Course Outline for M.A (English)
Year 1 Semester I
1. History of English Literature
The Age of Chaucer, 14th Century
The Renaissance Period
Elizabethan Age
17th Century (Milton, The Puritan Movement, The Metaphysical and The Cavalier Poets, The Reformation Age)
Restoration Period, Classical or the Neo-Classical Age, Romantic Age
Victorian Age
20th Century or the Modern Age
21st Century or the New millennium Literature
2. Linguistics & Major Schools and Movements in Linguistics – An Introduction
Basic terms And Concepts in Linguistics (language, design features, nature and functions of language, diachronic/synchronic linguistics, paradigmatic/syntagmatic relations)
Elements of Language (Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax,
Semantics, etc.
Scope of Linguistics (an introduction to major branches of linguistics
Schools of Linguistics (generativism, structuralism, mentalism, etc.,)
Discourse Analysis
3. Introduction to Literature And Literary Movements
Literary Forms: their origin and development
What is Poetry? Various forms/types of Poems/Verse/Stanza, metre, rhyme, rhythm
What is drama? Various types of drama, Plot, Setting, Character/,
What is Novel? Various types of Novel, Plot, Setting, Character, Characterization, Story, Narrative Devices/Techniques, etc.
Short Story, Essay, Types, Constituents Elements/Essentials of short stories and essays, etc
Literary Movements
Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Formalism, Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction, Naturalism, Surrealism, Absurdism, Realism, Symbolism, etc.
4. Classics in Poetry-I (Chaucer 1st Generation Of Romantics)
J. Chaucer, Prologue To The Canterbury Tales
E. Spenser, Fairie Queene (Canto-1)
J. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1
J. Donne, Love And Divine Poems: Selections (J. Donne, Love And Divine Poems: Selection, The Flea, The Sunne Rising, A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning, Extasie, Death Be Not Proud, Thou Some have Called Thee, If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified
Pope, Rape of the Lock
S.T. Coleridge, Rime Of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
W. Wordsworth, Intimation Ode, Tintern Abbey, It’s A Beauteous Evening, The World is too Much With Us
5. Classics in Drama-I (Sophocles to Shaw)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Shakespeare, The Tempest
G.B. Shaw, Arms And The Man
Year 01, Semester II
1. Phonetics and Phonology
Introduction
• Stages in the production of speech
• Speech Organs
• Manner and Place of articulation
Segmental Phonology
• Phonemes and allophones (consonants, vowels, diph/triphthongs)
• The Cardinal Vowel System
• Syllable and syllabic structure (consonant clusters, syllable, word stress)
• Sounds in connected speech (weak forms, elision and assimilation)
Suprasegmental Phonology
• Word and Sentence stress and intonation
Contrastive Phonology
• Teaching of pronunciation
• Application of phonetic and phonological rules in daily life
• Pakistani English
Phonetic/Phonemic Transcription
2. Literary Criticism and Theory-I
Literary Criticism
Aristotle’s Poetics
Longinus’ On the Sublime
Dr. Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Chapter 14 and 15)
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (Chapter 17, 18)
M. Arnold’s Function of Criticism
3. Grammar, Syntax and Semantics
Introduction
• Grammar
• Some Traditional Concepts
• Morphology
• Transformational Generative Grammar
Syntax
• Introduction to Syntax
• Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
• Basic Concepts of Syntax, Structure Of English and Syntactic Problems
Semantics
• Introduction to Semantics
• Ambiguity
• Context
• Pragmatics
4. Classics in Poetry-II (2nd Generation of Romantics to 20th Century)
John Keats, Ode on Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode To Autumn
A. L. Tennyson, The Lotus Eaters, The Lady of Shallot, Break, Break, Break, Tears, Idle Tears
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening, Mending Walls
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting, The Owl, The Seven Sorrows, Crow's Fall, A Woman Unconscious
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, The Colossus, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Bee Meeting, The Arrival of The Bee Box, Purdah
5. Classics in Drama-II (Modern)
T.S. Eliot’s Murder In The Cathedral
Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot
H.Pinter’s The Caretaker
Arther Miller’s The Death of A Salesman
Year 2, Semester III
1. Prose-I (Bacon to Ruskin)
F. Bacon, Bacon Essays (Of Studies, Of Death, Of Love, Of Followers And Friends)
J. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
C. Lamb, Essays Of Elia (Dream Children, The Chimney Sweepers)
W. Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance With Poets, From Mr. Wordsworth
J. Ruskin, The Crown Of The Wild Olive (Lecture-1 Work)
2. Literary Criticism And Theory-II
New Criticism
T. S. Eliot’s Tradition And Individual Talent, Function Of Criticism
F.R. Leavis’ Literary Criticism And Philosophy (The Common Pursuits)
Derida, Of Grammatology (Selection)
Modern, Post-modern and Contemporary Approaches/Theories (An Introduction)
(At least four as per Choice or Requirement):
Postcolonial–With emphasis on Racial, National, and Global
Postmodern–With emphasis on Popular, Cyber-Spatial, and Technological
Linguistic – With emphasis on Structural, Post-structural, Translation
Psychoanalytic – With emphasis on Psycho and Socio-pathological
Reception – With emphasis on Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response
Marxist – With emphasis on Economic, Social and Cultural
Feminist – With emphasis on Gender and Sexuality Studies
Myth-o-poetic – With emphasis on Archetypal, Phenomenal, and Genre based
Inter-textuality – With emphasis on Comparative World
3. Socio/Psycholinguistics
Functions of Language in Society
Domains of Language Use
Speech Community
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
• Dimensions of Bilingualism
• Bilingualism and Diglossia
• Causes of Bilingualism
• Manifestations of Bilingualism
Loan-words
Borrowing
Code-switching/code-mixing
• Effects of Bilingualism
Language Conflicts
Language Attitudes
Language Maintenance
Language Change/Shift
Language Death
Dialects, Pidgin and Creoles, Register, Genderlect, etc.
