle
Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (8 Hours)

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Van Es, Bart. Shakespeare’s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction., OUP, 2016.
Ellis-Fermor, Una. The Frontiers of Drama. Routledge, (1964) 2013.
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Vintage, 2004.
Evans, Bertrand. Shakespeare Comedies. OUP, 1967.
Gascoigne, Bamber. Twentieth Century Drama. Hutchinson Uni. Library, 1967.
Gray, Ronald. Brecht the Dramatist. CUP, 1977.
Halliday, F. E. Shakespeare in His Age. Oaktree Publications, 1971.
Hazlitt, William. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays. Handpress Publishing, 2010.
Leech, Clifford. Tragedy: The Critical Idiom. Routledge, 1969.
Merchant, Moelwyn. Comedy: The Critical Idiom Series. Routledge, 1972.
Pettet, E. C. Shakespeare and the Romance Tradition. Haskell House Publishers, 1975.
Wiles, David. Shakespeare’s Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse. CUP,
2005.
Williams, Raymond. “Introduction.,” Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. Chatto and Windus, 1952,
pp 11–38.
WEB SOURCES
www.dramaonlinelibrary.com
www.writerstheatre.org.
Continuous Assessment Test: Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90 minutes
Section A –two out of four 150-word essays 2 x 10 = 20 marks
Section B - one out of two 300-word essay 1 x 15 = 15 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed plays (no choice) 1 x 15 = 15 marks

Passage Analysis etc/Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation/Role-Play/Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A –two out of four 150-word essays 2 x 10 = 20 marks
Section B – three out of five 400-word essays 3 x 20 = 60 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed plays 1 x 20 = 20 marks
SYLLABUS
INDIAN LITERATURES - I
CODE: 19EL/MC/IL25 CREDITS:5

L T P:5 1 0
● To introduce students to Indian Literatures written in various languages from the
classical age to the pre-independence era
● To introduce students to various genres of literature from different regions across India
● To trace the interrogation of and change from classical to the pre-independence era in
Indian Literature
● To enable students to understand the multiplicity of historical, social, cultural and
political milieux of India as reflected in literature
● appreciate, analyse, interpret and critique Indian Literatures written in various
languages from the classical age to the pre-independence era
● critically engage with various genres of Indian Literatures written during this period
● relate Indian Literatures to important historical, social, cultural and political
developments that influenced it
● appreciate and engage critically with polyphonic discourses in Indian Literatures
Unit 1
Indian Aesthetics and Thought (15 Hours)
1.1 Ananda Coomaraswamy That Beauty is a State
1.2 A.K. Ramanujan Afterword to Poems of Love and War
1.3 Arundhati Subramaniam Introduction to Eating God: A Book of
Bhakti Poetry
Unit 2
Upto the 6th Century AD (15 Hours)
2.1 A.K. Ramanujan Flowering Tree (from The Flowering
Tree and Other Oral Tales from India)
2.2 Bhasa Urubhangam
2.3 Sangam Poetry
2.3.1 Akam Kuruntokai 25. Only a thief was there
Narrinai 179. If a calving Cow
2.3.2 Puram Puranauru 235. If he found a little
liquor
Purananuru 69. Dear Singer
(from A. K. Ramanujan. Poems of Love
and War)
2.4 Charles Hallissey (trans.) Therigatha - Punna or Punnika,
Ambapali
Unit 3
7th Century to 18th Century (15 Hours)
3.1 Bulle Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what
shall I do?
3.2 Chokhamela They thrash me Vithu
3.3 Soyra Bai You say some bodies (from Eating God. A Book
of Bhakti Poetry, pp 49)
3.4 Meera Bai These eyes: like… (from Three Bhakti Voices,
pp 112-113)
3.5 Devara Dasimayya Poem 120 from Speaking of Siva
3.6 Salabega Get lost, you dirty flirt (from Eating God , pp
127)
3.7 Ramprasad Sen What a Joke. (from Singing to the Goddess:
Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal , pp 22-23)
3.8 Babur Description of Kabul (from Baburnama ,
pp 199-207)
Unit 4
19th Century to 1947 (20 Hours)
4.1 Toru Dutt The Tree of Life
4.2 Chandu Menon Indulekha (Trans. Anitha Bevasia)
4.3 Rabindranath Tagore Chitra
4.4 Munshi Premchand Wife into Husband (from Oxford India
Premchand)
4.5 Ammani Ammal Expectation and the Event (from The Tamil
Short Story: Through the Times, Through the
Tides, pp 1-4)
Unit 5
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Afterword. The Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Ed. Stuart Blackburn and
Alan Dundes. Penguin Books, 1997.
Bhat, G.K. “Two plays of Tragic Design and Tragic Intent,” Tragedy and Sanskrit Drama.
Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, 1976.
Chakravarthy, Uma. “The Rise of Buddhism as Experienced by Women.” Manushi, 8.
Devy G N. After Amnesia. Orient Longman, 1994.
Naik, M K. A History of Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi, 2005. Print.
Pollock, Sheldon I. A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics. Columbia University Press,
2018.
Ramanujan A.K. Afterword. Poems of Love and War. Oxford University Press. 1996
JOURNALS
Indian Literature
Kavya Bharathi
The Little Magazine
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Literary Criterion
WEB RESOURCES
www. sawnet.com
www.ntm.org.in
www.indianruminations.com
ccrtindia.gov.in/literaryarts.php
Section A- two out of four 300-word essays 2x15=30 marks
Section B- one out of two 400-word essays 1x20=20 marks

Assignment/Seminar/Presentation/Take Home Test/Open Book Test/Scheduled Class Work-
Passage Analysis etc/Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation/Role – Play/Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A- four out of six 300-word essays 4x15=60 marks
Section B- two out of four 400-word essays 2x20=40 marks
SYLLABUS
SUBALTERN WRITING
CODE:19EL/AC/SW25 CREDITS:5
LTP:5 0 0

● To enable students to understand the concept of subalternity
● To help them position subaltern identities in texts
● To sensitise students to experiences of marginalisation
● To enable students to critically analyse literary texts with reference to subalternity

● demonstrate an understanding of the issues related to marginalised sections of the
society
● display a sensitive approach to marginalised sections of society
● identify and understand the causes and consequences of oppression
● apply subaltern concepts and theories to the interpretation and analysis of texts
● extend their understanding of the issues discussed through the texts to the real world
Unit 1
Background Reading (20 Hours)
1.1 Paulo Freire Introduction, Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
1.2 Frantz Fanon On Violence (from The Wretched of the Earth, pp 1-13)
Unit 2 (15 Hours)

2.1 Saeed Akhtar Mirza “The First Lady and the Terrorist: A Film Script
in Five Acts.” (from Ammi: Letter to a Democratic
Mother, pp. 250-307)
Unit 3 (10 Hours)

3.1 Maheswata Devi Kunti and the Nishadin (from After Kurukshetra)
Unit 4 (15 Hours)

4.1 Nellie Wong When I was Growing up
4.2 Cherrie Moraga The Welder
4.3 S. Sukirtharani A Faint Smell of Meat

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Anazaldua, Gloria. This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color.
SUNY Press, 1983, pp 165-173.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask. Grove, 1967.
Gail Omvedt “Chapter 11: Sita’s Curse and Shambuk’s Silence.” Dalit Visions : Orient
Longman, 2006.
Gramsci, Antonio. “History of the Subaltern Classes”, Prison Notebooks Vol. II, Ed. &Tr.
Joseph A. Buttigreg, 1996, 24-25.
Milner, Andrew and Jeff Browitt. Race and Ethnicity in Black and Latino Cultural Studies:
Contemporary Critical Theory. III Ed. Rawat, 2003.
Nilsen, Alf Gunvald and Srila Roy, eds. New Subaltern Politics. Reconceptualizing
Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India. OUP, 2015.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakraborti. “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography”. Ed.
Ranajit Guha, Writings on South Asian History and Society Vol IV. OUP, 1985, pp
330-363.
Section A – two out of four 150-word essays 2x10=20 marks
Section B – one out of two 300-word essays 1x15=15 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1x15= 15 marks
Other Components Total Marks: 50

Assignment/Seminar/Presentation/Take Home Test/Open Book Test/Quiz
Panel Discussion/Group Presentation/Role-Play/Dramatisation/Creative Writing

Section A – three out of five 300-word essays 3x15= 45marks
Section B – two out of four 400-word essays 2x20=40 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1x15=15 marks
STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI-600086
General Elective Course Offered by the Department of English to
B.A / B.Sc / B.Com / B.B.A/ B.S.W / B.V.A/B.C.A. Degree Programme
SYLLABUS
POPULAR CULTURE
CODE:19EL/GE/PC22 CREDITS:2
L T P:2 0 0
● To enable students to arrive at a definition of what ‘popular culture’ means in the
contemporary world
● To encourage students to think critically about popular culture
● To equip students to examine the contexts of most popular culture elements and the
reasons behind their origin

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to
● demonstrate a clear understanding of what pop culture is and what constitutes it
● find and examine examples of popular culture in different contexts with different kinds
of representation
● interact with the different pop culture elements around them with a more analytical and
critical perspective
● appreciate the value of pop culture in shaping our zeitgeist
Unit 1 (6 Hours)
Introduction to Popular Culture
1.1. Defining popular culture
1.2 ‘High’ vs. ‘Low’ Culture
Unit 2 (10 Hours)

Popular Culture in the Indian Sub-Continent
2.1 Song Why This Kolaveri
2.2 Advertisements Generation of Care (Vicks)
2.3 Hashtag Movements #MeToo
2.4 Street Art GuessWho (from Kochi Muziris Biennale)
Unit 3 (10 Hours)

Popular Culture in the Global Context
3.1 Song Childish Gambino This is America
3.2 Stand-up Hasan Minhaj Content Moderation and Free
Speech (Patriot Act: Volume 1,
Episode 1)
3.3 Advertisements Bodyform Fear Going to School Less
3.4 YouTube Lilly Singh A Geography Class for Racist
People
3.5 TV Show Dan Goor, Michael Schur Game Night,
Season 5, Episode 9
(Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Danesi, Marcel. Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives. Fourth ed., Rowman &
Littlefield, 2018.
Gokulsing, K. Moti, and Wimmal Dissanayake, editors. Popular Culture in a Globalised
India. Routledge, 2009.
Guins, Rainford, and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, editors. Popular Culture: A Reader. Sage
Publications, 2005.
Kasbekar, Asha. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO Inc.,
2006.
Miller, Toby. The Routledge Companion To Global Popular Culture. Routledge, 2017.
Section A - three out of five 100-word essays 3x5=15 marks
Section B - one out of three 200-word essays 1x10 =10 marks

Quiz/ Presentation/ Analysis of Pop Culture Texts 25 marks
No End-Semester Examination
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – English
SYLLABUS
(Effective from the academic year 2015 – 2016)
PROSE
CODE: 15EL/MC/PR14 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0
TOTAL TEACHING HOURS: 52
⮚ To develop an understanding of the generic features of varied prose forms
⮚ To train the student in the skill of reading for ideas
Unit 1
Essays (15 hrs.)
1.1 Kinds of Essays
1.2 Cynthia Ozick The Essay as a Warm Body
1.3 Paul Colinvaux Why Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
1.4 Ramchandra Guha The Locality and the Nation, The Hindu,
Sunday Magazine, 31 August 2003
1.5 George Mikes Tea
Unit 2
Speeches & Letters (8 hrs.)
2.1 Features of Speeches and Letters
2.2 Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
2.3 J K Rowling Commencement Address at Harvard
University, June2008
2.4 Charles Dickens Letter to his wife
Unit 3
Life Writing (9 hrs.)
3.1 Introduction to Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Diaries
3.2 Rajmohan Gandhi from The Good Boatman, pp 179-187
3.3 Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
Chapters 1-5
3.4 Temsula Ao Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody
Rags, Part III, “Evening College”, “A New
Identity”
Unit 4
Travel Writing (12 hrs.)
4.1 Kinds of Travel Writing and their Features
4.2 Pico Iyer Falling off the Map (chapters on Bhutan,
Australia)
4.3 Hugh and Colleen Gantzer Lapland Tales: Saga of the Shaman’s Stone,
The Hindu, 21 Feb 2015.
Unit 5
Academic Writing (8 hrs.)
5.1 Vocabulary, Register, Basic Grammar
5.2 Paragraph: Topic Sentence, Sequencing, Cohesion, Coherence
5.3 Essay: Organisation; Beginning, Emphasis, Transition, Ending
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. New York: W W Norton & Co., 2005. Print.
Gandhi, M.K. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Trans. Mahadev Desai,
Ahmedabad: Navjivan Publishing House, 1948. Print.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York:
Times Books, 1995. Print.
Ozick, Cynthia. The Best American Essays 1998. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Print.
Shelston, Alan. Biography. London: Methuen, 1977. Print.
Walker, Hugh. The English Essays and Essayists. New Delhi: S. Chand & Co. 1966.
Print.
Winkler, Antony C. Readings for Writers. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
Print.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.grammarcheck.net/how-write-essay-like-pros/
http://www.bucks.edu/media/bcccmedialibrary/pdf/HOWTOWRITEALITERARYAN
ALYSISESSAY_10.15.07_001.pdf
PATTERN OF EVALUATION
Continuous Assessment:
Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90 mins.
Section A – Short essays- three out of five 5x3=15 marks
Section B – Long essays- two out of four 10x2=20 marks
Section C – Passage analysis 15x1=15 marks
Third Component:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Scheduled Class Work – Passage Analysis etc
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing
End Semester Examination

Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
Section A – Three short essays (200 words) 3x15 = 45 marks
Section B – Two long essays (500words) 2x20= 40 marks
Section C – Passage analysis 15 marks
SYLLABUS
POETRY
CODE: 15EL/MC/PT14 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0
⮚ To enable the students to learn how to read poetry and to help them identify
features relating to poetic forms and issues relating to context and positioning of
poet
⮚ To help students read poetry with reference to form and context
Unit 1
Poetic Formsand Devices (22 hrs.)
1.1The Sonnet
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
1.2 The Ode
Keats Ode to a Nightingale
1.3The Elegy
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1.4The Lyric
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
1.5 The Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
1.6Song Lyrics
John Lennon Imagine
1.7Simile
1.8Metaphor
1.9Image
1.10Symbol
1.11Synecdoche
1.12Metonymy
Unit 2
British Poetry (8hrs.)
2.1Jackie Kay In my Country
2.4 John Donne A Valediction of Weeping
Unit 3
American Poetry (8hrs.)
3.1T.S. Eliot The Preludes
3.2JoyHarjo Remember
3.3Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman
3.4William Carlos Williams The Red Wheel Barrow
Unit 4
Postcolonial Poetry (8 hrs.)
4.1Anita Heiss TheColours of Aboriginality
4.2John Kinsella Warhol at Wheatlands
4.3 Derek Walcott A Far Cry From Africa
4.4 Allen Curnow House and Land
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (6 hrs.)
Analysis of poems not prescribed on the syllabus – handouts to be given to
students by course instructor
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Eagleton, Terry. How to read a Poem. Victoria: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,
2007.
Matterson, Stephen and Darryl Jones.Studying Poetry. NY. OUP, 2000.
Perkins, David. Modern American Poetry 1945-2000 - An Introduction.Oxford:Blackwell
Publishers, 2006.
Rosenthal, M.L. The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II.OUP,
1967.
Thwaite, Anothony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984. NY:
Longman Inc.1985.
JOURNALS
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (online)
Wasafiri
http://criticalflame.org/(online)
https://www.aprweb.org/(online)
WEB RESOURCES
www.poets.org
www.poetryfoundation.org
www.literarydevices.org
Section A – Short notes on Poetic Forms (Unit 1) based on poems not on the
Syllabus- three out of five 3x5=15 marks
Section B – Short essays on Poetic Devices (Unit 1) based on poems not on
the syllabus- four out of six 4x5=20 marks
Section C – Long essay on content, form, tone, style etc, (Unit 2, 3 and 4)-
one out of three 1x15=15 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – 3 out of 5 questions on Poetic Forms (Unit 1) based on poems not on the
syllabus 3x5=15
Section B – 4 out of 6 questions on Poetic Devices (Unit1) based on poems not on
the syllabus 4x10=40
Section C – 3 out of 5 questions on content, form, tone, style etc, (Unit 2,3 and 4)
3x15=45
SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
CODE: 15EL/AC/LG15 CREDITS: 5

