SYLLABUS University of Dhaka

M. A. Programme Syllabus for One-Year MA Course

Department of English for the Affiliated Colleges

Subject: English
Affiliated Colleges under University of Dhaka
Sessions: 2022—2023
COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDITS MARKS
One-Year M. A. Course 110501L Old and Middle English Credits: 4 Marks: 100
Literature
110502L Shakespeare Credits: 4 Marks: 100

110503L Modern Poetry Credits: 4 Marks: 100

110504L 20th Century Drama Credits: 4 Marks: 100

110505L Modern Novel Credits: 4 Marks: 100

110506L Literary Theory Credits: 4 Marks: 100

110507L Contemporary South Asian Credits: 4 Marks: 100

Literature
110508L Essentials of Language Teaching Credits: 4 Marks: 100
and Learning
110509L Presentation:30(individual) Credits: 4 Marks: 100
Viva Voce: 70
Total= 36 900

Prepared by
MUHAMMAD MAHEDI HASAN SAGOR
Dept. of English Details Syllabus
Government Bangla college
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E-mail: mhsagor2002@gmail.com Course Code: 110501 Marks: 100 Credits: 4

Course Title: Old and Middle English Literature
Anonymous : “ Beowulf (Translated by Seamus Hean "The
Wanderer"*
Course Code: 110503 Marks: 100 Credits: 4
"The Dream of the Rood"*
'The Seafarer"* Course Title: Modern Poetry

"The Wife's Lament"*

Geoffrey Chaucer :“The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales *, Thomas Stearns Eliot : The Waste Land

"The Nun's Priest's Tale" *, "The Wife of Bath's Tale" *, Wystan Hugh Auden : "Musee des Beaux Arts", "In Memory of W.B.
Yeats","The Shield of Achilles"
*As in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I Ed. M.H. Abrams. Edition, 2000.
Philip Larkin : "Church Going", "Aubade"
Recommended Reading:
Ted Hughes : "The Jaguar", "Relic", "Wind"
 A.C. Baugh, A History of the English Language
 Edward Albert, History of English Literature Seamus Heaney : "Digging", "Blackberry-Picking", "Punishment"
 David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature Vol-I (From
Recommended Reading:
Beginnings to Milton)
 Stephen Coote, English Literature of the Middle Ages  George Williamson, A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot
 Legouis and Cazamian, A History of English Literature  Elizabeth Drew, T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry
 Trevor Whittock, A Reading of the Canterbury Tales  James Booth, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love
 Andrew Lang, History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne, Longmans.  Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and Tradition
 Robert D. Fulk, Christopher M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature.  Paul Keegan, Ed. Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
 Anthony Hecht, The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden
 Charles Osborne, W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet
Course Code: 110502 Marks: 100 Credits: 4  Charles Osborne, Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
 Matthew Hollis, The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Course Title: Shakespeare
Course Code: 110504 Marks: 100 Credits: 4
William Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and
The Merchant of Venice Course Title: 20th Century Drama
Students are advised to watch the film versions and their adaptations to complement their
readings of Shakespeare. Eugene O'Neill : Long Day's Journey into Night

Arthur Mille : Death of a Salesman

Recommended Reading:
Tennessee Williams :The Glass Menagerie
 https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeares-plays
 Catherine Belsey. Shakespeare in Theory and Practice Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun
 A.C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy Tom Stoppard : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
 G. Wilson Knight, The Wheel of Fire Recommended Reading:
 Larry S. Champion, Shakespeare's Tragic Perspective  Cargill, Fagin and Fisher Eds ., Eugene O'Neill and His Plays: A Survey of His Life and Works.
  Jean Gould, Modern American Playwrights Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels : from The German Ideology*
 John H. Raleigh, The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Louis Althusser : "Ideology and the State"*
 Benjamin Nelson, Tennessee Williams: The Man and His Work
 W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar : The Madwoman in the Attic, Chapter 1: "The
 Gerald Weales Ed ., Death of a Salesman Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male
 Harold Bloom, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Images of Women"*
 Neil Sammells, Tom Stoppard: The Artist As Critic.
Michel Foucault : "The Order of Discourse"*

Edward Said : "Introduction" Orientalism

Course Code: 110505 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Franz Fanon : "Pitfalls of the Nationalist Consciousness"

