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Uttara

University

School of Arts & Social Science

Department of English

Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English

House-4, Road-15, Sector-6, Uttara Model Town, Uttara, Dhaka-1230

Phone: 8919794, 8919116

SCHOOL OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Page-2 Department Of English

Syllabus

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English

1. Introduction: Uttara University offers English Honours, M.A (Preliminary) and M.A (Final) in English for

under graduate & graduate students respectively. The courses aim at creating in the students

general background in humanities with concentration in language & literature.

2. Course Description:

The course offered for B.A (Honors) students are grouped into (1) Core course- compulsory

for all (2) General Education course, Compulsory for all and (3) Concentration (elective) course

with alternatives.

3. Break down of the Courses:

3.1. Total credits : 132

3.2. Core courses : Credits (25x4) 100 (Compulsory for all students)

3.3. General Education courses 09 : Credits (4x3) 12 (Compulsory for all students)

Credits (5x4) 20 (Compulsory for all students)

4. Credit: Credits to be taken in each semester are a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 18.

5. Course Tenure:

There will be 3 semesters in each year & Honours students will complete 132 credits in 12

semesters (4 years).

6. Admission Requirement:

1. For Under Graduate Programs

1. Minimum two second divisions or one first division and one third division or 4 CGPA

in S.S.C., H.S.C or equivalent examinations.

2. 45% marks in related subjects

3. Students having break of study can apply

4. Must attain qualifying marks at the admission test.

2. For Post Graduate Degree/Diploma Program

1. Students seeking admission must have the bachelor degree from a recognised University

(National/International).

2. Over and above all candidates seeking admission must sit for admission test and attain

qualifying marks to be decided by Uttara University Authority.

Page-3 7. Grading System & Performance Evaluation

Students having minimum 75% class attendance will be eligible to take semester

examinations. Letter grading will be made to asses students performance. The grade will be

assigned on the overall evaluation of a student’s performance on the basis of semester final

examination, midterm test, case studies, tutorial test, term papers, assignment & class

attendance in aggregate and whatever is applicable for an individual program. Grades/GPA

will be determined by the teachers responsible for the course. The final result will be prepared

by cumulating the grade point average (CGPA) over the courses. The Letter grade

corresponding to numerical grade and grade point will be as follows:

Numerical Scores Letter Grade Grade Point 80-100 A+ 4.00 (A plus)

75-79 A 3.75 (A regular)

70-74 A- 3.50 (A minus)

65-69 B+ 3.25 (B plus)

60-64 B 3.00 (B regular)

55-59 B- 2.75 (B minus)

50-54 C+ 2.50 ( C plus)

45-49 C 2.25 ( C regular)

40-44 D 2.00

00-39 F 00

F * Failure

I ** Incomplete

W *** Withdrawal

R **** Repeat

Y***** Audit

* “F” means failure. Credits for courses with this grade do not apply towards graduation.

** An “I” grade is given to students who have fulfilled the majority of the course

requirements but have been unable to complete the rest. The student is not required to

register for the course in the next semester.

*** “W” means withdrawal. A student may decide to withdraw from a course by the

deadline with the consent of the instructor and the Academic Advisor.

**** “R” means repeat. Credits for courses with these grades do not apply towards

graduation and are not used for the calculation of the grade point average. Other

provisions for “R” will be applied as mentioned in the Section-3.5.

***** “Y” means audit. An existing student or ex-student may decide to audit a course of

his/her interest for improvement of his knowledge for the particular course. In this

case, the student pays the full tuition fee for the course, attends the classes, but is not

required to sit for the exams and no credit is earned.

Marking in the courses will be in the following manner:

10% marks for class attendance, 10% marks for tutorial, case studies, class test, viva voce or

other assignment by the course teacher or instructor, 30% marks for midterm test and 50%

marks for semester final examination to be converted into letter grade.

To remain in good standing in any degree offered by the Uttara University must a student

maintain a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00 out of 4.00 on the basis

of courses taken. The GPA or CGPA will be calculated on the basis of number of

courses taken including the course(s) in which a student receives an F grade until he or she

repeats the course and the F grade is substituted to repeat the course only once. If, after

repeating the courses, a student fails to raise his/her CGPA to 2.00 he/she will stand dismissed

from the program.