L T P: 5 0 0

⮚ To introduce the fundamental concepts of linguistics to the students
⮚ To inculcate in the students a scientific approach to language
Unit 1
Language as Communication (15 hrs.)
1.1 Characteristics of Human Language
1.2 Human Language as a Signifying System
Saussure: Langue and Parole, Syntagm and Paradigm, Arbitrary Nature of
Sign, Linear Nature of the Signifier
1.3 Varieties of Language – Dialect, Idiolect, Register
Unit 2
Phonology (15 hrs.)
2.1 Segmental Phonemes
2.1.1 Cardinal Vowel Scale
2.1.2 Classification of Vowels and Consonants in English
2.2 Supra-Segmental Features
2.2.1 Word and Sentence Stress
2.2.2 Intonation
Unit 3
Morphology (10 hrs.)
3.1 Morphemes
3.1.1 Bound and Free Morphemes
3.1.2 Derivatives – Root and Affix
3.1.3 Zero and Empty Morph
Unit 4
Grammar (15 hrs.)
4.1 Traditional Grammar
4.2 Five Basic Sentence Patterns
4.3 I.C. Analysis
Unit 5
Semantics (10 hrs.)
5.1 Synonymy, Antonymy, Polysemy
5.2 Hyponymy and Homonymy
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Balasubramanian, T. A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students. Macmillan
India Ltd, 1981.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2003.
Palmer, Frank. Semantics: A New Outline. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977.
---. Grammar, second ed. London: Penguin, 1971.
Yule, George. The Study of Language – An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.
Section A - Phonemic transcription/ IC analysis/
Identifying sentence patterns / Morphemic analysis –no choice 20 marks
Section B - Three short notes out of five 15 marks
Section C – One long essay out of three 15 marks
Third Components
Oral test on Phonetics
Transcription
I.C. Analysis
Identifying Sentence Patterns

Section A – Phonemic Transcription of ten words 10x1= 10 marks
Section B – Identifying Sentence Pattern of five sentences 5x2=10 marks
Morphemic Analysis of ten words 10x1=10 marks
IC Analysis of two sentences 2x2½=5 marks
Section C – Four out of six short notes 4x5=20 marks
Three out of five essays 3x15=45 marks
SYLLABUS
DRAMA
CODE: 15EL/MC/DR24 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

⮚ To introduce drama as a social product and a literary form
⮚ To familiarize students with representative samples and to facilitate understanding
of the text
Unit 1
Aspects of Drama (7 hrs.)
1.1 Plot
1.2 Character
1.3 Setting
1.4 Structure
1.5 Unities
Unit 2
Types of Drama (7 hrs.)
2.1 Comedy
2.2 Tragedy
Unit 3 (10 hrs.)

3.1 Shakespeare As You Like it
Unit 4 (20 hrs.)

4.1 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
4.2 Bertolt Brecht Caucasian Chalk Circle
Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (8 hrs.)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bartram, Graham and Anthony Waine, Ed. Brecht in Perspective. London: Longman,
1982.
Ellis-Fermor, Una. The Frontiers of Drama. London: Methuen, 1964.
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. London: Penguin, 1991.
Gascoigne, Bamber. Twentieth Century Drama. London: Hutchinson, 1974.
Leech, Clifford. Tragedy. The Critical Idiom, Ed. John D Jump, New York: Routledge,
1989.
Merchant, Moelwyn. Comedy. The Critical Idiom Series, Ed. John D Jump, London:
Methuen, 1972.
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ed. Nora’s Sisters. Oslo: NMFA, 2006.
Stott, A. Comedy, London: Routledge, 2007.
Williams, Raymond. “Introduction” Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. London: Chatto and
Windus, 11–38.
Section A – Short essays- two out of four 2x5=10 marks
Section C – Passage analysis- no choice 1x20=20 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Two short essays (200 words) from Units 1 and 2 2x10=20 marks
Section B – Three essays with internal choice (500 words each)
from units 3 and 4 3x20=60 marks
Section B – Two passages for analysis from Units 3 and 4 1x20=20 marks
STELLAMARISCOLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086
SYLLABUS
LITERARY CRITICISM – I
CODE: 15EL/MC/LC25 CREDITS: 5

L T P: 5 0 0
OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE

⮚ To introduce students to Literary Criticism and its relevance to Literature
⮚ To help students apply theoretical concepts to literary texts
Unit 1 (10 hrs.)

1.1 Introduction to Literary Criticism
V.S. Sethuraman.Introduction.The English Critical Tradition, Macmillan
India Ltd., Madras. 1977pp vii–xiviii
Unit 2 (10hrs.)
2.1. Aristotle Poetics
Chapters 1,2,4,5,6,7,8
(Penguin Translation)
Text for Analysis
Sophocles Antigone
2.2 Indian Aesthetics
2.2.1 Rasa &Sahrdaya BharataOnNatya and Rasa: Aesthetics
of Dramatic Experience.
(fromThe Natya (in fact) tohaving only
one act, from A person who can, . . .
toin this manner, Trans. from Sanskrit
by G.K. Bhatt.Indian Literary Criticism.
Ed. G.N. Devy)
2.2.2 Akattinaiyiyal from Porulatikaram 1-20 (trans.
Ilakkuvanar/KamilZvelebil/Murugan)
Unit 3 (15hrs.)
3.1 Philip Sidney Extract from Apology for Poetry
fromV.S. Sethuraman : “Among the
Roman…to teach and delight”. (46 –49)
3.2. Samuel Johnson Extracts from Preface to Shakespeare
fromV.S. Sethuraman : “Nothing can please many and please
long…progress of the passion.” (247 –
249)
Unit 4 (15hrs.)
4.1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge BiographiaLiteraria
Chapter XIII(section on Fancy and
Imagination)
andChapter XIV(The poet in ideal
perfection …
4.1 Mathew Arnold The Study of Poetry
(”Indeed there can be no more useful
help…high poetic seriousness are
absent from his substance and matter”)
Unit 5
Practical Analysis of Literary Texts/Passages Applying Relevant Critical
Concepts
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the
Present. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Ramanujan, A.K.“On Ancient Tamil Poetics”. Indian Literary Criticism. Ed. G.N.
Devy Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2006.
Sethuraman, V.S.Indian Aesthetics.Madras: Macmillan India Ltd., 1977.
Wimsatt, William andCleanth Brooks.Literary Criticism: A Short History.
Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., 1957.
Wordsworth, William. “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.” English Critical Texts. Ed.
Enright and Chickera, New Delhi: OUP, 1962.
Section C – Passage Analysis Applying Critical Concepts 1x15=15 marks
Third Components
Analysis of Unseen Passages Applying Critical Concepts Learnt
Analysis of Movies Based On Aristotle’s Criteria
Oral presentations on Texts of Literary Criticism (Not Prescribed In the Syllabus)
from the Period Covered in the Syllabus

Section A – Three out of five short notes (200 words each) 3x15= 45marks
Section B – Two out of four essays (600 words each) 2x20=40 marks
Section C – One analysis – with concepts given
Or
One analysis – choosing any concept 1x15=15 marks
Unit 1 is not for testing.
SYLLABUS
SUBALTERN WRITING
CODE: 15EL/AC/SW25 CREDITS: 5

LTP: 5 0 0
⮚ To understand the concept of subalternity
⮚ To help position subaltern identities in texts
Unit 1
Background Reading (20 hrs.)
1.1Paulo Freire Introduction, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New
Delhi: Sage Publications, 1976.
1.2Frantz Fannon “On Violence” The Wretched of the Earth (p1-13)
Unit 2 (15 hrs.)

2.1SaeedAkhtarMirza “The First Lady and the Terrorist: A Film Script
in Five Acts.”Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother.
Chennai: Tranquebar, 2008. 250-307.
Unit 3 (10 hrs.)

3.1Maheswata Devi “Kunti and the Nishadin,” After
Kurukshetra.Calcutta: Seagull, 2005.
Unit 4 (15hrs.)
4.1 Cherrie Moraga
and Gloria Anzaldua This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical
Women of Colour. New York: Kitchen Table:
Women of Color Press, 1983.
4.2 Nellie Wong When I was Growing up
Cherrie Moraga The Welder
Sugirtha Rani The Smell of Meat
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Anazaldua, Gloria. This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color.
New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Colour, 1983, 165-173.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask, New York: Grove, 1967.
Gramsci, Antonio. “History of the Subaltern Classes”, Prison Notebooks Vol. II,
(Ed. &Tr.) Joseph A. Buttigreg, 1996, 24-25.
Milner, Andrew and Jeff Browitt.Race and Ethnicity in Black and Latino Cultural
Studies: Contemporary Critical Theory. III Ed. New Delhi: Rawat, 2003.
Spivak, GayatriChakraborti. “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography” Vol IV.
(Ed.) RanajitGuha, Writings on South Asian History and Society.Delhi: OUP, 1985,
330-363.
Gail Omvedt “Chapter 11: Sita’s Curse and Shambuk’s Silence,” Dalit Visions Chennai:
Orient Longman, 2006.
Section C – Passage analysis applying critical concepts learnt 1x15=15 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Three out of five short essays (200 words each) 3x15= 45marks
Section B – Two out of four essays (600 words each) 2x20=40 marks
Section C – Passage analysis – with concepts given 1x15=15 marks
SYLLABUS
FICTION
CODE: 15EL/MC/FN34 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

⮚ To help the student read fiction with an understanding of the various aspects of
fiction as a genre
⮚ To introduce students to the various sub-genres of fiction
Unit 1
Introduction to Fiction (10 hrs.)
1.1 Aspects of the Novel
1.1.1 Plot
1.1.2 Characterisation
1.1.3 Point of View / Focalisation
1.1.4 Theme
1.2. Sub-genres of the Novel
1.2.1. The Epistolary Novel
1.2.2. The Picaresque Novel
1.2.3. The Gothic Novel
1.2.4. The Historical Novel
1.2.5. The Novel of Social Realism
1.2.6 The Bildungsroman
1.2.7 The Stream-of-Consciousness Novel
1.3 Features of the Short Story
Unit 2
Novel (12 hrs.)
2.1. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Unit 3
Novel (12 hrs.)
3.1. John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Unit 4
The Short Story (10 hrs.)
4.1. Guy de Maupassant The Charm Dispelled
4.2. Virginia Woolf The Mark on the Wall
4.3 William Faulkner A Rose for Ms. Emily
4.4 Hariko Murakami Sheherezade
Unit 5Practical Application Tasks (8 hrs.)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bardbury, Malcolm. Ed. The Novel Today. London: Fontana Press, 1961. Print.
Correa, Delia Da Sousa. Ed. The Nineteenth Century Novel. New York. Routledge,
2000.Print.
Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. USA: BlackwellPublishing, 2005.
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. Chapters II, III, IV, V.Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1985.Print
Goonaratne, Yasmine. Jane Austen. London: Cambridge UP, 1970. Print.
Kettle, Arnold.An Introduction to the English Novel. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1951.
Print.
Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Matthews, Steven. Ed. Modernism: A Source Book. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009. Print.
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
Print.
Waugh, Patricia. “What is Metafiction and Why are They Saying Such Awful Things
About it?” Metafiction Ed. Mark Currie. Print.
WEB RESOURCES
Schorer, Mark. “Technique as Discovery”.The Hudson Review. Vol. 1, No. 1(Spring,
1948), pp. 67-87. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3847209>
Section A – Short notes- three out of five 3x5=15 marks
Section B – Long essays-two out of four 2x10=20 marks
Section C –Passage analysis 1x15=15 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Four out of six short notes (100 words each) from Unit 1
4x5=20 marks
Section B – Three essays (500 words each) – with internal choice from
Units 2,3 and 4
3x20=60 marks
Section C – Analysis of one out of two passages from Units 2 and 3
1x20=20 marks
SYLLABUS
INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
CODE: 15EL/MC/IL34 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

⮚ To establish continuity from classical to contemporary times in Indian Literature in
Translation
⮚ To help students appreciate aspects of change in Indian Literature in Translation
Unit 1
Folk and Classical Literature (14hrs.)
1.1Folk Tale A Flowering Tree
(fromRamanujan, A.K. The Flowering Tree and
Other Oral Tales from India. Ed. Stuart Blackburn
and Alan Dundes)
1.2 Bhasa Karnabharam
1.3 Sangam Poetry
1.3.1 Akam
a. Kuruntokai 25 Only the thief was there
b. Narrinai 63 On the new sand
c. Narrinai 179 If a calving cow
1.3.2 Puram
a. Purannanuru 235 If he found a little liquor
b. Purananuru 69 Dear singer
(fromRamanujan A.K., Poems of Love and War. OUP)
1.4 Therigatha
1.4.1 Punna or Punnika
1.4.2 Ambapali
(from David C.A.F. Rhys and Norman K.R. Trans. Poems of Early Buddhist
Nuns. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1997.)
Unit 2
Medieval Literature (14hrs.)
2.1 Bulle Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall
I do?
Remove duality and do away with all disputes
There is only one thread of all cotton.
2.2 Chokhamela They Thrash me, Vithu,
Vedas and the Shastras
Unit 3
Modern Literature- I (8hrs.)
3.1 Na. Muthusami Narkkalikkarar
Unit 4
Modern Literature-II (8 hrs.)
4.1 KaifiAzmi The Last Night
(from Azmi, Kaifi. Selected Poems. (Trans.) Pavan
K. Varma.)
Amrita Pritam Creative Process
DayaPawar The Buddha
(fromVinayDharwadkerThe Oxford Anthology of
Modern Indian Poetry)
Chandra KantaMurasingh A Poem
(from Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the
Northeast, 2003 255
4.2 Indira Goswami Under the Shadow of the Kamakhya
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bhat, G.K. “Two plays of Tragic Design and Tragic Intent,” Tragedy and Sanskrit Drama.Pune:
Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, 1976.Print.
Chakravarthy, Uma. “The Rise of Buddhism as Experienced by Women.”Manushi, 8.
Mokashi-Punekar, Rohini.“Bhakti as Protest”.Print.
Ramanujan A.K. Afterword. Poems of Love and War. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press.1996.Print.
---. Afterword.The Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India.Ed. Stuart Blackburn
and Alan Dundes.New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1997.Print.
---. “Is there an Indian Way of Thinking?”Collected Essays of A K Ramanujan.Oxford
University Press.1999.Print.
--- andVinay Dharwadker, ed.The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry. New Delhi: OUP,
1008.Print.
Devy, G N. After Amnesia. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1994.Print.
JOURNALS
Indian Literature
KavyaBharathi
The Little Magazine
WEB RESOURCES
www. sawnet.com
www.ntm.org.in
Continuous Assessment
Section A – Short essays - two out of four 2x5=10 marks
Section B – Long essays - two out of four 2x10=20 marks
Section C – Passage analysis 1x20=20 marks
Third Component Tests

Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A –2 out of 4 four short essays of 200 words each 4x10=40 marks
Section B –2 out of 4 long essays of 750 words each 2x20=40 marks
Section C – Analysis of one passage out of two from the prescribed texts 1x20=20 marks
SYLLABUS
LITERATURE AND IDEAS

