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SACRED HEART COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

Department of English

MA English

Course plan

Academic Year - 2018-19

Semester One

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

PO1

Critical Thinking: Take informed actions after identifying the assumptions that

frame our thinking and actions, checking out the degree to which these

assumptions are accurate and valid, and looking at our ideas and decisions

(intellectual, organizational, and personal) from different perspectives.

PO2

Effective Communication: Speak, read, write and listen clearly in person and

through electronic media in English and in one Indian language, and make

meaning of the word by connecting people, ideas, books, media and technology.

PO3

Effective Citizenship: Demonstrate empathetic social concern and equity

centered national development, and the ability to act an informed awareness of

issues and participate in civic life through volunteering.

PO4 Environment and Sustainability: Understand the issues of environmental

contexts and sustainable development.

PO5 Ethics: Recognize different value systems including your own, understand the

moral dimensions of your decisions, and accept responsibility for them.

PO6 Global Perspective: Understand the economic, social and ecological connections

that link the world's nations and people.

PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOS)

PSO1 Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the socio-historical and literary

background of English Literature and various other Literatures in English.

PSO2 Identify and describe the thematic and literary features of select works in English

and align them with the socio-political and cultural milieu.

PSO3

Demonstrate an understanding of various critical theories and reading strategies

and engage texts - literary, performance, visual etc. –from the point of view of

the various critical approaches and to draw from them the dynamics relationship

between nature and culture.

PSO4 Conduct research that engages with and responds to diverse audiences of

scholars, students, and community members.

PSO5 Articulate his/her knowledge in oral, written or performative means, using

appropriate style and register and demonstrate ethical standards and personal

values in all activities.

COURSE 1

PROGRAMME MA ENGLISH SEMESTER 1

COURSE CODE AND TITLE

15P1ENGT01 - CHAUCER AND ROOTS OF ENGLISH

CREDIT 4

HOURS/WEEK 5 HOURS/SEMESTER 90

FACULTY NAME

FR. SABU THOMAS, DR. RAJESH M, MR. SHIJO VARGHESE

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Know the growth of English language and literature up to the age of Chaucer

CO2 Describe the linguistic and literary features of the early literatures in English

CO3 Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of other Languages on English

CO4 Recognise the linguistic and thematical differences between the old and middle

English Language and literature.

CO5 Apply the appropriate ‘critical apparatus’ in reading early literatures of English.

CO6 Critique literary texts of old English and Middle English period.

SESSION TOPIC LEARNING RESOURCES

VALUE ADDITIONS

COURSE OUTCOME

1 Introductory Session on English

Language

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

presentation

CO1

2 Introductory Session on English

Language

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

presentation

CO1

3 Indo European Family of

Languages

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

presentation

CO1


Languages

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

presentation

CO1


Languages

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

CO1, CO2

presentation


Languages

Lecture,

Discussion, PPT -

presentation

CO1,CO2


Languages Lecture, PPT

CO1,CO2

8 Historical Context of the middle

ages Lecture, Discussion

CO,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2

13

Features of Middle English:

grammar, vocabulary, dialects,

spelling

lecture, Discussion

CO4

14 Introductory lecture on

Geoffrey Chaucer Lecture, Discussion

CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2

18 Introduction to “Prologue” to

The Canterbury Tales Lecture, Discussion

CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2



CO1,CO2

24 The Germanic Sub Family Lecture, PPT, CO1,CO2

language Discussion

25 The Germanic Sub Family

language

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1,CO2

26 The Germanic Sub Family

language

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1,CO2

27 Grimm’s Law Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1,CO2

28 Grimm’s Law Lecture, PPT

Discussion

CO1,CO2

29 Verner’s Law Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1,CO2

30 Verner’s Law Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1,CO2

31

Socio-cultural background of

England during the Middle

English Period

Lecture,

Discussion

CO2

32



English Period

Lecture,

Discussion

CO2

33



English Period

Lecture,

Discussion

CO2

34



English Period

Lecture,

Discussion

CO2

35 Importance of the Chivalric

romances Lecture, Discussion

CO3



CO3



CO3

38 Early influence of European

renaissance on English Lecture, Discussion

CO4



CO4



CO4

41 Introduction of Prologue to

Canterbury Tales Lecture, Discussion

CO5

42 Introduction of Prologue to Lecture, CO1

Canterbury Tales Discussion


Canterbury Tales

Lecture,

Discussion

CO1


Canterbury Tales

Lecture,

Discussion

CO1

45 Gradation and Umlaut Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO2

46 I Internal Examination

47

Major features of Old English

with regard to grammar,

spelling, phonology, vocabulary,

dialects, gender, tense, number

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

48





Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

49





Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

50





Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

51





Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

52

A brief outline of socio-cultural

background of England till the

end of Old English Period -

Introduction

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

53




Introduction

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

54




Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

Introduction

55 The Celts, the Roman Conquest Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

56 The Celts, the Roman Conquest Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO4

57 Peasants revolt, Wars of the

Roses, Caxton’s printing press Lecture, Discussion

CO4

58 Peasants revolt, Wars of the

Roses, Caxton’s printing press Lecture, Discussion

CO4

59 Wycliff and the Lollards, Native

English Lecture, Discussion

CO4

60 Reformation and Renaissance in

England Lecture, Discussion

CO3



CO3



CO3

63 The Knight Lecture, Discussion CO1

64 The Knight Lecture,

Discussion

CO1

65 Troilus and Criseyde

Seminar

Presentation

Lecture

CO5

66 Troilus and Criseyde

Seminar

Presentation

Lecture

CO5

67 Influence on Old English such as

Celtic Latin and Danish

Seminar

Presentation

CO5

68 Influence on Old English such as

Celtic Latin and Danish

Seminar

Presentation

CO5

69 Beowulf Seminar

Presentation

CO5

70 Anglo-Saxon invasion Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1

70 Anglo-Saxon invasion Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1

71 Roman Invasion Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1

72 A brief outline of the Old English

and Middle English literature.

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1



Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1



Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO1

75 Poetry: Cynewulf, Caedmon Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO5

76 John Gower, William Langland Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO6

77 John Gower, William Langland Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO6

78 Translation of the Bible Lecture, Seminar CO5

79 The Knight, The Miller, The

Prioress.

Seminar

Presentation

CO5

80 The Knight, The Miller, The

Prioress.

Seminar

Presentation

CO5

81 Prose: King Alfred, Anglo-Saxon

Chronicle, Bede

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO6

82 Prose: King Alfred, Anglo-Saxon

Chronicle, Bede

Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO6

83 Lydgate, Hoccleve Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO5

84 Lydgate, Hoccleve Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO5

85 The Nun's Priest's Tale Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO5


Discussion

CO5


Discussion

CO5

87 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Lecture, PPT,

Discussion

CO5


Discussion

CO5


Discussion

CO5

90 II Internal Test

COURSE 2



15P1ENGT02 - WRITINGS OF THE

RENAISSANCE

CREDIT 4

HOURS/WEEK 5 HOURS/SEM 90

FACULTY NAME DR. TOM C THOMAS, DR. JOHNSON KM, DR. JOSEPH

VARGHESE

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Understand the theoretical models in Renaissance studies with special focus on

NewHistoricism and Cultural Materialism

CO2 Evaluate the individual genius of representative Renaissance writers.

CO3 Apply theoretical formulas in the readings of select Renaissance works.

CO4 Examine historical, cultural and ideological trends of the times.

CO5 Compare individual Renaissance writers to estimate their literary merits and

their impactson subsequent literary history.

CO6 Appreciate the aesthetic dimensions of the literary produce of the time based

on the closereadings of representative writers.

CO7 Critique Renaissance literature to throw light on the ideological undercurrents

that shaped the literary sensibility of the times.

SESSION TOPIC LEARNING

OUTCOMES VALUE

ADDITIONS COURSE

OUTCOME

1 3 Introduction to Renaissance literature

Lecture CO1

2 1 Classical traditions in drama Lecture CO1

3 2 Charles R. Mack “When and Where: Looking at the Renaissance”

Lecture CO1

4 3 Introduction to Shakespeare Lecture, discussion

CO2

5 2 Shakespeare and classical drama

Lecture, discussion

CO2

6 4 Clare Carrol –Humanism and English Literature

Lecture, discussion

CO1

7 2 Hamlet Act 1 Lecture, discussion, role play

CO2

8 3 Hamlet Act2 Lecture, CO2

discussion, role play

9 2 Introduction to cultural materialism and new historicism

Lecture, discussion

CO3

10 3 Louis Montrose- Professing the Renaissance

Lecture, discussion

CO3

11 4 Hamlet Act3 Lecture, discussion, role play

CO2

12 5 Merchant of Venice Seminar CO5

13 2 Hamlet –Act3 Lecture, discussion, role play

CO2

I INTERNAL

14 2 Introduction to Christopher Marlowe

Lecture, discussion

CO2

15 3 Doctor Faustus part one Lecture, discussion, role play

CO6

16 4 Doctor Faustus Part Two Lecture, discussion, role play

CO6


CO6

18 4 The Tempest Seminar CO7

19 3 Introduction to the sonnets of Shakespeare

Lecture CO2

20 2 Shakespeare sonnet 18 Lecture, discussion

CO2

21 3 Shakespeare sonnet 30 Lecture, discussion

CO2

22 2 Ben Jonson volpone part one Lecture, discussion

CO3


CO4

24 3 John Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Seminar CO2


CO2

26 3 Francis Bacon Of Studies Lecture, discussion

CO2

27 3 Edmund Spenser Lecture, CO2

Prothalamion discussion

28 3 John Donne - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Lecture, discussion