Page-4 Basis for awarding marks for class attendance and participation will be as

follows:

Attendance Marks

90% and above 10

85% to less than 90% 09

80% to less than 85% 08

75% to less than 80% 07

70% to less than 75% 06

65% to less than 70% 05

60% to less than 65% 04

Less than 60% 00

Semesters at the University:

There will be three semesters in an academic year (Winter- September to December, Spring-

January to April, & Summer- May to August).

COURSE-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF CREDITS

Number of Courses: 25 Core and 09 General Education Courses

Course Types Number of

Courses

Number of Credits

Per Course

Entire Syllabus

Total number

of credits.

Core Courses [Compulsory] 25 [courses ] 4 credits 100 credits

General Education Courses [Compulsory] 9 [courses]

4 [courses] 3 credits 12 credits

5 [courses) 4 credits 20 credits

Total number of credits for the entire BA (Honours) in English

curriculum:

132 Credits

CORE COURSES: 25 NUMBER OF CREDITS: 25x4 = 100

ENG-101: English Language: Basic Level (Grammar and application)

1. Articles

2. Parts of Speeches and their usages

3. Number: Singular, Plural

4. Verbs: Types: Auxiliary. Model Auxiliary, Regular, Irregular. Transitive,

Intransitive. Conjugation Forms, Infinitive, Past and Past Participle.

5. Tenses

6. Use of Adjectives and Adverbs:

Degree: Positive, Comparative, Superlative.

7. Active Voice and Passive Voice.

8. Prepositions -A general idea about their appropriate uses.

9. Vocabulary:

a) Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms & Homophones

b) Prefixes, Suffixes, Inflexion, Ellipses & Appostrophe.

10. a) The Rules of Syntax

b) Punctuation

11. Speaking Skills:

Correct Pronunciation with Proper with intonation and Accent. Articulation,

Grammatical Accuracy, Fluency.

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ENG 102: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

a) Sixteenth Century Poetry:

William Shakespeare: i) Sonnet 18

ii) Sonnet 55

Ben Jonson:

i) Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes

ii) To The Memory of My Beloved Mother

b) Seventeenth Century Poetry:

1. Metaphysical Poetry:

John Donne: Elegy: On his Mistress

George Herbert: Virtue

2. Puritan Poetry:

John Milton: On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty three

c) Eighteenth Century Poetry:

Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Blake: The Little Black Boy

d) Romantic Poetry:

William Wordsworth: i) The Solitary Reaper

ii) To the Cuckoo

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark

John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

e) Victorian Poetry:

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

f) Twentieth Century Poetry:

William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

Ted Hughes: The Jaguar

g) American Poetry (19th – 20th centuries):

Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

ENG 103: INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA

a) William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

b) William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

c) Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals

d) George Bernard Shaw: Arms and The Man

e) John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea

ENG 104: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION

a) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels [Selected parts]

b) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

c) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles / Return of the Native

d) William Golding: Lord of the Flies

ENG 105: INTRODUCTION TO PROSE

a) Francis Bacon: Selected Essays

b) Joseph Addison: Selected Essays/ Papers

c) Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets [The Life of one selected poet]

d) John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University

e) George Orwell: Shooting An Elephant

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ENG 106: ROMANTIC POETRY

a. William Wordsworth: i) The Prelude (Selected part)

ii) Tintern Abbey

iii) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

iv) Michael

v) Three Years She Grew

b. S. T. Coleridge: i) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

ii) Kubla Khan

iii) Christabel

iv) Dejection; An Ode

c. G. G. Lord Byron: i) Don Juan (Canto I)

ii) The Prisoner of Chillon

d. P. B. Shelley: i) Ode to the West Wind

ii) Adonais

c. John Keats: i) Ode to a Nightingale

ii) Ode on Melancholy

iii) Ode to Psyche

iv) The Eve of St. Agnes

ENG-107: English Language: Advance Level (Applied Language Skills)

Writing Skills:

a) Re-Drilling in Syntax

b) Advance Sentence Framing

c) Sentence Types- Comparative Study

d) Intricate Sentence Structure

e) Relatively higher concepts of appropriate preposition in use

f) Phrasal verbs-importance and uses

g) Formal and informal (Colloquial) English Difference

h) Clauses and their usage patterns

i) Paragraphs, Descriptions, Expansions of ideas. Reports, Letters (formal &

informal), Summary, Précis. Synopsis, Essay

Reading Skills:

Art / Style of reading. Reading for comprehension. Reading for fluency. Reading to

comphasize ideas.