Course Title: Modern Novel Chandra T. Mohanty : Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and
Colonial Discourse

*From Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader
James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Recommended Reading:
William Golding : Lord of the Flies
 Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader
V. S. Naipau : A House for Mr. Biswas  Peter Barry. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory.(Fourth
Edition)
Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea
 Gregory Castle. Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (1st Edition)
Nadine Gordimer : July's People
Course Code: 110507 Marks: 100 Credits: 4
Recommended Reading:
 Nicholas Fragnoli and Michael P. Gillespie, James Joyce: A to Z Essential Reference to His Life Course Title: Contemporary South Asian Literature
and Writings
 James R. Baker, William Golding: A Critical Study
 Randall Stevenson, The British Novel Since Thirties (An Introduction) Syed Waliullah : Tree without Roots
 Arunoday Mukherjee, V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas
 Maria Olaussen, Three Types of Feminist Criticism and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Monica Ali : Brick Lane
 Brendon Nicholls, Nadine Gordimer's July's People Adeeb Khan : Seasonal Adjustments

Amitav Gho : The Shadow Lines

Course Code: 110506 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Jhumpa Lahiri : "When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dine", "A Temporary Matter"
from Interpreter of Maladies
Course Title: Literary Theory Syed Manzoorul Islam : "Merman's Prayer", "The Ground Beneath Paritosh's
Feet", "Daedelus' Kite" from The Merman's Prayer and
Other Stories
Ferdinand de Saussure : from Course in General Linguistics (1915)*
Nissim Ezekiel : "Night of the Scorpion", "Island"
Viktor Shklovsky : from "Art as Technique"*
Kamala Das : "Forest Fire", "A Hot Noon in Malabar"
Sigmund Freud : from Dream-Work, "Introductory Lectures on
Kaiser Haq : "Santahar", "Bangladesh '71"
Psychoanalysis"*

Jacques Lacas : "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of

Recommended Reading:
the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience"*  Aruna, Marie Josephine, South Asian Literature in English: New and Emerging Trends
  Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, History of Indian Literature in English 7. Providing feedback on written and spoken performances
 Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel S. Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of 8. Roles of teachers and learners
India 9. Assessing learners: test, assessment, different types of tests, summative assessment,
 Quayum, M. A. and M. M. Hasan, Eds ., Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. formative assessment, alternative assessment,
10. Principles of assessment: validity, reliability, authenticity, practicality washback, norm-
referenced assessment, criterion-referenced assessment
Course Code: 110508 Marks: 100 11. Assessing language skills.
Credits: 4

Course Title: Essentials of Language Teaching and 12. Principles of curriculum and materials development
Learning 13. Types of curriculum: objective-based, skill-based, content-based competency-based

Recommended reading:
Course content  H. Douglas Brown, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
1. How to teach language skills  Tim McNamara, Language Testing
 James Dean Brown, Thom Hudson, Criterion-Referenced Language Testing
Listening  Brian Tomlinson, Materials Development in Language Teaching
 Jack C Richards, Curriculum Development in Language Teaching
1. Purposes of listening  Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach English, Pearson
2. Three-stage approach to teaching listening: Pre- while- and post-listening  Marry Spratt, Language for the Teacher
3. Types of listening: Intensive listening, selective listening, interactive listening  Adrian Doff, Teach English: A Training Course for Teachers
4. Challenges of teaching listening  Penny Ur, A Course in English Language Teaching
5. Materials for listening

Speaking
Course Code: 110509 Marks: 100 Credits: 4
1. Purposes of speaking
2. Features of spoken language
3. Accuracy, Fluency and Complexity
Course Title: Presentation: 30 (individual)
4. Challenges of teaching speaking Viva Voce: 70
5. Materials and activities/tasks (role play, discussion, debate, presentation) for teaching
speaking

Reading
1. Purposes of reading
2. Models of reading: top-down, bottom-up and interactive models
3. Reading strategies: skimming, scanning, predicting, inferring,
4. Intensive and extensive reading
5. Three-stage approach to teaching: pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading
6. Materials and activities for teaching reading

Writing:
1. Purposes of writing
2. Different types of writing
3. Approaches to writing: product, process and genre approaches
4. Writing tasks/activities
5. Three-stage approach to teaching writing: pre -, while- and post-writing
6. How to integrate skills