S.Y.B.A (SEC) 2020- 21

S.Y.B.A (MIL) 2020- 21 (Sem III & IV)

SEMESTER III
English 2/MIL/Hindi
Paper Title- Advanced Communicative English 2.1
Paper Code – EGC 103
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (60 Lectures)

Course objectives
This advanced course enhances the skills of reading, writing and listening. It encourages recognition and awareness of different genres of writing.
Topical and social themes form an integral part of the course. The course teaches the students
listening skills in class and tests these skills for constant monitoring of their proficiency.
The course broadens the horizons of the text by assignments which are flexible, and can enhance the creativity of the student.
The course advocates a small interdisciplinary component of translation for students, providing a window to diversity and multiculturalism. This may be done as a group/individual activity.

Course Content:
Oral communication (Debate, discussion and negotiation).........14 contact hours
Class activity may include a student team designing a sales campaign keeping in mind negotiating skills or topic specific group/panel discussions
Pair based activity. E.g. two friends discussing the choice of food available in the canteen OR a group discussion: should students be allowed to use cell phones in the classroom?

Learning to listen……………………………….……………….08 contact hours
• Listening comprehension: A passage/excerpt from a short story is read out, students identify
main points/themes, modify the closing of the narrative and
supply an appropriate title. (I.S.A 10 marks)

Writing at the workplace................……....................................18 contact hours
• Practical grammar:
Parts of Speech--- noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunctions, preposition, interjection, Antonyms and synonyms, Prefixes and suffixes, Abbreviations

• Writing personnel letters such as Job Applications, Joining/ Job Acceptance letters and
Goodwill letters such as Appreciation, Congratulatory letters and Sponsorship letters
(Request/Acceptance/Regret)

• Formal e-correspondence: Students are expected to practice writing effective emails,
identifying errors in online correspondence, etc...

• Writing representations to a higher authority

• Drafting notices and writing minutes of meetings
• R.T.I application format
(SEE – one question on Personnel/Goodwill/ Representation letters and one question on writing an actual R.T.I application letter)

Analysis and Interpretation of ‘texts’: advertising/art & painting/sculpture & installation art /
religious writing/ speeches. This should cover overt and covert meanings; symbolic, metaphorical meaning; figures of speech and their effects
(SEE – a prose passage/ poem or picture to be given and the student will have to analyze the specimen and write their interpretation of the ‘text’ given.)..12 contact hours

Translation (from Hindi or Konkani to English) of a text/a recipe or menu/an advertisement/ a
notice/ a poster/an entertainment programme…………..8 contact hours (I.S.A of 10 marks)
When the translation component is not feasible, a Slide Presentation may be prepared on Art/Culture (egs: dance, drama, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, festivals, folk forms) of a distinct tribe, group, state or country (I.S.A of 10 marks )
E.g. a student may make a slide presentation on the potter community in the village of Soccoro.

Scheme of Examination
Intra Semester Assessment [I.S.A] 20 marks.
Semester End Examination [SEE] 80 marks

I.S.A - 20 marks
(Any two to be selected):
A. Listening comprehension
B. Translation of a classified advertisement or menu or recipe
C. A slide presentation on Art/Culture

Semester End Examination 80 marks
Q1. Short answer questions on various areas of grammar are to be tested (16 marks)
a. Parts of speech
b. Prefix and suffix
c. Abbreviations
d. Antonyms and synonyms

Q 2. Analysis and interpretation of a text (16 marks)

Q 3. Dialogue writing                                    (12 marks)

Q 4. Questions on Personnel/Goodwill/ Representation letters (12 marks)

Q 5. Write an RTI application letter              (12 marks)

Q 6. Drafting minutes and/or notices          (12 marks)

SEMESTER IV
English 2/MIL/Hindi
Paper Title- Advanced Communicative English 2.2
Paper Code – EGC 104
No. of Credits: 04

No. of Lectures per week: 04 (60 Lectures)

Course Content:
Report writing – 18 contact hours
• Investigative and Feasibility Reports
• Appraisal Reports (ISA 10 marks)

Making a presentation with audio visual aids, (PPT, video, short film) on the following areas:
a local or national issue; a business idea or proposal; explaining a process; presenting a tourism
related promotional campaign; informing and providing knowledge of a scientific discovery.
(E.g.: public hospitals/dowry/female foeticide/child labour/ garbage management in my village/ a historical monument/how pianos are tuned/ /adventure sport, etc).
Students have to work on their own putting into practice all the skills learnt earlier.
Teachers should only give instructions, guidelines and approve the chosen topics.
(ISA 10 marks) ………...6 contact hours

English Idioms & Phrasal Verbs …... 6 contact hours
Identifying and correcting grammatical errors …….6 contact hours
Interpretation, appreciation and critical evaluation of poetry …..12 contact hours
Editing: Students to practice editing skills on prose passages ….12 contact hours

Scheme of Examination
Intra Semester Assessment [I.S.A] 20 marks.
Semester End Examination [SEE] 80 marks.