Listening Skills:

Understanding a variety of speech sounds. Listening for specific information.

Listening for overall comprehension.

Phonetics:

1. a) Phonetic Symbols

b) Phonetic Transcription

c) Stress and Intonation

d) Art of correct pronunciation

e) Phonemes

f) Morphemes

ENG 201: ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

a) Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

b) Christopher Marlowe: i) Doctor Faustus

ii) Tamburlaine The Great

c) William Shakespeare: i) Macbeth

ii) As You Like It

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e) John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi

ENG 202: 16TH and 17TH CENTURY POETRY a) Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene [One selected book]

b) William Shakespeare: Three Selected Sonnets

c) John Donne: i) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

ii) Extasie

iii) Canonization

d) George Herbert: i) Affliction

ii) Death

iii) Life

e) Andrew Marvell: i) To His Coy Mistress

ii) On a Drop of Dew

iii) The Definition of Love

f) John Milton: i) Paradise Lost - Bk. IV

g) John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel

ENG 203: 17TH CENTURY PROSE AND DRAMA

a. Prose works:

i) Sir Thomas Browne: Urn Burial

ii) John Milton: Areopagitica

iii) John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress

iv) John Dryden: ‘A Preface to Fables’

b. Drama:

i) John Dryden: All for Love

ii) William Congreve: The Way of the World

ENG 204: LITERARY CRITICISM This course introduces students to some of the fundamental ideas about literary

criticism leading to relevant approaches. It examines the different views on authors

and their works and on literature in general.

Prescribed texts

a) Aristotle: Poetics

b) Sir Philip Sidney: Defence of Poesie

c) John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesie

d) William Wordsworth: A Preface to Lyrical Ballads

e) Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia- Literaria [Chapters 14 and 16]

f) Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry

g) T S Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent

h) Terry Eagleton: The Rise of English

ENG-205: EASTERN THOUGHT AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

a) Eastern Thought

Indian / Sub Continental:

The Vedas

The Upanishads

The Theism of the Bhagabat Geeta

Buddhism

Charvaka

The Six Orthodox Schools

Sankhya- Yaga

Mimasnaha – Velanta

Nyaya – Vaisesikha

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Chinese / Japanese:

Taoism

Confucianism

Zen Buddhism

Islamic: School of Muslim Philosophy

Sufism

Ghazzali

Ibn Arabi

Rumi

b) Western Philosophy

Thoughts and views of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau, Schopenhauer,

Nietzsche and Sartre

ENG 206: WORLD LITERATURE- I

1. Drama:

a. Comedy

i) Moliere: The Miser

ii) Anthon Chekhov: Uncle Vanya

b. Tragedy

Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts/The Doll’s House

2. Fiction:

i) Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

ii) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

iii) Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

ENG 301: 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

a. Drama:

i) Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

ii) RB Sheridan: The School for Scandal

b. Fiction:

i) Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

c. Prose works:

i) Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son

ii) Edmund Burke: Reflections on the French Revolution

d. Poetry:

i) Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

ii) William Cowper: i) On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture,

ii) The Castaway

iii) William Blake: i) Songs of Innocence [Selected Poems]

ii) Songs of Experience [Selected Poems]

ENG 302: CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION

a. Epics:

i) Homer: The Iliad

ii) Virgil: Aeneid

b. Plays:

i) Aeschylus: Agamemnon

ii) Sophocles: Oedipus the King

iii) Euripides: The Trojan Women

iv) Aristophanes: Lysistrata

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ENG 303: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Influences of events, circumstances and social changes across the ages

Evolution: Old English – Middle English- Mediaeval ages –Modern/ Present day

English: Trends/Usage.

ENG 304: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

a. Characteristics manifest in English Literature of different ages

b. The temper and mood of every period – various influences

c. Lifestyles, popular tastes and sentiments and their impact on the shaping of the

literature of any particular period

d. Writers, their lives and works.