CODE: 15EL/AC/LI35 CREDITS: 5
L T P: 5 0 0

⮚ To acquaint the students with the major schools of thought that have impacted literature
⮚ To train the students to analyse literary texts using these ideas as frames of reference
Unit 1
Romanticism (14 hrs.)
1.1 Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract
1.2 Emmanuel Kant Critique of Pure reason
1.3G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of the Mind
Text: William Wordsworth The Prelude Book I (Lines: 147-249)
Unit 2
Marxism and Psychoanalysis (13 hrs.)
2.1 Freud and Jung Id, Ego and Superego; Collective Unconscious
2.2 Karl Marx Base and Superstructure
Text: Charles Dickens Hard Times (Chapters 1-5);
Sylvia Plath Mirror
Unit 3
Existentialism (15 hrs.)
3.1 Schopenhauer The World as Will
3.2 Nietzsche Apollonian and Dionysian Principles
3.3 Sartre Awful freedom
Texts: Ted Hughes “Tiger Psalm”
Kafka Metamorphosis
Unit 4
Feminist Thought (13 hrs.)
4.1 TorilMoi Feminine, Feminist, Female
4.2 bell hooks Black Women - Shaping Feminist Theory
Text: MakbulaManzoor On the Road (in Galpa; Short Stories by Women
from Bangladesh, Azim, Firdous and NiazZaman)
Unit 5
Ecocriticism (10 hrs.)
5.1 Arne Naess Deep Ecology
Text: Margaret Atwood Marsh Languages
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Bhandari, D. R. History of European Political Philosophy. Bangalore: Bangalore Printing and
Publishing, 1994.Print.
Beauvoir,Simone De. The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books, 1949. Print.
Copplestone, F. A History of Philosophy. London: Burn and Odes, 1959. Print.
Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy. London: Simon and Schuster, 1926. Print.
Howells, Christina. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Sartre. London: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Print.
Lavine, T.S.From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophical Quest.New York: Bantam Books, 1984.
Print.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1970. Print.
Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy. (1946). London: Unwin, 1979. Print.
Section B – Long essays-one out of three 1x15=15 marks
Section C –Passage Analysis 1x20=20 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Five out of seven short notes on ideas studied 5x4=20 marks
Section B – Four out of six essays of about 650 words each 4x15=60 marks
Section C – Passage analysis of a passage from an unseen literary text
based on ideas studied 1x20=20 marks
SYLLABUS
LITERARY CRITICISM – II
CODE: 15EL/MC/LC45 CREDITS: 5

L T P: 5 0 0

⮚ To acquaint students with the development of modern criticism and theory
⮚ To relate criticism and theory to practice in the classroom
Unit 1
New Criticism (15 hrs.)
1.1T.S Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent
1.2Cleanth Brooks Keats’ Sylvan Historian
Unit 2
Structuralism and Semiotics (15 hrs.)
2.1. Raman Selden Binary Oppositions - Arthur Miller
2.2TzvetanTodorov The Typology of Detective Fiction
2.3. Roland Barthes Myth as a Semiological System
(For mythology …it imposes it on us, fromMythologies)
Unit 3
Reader Response Theory (15 hrs.)
3.1 Wolfgang Iser Interaction Between Text and Reader
Unit 4
Deconstruction (10 hrs.)
4.1 M.H. Abrams How to do Things with Texts
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies.Trans. Annette Lavers. London: Vintage, 1993. Print.
Guerin Wilfred et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford
UP, 1992. Print.
Present. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. Print.
Lodge, David. Modern Criticism & Theory. London: Longman, 1991. Print.
Selden and Widdowson.Contemporary Critical Theory. Lexington: The UP of
Kentucky, 1993. Print.
Selden, Raman. The Theory of Criticism.Longman, London & New York. 1998. Print.
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Passage Analysis
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours
Section A –Three short notes (250 words each, internal choice) 3x15=45 marks
Section B –Two out of four long essays (500 words each) 2x20=40 marks
Section C –Analysis of an unseen passage
using any critical/theoretical perspective prescribed for study 1x15=15 marks
SYLLABUS
LITERATURE AND GENDER

CODE: 15EL/AC/GD45 CREDITS: 5
L T P: 5 0 0
⮚ To enable students to explore select literary texts that draw attention to gender relations
and gendered ways of thinking
⮚ To help students study gender construction and perpetuation in society
Unit 1
Introduction (10 hrs.)
1.1VirginiaWoolf A Room of One’s Own, (Penguin, London, 1945)
Unit 2
Poetry and Fiction (15 hrs.)
2.1 Adrienne Rich Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law
2.2 Grace Nichols The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping
2.3 ShashiDeshpande Small Remedies
Unit 3
Autobiography (12 hrs.)
3.1 Revathi Truth About My Life (Penguin 2010)
Unit 4
Drama (13hrs.)
4.1 Caryl Churchill Top Girls
Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (15hrs.)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bhasin, Kamla. Understanding Gender. New Delhi: Kali for Women. 2000. Print.
Bhutalia, Urvashi. “Confrontation and Negotiation: The Women’s Movement’s Response to
Violence Against Women,” The Politics of Gender, Identity and Social Equalityin
India.New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2002. 207-33. Print.
Foran, John. “Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution,” Feminist
Futures: Reimagining Women Culture and Development. Ed. KumkumBhavnani, John
Foran and PriyaKurian, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2003. 268-274. Print.
Mackinnon, Catherine. “Towards a Feminist theory of State” Feminisms.Ed. Sandra Kemp and
Judith Squires, Oxford, New York, 1997, 351-58. Print.
Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva.Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books, New Jersey, 1993. Print.
Rich, Adrienne. “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision,” Adrienne Rich’s Poetry, Ed.
Barbara Charles and Albert Gelpi, Norton, New York, 1995, 90-98. Print.
Sen, Amartaya. “Gender and Co-operative Conflicts,” Capabilities, Freedom and Equality, Ed.
BinaAgarwal, Jane Humphries, Ingrid Robeyns, 2006, 458-84. Print.
JOURNALS
Indian Journal of Gender Studies (Sage)
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Feminist Review
A Journal of Women Studies
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.feminist review
http://fty.sagepub.com
http://dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura
Section C –Passage analysis- no choice 1x15=15 marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Passage Analysis
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A - Two essay questions (750 words) 2 x 20 = 40 marks
Section B - Three short essays (300 words) 3 x 15 = 45 marks
Section C - Passage analysis from the novel or poems prescribed 1 x 15 = 15 marks

STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI - 600 086
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH – XII – English
SYLLABUS
INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
CODE: 15EL/MC/IE55 CREDITS : 5

LT P: 5 0 0
⮚ To appreciate evolution and trends in Indian Literature in English
⮚ To enable students to understand identity politics and culture inherent in Indian Literature
in English
Unit 1
1.1. Revisiting Early Writing
1.1.1. Sarojini Naidu PardahNashin
1.1.2. AurobindoGhose The Tiger and the Deer
1.1.3. Rabindranath Tagore from Gitanjali XI, XXXV, XXXVI
1.1.4. Toru Dutt The Tree of Life
1.2. The Idea of India
1.2.1. RamachandraGuha “Epilogue: Why India Survives,” India
After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest
Democracy 744-71.
Unit 2
Poetry (13 hrs.)
2.1. Nissim Ezekiel Background, Casually
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
2.2. A.K. Ramanujan The Striders
Bosnia
2.3. ArunKolatkar Chaitanya
Jejuri- The Bus
2.4. JeetThayil At Kabul Zoo, the Lion
My Grandmother’s Funeral (poem VI from Genesis
Godown)
2.5. Kamala Das The Old Playhouse
Unit 3
Drama (8hrs.)
3.1. Mahesh Dattani Tara
Unit 4
Fiction (17hrs.)
4.1 R.K.Narayan The Guide
4.2 AmitavGhosh The Hungry Tide
4.3 Urvashi Butalia The Other Side of Silence
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (not for testing) (12 hrs.)
5.1 Arundathi Roy The God of Small Things
5.2 KaveryNambisan The Scent of Pepper
5.3 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
5.4 TemsulaAo These Hills Called Home
5.5 AmandeepSandhu Roll of Honour
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bruce King, “Ezekiel and His Influence,” Modern Indian Poetry in English. Rev ed,Oxford UP,
New Delhi. 91-109. Print.
de Souza, Eunice. Talking Poems: Conversations with Poets. New Delhi: Oxford UP,
1999.Print.
Kakkar, Sudhir and Katharina Kakkar.The Indians: Portrait of a People. New Delhi: Penguin,
2007. Print.
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Ed. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. Delhi:
Permament Black, 2003. Print.
Naik, M K. A History of Indian Literature. New Delhi: SahityaAkademi, 2005.Print.
RadhaRamaswamy, “Towards a Multicultural Theatre: Mahesh Dattani and the Changing
Audience for Contemporary Indian Drama in English,” Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Critical
Perspectives.Ed. AngelieMultani.Print.
RanjitHoskote, “Introduction,” Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets.
Ed. Hoskote, New Delhi: Penguin,2004.Print.
VinayDharwadker, “Afterword: Modern Indian Poetry and its contexts,” The OxfordAnthology of
Modern Indian Poetry.New Delhi: OUP, 1008. Print.
JOURNALS
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Literary Criterion
Indian Journal of English Studies
WEB RESOURCES
www.indianruminations.com
ccrtindia.gov.in/literaryarts.php
literarism.blogspot.com
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Three short essays out of five (350 words) 3x15 = 45 marks
Section B – Two long essays out of four (600words) 2x20= 40 marks
Section C – Passage analysis from units 2 and 3 1x15=15 marks
*Note: Units 1 & 5 - Only forThird Component and not for CA tests and End Semester
Exam.
B.A DEGREE: BRANCH XII- ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
EAST AND SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURES
CODE: 15EL/MC/ES55 CREDITS : 5

LT P: 5 0 0
⮚ To introduce the student to a selection from the East Asian and South Asian region
⮚ To explore the similarities and differences between literatures and cultures in this region
Unit 1
Pakistan, Afghanistan & Tibet (20 hrs.)
1.1 Sadat HasanManto Khol Do
1.2 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
1.3 Tenzin Tsundue Refugee
Unit 2
Bangladesh, Myanmar & Vietnam (10 hrs.)
2.1 KhaledaSalahuddin Relief Camp
2.2 KhinMyo Chit Her Infinite Variety
2.3 Tran Khac An Altar for Young Gion
Unit 3
Sri Lanka, Malaysia & Indonesia (15 hrs.)
3.1 Shanmugalingam Land of our Parents
3.2 Muhammad Haji Salleh The Teller of Tales
3.3 TitisBasino Her
Unit 4
China, Japan& Korea (10 hrs.)
4.1 Xue Mo Old Man Xingjang
4.2 Masoka Shiki Selected Haiku (4)
4.3 KoUn The Little Spring
Unit 5
Writing from Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Mauritius
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Bhasin, Kamala, et al. Against All Odds. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1994. Print.
Bhutalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence. New Delhi: Penguin,1998.Print.
de Silva, K. M. “Language, Ehtnicity and Politics in South Asia”. Ethnic Studies Report.Vol.
XIV No.1, January 1996. Colombo and Kandy: International Centre for Ethnic Studies,
1996. 1-10.Print.
Goonasekere, Savitri, ed. Violence, Law and Women’s Rights in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 2004.Print.
Hasan, Mushirul. Inventing Boundries.New Delhi: Oxford University Press,2000.Print.
Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing and Ngangom, Robin S. ed. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
from the North East.Shillong: NEHU Publications, 2003.Print.
Riaz, Ali. Religion and Politics in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.Print.
Shamsie, Muneeza, ed. And the World Changed. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2005.Print.
Shanmugalingam.Shanmugalingam Three Plays. Trans. S. Pathmanathan. Colombo and
Chennai: Kumaran Book House, 2007.Print.
Trivedi, Harish. “South Asian Literature: Reflections in a Confluence.” Indian Literature:229.
186-194.Print.
WijesinhaRajiva, ed. Bridging Connections: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Short Stories. New
Delhi: National Book Trust. 2007.Print.
Zaman, Niaz and Azim, Fidous.Galpa Short Stories by Women from Bangladesh. Ed. London:
Stanza, 2007.Print.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.sawnet.com
Section C –Passage analysis- no choice 1x15=15marks
Third Components
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing
Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1x15=15 marks
B. A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
(Effective from the academic year 2015 -2016)
BRITISH LITERATURE: SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
CODE: 15EL/MC/BL55 CREDITS : 5

L T P: 5 0 0
⮚ To develop an analytical and critical approach to select literary texts from the
sixteenth to the twenty first centuries
⮚ To develop an understanding of writers within the socio-cultural and political
background of the age
Unit 1
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (10 hrs.)
1.1 Edmund Spenser Sonnet 75 (from Amoretti)
1.2 Francis Bacon Of Friendship
1.3 George Herbert The Collar
Unit 2
Eighteenth Century (10 hrs.)
2.1 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
2.2 Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
2.3William Blake The Chimney Sweeper
Unit 3
Nineteenth Century (12 hrs.)
3.1William Wordsworth Upon Westminster Bridge
3.2 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
3.3 G. M. Hopkins God’s Grandeur
Unit 4
Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (15hrs.)
4.1 J. M. Synge Riders to the Sea
4.2 D. H. Lawrence Snake
4.3 Harold Pinter The Birthday Party
4.4 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
4.5 Ian Russell McEwan On Chesil Beach
Unit 5
Group Discussions
Seminars
Analysis
BOOKS FOR REFERNCE
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Print
Bowra, C. M. The Romantic Imagination. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Print
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. London: Penguin, 1991. Print.
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. 1979. 2nd ed. New Haven & Londen: Yale
University Press, 1986. Print.
Lodge, David. The Modes of Modern Writing. London: Edward Publishers,1977. Print.
Martines, Lauro. Society and History in English Renaissance Verse. New York: Basil
Blackwell, 1985. Print.
Mathews, Greg J. Literary Research and Irish Literature. Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Print.
Prince, Martin. “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.” The Restoration and the
Eighteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Print.
Steane, J. B. Marlow: A Critical Study. Cambridge University Press, 1964. Print.
Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry. England: Longman
Group, 1985. Print.
JOURNALS
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
Wasafiri
http://criticalflame.org/
https://www.aprweb.org/
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.bartleby.com/224/index.html#9
http://www.janeausten.org
http://www.poetryfoundation.org>poems&poets
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing


Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1x15= 15 marks
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – English
SYLLABUS
AMERICAN LITERATURE
CODE: 15EL/MC/AL65 CREDITS: 5
L T P: 5 0 0

⮚ To introduce the students to the diverse socio-cultural aspects and
multiplicities of expression in American Literature
⮚ To help students understand American Literature as an outcome of its
traditions and cultures
Unit 1
Introduction to Transcendentalism (4 hrs.)
1.1. Emerson Self-Reliance
Unit 2
Poetry (16hrs.)
2.1.Robert Frost Fire and Ice
Birches
2.2. e.e. cummings next to of course god America
2.3.Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dream Deferred
2.4. Joy Harjo Equinox
2.5. Maya Angelou Caged Bird
2.6.Elizabeth Bishop The Fish
Unit
Drama (12hrs.)
3.1.Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman
Unit 4
Fiction (25 hrs.)
4.1. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4.2. Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
4.3. Amy Tan Two Kinds
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (8hrs.)
BOOKSFOR REFERENCE
Bigsby, C.S. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama Vol II.New
York: Cambridge University Press.1984.Print.
Hoffman, Daniel. Harvard Guide to American Writing. Harvard University Press,
Boston.1979.Print.
Miller, Arthur. “Introduction”, Collected Plays of Arthur Miller. New Delhi: Allied
Publishers.1973.Print.
Perkins, David. Modern American Poetry 1945-2000 –An Introduction.Blackwell
Publishers.2006.Print.
Porter, Joy and Kenneth M. Roemer.The Cambridge Companion to Native American
Literature.New York, Cambridge University Press.2005.Print.
JOURNALS
americanliterature.dukejournals.org/
WEB RESOURCES
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm
www.library.rochester.edu/subject/.../web-resources
americanliteratureassociation.org
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

*Note: Unit 1 is not for testing.