CO4

29 2 The Merchant of Venice-readings and Interpretations

Seminar CO4

30 2 Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress

Lecture, discussion

CO4

II INTERNAL

90 Sessions

Assignments

Salient features of Renaissance literature

Classical vs. Elizabethan traditions of drama

Practical new historicist readings

Practical cultural materialist readings

COURSE 3



15P1ENGT03 LITERATURES OF THE ENGLISH

REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

CREDIT 4


FACULTY NAME

DR. RAJESH M, SHIJO VARGHESE, DR. JOSEPH VARGHESE

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Understand the socio-historical and political background of 18th century

literature.

CO2 Understand the philosophical and scientific developments of 18th century

and implication for the literary writings of the period.

CO3 Analyse the literary and the non-literary texts of the 18th century in the light

of their socio-political, philosophical and scientific background

CO4 Analyse different texts and relate them to different genres and subgenres.

CO5 Evaluate the literary and non-literary texts in the light of their underlying

philosophical implications.

CO6 Evaluate the contemporary significance of the 18th texts in the context of

contemporary theories.

S.NO. SESSION TOPIC METHOD OF TEACHING

COURSE OUTCOME

1 3 General introduction to the social, political and literary scene in Puritan England

Lecture- discussion CO1

2 2 “Historical Cultural and Intellectual Context”

Discussion CO1

3 4 “Historical Cultural and Intellectual Context”

Presentation by students- discussion

CO4

4 4 “Rise of the Novel” Lecture CO1

5 4 “The Structure of Enlightenment”


6 3 Paradise Lost Book IV

Lecture CO3

7 3 Mac Flecknoe Discussion CO1

8 4 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Reading and discussion

CO4

9 5 To the Fair Clarinda Seminar- presentation by students- discussion

CO1

10 3 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding


I Internal

11 3 A Vindication of the Rights of Women


12 4 The Pilgrim’s Progress

Seminar- presentation by students- discussion

CO1

13 4 Preface to Shakespeare

Seminar- presentation by students- discussion

CO5

14 4 Robinson Crusoe Lecture- discussion CO2

15 3 TristramShandy Lecture- discussion CO1

16 3 Tom Jones Lecture- discussion CO1

17 4 Pamela Seminar- presentation by students- discussion

CO1

18 3 The Way of the World

Play-reading- excerpts

CO2

19 2 The Way of the World

Discussion-lecture CO4

20 5 She Stoops to Conquer

Discussion- lecture CO5

21 5 The Spectator Club Lecture CO4

22 5 The Rivals Seminar- presentation by students- discussion

CO5

II Internal

Total Sessions

90 Sessions

COURSE 4



LITERARY CRITICISM AND ACADEMIC WRITING

CREDIT 4


FACULTY NAME DR. RAJESH M, ARAVIND R NAIR, SUNIL KV

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Identify key concepts in literary criticism from the classical Greek

period up to the late twentieth century.

CO2 Apply insights from critical approaches and theories to the reading of

texts.

CO3 Demonstrate an understanding of key critical approaches such as

neoclassical criticism, Romanticism, New Criticism, Modernism,

Formalism, Marxist criticism, Reader Response theories.

CO4 Recognise the historical, political and aesthetic dimensions of the

growth of literary criticism including issues such as canon formation,

evolution of genres and methods of literary analysis.

CO5 Understand the conventions and formats of academic writing,

enabling them to write publishable articles that comply with the latest

style manuals.

CO6 Critique the performance practices that can be observed in theatres,

media and in public spaces.

CO7 Conduct original critical readings of contemporary texts informed by

relevant critical schools of thoughts and also to evaluate similar critical

works on literary works.

COURSE PLAN

SL

NO.

SESSI

ONS TOPIC METHOD

COURSE

OUTCO

ME

1 3 General Introduction Lecture and Discussion CO1

2 4 Aristotle Poetics Lecture CO1

3 4 Longinus On the Sublime PowerPoint Presentation

CO1

4 3 Horace Ars Poetica Lecture and PowerPoint Presentation

CO1

5 2 Philip Sidney Apologie for Poetry

Lecture and PowerPoint Presentation

CO1

6 3 William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads


CO3

7 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria(Ch. 17)

Lecture CO2

8 2 John Dryden : ‘Essay on Dramatic Poesy’

Class Seminar CO1

9 4 T.S. Eliot ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’

Lecture CO5

10 4 Cleanth Brooks ‘The Language of Paradox’

Lecture CO3

11 5 Northrop Frye ‘Archetypes of Literature’

Lecture CO4

12 5 R.S. Crane ‘The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones’

Lecture CO6

13 4 Erich Auerbach: “Odysseus’ Scar”

Seminar Presentations and Discussion

CO1

I INTERNAL

14 3 George Luckacs, ‘The Ideology of Modernism’

Lectureand PowerPoint Presentation

CO1

15 5 Wolfgang Iser, ‘The Role of the Reader in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones’


CO1

16 5 Roman Jakobson,‘Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles of

Lecture CO4

Language’

17 4 Lionel Trilling, ‘Freud and Literature’


CO5

18 6 Jerome McGann, ‘Interpretation’ (pp 160—170 in David G. Nicholas ed. Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages. MLA, 2007.