ISA - 20 marks
A. Report Writing
B. Presentation

Semester End Examination 80 marks

Q 1. Report Writing   (16 marks)

Q 2. Editing an unseen passage (16 marks)

Q 3. English Idioms& Phrasal Verbs (12 marks)
Q 4. Identifying and correcting grammatical errors (12 marks)
Q 5. Critical appreciation of an unseen poem (12 marks)
Q 6. Draft the text to be used in a presentation of six slides (12 marks)

Recommended Reading for Semesters III & IV
1) Bhaskaran, M. and Horsburgh, D. Strengthen Your English. Oxford University Press, Delhi
1973.
2) Bhatia, R. C. Business Communication.Ane Books Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
3) Business English, Pearson, Delhi, 2008.
4) ed. Chadha, Tara and Others Foundation English, Book II and III. Publication Division, Delhi
University.
5) Doctor & Doctor. Principles and Practice of Business Communication. Sheth Publishers, 2014.
6) English at the Workplace Part I, Macmillan, Delhi, 2008.
7) Everyday English II (Foundation 2006).
8) Fluency in English Part I, Macmillan, Delhi, 2005.
9) Fluency in English Part II, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2006. 10) ed. 
     Dr. Mishra, Gauri, Dr. Kaul, Ranjana, Dr. Biswas, Barat. Language through Literature. Primus Books, Delhi, 2015.
11) Hewing, Martin. Advanced English Grammar. Cambridge UP, 2010.
12)Language, Literature and Creativity, Orient Blackswan, 2013.
13) Lesikar, R.V. &Flatley, M.E.; Basic Business Communication Skills for Empowering the Internet Generation, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. New Delhi.
14) Ludlow, R. & Panton, F.; The Essence of Effective Communications, 
      Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
15)Murphy, Raymond. Essential English Grammar, 2nd Ed, 
     Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.
16)Murphy, Raymond. Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd Ed, 
    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
17)Scot, O.; Contemporary Business Communication. Biztantra, New Delhi.
18)ed. Sood, S.C. etal.Developing Language Skills-1. Spantech, Delhi 1991
19)ed. by Varma, Promodini and Others English at the Workplace Parts 1 and 2.
 Oxford University Press, 2006.

S.Y.B.A Syllabus (DSC) 2020-21 (Sem III & IV)

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE – SEMESTER III & IV
Semester III
Paper Title- BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14th to 17th Centuries
Paper Code – ENC 103
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (60 Lectures)

Course Content:
1. Geoffrey Chaucer – The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

2. Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti:
- Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman...’
- Sonnet LVII ‘Sweet warrior...’
- Sonnet LXXV ‘One day I wrote her name...’

3. John Donne
- ‘The Sunne Rising’
- ‘Batter My Heart’
- ‘Valediction: forbidding mourning’

4. Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
5. William Shakespeare – Macbeth
6. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations
Topics :
Renaissance Humanism
The Stage, Court and City
Religious and Political Thought
Ideas of Love and Marriage
The Writer in Society

Readings
1. Pico Della Mirandola, excerpts from the Oration on the Dignity of Man, in The Portable
Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin
Books, 1953) pp. 476–9.
2. John Calvin, ‘Predestination and Free Will’, in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (New York: Penguin Books, 1953) pp. 704–11.
3. Baldassare Castiglione, ‘Longing for Beauty’ and ‘Invocation of Love’, in Book 4 of The Courtier, ‘Love and Beauty’, tr. George Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rpt. (1983) pp. 324–8, 330–5.
4. Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill,1970) pp. 13–18.

SEMESTER IV
Paper Title- BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17th & 18th Centuries
Paper Code – ENC 104
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (60 Lectures)

Course Content:
1. John Milton – Paradise Lost: Book 1
2. John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi
3. Aphra Behn – The Rover
4. Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations
Topics
Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century
The Stage, the State and the Market
The Mock-epic and Satire
Women in the 17th Century
The Comedy of Manners

Readings
1. The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1–4, The Gospel according to St. Luke, chaps. 1–7 and 22–4.
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ed. and tr. Robert M. Adams (New York: Norton, (1992) chaps. 15, 16, 18, and 25.
3. Thomas Hobbes, selections from The Leviathan, pt. I (New York: Norton, 2006) chaps 8, 11, and 13.
4. John Dryden, ‘A Discourse Concerning the Origin and Progress of Satire’, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 9th edn, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton 2012) pp. 1767–8.