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII- ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
WEST ASIAN LITERATURE
CODE: 15EL/MC/WA65 CREDITS : 5

LT P: 5 0 0
⮚ To introduce students to writing from the West Asian region
⮚ To sensitise students to the writing that emerges from conflict zones
Unit 1
1.1 AdeedDawisha Defining Arab Nationalism
1.2 Margot Badran Islamic Feminism: What’s in a Name?
1.3 Edward Said Reflections on Exile
Unit 2 (18 hrs.)

2.1Palestine
2.1.1 Mahmoud Darwish The Passport
2.1.2 FalastineDwikat BeitByout (Play House)
Alignment
2.2 Israel
2.2.1 Yehuda Amichai It’s a Long Time Since Anybody’s Asked
Why I Am Big and Fat
2.2.2 Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness
Unit 3 (18 hrs.)

3.1 Iran
3.1.1 MarjaneSatrapi Persepolis
3.1.2 GoliTaraqqi A House in Heaven
3.2 Iraq
3.2.1 Hassan Blasim The Reality and the Record
3.2.2 Dunya Mikhail I Was In a Hurry
3.3 Syria
3.3.1 Adonis The Days
Underground
Unit 4 (9hrs.)
4.1 Lebanon
4.1.1 Emily Nasrallah The Green Bird
4.2 Jordan
4.2.1 HishamBustani Freefall in a Shattered Mirror
4.3 Saudi Arabia
4.3.1 Mohammad Hassan AlwanOil Field
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (Suggested List) (10 hrs.)
5.1. Palestine
5.1.1Liana Badr Colours
5.2 Iran
5.2.1ForughFarrokhzad The Captive
Face to Face with God
5.2.2BehjatMalek-Kiani O, Baba! O, Baba!
5.3Iraq
5.3.1Mahdi Isa al-saqr Morning Exercises
5.3.2 Dunya Mikhail Excerpt from Diary of a Wave Outside
the Sea
5.4 Jordan
5.4.1 Amjed Nasser Seven Bridges
5.4.2 Ibrahim Nasrallah Days
Homeland
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Cooke, Miriam. “Talking Democracy”, Women and the War Story. California: University of
California, 1996. Print.
Dabashi, Hamid. The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism. London: Zed Books, 2012.Print.
Said, Edward W. Reflections of Exile and Other Literary and Cultural Essays. London: Penguin
Books, 2001.Print.
Singh, Karan.History, Culture and Society in India and West Asia.Delhi: Shipra,2003.Print.
Notes on West Asia.Chennai: Department of English, Stella Maris College,2007.Print.
Sisodia, N.S.West Asia in Turmoil.New Delhi:Academic Foundation, 2007.Print.
JOURNALS
Fayad, Mona. Reinscribing Identity: Nation and Community in Arab Women’sWriting.
WEB RESOURCES
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25112170
Section C –Passage analysis- no choice 1x15=15marks
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Three short essays (350 words) 3x15= 45 marks

*Note: Units 1 & 5 not for testing

SYLLABUS
AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURES
CODE: 15EL/MC/AC65 CREDITS : 5

L T P :5 0 0
TOTAL TEACHING HOURS : 65

⮚ To introduce students to literary forms from the two regions
⮚ To enable students to reframe African and Caribbean cultures within the context of
world cultures
⮚ To enable students to understand the dynamics of literary production in these regions
Unit 1
Nigeria and Ghana (20hrs.)
1. 1Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
1.2 Wole Soyinka The Lion and the Jewel
1.3Ama Ata Aidoo Anowa
1.4ChimamandaAdiche The Thing Around Your Neck
Unit 2
Egypt and Senegal (10 hrs.)
2.1AhdafSoueif Cairo
2.2 Leopold Senghor Black Woman
Unit 3
Malawi and South Africa (5 hrs.)
3.1 David Rubadiri Stanley Meets Mutesa
3.2 Dennis Brutus If this Life is All We Have
Unit 4
The Caribbean (20 hrs.)
4.1 Edward KamauBraithwaite Limbo
4.2 Derek Walcott Crusoe’s Island
4.3 Cyril Dabydeen Dubious Foreigner
4.4 Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
4.5 David Dabydeen The Counting House
(Short Story)
Unit 5
BOOKS FOR REFERANCE
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.,The Post–Colonial Studies Reader.London:
Routledge.2006.Print.
Ashcroft Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. “Introduction”, The Empire Writes Back:
Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures.London: Routledge.2006.Print
Castle, Gregory, Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell,2001. Print.
Fanon, Frantz, Trans, Constance Farrington Black Skin, White Masks., New York: Grove
Press. 1967.Print.
O’Connor, Mark. Ed. Two Centuries of Australian Poetry. 2nd Edition, OUP, 2000.Print.
Schwarz, Henry and Sangeeta Ray, A Companion to Post Colonial Studies.Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing.2005. Print.
Stuart Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” The Post-Colonial Studies Reader.2nd ed. Ed.
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 2006. 199-202.
Chapter 44.Print.
WaThiong’ O, Ngugi. Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African
Literature,Oxford:Heinemann Educational, 1986.Print.
JOURNALS
Wasafiri
WEB RESOURCES
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories
http://www.pmc.edu/african-american--caribbean-lit-subject-guide
Section A – Short essays- two out of four 10x2=20 marks

Section B – Long Essays- two out of four 15x2=30 marks
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

Section A – Three short essays- four out of six (350 words) 4x10 =40 marks
Section B – Three long essays- three out of six (800words) 3x20= 60 marks
STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086.
Allied Elective Course offered by the Department English
For B.A. (History and Tourism, Sociology) / B.V.A. Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
JOURNALISTIC WRITING
CODE: 15EL/AE/JW45 CREDITS : 5

LT P: 5 0 0
⮚ To introduce students to different kinds of writing for print media
⮚ To train students in writing different kinds of reports and features
⮚ To train students in the basics of copyediting
Unit 1
1.1 News
1.1.1Hard News
1.1.2Soft News
Unit 2
Basics of Writing (10 hrs.)
2.1 The 5 Ws and 1 H
2.2 Writing Leads
2.3 Developing the News Story
2.4 Attribution
2.5 Concluding the Story
2.6 Gathering Information - Library Sources,Surveys, Interviews
Unit 3
Writing News Reports (20 hrs.)
3.1 The Inverted Pyramid Format
3.2 The Hourglass Format
3.3 Writing the Lead
3.4.1 Reporting an Event from Information Given
3.4.2 First-hand Reporting
Unit 4
Writing Features (20hrs.)
4.1Personality Profiles
4.2 Interviews
4.3 Writing a Feature on any Topic / Area of each student’s choice
Unit 5
Copyediting (10 hrs.)
5.1 Copyediting
5.2 Copyediting Symbols
5.3 Copyediting For Accuracy, Better Reading and Length
5.4 Editing a Newspaper Article
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Dominick, Joseph R, Dynamics of Mass Communication. New York: Tata McGraw Hill, 1993.
Print
Itule& Anderson, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media.New York: Tata McGraw Hill,
1994. Print
R. M. Ritter. The Oxford Guide to Style. London: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.
The Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Print
One first-hand report 10 marks
One feature on any topic of the student’s choice 15 marks
Portfolio – Classwork done over the semester 25 marks
End-semester Evaluation (internal)

No End Semester Examination
Students to submit TWO features of 1500 words each on separate topics 100 marks
SYLLABUS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
CODE: 15EL/ME/LT55 CREDITS: 5

L T P: 5 0 0
⮚ To introduce the students to the approaches, methods and techniques of English
Language Teaching
⮚ To train students in the methodology and preparation of materials for teaching
English language
Unit 1
Language Acquisition (10 hrs.)
1.1 First Language Acquisition of the Child
1.1.1 Lateralization of the Brain
1.1.2 Learning by Imitation
1.1.3 Language Acquisition Devices
1.1.4 Generalisation
1.2 Second Language Learning of the Adult
1.2.1 Mother tongue Interference
1.2.2 Psychological and Sociological Factors Influencing
Second Language Learning
Unit 2
Psychology of Learning (15 hrs.)
2.1 Behaviourism
2.1.1 Behaviourist Psychology
2.1.2 Stimulus–Response Learning
2.1.3 Reinforcement
2.2 Cognitive Learning
2.2.1 Cognitive Structure
2.2.2 Concept Formation
2.2.3 Theory of Subsuming
2.2.4 Theory of Forgetting
2.2.5 Bloom’s Taxonomy
2.3 Humanistic Approach to Learning
2.3.1 The Teacher–Student Relationship
Unit 3
Approaches, Methods and Techniques in Language Teaching (15 hrs.)
3.1 A survey of the Grammar Translation Method, the Situational Method and the
Audio-Lingual Method
3.2 Communicative Approach
3.2.1 Communicative Competence as different from Linguistic
Competence
3.2.2 The Teacher's Role – The Student's Role
3.2.3 Task- based activities in the class
3.3 Skills Approach
3.3.1 Teaching Reading Skills – Skimming, Scanning and Intensive
Reading
3.3.2 Teaching Listening Skills – Listening for Specific Details,
Keywords, Concepts
3.3.3 Teaching Speaking Skills – Expressing Ideas, Opinions, Presenting
an Argument.
3.3.4 Teaching Writing Skills – Writing a Paragraph - Topic Sentence,
Main Idea, Supporting Ideas, Concluding Sentence - Descriptive
and Narrative Writing
Note; 3.1.1 only for short answers (no essay questions)
Unit 4
Syllabus (10 hrs.)
4.1 Definition of Syllabus and Curriculum
4.1.1 The Components of a Syllabus
4.1.2 Testing and Evaluation
4.2 Kinds of Tests
4.2.1. Placement Test
4.2.2 Diagnostic Test
4.2.3 Progress Test
4.2.4 Achievement Test
4.2.5 Proficiency Test
4.3 Criteria involved in Validity and Reliability
Unit 5
Materials Production (15 hrs.)
5.1 Use of Conventional Resources
5.2 Use of Audiovisual Aids and Computer Software
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Lefrancois, Guy R. Psychology for Teaching, California: Wordsworth Publishing Co.,
2000. Print.
McWhorter, Kathleen. College Reading and Study Skills, Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1986. Print.
Prabhu, N.S. Communicative Teaching Project, Bangalore: Bulletin of the Regional
Institute of English, 1981. Print.
Richards, Jack C. and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print.
Yule, George and Gillian Brown. Teaching Spoken English. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP,1983.Print.
Continuous Assessment
Section A – Three out of five short answers (about 200 words each)
3x5=15 marks
Section B – one out of three questions on theory
(about 500 words each) 1 x15=15 marks
Section C - One application-oriented question
(Framing tasks for a given passage) 1x20=20 marks
Third Component:
Materials Production
Practice Teaching

Section A – Five out of seven short answers (about 200 words each)
5x6=30 marks
Section B – Three out of five questions on theory
(about 500 words each) 3 x15=45 marks
Section C - One application-oriented question
(framing tasks for a given passage) 1x25=25 marks
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII - ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
CODE:15EL/ME/CW55 CREDITS: 5
L T P: 5 0 0
⮚ To help students appreciate the diversity of children’s literature
⮚ To introduce them to its structures, conventions and effects
Unit 1
Introduction to Children’s Fiction (10 hrs.)
1.1 Defining Children’s Literature – Paradoxes, The Implied Reader, Double Address
1.2 Childhood – A Personal and Social Construct
Unit 2
The Picture Book (15hrs.)
2.1 Verbal and Visual Narratives
2.1.1 ManjulaPabmanabhan Where’s that Cat?
2.1.2 Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things are?
2.1.3 SandhyaRao My Mother’s Sari
2.1.4 P. Anuradha Under the Neem Tree
2.1.4 Sheila Dhir Why are You Afraid to Hold My Hand?
Unit 3
Nonsense Verse (15 hrs.)
3.1 Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham
3.2 AnushkaRavishankar Tiger on a Tree
3.3 Roald Dahl Cinderella from Revolting Rhymes
Unit 4
Fiction (20 hrs.)
4.1 Eva Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea
4.2 Jacqueline Wilson The Story of Tracy Beaker
Unit 5
Practical Application Tasks (5hrs.)
5.1 Other Sub-genres
5.1.1 Comic Books/Strips
5.1.2 Folk Tales
5.1.3 Fairy Tales
5.1.4 Fantasy
5.1.5 Horror tales
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Cullingford, Cedric. Children’s Literature and its Effects: The Formative Years. London,
Cassel, 1998.Print.
Haviland, Virginia, ed. Children and Liteature: Views and Reviews. London: Bodley Head,
1973.Print.
Hume, Kathryn. Fantasy and Mimesis. London: Methuen, 1984.Print.
Hunt, Peter. Understanding children’s Literature: Key Essays from the International
Companion Encyclopedia of X Children’s Literature. London: Routledge, 1999.Print.
Kakar, Sudhir. Indian Childhood: Cultural Ideals and Social Reality. Delhi: OUP, 1979.Print.
Lurie, Alison. Boys and Girls Forever: Children’s Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter.
London: Chatto, 2003.Print.
Reynolds, Kimberley. Children’s Literature in the 1890s and the 1990s. London: Northcote
House, 1994.Print.
Third Components:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing
End Semester Evaluation

Term Paper 1500 words
Total Marks: 100
SYLLABUS
LITERATURES OF AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND
CODE: 15EL/ME/CA55 CREDITS : 5

LT P: 5 0 0
TOTAL TEACHING HOURS : 65
⮚ To help students develop an awareness of issues - social, economic, political, and cultural
– of the nations under study
⮚ To encourage dialogue on conditions of marginality and plurality
Unit 1
Introduction-Key Concepts (7 hrs.)
1.1 Ashcroft et al. The Empire Writes Back

1.2 Padmini Mongia, Ed Contemporary Post-Colonial Theory
1.3 Ashcroft et al, Ed The Post Colonial Studies Reader
Unit 2
Canada (20 hrs.)
2.1 Alice Munro A Wilderness Station
2.2 Margaret Atwood Wilderness Tips
2.3 Jeanette.C.Armstrong Indian Woman
2.4 George Ryga The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
2.5 Tomson Highway The Lover Snake
2.6 Thomas King Truth and Bright Water
Unit 3
Australia (20 hrs.)
3.1 Lionel Fogarty Remembering Something like This
3.2 Philip Mead Melbourne or the Bush
3.3 Jack Davis No Sugar
3.4 Vincent O’Sullivan The Children
3.5 Peter Carey American Dreams
3.6 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Integration – Yes!
(Kath Walker)
Unit 4
New Zealand (10 hrs.)
4.1 Maurice Shadbolt The Room
4.2 Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Barker, Francis. et al. Colonial Discourse, Post Colonial Theory. New York: Manchester
UP, 1994. Print.
Bayard, Caroline. New Poetics in Canada and Quebec : From Concertisim to Post-
Modernism. London: University of Toronto Press, 1989. Print.
Bennett, Bruce. Sense of Exile. Western Australia: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature,
1988. Print.
Irvine, Lorna L. Sub/Version : Canadian Fiction by Women. Toronto: ECW Press, 1986. Print.
Juneja, Om P. The Post Colonial Novel - Narratives of Colonial Consciousness. New Delhi:
Creation, 1995. Print.
King, Bruce. New National and Post-colonial Literatures. New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Print.
Kudchedkar, Shirin and Jameela Begum, eds. Candian Voices. New Delhi: Pencraft, 1996. Print.
Nkosi, Lewis. Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature. London:
Longman, 1981. Print.
Pandey, Sudhakar. Perspectives on Canadian Fiction. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994. Print.
Schwarz, Henry and Sangeeta Ray. A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Oxford: Blackwell,
2000. Print.
Soyinka, Wole. Art Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture. London:
Methuen, 1993. Print.
Walder, Dennis. Post-Colonial Literature in English, History, Language and Theory.
Oxford: Blackwell1998. Print.
Young, Robert J.C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Print.
JOURNALS