CO3

19 4 Catherine Belsey, ‘Addressing the Subject’ (Critical Practice)

Lecture CO3

20 6 Methods of reading and mechanics of writing MLA Handbook (Latest edition)


CO6

REFERENCES

M.A.R. Habib, A History of Literary Criticism: from Plato to the Present. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.

Ranjit Kumar. Research Methodology: A Step-by-step guide for beginners. New Delhi:

SAGE, 2011.

Gregson Davis. Ed. A Companion to Horace. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Styles. Medford: Information Today, 1996.

Andrew Ford,The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical

Greece. Princeton: PUP, 2002.

Peter Rawlings, American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and

Wayne C. Booth. London: Routledge, 2006.

Christopher Shields. Aristotle. London: Routledge, 2007.

Georgios Anagnostopoulos. Ed. A Companion to Aristotle. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell,

2007.

COURSE 5



INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE CREDIT 4


FACULTY NAME

BIJO N MATHEW, SUNIL KV, RAJESH JAMES

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1 Get acquainted with the major Indian writers and their monumental

works as an independentfield of literature in English.

CO2 Understand the evolution of Indian writing in English from the colonial

phase till the present.

CO3 Get a deeper understanding of the notion of ‘Indianness’ and Indian

sensibility through theworks in Indian English Literature.

CO4 Demonstrate an understanding of the social, political, and cultural issues

reflected in IndianEnglish literature.

CO5 Evaluate the literary, cultural, historical and political impact of works of

Indian writers inEnglish and their role in bringing about social awareness

and transformation.

CO6 Classify the major genres in Indian writing in English.

CO7 Conduct original research in the field of Indian English Literature and

bring out the findings inthe form of dissertations/research papers.

SL NO.

SESSIONS TOPIC METHOD COURSE

OUTCOME

1 4 A. K Ramanujan: "Is there an Indian Way of Thinking"

lecture, Discussion, PPT - presentation

CO1

2 3 Gauri Viswanathan: " Introduction to Masks of Conquest

Lecture, Discussion, PPT - presentation

CO1

3 2 Introduction to Indian Theatre Lecture CO1

4 2 Introduction to Girish Karnad Lecture CO1

5 4 Yayati lecture, Discussion CO1

6 4 Meena Kandaswami: "Ms Militancy"

Lecture, Discussion CO3

7 4 O V Vijayan: The Legends of Khasak


8 6 Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

Lecture, Discusssion CO4

9 4 Rukmani Bhaya Nair: "Gargi's Silence"

Lecture, Discusssion CO2

10 5 Dilip Chitre: "The Felling of the Banyan Tree"

Poem Reading, Discusssion

CO2

11 4 Tagore: "Gitanjali Section 35" Poem Reading, Discussion

CO4

12 4 Vijay Tendulkar: Introduction Lecture CO5

13 4 Silence: The Court is in Session Lecture,Discussion CO1

14 5 Keki N Daruwalla: "Hawk" Poem Reading, Discussion

CO4

15 3 Toru Dtt: " The Lotus" Lecture, Discussion CO3

16 4 Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children


17 4 Amitav Gosh: Hungry Tide Lecture, Discussion CO1

18 4 U R Ananthamurthy: Samskara Lecture, Discussion CO3

19 3 Nissim Ezekiel: "A Time to Change"

Poem Reading, Discussion

CO1

20 5 Gieve Patel: "On Killing a Tree" Lecture, Discussion CO1

21 3 Jayanta Mahapatra: "A Monsoon Day Fable"


22 2 Seminar: Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan

Presentations, Discussion on Presentations

CO2

23 2 Sujata Bhat: "Muliebrity" Discussion CO2

24 I A T

25 1 Seminar: Imaginary Homelands


CO1

26 1 Seminar: God of Small Things Presentations, Discussion on Presentations

CO3

27 1 Seminar: The Guide by R K Narayan


CO4

29 1 Seminar: The Interpreter of Maladies by humpa Lahiri


CO3

30 1 T M Yesudasan: "Towards Prologue to Dalit Studies"


31 1 Evaluation and Feedback

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