T.Y.B.A Syllabus 2020-21 (Semester V )

Paper Title - American Literature
Paper Code - ENC 105
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (total - 60 Lectures)

Objectives:
• To comprehend the history and culture of America with the help of prescribed texts
• To understand the idea and the implications of the American Dream
• To grasp the ethos of Black America including folklore elements
• To appreciate the quintessential American poetry

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course, the students would be acquainted with the historical, political, social and cultural aspects of America from its early beginnings to the
modern contemporary times.

-The American Dream
- Social Realism and the American Novel
- Folklore and the American Novel
- Black Women’s Writings
 -Questions of form in American Poetry

Course Content:
Unit 1. Drama                                                           [15 contact hours]
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie     

Unit 2. Novel                                                             [15 contact hours]
Toni Morrison: Beloved        

                               
Unit 3. Short Story                                                  [15 contact hours]
1. Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Purloined Letter'
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'The Crack-up'
3. William Faulkner 'Dry September'

Unit 4. Poetry                                                           [15 contact hours]
1. Anne Bradstreet: 'The Prologue'
2. Walt Whitman: Selections from Leaves of Grass:
i. 'O Captain, My Captain'
ii. 'Passage to India' (lines 1–68)

3. Sherman Alexie:
i. 'Crow Testament'

ii. 'Evolution'

Exam Pattern:
INTRA-SEMESTER ASSESSMENT (ISA) 20 Marks
1. Written Test – 10 Marks
2. Any other mode – 10 Marks

SEMESTER END EXAMINATION (SEE) 80 Marks
Question 1 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 1 and Unit 2 (4x4=16)
Question 2 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 3 and Unit 4 (4x4=16)
Q. 3 to Q. 6 – Essay Type Questions with either/or option on each Unit (12 Marks each)

References:
1. Brown, John Russell, editor. American Theatre. Edward Arnold, 1967.
2. Brown, John Russell. American Poetry. Edward Arnold.
3. Cambon, Glauco. The Inclusive Flame Studies in Modern American Poetry. Popular Prakashan,1969.
4. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and its Tradition, Double Day, 1957.
5. Crevecouer, Hector St John. “What is an American” (Letter III) in Letters from an American Farmer, Penguin, 1982, pp. 66–105.
6. Douglass, Frederick. A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, Penguin, 1982, chaps. 1–7,pp. 47–87.
7. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Self Reliance”, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson. The Modern Library, 1964.
8. Gould, Jean. Modern American Playwrights. Popular Prakashan, 1969.
9. Horton, Rod, editor. Background of American Literary Thought. Prentice Hall, 1974.
10. Hoffman, Daniel, editor. Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Oxford University Press, 1979.
11. Matthiessen, F. O.. American Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 1941.
12. Morrison, Toni. “Romancing the Shadow”, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination. Picador, 1993, pp. 29–39.
13. Pearce, Roy H. The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1979.

14. Thoreau, Henry David. “Battle of the Ants” excerpt from “Brute Neighbours”, in Walden OUP, 1997 chap. 12.
15. Weinberg, Helen, The New Novel in America-The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1970

Paper Title –Literary Criticism
Paper Code - END 101
No. of Credits: 04
No. of Lectures per week: 04 (total - 60 Lectures)

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the significant schools of literary criticism
• To get familiarized with western critics and their literary theoretical perspectives
• To acquire knowledge of basic concepts underlying select literary theories

. To understand literature through the application of critical inquiry

Learning Outcome:
By the end of the course, students will
• identify and explain major trends in literary critical thought.
• acquire skills of summarizing, critiquing, reading, interpreting and citing from critics’
  interpretation.
• identify and explain concepts like point of view, plot and setting.

Course Content:
Unit 1:                                                       [15 Contact Hours]
William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802)
S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria. Chapters IV, XIII and XIV

Unit 2:                                                     [15 Contact Hours]
Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction

T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

The Function of Criticism (1920)

Unit 3:                                                       [15 Contact Hours]
I.A. Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism Chapters 1, 2 and 34, 1924

 and Practical Criticism, 1929

Unit 4:                                                          [15 Contact Hours]
Cleanth Brooks: “The Heresy of Paraphrase”, and “The Language of Paradox” in

The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)

Maggie Humm: Practising Feminist Criticism: An Introduction. London 1995.

Exam Pattern:
INTRA-SEMESTER ASSESSMENT (ISA) 20 Marks
Written Test – 10 Marks
Any other mode – 10 Marks
SEMESTER END EXAMINATION (SEE) 80 Marks
Question 1 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 1 and Unit 2 (4x4=16)
Question 2 – Short Notes – any 4 out of 6 from Unit 3 and Unit 4 (4x4=16)
Q. 3 to Q. 6 – Essay Type Questions with either/or option on each Unit (12 Marks each)

References:
1. Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp. Oxford UP, 1971.
2. Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royce. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, Routledge, 2016.
3. Lewis, C. S. Introduction. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge UP. 1992.
4. Wellek, Rene, and Stephen G. Nicholas. Concepts of Criticism. Yale U, 1963