Wasafiri
http://criticalflame.org/
https://www.aprweb.org/
Third Component:
Assignment
Seminar
Presentation
Take Home Test
Open Book Test
Scheduled Class Work – Passage Analysis
Quiz
Panel Discussion
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing

.
GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSE OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FOR
B.A. / B.Sc.,/B.Com/ B.S.W. / B.V.A./B.C.A DEGREE PROGRAMMES
SYLLABUS
BASIC ENGLISH – I
CODE: 15EL/GE/BE22 CREDITS : 2

L T P :3 0 0
⮚ To initiate comfort levels in English language users whose grasp of the language is
inadequate
⮚ To master basic competency levels in English language use
⮚ To introduce learners to and train them in basic skills of listening and reading and the use
of basic grammar items
Unit 1
Grammar (5hrs.)
1.1 Articles
1.2 Tenses
1.2.1 Simple
1.2.2 Continuous
1.2.3 Perfect
Unit 2
Syntax (6 hrs.)
2.1 Sentence construction (jumbled words)
2.2 Interrogative, Affirmative, Negative sentences
Unit 3
Listening Skills (4 hrs.)
3.1 Listening for specific information
(Objective type: fill in the blanks; match the following, maps, grid, etc.)
3.2 Listening / Comprehension Skills
Films – one regional, one in English, one documentary
3.2.1 Class discussion
3.2.2 Listening comprehension
Unit 4
Reading Skills (7hrs.)
4.1 Short Stories – Tales from the Panchatantra/ R. K. Narayan’s short stories and
current newspaper articles/advertisements
4.1.1 Locating Information
4.1.2 Understanding the Overall Content
4.1.3 Picking Out the Central Idea
4.1.4 Recognizing the linking ideas
4.1.5 Summarising
Unit 5
Vocabulary (4 hrs.)
5.1 Building vocabulary (puzzles and games)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Swan, Michael.Practical English Usage. New Delhi: OUP, 1995.Print.
Ur, Penny. Teaching Listening Comprehension. Cambridge: CUP, 1984.Print
---. Grammar Practice Activities. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. Print.
---. Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.Print
---and S.Thornbury. Vocabulary Activities.Cambridge: CUP, 2012. Print.
Films
English Vinglish
Mitr, My friend
One CA Test 25 marks
Third Components 25 marks

Oral Presentation
Quiz
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing
GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSE OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH FOR
B.A. / B.Sc,/B.Com/ B.S.W. / B.V.A./B.C.A DEGREE PROGRAMMES
SYLLABUS
FICTION AND FILM

Code: 15EL/GE/FF23 CREDITS: 3
L T P: 3 0 0
⮚ To equip learners to appreciate the techniques of adaptation of fiction to film
⮚ To introduce learners to aspects of narrative in fiction and film
Unit 1
Narrative in Fiction and Film (7 hrs.)
1.1. Genre
1.2 Point of view
1.3 Issues in cultural aspects of adaptation
1.4 Narrative techniques in Fiction and Narrative technology in Films
1.5 Kinds of Adaptation – Translation, Transformation, Transcreation
Unit 2
Novella (8 hrs.)
2.1 Text Nastanirh
2.2 Film Charulata
Unit 3
Novel (8 hrs.)
3.1 Text Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
3.2 Film Dir. by Chris Columbus
Unit 4
Comic Book (8 hrs.)
4.1. Text Tintin
4.2. Film Animation Film Tintin
Unit 5
One Text Two Visions (8 hrs.)
5.1 Film Sense and Sensibility (English version)
5.2 Film Kandukondein Kandukondein (Tamil version)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. Print.
Corrigan, Timothy. Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. London: Pearson,
1998. Print.
Giannetti, Louis. Understanding Movies. London: Pearson, 2008. Print.
Lothe, Jakobs. Narrative in Fiction and Film. New Delhi: OUP. Print.
Seger, Linda. The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film. Print.
Synder, Mary. Analyzing Literature to Film Adaptations. New York: Continuum, 2011.
Print.
Analysis of film adaptations of fiction texts (not on the syllabus)

Creating a screenplay for a short story
Analysis of published screenplays
Quiz
FOR
B.A. / B.Sc,/B.Com/ B.S.W. / B.V.A./B.C.A Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
WRITING FOR THE MEDIA
CODE: 15 EL/GE/WM23 CREDITS: 3

L T S: 3 0 0
⮚ To train students in writing news and features for various media
Unit 1
1.1 Different Kinds of Media and Their Characteristics
1.2 Differences betweenWriting for theMedia and Other Kinds of Writing
Unit 2
Print media – Writing News Reports (8 hrs.)
2.1 What Is News
2.2 The Inverted Pyramid Structure
Unit 3
Print Media – Writing Features (10 hrs.)
3.1 What is aFeature?
3.2 Using Resources
3.5 Attribution
Unit 4
Broadcast Media (10 hrs.)
4.1 Radio
4.1.1 Writing Anchor Scripts for Radio Programmes
4.2 Television
4.2.1 Writing Anchor Scripts for Television Programmes
Unit 5
New Media (7 hrs.)
5.1 Writing Reports and Features for the Web
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Chapman, Nigel. Digital Multimedia. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000.Print.
Mass Media and Mass Communication. Cambridge, Chdadwick Healy, 1991. Print.
Mass Media in India 2000. New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 2000.
Print.
Mencher, Melvin. Basic Media Writing. London: Brown and Benchmark, 1996. Print

Writing a script in any one medium
Analysis of scripts
FOR
B.A. / B.Sc,/B.Com/ B.S.W. / B.V.A./B.C.A Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
BASIC ENGLISH –II
CODE: 15EL/GE/BE32 CREDITS : 2

LT P: 3 0 0
⮚ To master basic competency levels in English language use
⮚ To introduce learners to and train them in basic skills of listening and reading and
the use of basic grammar items
Unit 1
Grammar (6 hrs.)
1.1 Prepositions
1.2 Relative Clauses
1.3 Mixed tenses (Exercises in application of basic tenses)
1.4 Subject –verb agreement
Unit 2
Syntax (5 hrs.)
2.1 Active and passive
2.2 Direct and indirect speech
Unit 3
Speaking Skills (4 hrs.)
3.1 Introduction of self and others
3.2 Oral presentation (5 sentences) on specified topics
3.3 Introducing, Requesting, Seeking/ Giving information, Inviting, Apologising,
Describing and Narrating
3.4 Dialogue
Unit 4
Writing Skill (7hrs.)
4.1 Sequencing (jumbled sentences)
4.2 Completion – filling in missing sentences in a paragraph.
4.3 Reordering sentences into paragraphs
4.4 Writing a paragraph (5 sentences)
4.5 Rewriting a passage in the simple present using simple past or vice- versa
4.6 Letter Writing – formal
4.7 Expanding hints
Unit 5
Vocabulary (4 hrs.)
5.1 word webs, antonyms, synonyms and so on
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Swan, Michael.Practical English Usage. New Delhi: OUP, 1995.Print.
Ur , Penny. Teaching Listening Comprehension. Cambridge: CUP, 1984.Print.
---.Grammar Practice Activities. Cambridge: CUP, 1988.Print.
---. Five- Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.Print.
Ur , Penny and S. Thornbury.Vocabulary Activities.Cambridge: CUP, 2012.Print.

Oral Presentation
Quiz
Group Presentation
Role-Play
Dramatisation
Creative Writing
SYLLABUS
NOVEL OF COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
CODE: 15EL/UI/CM43 CREDITS: 3

⮚ To enable the student to place the institutions of courtship and marriage within a social
and historical context
⮚ To facilitate the students to study the fictional representation of these themes
Text: Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

Unit 1
Background
1.1 European / Western Conventions of Courtship and Marriage – Its History and
Contemporary Views on Them
1.2 Indian Conventions of Courtship and Marriage
Unit 2
Socio-Economic And Religious Perspectives
2.1 Role of Social Class in Marriages
2.2 Caste-Based and Religious Considerations
2.3 Arranged Marriages and Marriages by Personal Choice
2.4 Rebellion and Conformity
Unit 3
Gender Perspectives
3.1 Feminist Perspectives
3.2 Sexual / Gender Role
Unit 4
Techniques
4.1 Fictional Narrative Techniques
Unit 5 Practical Analysis Tasks

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Beauvoir,Simone De. The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books, 1949.Print.
Brownstein, Rachel, M. Becoming a Heroine. New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Print.
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love. New York: Oxford UP, 1958. Print.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1970. Print.
4 out of 6 essays of 750 words each 4 x 25=100
SYLLABUS
POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC AGE

CODE: 15EL/UI/PR43 CREDITS: 3

⮚ To introduce students to the English Romantic Movement and its literature
Unit 1
1.1 Introduction to the Romantic Movement
Unit 2
2.1 The Pre-Romantics
Unit 3
3.1 William Wordsworth Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Elderly
Childhood
3.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode
Unit 4
4.1 John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
4.2 Percy Bysshe Shelly To a Skylark
Unit 5
5.1 George Byron Don Juan: Canto I(6-64)
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Abrams,M H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford:
OUP,1953.Print.
Bowra, C M. The Romantic Imagination. London: OUP, 1950. Print
4 out of 6 essays of 750 words each 4 x 25=100
B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH – XII – ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
DRAMA – II
CODE: 11EL/MC/DR 34 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
▪ To introduce drama as a social product and a literary form
▪ To familiarize students with a few representative texts and to facilitate
understanding of the texts
Unit 1 (15 Hrs)

1.1. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Unit 2 (20 Hrs)

2.1. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Essential Reading
Martin Esslin. “Introduction.” Theatre of the Absurd. London: Penguin,1991.
19–28.
Unit 3 (20 Hrs)

3.1. Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Tsetzuan
(for close reading)
Essential Reading
Bertolt Brecht, “What is Epic Theatre?” Understanding Brecht, Trans. Stanley
Mitchell. London: Methuen, 15–22.
Unit 4 (5 Hrs)
4.1. Playwrights in Discussion
4.1.1. Tom Stoppard
4.1.2. Caryl Churchill
4.1.3. Dario Fo
Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (5 Hrs)

Recommended Reading
Bartram, Graham and Anthony Waine, Ed. Brecht in Perspective. London:

Longman, 1982.
Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. London: Penguin, 1991.
Gascoigne, Bamber. Twentieth Century Drama. London: Hutchinson, 1974.
Merchant, Moelwyn. Comedy. The Critical Idiom Series, Ed. John D Jump, London:
Methuen, 1972.
Stott, A. Comedy, London: Routledge, 2007.
Evaluation
Continuous Assessment 50 marks

Two CA Tests (better of the two) 25 marks
Seminar 10 marks
Passage analysis 15 marks
(text-based questions to be given)
Three-hour End-semester Examination on 100 marks 50 marks
Question paper pattern of the End-semester Examination

Analysis of a passage from text for close reading 1x20=20 marks
Three out of five short essays on prescribed texts (400 words each) 3x10=30 marks
Two out of four essays (600-650 words each) 2x25=50 marks
No direct questions to be asked from Essential Reading.

SYLLABUS
LITERARY CRITICISM – I
CODE: 11EL/MC/LC 34 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0

● To introduce students to Literary Criticism and its relevance to Literature
Unit 1 (10 Hrs)

1.1 Introduction to Literary Criticism
Essential Reading
V.S. Sethuraman. “Introduction.” The English Critical Tradition.
Macmillan India Ltd., Madras. 1977 pp vii–xiviii
Unit 2 (10 Hrs)
2.1. Aristotle Poetics
Essential Reading
Sophocles Antigone
Unit 3 (15 Hrs)
3.1 Philip Sidney Extract from Apology for Poetry

from V.S. Sethuraman : “Among the
Roman…to teach and delight”. (46 –49)
3.2. Samuel Johnson Extracts from Preface to Shakespeare
from V.S. Sethuraman : “Nothing can
please many and please long…progress of
the passion.” (247 – 249)
Unit 4 (15 Hrs)

4.1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria
Chapter XIII (Fancy and Imagination)
and Chapter XIV
4.2 Mathew Arnold The Study of Poetry
(”Indeed there can be no more useful
help…high poetic seriousness are absent
from his substance and matter”)
4.3 T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
Essential Reading
William Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Expostulation and Reply
T.S. Eliot The Metaphysical Poets
Recommended Reading
Present. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Sethuraman, V.S. The English Critical Tradition, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd., 1977.
Wimsatt, William and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History,
Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., 1957.
Evaluation
Continuous Assessment (50 marks)
Two CA Tests – better of the two (25 marks)
One Seminar (10 marks)
One Assignment (15 marks)
Three-hour End-semester Examination on 100 marks (50 marks)

Question Paper Pattern for End-semester Examination
Three short notes (200 words each) 3x15= 45marks
Two essays (600 words each) 2x20=40 marks
One analysis – with concepts given
Or
One analysis – choosing any concept 1x15=15 marks
Unit I is not for testing.

No separate questions may be asked on Essential Reading.
STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) CHENNAI 600 086
Allied Core Course Offered by the Department of English for

B.V.A. Degree Programme
SYLLABUS
ACADEMIC WRITING
CODE: 11EL/AC/AW 34 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0

● To hone the writing skills of the students
● To introduce students to different kinds of writing
Unit 1 Introduction (10 Hrs)
1.1 Different kinds of writing

1.1.1 Reports
1.1.2 Proposals
1.1.3 Newspaper articles
1.1.4 Research papers
1.2 Basics of writing essays
1.2.1 Writing a plan
1.2.2 Introduction, body and conclusion
1.2.3 Writing paragraphs
1.2.3.1 Topic sentence
1.2.3.2 Coherence and cohesion
1.2.3.3 Verbal connectors and transitions
1.3 Vocabulary
Unit 2 Narrative Writing (14 Hrs)
2.1 Writing the first paragraph

2.2 Developing the idea
2.3 Using appropriate vocabulary
2.4 Concluding
Tasks:
a. Narrating a personal experience from memory
b. Narrating an event from hearsay
c. Narrating an event shown in a video clip
Unit 3 Descriptive Writing (14 Hrs)

3.2 Developing the idea
3.3 Using appropriate vocabulary
3.4 Concluding
Tasks:
a. Describing a person
b. Describing an object or scene
Unit 4 Analytical Writing (14 Hrs)

4.2 Presenting different aspects of the issue
4.2 Presenting the writer’s point of view
4.3 Concluding
4.4 Using the right vocabulary
Tasks
a. Conducting a debate in class and writing an analytical essay based on it
b. Writing an analytical essay on a topic of current interest
Unit 5 Writing Reports and Revision (13 Hrs)
5.1 Writing Reports

5.1.1 Analysing data
5.1.2 Different parts of a report
5.1.3 Writing the report
5.2 Revising
5.2.1 Re-reading and revising
5.2.2 Re-writing and rephrasing
5.2.3 Reorganising
5.2.4 Peer-review
5.2.4 Incorporating peer-review suggestions
5.2.5 Writing the final draft
5.2.6 Proofreading
Recommended Reading
Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Guide to Writing. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
Inc., 1992.
McWhorter, Kathleen and Candalene J. McCombs. Write to Read and Read to Write.
Boston and Toronto. Little, Brown and Company, 1983.
Reid, Stephen. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall
Inc., 1989.
Evaluation

Two CA Tests (better of the two) 25 marks
One assignment 25 marks
Three-hour End-semester examination on 100 50 marks
Question paper pattern for end-semester examination

Two essays (from any of the three kinds prescribed) 25x2=50 marks
One passage for editing and proofreading 25x1=25 marks
One essay to be revised and rewritten 25x1=25 marks
SYLLABUS
FICTION – II
CODE: 11EL/MC/FN 44 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
● To draw students into active engagement with modernist and postmodernist discourses in
fiction through representative texts
● To analyse narrative strategies in the novel and in short fiction
Unit 1 Introduction to 20th Century Fiction (10 Hrs)