Standard Language
National Language, Language Planning And Policy,
The Nature of Language
• The Psychology of Language
• The Structure and Function of Language
• Processes in the Use of Language
First Steps in Child’s Language Acquisition
• Communicating with Language
• Issues in The L/A
• Methods Of Studying Child’s Language
Later Growth in the Child’s Language
The Psychology of Learning
• Theories of language Acquisition/Learning (Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Interactionism)
• Memory
• Interlanguage
• Error Analysis
Perception and Production of First and later Sounds
Individual Learner Factors
• Age and Critical Age
• Affective and personality factors
• Cognitive styles
• Motivation
Language and Thought (Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity)
4. ELT (English Language Teaching)
Methods of Language Teaching
• Approach, Method and Technique
• Selected ELT Methods: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method,
Audio-lingual, etc.
• ELT models for Pakistan
Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills
• Nature of Oral Communication
• Theory and techniques of teaching listening and speaking
• Lesson Planning for Teaching Oral Skills
Theory and Practice of Teaching Reading Skills
• Nature of Reading
• Theories of Reading – Interactive and Schema
• Designing activities for reading skills
• Lesson Planning for teaching reading
Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing Skills
• Nature of Writing
• Theories of Writing – Product and Process
• Lesson Planning for teaching writing
• Techniques for giving feedback and correcting written work
Teaching English Pronunciation
5. Classics in Novel- I (18th Century to Victorian)
Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Thomas Hardy, Tess of The D’Urbervilles
Semester IV
1. Classics in Novel- II (Modern)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
J. Joyce, The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man
Virginia Woolf, To The Light House
William Faulkner, The Sound And The Fury
2. Stylistics
Introduction
• What is stylistics?
• Subject and Discipline
• Stylistics as a Bridge between Linguistics and Literature.
• Literature as Text and as Discourse
The Nature of Literary Communication.
Literature as Fore grounded Language.
The Theory of Deviation and its Application to the Study of Poetry
• Lexical, Grammatical, Phonological, Semantic, Dialectal deviation
• Deviation of Register
• Deviation of Historical Period Parallelism.
• Scheme as Fore grounded repetitions of expression e.g. Verbal repetition and its poetic effects, Rhythm and Rhyme.
• New concepts of meter such as Measure. Tropes as Fore grounded irregularities of content: figurative language i.e. metaphor, oxymoron, synecdoche, irony, hyperbole, litotes etc.
The stylistic analysis and appreciation of the short stories, poems and essays (Written in the form of assignments and Oral in the form of Class Presentations or Seminars) with reference to concepts such as conflict, the Narrative Voice, Irony etc.
3. Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics and ELT Practicum
Language, Identity and Culture
Language and Gender
Globalization and its Impact on Teaching and Learning of English
Language and Development
World Englishes
Language Policy and Planning
Language in Education
Bilingual Education
Lesson Planning
• Making and using Lesson Plans for teaching Listening,
Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary.
Classroom Observation
• The importance of Classroom Observation
• Observation of English Language Classrooms/Peer Observation
Classroom Dynamics
• Roles of Teachers and Learners
• Classroom Interaction
• Teaching the Whole Class
• Pair-Work
• Group-Work
Microteaching
• Students will teach on topics (either in the University classes or outside in the affiliated colleges) of their choice from the lessons that they have already planned with support from the tutor/peers.
NOTE: Books/Materials related to the part of Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics will be suggested and provided by the tutor of the course.
4. Prose- II (Modern)
T.H. Huxley, Selections: From Agnosticism And Christianity, From Science And Culture, From A Liberal Education
Bertrand Russel, Bertrand Russel’s Best: Silhouettes In Satire
Martin Luther King, Non-violent Resistance
Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Dialogics
Edward Said, Orientalism (Chapter-1)
5. Research Mechanics/Thesis
Contents:
Introduction: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Paradigms
Identifying and Defining a Research Problem
Selection Of the Topic and Delimitation of The Topic
Ethical Considerations/Plagiarism
Sampling Techniques
Tools for Data Collection: Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation &
Documents
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Punctuation
Some Aspects of the Research Work
• Developing A Synopsis
• Review of Literature
• Transcription and Transliteration
• Referencing and Citation