1.1 Modernist fiction
1.2 Postmodernist fiction
Unit 2 (15 Hrs)

2.1 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Essential Reading
Raymond Williams. “Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism”.
Politics of Modernism.
Virginia Woolf. “Modern Fiction”, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader.
Ed. David Lodge.
Unit 3 (15 Hrs)

3.1.John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Essential Reading
Patricia Waugh. “What is Metafiction and Why are They Saying Such Awful Things
About it?” Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie.
Linda Hutcheon “Historiographic Metafiction” Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie.
Unit 4 (20 Hrs)
4.1 Joyce Carol Oates Shopping
4.2 Orhan Pamuk To Look Out the Window
4.3 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Light is Like Water
4.4 Margaret Atwood Scarlet Ibis

Recommended Reading
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern World. New Delhi: Kalyani Publications,1989.
McQuade, Donald and Robert Atwan. The Winchester Reader. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Girl /White Girl. London: Harper Perennial, 2007.
Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. New Delhi: Penguin, 1991.
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty. London: Penguin, 2005.
Wolfreys, Julian. Critical Keywords in Literature and Cultural Theory. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004.
---, Ed. Modern North American Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2006.
---. Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2006.
Evaluation
Three-hour End-semester Examination on 100 marks (50 marks)
Question Paper pattern for End-semester Examination

Four out of six short notes on textual readings (200 words each) 40 marks
Three out of five essay questions (about 650 words each,
incorporating theoretical perspectives) 3 x 20 = 60 marks
No direct questions to be asked from Essential Reading, Recommended Reading and
Unit 1.
SYLLABUS
LITERATURE AND IDEAS
CODE: 11EL/AC/LI 44 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
● To acquaint the students with the major schools of thought that have impacted literature
● To train the students to analyse literary texts using these ideas as frames of reference
Unit 1 Romanticism (14 Hrs)

1.1. Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
1.2. Emmanuel Kant: Critique of Pure reason
1.3. G.W.F. Hegel: Phenomenology of the Mind
Text
William Wordsworth: The Prelude Book I (Lines: 147-249)
Unit 2 Darwinism and Marxism (10 Hrs)

2.1 Charles Darwin: Survival of the Fittest
2.2 Karl Marx: Base and Superstructure
Text
Charles Dickens: Hard Times (Chapters 1-5)
Unit 3 Existentialism (15 Hrs)

3.1 Schopenhauer: The World as Will
3.2 Nietzsche: Apollonian and Dionysiac Principles
3.3 Sartre: Awful freedom
Texts
Ted Hughes: Tiger Psalm
Kafka: Metamorphosis
Unit 4 Feminist Thought (13 Hrs)

4.1 Toril Moi: Feminine, Feminist, Female
4.2 bell hooks: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
(Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, II Edition, London: Pluto, 2000, 1- 17)
Text
Sara Aboobacker. Breaking Ties (Macmillan Modern Novels in Translation Series)
RECOMMENDED READING
Bhandari, D. R. History of European Political Philosophy. Bangalore: Bangalore Printing and

Publishing, 1994.
Beauvoir,Simone De. The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books, 1949.
Copplestone, F. A History of Philosophy. London: Burn and Odes, 1959
Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy. London: Simon and Schuster, 1926.
Howells, Christina. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Sartre. London: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Larine. From Socrates to Sartre: the Philosophical Quest.
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy. (1946). London: Unwin, 1979.
Evaluation

One seminar (10 marks)
One assignment (15 marks)
Question Paper Pattern for End-Semester Examination

Short notes on ideas studied – Five out of seven (5x4=20 marks)
Essays of about 650 words each – Four out of six (4x15=60 marks)
Analysis of a passage from an unseen literary text
based on ideas studied (20 marks)
SYLLABUS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
CODE: 11EL/ME/LT 43 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 3 1 0
● To train students in the methodology and preparation of materials for teaching

English language
Unit 1 (8 Hrs)
1.1 Language Acquisition
1.1.1 First Language Acquisition of the Child
1.1.1.1 Lateralization of the Brain
1.1.1.2 Learning by Imitation
1.1.1.3 Language Acquisition Devices
1.1.1.4 Generalisation
1.1.2 Second Language Learning of the Adult
1.1.2.1 Mother tongue interference
1.1.2.2 Psychological and Sociological factors influencing
Second Language Learning
Unit 2 (10 Hrs)

2.1. Psychology of Learning
2.1.1 Behaviourist Psychology
2.1.2 Stimulus–Response Learning
2.1.3 Reinforcement
2.2 Cognitive Learning
2.2.1 Cognitive Structure
2.2.2 Concept Formation
2.2.3 Theory of Subsuming
2.2.4 Theory of Forgetting
2.3 Humanistic Approach to Learning
2.3.1 The Teacher–Student Relationship
Unit 3 (10 Hrs)

3.1. Approaches, Methods and Techniques in Language Teaching
3.1.1 A survey of the Grammar Translation method, the Situational
method and the Audio-lingual method
3.1.2 Communicative Approach
3.1.2.1 Communicative Competence as different from Linguistic
Competence
3.1.2.2 The Teacher's Role – The Student's Role
3.1.2.3 Task- based activities in the class
3.1.3. Skills Approach
3.1.3.1 Teaching Reading Skills – skimming, scanning and intensive
reading
3.1.3.2 Teaching Listening Skills – listening for specific details,
keywords, concepts
3.1.3.3 Teaching Speaking Skills – expressing ideas, opinions,
presenting an argument.
3.1.3.4 Teaching Writing Skills – writing a paragraph : topic
sentence, main idea, supporting ideas, concluding sentence -
descriptive and narrative writing
Unit 4
4.1. Syllabus (10 Hrs)
4.1.1 Definition of syllabus and curriculum
4.1.2 The components of a syllabus
4.2. Testing and Evaluation
4.2.1 Kinds of Tests
4.2.2 Criteria involved in Validity and Reliability
Unit 5 (14 Hrs)

5.1 Materials Production
5.1.1. Use of conventional resources
5.1.2. Use of audiovisual aids and computer software
Recommended Reading
Lefrancois, Guy R. Psychology for Teaching. California: Wordsworth Publishing Co.,

2000.
Mc Whorter, Kathleen. College Reading and Study Skills. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, 1986.
Prabhu, N.S. Communicative Teaching Project. Bangalore: Bulletin of the Regional
Institute of English, 1981.
Richards, Jack C. and, Theodore S Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
Yule, George and Gillian Brown. Teaching Spoken English. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP,1983.
Evaluation

Two C.A. Tests (better of the two) (25 marks)
Materials to be prepared to teach any skill or skills (10 marks)
Practice teaching to their own class (15 marks)
Question paper pattern for End-semester Examination

Five questions on theory (about 500 words each) (5 x 15=75 marks)
One application-oriented question
(framing tasks for a given passage) (25 marks)

SYLLABUS
LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
CODE: 11EL/ME/LP 43 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 3 1 0

● To examine the interface between literature and psychology
● To introduce the students to some concepts in psychology which have some bearing
for the study of literature
Unit 1 Elements of Psychology (20 Hrs)

1.1 Freud
1.1.1 Structural model of the mind: The Conscious and Unconscious
The Three Psychic Zones (Id, Ego, Superego)
1.1.2 Different stages in the formation of personality
1.1.3 Kinds of anxiety
1.1.4. Defense Mechanisms
1.2 Jung
1.2.1 The Collective Unconscious
1.2.2 Archetypes
Unit 2 (6 Hrs)
2.1 Sylvia Plath Daddy
Unit 3 (6 Hrs)
3.1 D. H. Lawrence The Virgin and the Gypsy
Unit 4 (10 Hrs)

4.1 Sethu Pandavapuram

Recommended Reading
Engler, Barbara. Personalities Theory: An Introduction. (3rd Edition). Boston: Houghton

Mifflin, 1991.
Frye, Northrop. “The Archetypes of Literature”. The Norton Anthology of Theory and
Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2001:
1445-1457.
Guerin, Wilfred L. et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches. New York: Oxford UP,
1999.
Meyers, G. David. Exploring Psychology.(7th Edition). New York: Worth, 2008.
Morgan, T. Clifford and Richard King. Introduction to Psychology. (7th Edition). New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.
Evaluation
Continuous assessment 50 marks

Two C.A. tests (better of the two) (25 marks)
Class assignment – Practical analysis (25 marks)
No End-semester examination
Term Paper: Analysis of any literary text not on the syllabus
using the concepts in Unit 1 50 marks
SYLLABUS
LITERARY CRITICISM – II
CODE: 11EL/MC/LC 54 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
▪ To acquaint students with the development of modern criticism and theory and with
Classical Indian criticism
▪ To relate criticism and theory to practice in the classroom
Unit 1 New Criticism (15 Hrs)

1.1. Cleanth Brooks Irony as a Principle of Structure
1.2. I.A. Richards Four Kinds of Meaning
Unit 2 Structuralismand Semiotics (15 Hrs)

2.1. Tzvetan Todorov The Structural Analysis of Literature: The Tales of Henry
James
(From V.S. Sethuraman, Contemporary criticism: An
Anthology)
2.2. Roland Barthes Myth as a Semiological System
(For mythology …it imposes it on us)
(from Roland Barthes, Mythologies)
Essential Reading
Raman Selden, “Binary Oppositions - Arthur Miller”
Unit 3 Reader Response Theory (15 Hrs)

3.1 Wolfgang Iser The Reading Process: A Phenomenological
Approach
Unit 4 Indian Aesthetics (10 Hrs)
4.1 Rasa & Sahrdaya Bharata On Natya and Rasa: Aesthetics of Dramatic
Experience. Trans. from Sanskrit by G.K. Bhatt. Indian
Literary Criticism. Ed. G.N. Devy.
Essential Reading
Ananda Coomaraswamy Hindu View of Art – Theory of Beauty
That Beauty is a State
from The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Indian Essays
Recommended Reading
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. London: Vintage, 1993.
Guerin Wilfred et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Oxford: Oxford

UP, 1992.
Present. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
Lodge, David. Modern Criticism & Theory. London: Longman, 1991.
Ramanujan, A.K.“On Ancient Tamil Poetics”. Indian Literary Criticism. Ed. G.N. Devy
Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2006.
Selden and Widdowson. Contemporary Critical Theory. Lexington: The UP of
Kentucky, 1993.
Selden, Raman. The Theory of Criticism. London & New York: Longman, 1998.
Evaluation

Two CA Tests (better of the two) (25marks)
Analysis of an unseen passage (1x15=15 marks)

using any critical/theoretical perspective prescribed for study
Three short notes (250 words each, internal choice) (3x15=45 marks)
Two out of four long essays (500 words each) (2x20=40 marks)

SYLLABUS
INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
CODE: 11EL/MC/IE 54 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0

● To appreciate identity politics inherent in Indian Literature in English
● To learn to negotiate culture and politics in Indian Literature in English
1.1 Revisiting Early Writing

1.1.1. Sarojini Naidu Pardah Nashin; The Palanquin Bearers
1.1.2. Aurobindo Ghose The Tiger and the Deer
1.1.3. Rabindranath Tagore from Gitanjali XI, XXXV, XXXVI
1.1.4. R.K.Narayan The Guide
1.2 The Idea of India

1.2.1. Ramachandra Guha “Epilogue: Why India Survives,” India
After Gandhi: The History of the World’s
Largest Democracy 744-71.
1.2.2. Khushwant Singh Train to Pakistan
Unit 2 Poetry (20 Hrs)

2.1. Nissim Ezekiel Background, Casually
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
2.2. A.K. Ramanujan The Striders
Bosnia
2.3. Kamala Das An Introduction
Timepiece
2.4. Arun Kolatkar Chaitanya
Between Jejuri and the Railway Station
2.5. Jeet Thayil At Kabul Zoo, the Lion
My Grandmother’s Funeral (poem VI from Genesis
Godown)
Parallel Reading
Ranjit Hoskote Moth
Rukmini Bhaya Nair Meera Bai (from The Ayodhya Cantos: Poems)
Anjum Hasan Home
Tishani Doshi The Day We Went to the Sea
Essential Reading
Vinay Dharwadker, “Afterword: Modern Indian Poetry and its contexts,” The Oxford
Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry.
Ranjit Hoskote, “Introduction,” Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary

Indian Poets. Ed. Hoskote
Bruce King, “Ezekiel and His Influence,” Modern Indian Poetry in English. Rev ed,
Oxford UP, New Delhi. 91-109.
Unit 3 Drama (10 Hrs)
3.1. Mahesh Dattani Final Solutions
Essential Reading
Radha Ramaswamy, “Towards a Multicultural Theatre: Mahesh Dattani and the
Changing Audience for Contemporary Indian Drama in English,” Mahesh
Dattani’s Plays: Critical Perspectives . Ed. Angelie Multani.
Unit 4 Fiction
(15 Hrs)
4.1. R.K.Narayan The Guide
4.2. Amitav Ghosh The Hungry Tide
Texts in Discussion
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
David Davidar The Solitude of Emperors
Temsula Ao These Hills Called Home
Recommended Reading
de Souza, Eunice. Talking Poems: Conversations with Poets. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1999.
Deshpande, Shashi. That Long Silence. New Delhi: Penguin, 1988.

Kakkar, Sudhir and Katharina Kakkar. The Indians: Portrait of a People. New Delhi: Penguin,
2007.
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Ed. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English. Delhi:
Permament Black, 2003.
Naik, M K. A History of Indian Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2005.
Evaluation

Two C.A. Tests – better of the two (25 marks)
One assignment (15 marks)

Three questions 3x20 =60 marks
one question each from units 2, 3, 4 (choice: one out of two)
Two short notes out of four (250 words each) 2x10 =20 marks
One passage analysis (from prescribed texts from Units 2 and 3) 1x20=20 marks
No separate questions may be asked on Unit 1, Parallel and Essential Reading and Texts in
Discussion.
SYLLABUS
SHAKESPEARE
CODE: 11EL/MC/SH 54 CREDITS: 4

LTP: 4 1 0

● To enable students to understand and appreciate the dramatic art of Shakespeare
Unit 1 Background (not for testing) (5 Hrs)

1.1 Introduction to Elizabethan theatre and Shakespearean drama
Essential Reading:
Una Ellis-Fermor. “Shakespeare the Dramatist”. Shakespeare’s Drama. Ed.
Kenneth Muir. London: Methuen & Co., 1980. 1-15.
Unit 2 Comedy (25 Hrs)

2.1 As You Like It (For close reading)
Essential Reading
C.L. Barber. “Introduction: The Saturnalian Pattern”. Shakespeare’s Festive
Comedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959. 3-15.
Alexander Leggatt. “As You Like It”. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love. London:
Methuen & Co., 1974. 221-254.
Unit 3 Tragedy and History (20 Hrs)

3.1 Othello
3.2 Henry IV Part I
Essential Reading
Alexander Leggatt. “Othello: I took you for that Cunning Whore of Venice”.
Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Violation and Identity. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. 114-144.
Brian Vickers. “New Historicism: Disaffected Subjects”. Appropriating

Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1994. 257-267.
Ruth Vanita. “ ‘Proper’ Men and ‘Fallen’ Women: The Unprotectedness of Wives
in Othello.” William.Shakespeare: Canon and Critique: An Anthology. Ed.
Leela Gandhi. Delhi: Pencraft international, 1998.
Stephen Greenblatt. “Invisible Bullets”. Literary Theory: An Anthology . Ed.

Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers Inc, 1998.
786-803.
Re-visiting Shakespeare
Film: Omkara (not for testing)
Unit 4 Sonnets (5 Hrs)

4.1. Sonnet no. 35 “No more be griev’d at…”
4.2. Sonnet No. 116 “Let me not to the marriage of …”
4.3. Sonnet No.129 “The expense of spirit…”
Essential Reading
Philip Martin. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Self, Love and Art. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1972.
Recommended Reading
Berryman, John. Berryman's Shakespeare. Ed. John Haffenden. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1999.
Bloom Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. London: Fourth Estate, 1999.
Gay, Penny. As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women. Gender in Performance
Series. London: Routledge, 1994.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World. London: Pimlico, 2005.
Greer, Germaine. Shakespeare. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen & Co. London, 1999.
Tillyard, E.M.W. Shakespeare's History Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard,
1998.
Evaluation

Two C.A. Tests (better of the two) (25 marks)
Question Paper Pattern for End Semester Examination

Passage for analysis from Unit 2 with questions 1x20=20 marks
Two out of four essays – 250-400 words each 2x10=20 marks
Three out of six Essays – about 750 words each
(internal choice) 3x20=60 marks
Passages for analysis to be set from Unit 2 only.

Unit 1 not for testing.
No direct questions to be asked from Essential Reading.
SYLLABUS
POETRY – II
CODE: 11EL/MC/PT 54 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
▪ To acquaint the students with major shifts in sensibility after the world wars, especially as
reflected in language and ideology
Unit 1 (13 Hrs)
1.1 T. S. Eliot Preludes

1.2 W.B. Yeats The Second Coming
1.3 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Parallel Reading
Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sassoon, R. S Thomas
Unit 2 (15 Hrs)
2.1 Philip Larkin Coming

2.3 Ted Hughes The Thought Fox
2.4 Sylvia Plath Daddy
2.5 Allen Ginsberg Sunflower Sutra
Parallel Reading
Thom Gunn, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashberry, Jack Kerouac
Unit 3 (12 Hrs)
3.1 Pablo Neruda The Dictators

3.2 Christopher Okigbo Come Thunder
3.3 Agha Shahid Ali Postcard from Kashmir
Parallel Reading
Ben Okri
Unit 4 (12 Hrs)
4.1 Benjamin Zephaniah Dis Poetry
4.3 Jackie Kay In My Country
Parallel Reading
Don Paterson, Patience Agbabe
Essential Reading
from A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry
Peter Brooker and Simon Perril “Modernist Poetry and its Precursors” (21- 30)
Jacob Korg “Imagism”
John Osborne “The Beats” (183-189)
Lucy Collins “Confessionalism” (197-199; 204-207)
Stephen Regan “The Movement”
Douglas Houstan “Welsh Poetry” (329-334)
Recommended Reading
Fredman, Stephen, Ed. A Concise Companion to Twentieth Century American

Poetry. USA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.
King, P.R. Eleven British Poets. Methuen and Co., 1979.
Roberts, Neil, Ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. USA: Blackwell
Publishers, 2001.
Rosenthal, M.L. The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World
War II. OUP,1967.
Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984.
NY: Longman Inc., 1985.
Evaluation

One seminar on the poets mentioned in the Parallel Reading list (10 marks)
One class assignment based on the poets, trends, background and context (15 marks)

Two out of four questions on passage from prescribed texts 2x20=40 marks
Three out of five essays 750 words each 3x20=60 marks
No separate questions to be asked on Essential Reading and Parallel Reading.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
TESTING AND EVALUATION PATTERN
(For the students admitted in the academic year 2012-13 & thereafter)
POETRY – II
CODE: 11EL/MC/PT 54
MAX. MARKS : 100
TIME : 3 HOURS.
Three-hour End-semester Examination on 100 marks
SECTION – A – Three out of six (750 words) 3x20=60 marks

SECTION – B - Four out of six (250 words) 4x10=40 marks
No separate questions to be asked on Essential Reading and Parallel Reading.

B.A. DEGREE : BRANCH XII – ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
JOURNALISTIC WRITING AND COPYEDITING
CODE: 11EL/ME/JC 53 CREDITS: 4

LTP: 3 1 0
● To introduce students to different kinds of writing for print media
● To train students in writing different kinds of reports and features
● To train students in the basics of copyediting

1.1.What is News?
1.1.1. Hard news
1.1.2. Soft News
Unit 2 Basics of Writing (13 Hrs)

2.2 The inverted pyramid format
2.3 The hourglass format
2.4 Writing leads
2.5 Developing the news story
2.5. Attribution
2.6 Concluding the story
Unit 3 Gathering Information (13 Hrs)

3.1 Library sources
3.2 Surveys
3.3 Interviews
Unit 4 Writing Reports and Features* (13 Hrs)

4.1 Writing Reports
4.1.1 Writing the lead
4.1.2 Developing the news story
4.1.3 Using human sources for a report
4.2 Writing features
4.2.1 Using a survey and results of the survey for a feature
4.2.2 Writing personality profiles
4.2.3 Writing a feature on any topic / area of each student’s choice
4.2.4 Using information in a feature
Tasks
a. Reporting an event from information given
b. First-hand Reporting
Unit 5 Copyediting* (13 Hrs)

5.1 What is copyediting
5.2 Copyediting symbols
5.3 Copyediting for accuracy, better reading and length
Tasks:
a. Editing a newspaper article for a new target audience
b. Editing an article written by other students or groups in class
Essential Reading
1. The day’s newspaper
2. The week’s / fortnight’s / month’s issues of relevant magazines
*
Students are trained in the use of M S Office Publisher software in which each student
creates her own newspaper page with the articles worked on in class. The articles are
then edited by another student.
Recommended Reading
Dominick, Joseph R, Dynamics of Mass Communication. New York: Tata McGraw Hill,
1993.
Itule & Anderson, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media. New York: Tata
McGraw Hill, 1994.
R. M. Ritter. The Oxford Guide to Style. London: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Evaluation
One first-hand report (10 marks)

One feature on any topic of the student’s choice (15 marks)
MS Publisher page with classwork done over the semester (25 marks)
(Classwork should include editing of the article by other students of the class)
End-semester assessment (internal)

Students to submit TWO features of 1500 words each on separate topics 100 marks
No End-semester Examination
SYLLABUS
INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
CODE: 11EL/ME/IL 53 CREDITS: 3

L T P: 3 1 0
● To establish continuity, interrogation and change from classical to contemporary
times in Indian literature in translation
Unit 1 Classical Literature (12 Hrs)

1.1 Bhasa Karnabharam
1.2 Sangam poetry
1.2.1 Akam
a. Kuruntokai 25 Only the thief was there
b. Narrinai 63 On the new sand
c. Narrinai 179 If a calving cow
1.2.2 Puram
a. Purannanuru 235 If he found a little liquor
b. Purananuru 69 Dear singer
(from Ramanujan A.K., Poems of Love and War.)
1.3 Therigatha
1.3.1 Punna or Punnika
1.3.2 Ambapali
(from David C.A.F. Rhys and Norman K.R. Trans. Poems of Early
Buddhist Nuns. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1997.)
Essential Reading
G.K Bhat. “Two plays of Tragic Design and Tragic Intent,” Tragedy and
Sanskrit Drama.
Uma Chakravarthy. “The Rise of Buddhism as Experienced by Women.”
Manushi, 8.
Unit 2 Folk Tale (5 Hrs)

2.1. The Serpent Lover
(from Ramanujan, A.K. The Flowering Tree and Other Oral tales from India.
Ed. Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes.)
Unit 3 Medieval Literature (15 Hrs)

3.1 Bulle Shah
2.1.1 I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do?
2.1.2 Remove duality and do away with all disputes;
2.1.3. There is only one thread of all cotton.
3.2 Chokhamela
2.2.1 They Thrash me, Vithu,
2.2.2 Vedas and the Shastras
Essential Reading
Rohini Mokashi-Punekar. “Bhakti as Protest”
Unit 4 Modern Literature (10 Hrs)

4.1 Girish Karnad Nagamandala
4.2 Kaifi Azmi
4.2.1 The Last Night
4.2.2 Dispersion
4.2.3 A Sense of Regret
(from Azmi, Kaifi. Selected Poems. (Trans.) Pavan K. Varma.)
Parallel Reading
Ratan Thiyyam. “Nine Hills One Valley,” Sabd: An English Literary Journal. 1.2
(2007): 37-49.
Indira Goswami “Under the Shadow of the Kamakhya”
Vijay Tendulkar Silence! The Court is in Session
Recommended Reading
Chugtai, Ismat. The Crooked Line. Trans. Tahira Naqvi. New Delhi: Women Unlimited,
1995.
Hyder, Qurratulain. River of Fire. New Delhi:Women Unlimited, 1998.
Ramanujan A.K. Poems of Love and War. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1996.
Ramanujan, A.K. The Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Ed. Stuart
Blackburn and Alan Dundes. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1997.
Evaluation
Two C.A. Tests – better of the two (25 marks)

Analysis of one passage out of two from the prescribed texts 1x20=20 marks
Four short essays (200 words each) 4x10=40 marks
Two long essays (750 words) 2x20=40 marks
No separate questions on Essential Reading.

B.A. DEGREE : BRANCH – XII – ENGLISH
SYLLABUS
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
CODE: 11EL/MC/ PC 64 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0
OBJECTIVE/S OF THE COURSE
▪ To examine ways in which major formulations of postcolonial theories help to
redefine and re-evaluate the study of literature
▪ To encourage new ways of thinking about the location of culture within and
outside the borders of nation states and to encourage reading in terms of cultural
differences
Unit 1 (12 Hrs)

1.1 Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
1.2 Wole Soyinka Telephone Conversation
Essential Reading
Kwame Anthony Appaiah African Identities, Postcolonial
Discourses: An Anthology. ed Gregory Castle
Simon During Race, Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction.
Unit 2 (10 Hrs)

2.1 Kath Walker Assimilation – No!
Integration – Yes.
2.2. Derek Walcott Crusoe’s Island
Essential Reading
Bill Ashcroft et al. “Introduction”, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice
in Post-Colonial Literatures.
Unit 3 (20 Hrs)

3.1 Margaret AtwoodSurfacing
3.2. Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
3.3. Andrea Levy Small Island
Essential Reading
Slemon, Stephen ‘Post-colonial Critical Theories’ Postcolonial Discourses: An
Anthology ed Gregory Castle
---“Identity”, Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction . New York: Routledge
Unit 4 (10 Hrs)
4.1. John Kinsella Warhol at Wheatlands
Essential Reading
Stuart Hall. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader.
Simon During. “Multiculturalism”. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction.
Sneja Gunew. “Marginal Positions: Constructing Cultural Differences on Various
‘Posts’. Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies. 38-52.
Pepi Leistyna, “White Ethnic Unconsciousness” Cultural Studies: From Theory
to Action ed Pepi Leistyna Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005. 273-278
Recommended Reading
Schwarz, Henry and Sangeeta Ray. A Companion to Post Colonial Studies.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Castle, Gregory. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology . Oxford: Blackwell Publishers,
2001.
Ashcroft, Bill et al., The Post–Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2006.
Fanon, Frantz. Trans. Constance Farrington Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove
Press, 1967.
Morgan, Sally. My Place. Western Australia: Freemantle Art Centre Press, 1987.
(Chapter 5 “Pretending” and Chapter 15 “A Black Grandmother”).
http://australia.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=
674
Evaluation
One seminar (10 marks)
Three-hour End Semester Examination on 100 marks 50 marks
Question Paper Pattern for End Semester Examination
Short notes on concepts related to Postcolonial Studies
Five out of seven 5x4=20 marks
(The following concepts alone are to be tested:
Imperialism, Colonialism/Colonisation, Post colonialism, Neocolonialism, Hybridity,
Race/Racism, Identity, Diaspora, Exile and immigrant, and Postcolonial Feminism)
Four out of six essays of about 750 words each 4x20=80 marks
No separate questions may be asked on Essential Reading
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
CODE: 11EL/MC/ PC 64
MAX. MARKS : 100
TIME : 3 HOURS.
Question Paper Pattern for End-Semester Examination
SECTION A- Five out of seven short notes 5x4= 20 marks

SECTION B- (Poetry) - Two out of four (750 words) 2x20=40 marks
SECTION C- (Novel) - Two out of four (750 words) 2x20= 40 marks
No separate questions may be asked on Essential Reading
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SYLLABUS
SOUTH ASIAN WRITING

CODE: 11EL/MC/SA 64 CREDITS: 4
LTP: 4 1 0

● To introduce the student to a selection of writing from the South Asian region
● To explore the correspondences and differences between nations within this
region
Unit 1 Background (15 Hrs)

1.1. Socio-historical and political background of the region
1.2. Identities as constructs: Gender, Religion, Ethnicity and Language
Essential Readings
Harish Trivedi. “South Asian Literature: Reflections in a Confluence.” Indian
Literature:229. 186-194.
Ali Riaz. Ed.: Historical Antecedents and The Failure of the State and The Crisis
of Hegemony from “Introduction: Three Arguments about the Religion-Politics
Nexus.” Religion and Politics in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge.
9-14.
K.M. de Silva “Language, Ehtnicity and Politics in South Asia”. Ethnic Studies
Report. Vol. XIV No.1, January 1996. Colombo and Kandy: International Centre
for Ethnic Studies, 1996. 1-10.
Unit 2 (30 Hrs)

2.1. India
2.1.1 Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Play of the Absurd
2.1.2 Krittibas Chakraborty Tripura
2.2 Pakistan
2.2.1 Kamila Shamsie Kartography
2.3 Bangladesh
2.3.1 Kazi Nazrul Islam Struggle
2.3.2 Kaiser Haq A Myth Reworked
2.3.3 Khaleda Salahuddin Relief Camp
Unit 3 Srilanka (10 Hrs)
3.1 Jean Arasanayagam Passages
3.2 Shanmugalingam The Land of Our Parents.
Trans. S. Pathmanathan
3.3 Sunetra Rajakarunanayake SMS
Unit 4 Nepal (5 Hrs)

4.1. Abhi Subedi Fire in the Monastery
Recommended Reading
Bhasin, Kamala, et al. Against All Odds. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1994.
Bhutalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence. New Delhi: Penguin,1998.
Goonasekere, Savitri, ed. Violence, Law and Women’s Rights in South Asia. New Delhi:
Sage Publications, 2004.
Hasan, Mushirul. Inventing Boundries. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,2000.
Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing and Ngangom, Robin S. ed. Anthology of Contemporary

Poetry from the North East. Shillong: NEHU Publications, 2003.
Riaz, Ali. Religion and Politics in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Shamsie, Muneeza, ed. And the World Changed. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2005.
Shanmugalingam. Shanmugalingam Three Plays. Trans. S. Pathmanathan. Colombo and

Chennai: Kumaran Book House, 2007.
Wijesinha Rajiva, ed. Bridging Connections: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Short Stories.
New Delhi: National Book Trust. 2007.
Zaman, Niaz and Azim, Fidous. Galpa Short Stories by Women from Bangladesh. Ed.
London: Stanza, 2007.
Evaluation
Two CA tests
One group seminar on Unit 1 (15 marks)

One out of two unseen passages for analysis 1x20=20 marks
Three out of five short essays (400 words each) 3x10=30 marks
Two out of four long essays (750 words each) 2x25=50 marks
No direct questions may be asked from Essential Reading.

SOUTH ASIAN WRITING
CODE: 11EL/MC/SA 64
MAX. MARKS : 100
TIME : 3 HOURS

One out of two unseen passages for analysis (350 words) 1x15=15 marks
Three out of five short essays (300 words each) 3x15=45 marks
Two out of four long essays (750 words each) 2x20=40 marks
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SYLLABUS

CODE: 11EL/MC/GD 64 CREDITS: 4
L T P: 4 1 0
▪ To explore select literary texts that draw attention to gender relations and gendered ways
of thinking
▪ To study gender construction and perpetuation in society
Unit 1 Introduction (Not for Testing) (10 Hrs)

1.1 Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own.
Unit 2 Poetry and Fiction (15 Hrs)

2.1. Adrienne Rich Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law
2.2 Grace Nichols The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping
2.3 Shashi Deshpande Small Remedies
Unit 3 Autobiography (15 Hrs)

3.1.Revathi Truth About My Life (Penguin 2010)
Unit 4 Drama (15 Hrs)

4.1. Lisa Mayo, et al. Spider Woman Theatre (Winnetou’s Snake Oil Show
from Wig Wam City)
5.1. Passages from Unit- 2
Essential Reading
Kamla Bhasin. Understanding Gender, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000.
Catherine Mackinnon. “Towards a Feminist theory of State” Feminisms, Ed. New York:
Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, Oxford, New York, 1997, 351-58.
Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision,” Adrienne Rich’s Poetry,
Ed. Barbara Charles and Albert Gelpi, Norton, New York, 1995, 90-98.
Amartaya Sen,“Gender and Co-operative Conflicts,” Capabilities, Freedom and Equality,
Ed. Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, Ingrid Robeyns, 2006, 458-84.
Recommended Reading
Bhutalia, Urvashi. “Confrontation and Negotiation: The Women’s Movement’s Response to

Violence Against Women,” The Politics of Gender, Identity and Social Equality in India.
New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2002. 207-33.
Foran, John. “Alternatives to Development: Of Love, Dreams and Revolution,” Feminist
Futures: Reimagining Women Culture and Development. Ed. Kumkum Bhavnani, John
Foran and Priya Kurian, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2003. 268-274.
Mies, Maria and Vandana Shiva. Ecofeminism. London: New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993.
Evaluation
Two CA test (better of the two) (25 marks)

Assignment (15 marks)
Seminar (Topic from contemporary reality,
issues with reference to a text not on the syllabus) (10 marks)
Two essay questions (750 words) with internal choice 2 x 20 = 40 marks

Three short essays (300 words) with internal choice 3 x 15 = 45 marks
Passage analysis from the novel or poems prescribed 1 x 15 = 15 marks
Unit 1 not for testing

CODE: 11EL/MC/GD 64
MAX. MARKS : 100
TIME : 3 HOURS.
Four essay questions (750 words) with internal choice 4 x 20 = 80 marks

Passage analysis from the novel or poems prescribed
(one out of two with 600 words) 1 x 20= 20 marks
Unit 1 not for testing

SYLLABUS
WORLD CLASSICS
CODE: 11EL/MC/WC 64 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 1 0

▪ To examine some works of World Literature across multiple genres and cultures
▪ To understand and appreciate the qualities that make a work of literature a classic
Unit 1 The Epic (20 hours)

1.1 Homer The Iliad Book I
1.2 Ilango Atikal Cilappatikaram Trans. R. Parthasarathy
Book 1 – Cantos 1–3; Book 2 – Cantos 18–22
Unit 2 Ritual and Drama: The Noh Play (5 hours)

2.1. Zeami Motokiyo Hagoromo
Unit 3 Sufi Poetry (20hours)

3.1 Rumi
3.1.1 The Worm’s Waking
3.1.2 Wean Yourself
3.1.3 Story Water
3.1.4 The Night Air
3.1.5. In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo, In Cairo Dreaming of Baghdad
(from The Essential Rumi (1995) Trans.Coleman Barks. San Francisco:
HarperCollins)
Unit 4 Short Fiction (10 hours)

4.1. Boccaccio The Decameron
Book I: 1st day: III story
2nd day: IX story
3rd day: IX story
Essential Reading
Eliot, T. S. “What is a Classic?” Selected Prose of T.S.Eliot.(Ed.) Frank Kermode.
(Not for testing)

Recommended Reading
Kermode, Frank. The Classic. London: Faber, 1975.

Shulman, David. The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. New
Delhi: OUP, 2001.
Fadiman, James. Essential Sufism. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2000.
Choo, Lim Beng. “They Came to Party: An Examination of the Social Status of the
Medieval Noh Theatre” Japan Forum, 16(1) 2004, 111-113.
Dubois, Page. History, Rhetorical Description and the Epic: From Homer to Spenser.
Cambridge: Brewer, 1982.
Evaluation
Continuation Assessment 50 marks

Two CA Tests – better of the two 25 marks
One practical Analysis of an unseen text 15 marks
One seminar 10 marks
Question Paper pattern for End- semester Examination

Analysis of one passage out of two from Unit 1 1x20=20marks
Four short essays (250-300 words each) 4x10=40 marks
Two long essays (750 words each) 2x20=40 marks

STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) CHENNAI – 600 086
General Elective Course offered by the Department of English for
B.A./ B.Sc./B.Com/ B.S.W./B.V.A./B.C.A Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
CODE: 11EL/GE/CE 32 CREDITS: 2
L T P: 2 0 0

● To enable the student to communicate effectively in real-life situations
● To develop the use of the four language skills and the use of vocabulary
Unit 1 Listening and Speaking (10 Hrs)

1.1 Listening for information, for specific purposes
1.2 Understanding and responding appropriately to directive language
1.3 Narrating incidents and events in a logical sequence
1.4 Conveying messages effectively in person or by phone
1.5 Participating in group discussions
Unit 2 Reading and Writing (12 Hrs)

2.1 Recognising main points and organisation of a text
2.2 Inferring and interpreting ideas in the text
2.3 Interpreting charts and graphs
2.4 Skimming and scanning
2.5 Planning, organising and presenting ideas coherently
2.6 Descriptive writing
2.7 Narrative writing
2.8 Letter writing (letter of application)
2.9 Note-making and Summarising
Unit 3 Vocabulary (4 Hrs)
3.1 Word Games
3.2 Cloze tests
Evaluation
Test 1 – Unit 1 25 marks
Test 2 – Unit 2 25 marks
Two-hour End-semester Examination (Internal) 50 marks

(Units 3, 4 and 5) to be conducted by the Department

One unseen passage for comprehension 10
(multiple-choice and short answers)
One formal letter 10
One interpretation of chart/diagram 10
One cloze test 5
One descriptive/narrative paragraph writing 5
Note-making and summarising 10

B.A./B.Sc./B.Com/ B.S.W./B.V.A./B.C.A Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
CODE: 11EL/GE/EE32 CREDITS: 2

LTP: 2 0 0

● To help learners improve their proficiency in English for Competitive
Examinations[ GMAT//XAT/ UPSC/IELTS/TOEFL/BANK
PO/LAW/CAT/MCA/INSURANCE]
Unit 1 Vocabulary - Games and Activities (5 Hrs)
1.1 Synonyms
1.2 Antonyms
1.3 Verbal ability
1.4 Verbal analogy
1.5 Mixed vocabulary
1.6 Verbal reasoning
1.7 Vocabulary in context
Unit 2 Grammar (5 Hrs)
2.1 Parts of speech

2.2 Phrasal verbs
2.3 Subject-verb agreement
2.4 Sentence completion
2.5 Relative pronouns
2.6 Identification and correction of errors
Unit 3 Reading comprehension (5 Hrs)
3.1 Comprehension and understanding

3.2 Interpreting data
Unit 4 Writing (5 Hrs)
4.1 Creative writing

4.2 Reports
4.3 Letters
4.4 Essays
Unit 5 Listening Comprehension (6 Hrs)
5.1 Listening for general comprehension/specific information

5.2 Accent recognition
Essential reading
Competition Master
Competition Review
Daily Newspaper
Evaluation
Two CA tests (better of the two) 50 marks
End-semester Examination (internal)
Two hour End-semester Examination 50 marks

Vocabulary 10 marks
(Multiple-choice, gap-filling and answering in a word or a sentence)
Grammar 10 marks
Reading Comprehension 15 marks
Writing 15 marks
Unit 5 is not for testing


SYLLABUS
ENGLISH FOR THE WORKPLACE
CODE: 11EL/GE/EW32 CREDITS: 2

L T P: 2 0 0
● To help students improve their employability skills

● To improve learner’s confidence in using workplace English, particularly
speaking and writing
1.1. Meeting and Greeting

1.2. Introducing self and others
Unit 2 Jobs and Responsibilities (4 Hrs)
2.1. Collecting information about and describing a company and its organization
2.2. Job description and responsibilities
2.3. Completing forms with personal or company details
Unit 3 Business Communication (4 Hrs)
3.1. Exchanging information and taking instructions over telephones

3.2. Writing letters/e-mails, reports, memos and messages
3.3. Tele-conferencing
Unit 4 Presentations (5 Hrs)
4.1. One-minute presentations on selected work place topics

4.2. PowerPoint presentation
4.3. Collaborative discussion
Unit 5 Practice Tests (10 Hrs)

Evaluation
Writing a CV and a résumé (25 marks)
A PowerPoint presentation (25 marks)
End-semester Examination (internal) 50 marks

Writing a report (15 marks)
Business vocabulary (10 marks)
Completing forms (5 marks)
Writing letters of apology/complaint/agreement/offer 2x10=20 marks
Essential Reading
Business Times/ Economic times
Bob Dignen, Steve Flinders, Simon Sweeny , For Work and Life English 365,
Personal Study Book 1&2, Cambridge University Press.
Recommended Reading
Collins & Porras ‘Built To Last’ Harper Business Essentials: An imprint of Harper
Collins Publishers.

B.A./ B.Sc,/B.Com/ B.S.W./ B.V.A./B.C.A Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
JOURNALISTIC WRITING
CODE: 11EL/GE/ JW 44 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

● To train students to select issues and present them in formats specified by the print
medium
● To train students to work on basic assignments and features
Unit 1 The News Story (10 Hrs)

1.1. Hard news
1.2.Soft news
Unit 2 Gathering Information (8 Hrs)

2.1.Written/available sources
2.2. Human sources
2.3. Interviews
2.4. Surveys
Unit 3 Writing and Organizing a News Story* (12 Hrs)

3.2 Inverted pyramid
3.3 Writing leads
3.4 Using quotations and attributes
3.5 Developing the news story
Unit 4 Reporting (11 Hrs)

4.1 Writing a report
Unit 5 Writing Features (11 Hrs)

5.1 Writing obituaries
5.2 Writing personality profiles
5.3 Writing a feature of the students’ choice
*
With MS Publisher package in the Language laboratory.
Essential Reading
The day’s Newspaper
Recommended Reading
Dominick, Joseph R, Dynamics of Mass Communication. New York: Tata McGraw Hill, 1993.
Itule & Anderson, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media. New York: Tata McGraw
Hill, 1994.
R. M. Ritter. The Oxford Guide to Style. London: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Evaluation
Time : 1½ Hour
Reporting (10 marks)
Feature writing (20 marks)
Practical work using MS Publisher (Newspaper) (20 marks)
End-Semester Evaluation (internal)

A feature of 1500 words on a topic of the student’s choice 50 marks

SYLLABUS
BASIC THEATRE SKILLS
CODE: 11EL/GE/TS 44 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

● To introduce the learners to basic theatre skills
● To practice various modes of theatrical expression
Unit 1 (10 Hrs)

1.1 Body, Movement and Space
1.2 Voice culture
1.3 Choreography
Unit 2 (12Hrs)
2.1 Mime
2.2 Clowning
2.3 Mask-making and puppetry (Workshop)
Unit 3 (10 Hrs)
3.1 Negotiating a text
3.2 Improvisation
Unit 4 (10 Hrs)
4.1 Chorus (Sanskrit/Greek)
4.2 Solo performance
Unit 5 (10 Hrs)
5.1 Presentation of a rehearsed piece
Evaluation
Performance review 25 marks
Process documentation of the course 25 marks
Chorus / Solo presentation 50 marks
Final presentation (Individual/ pair/group) 50 marks
Computation of end-semester presentation:
Internal 50
External 50
Peer 50
Self 50
All the above computed to 50

B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.S.W./ B.V.A./B.C.A. Degree Programmes
SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION
CODE: 11EL/GE/IT 44 CREDITS: 4

L T P: 4 0 0

● To sensitize learners to the role of translation in society
● To introduce learners to basic skills in translation
Unit 1 Basic Concepts of Translation (10 Hrs)
1.1 Kinds of Translation

1.1.1. Interlingual
1.1.2. Intralingual
1.1.3. Intersemiotic
1.2 Concepts to be derived from practice
1.2.1 Source Language and Target Language
1.2.2 Equivalence
1.2.3 Word for Word, Sense for Sense
Unit 2 Translation in the Indian context (15 Hrs)

2.1 Introduction to Short Fiction from South India by Mini Krishnan
2.2 Translating Culture Codes
Unit 3 Literary Texts in Translation (10 Hrs)

3.1 VM Basheer The Long Nosed One
3.2 Ki. Rajanarayanan Chair
3.3 Comparing two translations of a text
Unit 4 Applications of Translation (10 Hrs)

4.1 Analysis of Dubbing and Subtitling
4.2 Advertisements
4.3 Film Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix
Suggested Reading
Munday, Jeremy. ‘New Directions From the New Media’. Introducing
Translation Studies. Routledge, New York. 2008.
Recommended Reading
Baker, Mona, In Other Words: A Course Book on Translation. London: Routledge, 1992.
Bassnet, Susan. Translation Studies. London & New York: Routledge, 1991.
Catford, J.C. A Linguistic Theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistic.
Duff, Alan, Translations. Oxford: OUP, 1989.

London: OUP, 1965.
Newmark, Peter. A Textbook of Translation. London: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Savory, Theodore. The Art of Translation. London: Cape,1957.
Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. London: OUP, 1975.
Evaluation
Time : 1½ Hour
Two CA Tests – better of the two 25 marks

Inter-semiotic transfer (book to movie), comparison of two translations 25 marks
Term paper 50 marks

(1500 words, based on any relevant translation issue)
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION
CODE: 11EL/GE/IT 44
Evaluation
Time : 1½ Hour
Continuous Assessment (Only one) 50 marks
Term paper 50 marks
SYLLABUS
THE NOVEL OF COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
CODE: 11EL/UI/CM23 CREDITS: 3

● To enable the student to place the institutions of courtship and marriage within a social
and historical context
● To facilitate the students to study the fictional representation of these themes
Text: Jane Austen: Emma OR Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Unit 1 Background
1.1. European / Western conventions of courtship and marriage – its history and
contemporary views on them
1.2. Indian conventions of courtship and marriage
Unit 2 Socio-economic and religious perspectives

2.1 Role of social class in marriages
2.2 Caste-based and religious considerations
2.3 Arranged marriages and marriages by personal choice
2.4 Rebellion and conformity
Unit 3 Gender perspectives

3.1 Feminist perspectives
3.2 Sexual / gender roles
Unit 4 Techniques
4.1 Fictional narrative techniques
Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beauvoir,Simone De. The Second Sex. London: Vintage Books, 1949.

Brownstein, Rachel, M. Becoming a Heroine. New York: The Viking Press, 1982
Lewis, C. S. The Allegory of Love. New York: Oxford UP, 1958
Millet, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
Evaluation
No Continuous Assessment
Three-hour End-semester Examination 100 marks
Four out of six essays (750 words each) 4x25=100 marks

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STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

• demonstrate an understanding of the generic features of prose forms

Unit 5: Not for Testing

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Other Components: Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Other Components: Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

● understand issues related to the structure and functioning of language

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Other Components: Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit 3 (10 Hours)

Unit 4 (20 Hours)

Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (8 Hours)

Other Components: Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

CODE: 19EL/MC/IL25 CREDITS:5

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

Other Components: Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit 2 (15 Hours)

Unit 3 (10 Hours)

Unit 4 (15 Hours)

Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (5 Hours)

Other Components Total Marks: 50

End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit 2 (10 Hours)

Unit 3 (10 Hours)

Other Components: Total Marks: 25

CODE: 15EL/MC/PR14 CREDITS: 4

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

End Semester Examination

CODE: 15EL/MC/PT14 CREDITS: 4

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

End Semester Examination

CODE: 15EL/AC/LG15 CREDITS: 5

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

End Semester Examination

CODE: 15EL/MC/DR24 CREDITS: 4

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

Unit 3 (10 hrs.)

Unit 4 (20 hrs.)

Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (8 hrs.)

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

End Semester Examination

CODE: 15EL/MC/LC25 CREDITS: 5