ENG 305: VICTORIAN LITERATURE

a) Poetry:

i) Alfred Lord Tennyson: i) In Memoriam [Selected parts)

ii) Tithonus

iii) Oenone

iv) Morte D’Arthur

ii) Robert Browning: i) Andrea Del Sarto

ii) Rabbi Ben Ezra

iii) A Grammarian’s Funeral

iii) Matthew Arnold: i) The Scholar Gypsy

ii) Thyrsis

iii) Dover Beach

iv) Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

b) Drama:

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

c) Fiction:

i) Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

ii) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

iii) Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd

ENG 306: WORLD LITERATURE- II

a. Drama:

i) Seneca: Phaedra

ii) Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

b. Fiction:

i) Andre Maurois: Ariel

ii) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

iii) R K Narayan: The Financial Expert

iv) V S Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival

ENG 401: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE

Group A: Old English Poetry

i) The Wanderer.

ii) The Seafarer

iii) Deor.

Group B: Middle English Poetry.

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nonne Priest’s Tale

Group C: Middle English Prose

Sir Thomas Malory: Morte D’ Arthur

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a. Drama:

i) John Milton: Samson Agonistes

ii) George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan

iii) John Osborne: The Entertainer

b. Fiction:

i) Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

ii) D H Lawrence: The Rainbow

iii) Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and Other Stories

iv) A S Byatt: Possession

ENG 403: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Phonetics : Basic Ideas, The organs of speech, Phonetic symbols,

Description of consonants and vowels,

Study of English and Bengali speech sounds, Cardinal vowels,

Short vowels, Long vowels and diphthongs, English

plosives, fricatives, affricates and nasals.

Phonology : Defining phone, allophone and phoneme, Voice quality and

voice dynamics.

Phonemic transcription : The nature of stress, factors of stress prominence,

Weak and strong forms.

Intonation system in English: Function of intonation, Structure of tone unit,

High and low pitch possibilities in a single tone unit, Transcription

of utterances, Assigning stress marks to denote how written speech

should be intoned.

ENG 404: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

b. Theories of Language and communication, Functions of Language

c. The role of Language in Human development – both individual and social

d. Acquisition of Language

Morphology, Orthography, Sign language, Syntax, Semantics

e. Ideas about Associative meaning, Audio lingual method, Aural – oral

method, Audio – visual method, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive strategy,

Language loyalty, Language Pedagogy, Hesitation phenomena, Lingua

franca, Etymology etc.

ENG 405: SHAKESPEARE a. Plays:

A few major plays excepting those selected for other courses

i) King Lear

ii) Richard II

iii) Henry IV [Part I)

iv) Measure for Measure

v) Twelfth Night

b. Sonnets (Six selected sonnets)

c. Criticism

Important critics on Shakespeare

i) A C Bradley

ii) Wilson Knight

iii) Caroline FE Spurgeon

iv) Terry Eagleton

v) Jan Kott

vi) Stephen Greenblatt

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ENG 406: ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGH LANGUAGE: BASIC

THEORIES AND LEARNING METHODS

A study of the process of learning English as a second or foreign language,

Special attention to be given to theories, variables and second/foreign

Language Acquisition.

a) Introduction

b) Approach

c) Consolidating Learning

d) Objectives

e) Consideration of Practical situations

f) Application and Utilization

ENG 407: AMERICAN LITERATURE

a. Fiction:

i) Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

ii) Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

b. Drama:

i) Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra

ii) Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

c. Poetry

i) Edgar Allen Poe: i) To Helen

ii) The Haunted Palace

iii) The Raven

ii) Walt Whitman: Selected Poems

iii) Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems

iv) Robert Frost: Selected Poems

d. Prose

i) Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self reliance

ii) Henry David Thoreau: Civil Resistance

ENG-408: Language / Learning in Bangladesh

1. The nature of language learning process

2. ELT teaching / learning in Bangladesh

3. Place of English in our curriculum

4. Introduction to the syllabus and methods.

ENG-409: Reading and Writing

Objective:

This course is designed to wake the student’s better readers and writers. It aims to

develop the students’ critical reading skills and waster the writing of well-planned,

organized and coherent essays.

Contents:

Main qualities of good compositions

Paragraph writing: topic sentences

Different modes of paragraph and essay writing: description, narration, process,

comparison and contrast, cause and effect

Structure of an essay: introduction, thesis statement, body and support, conclusion

Grammar issues relevant to the writing tasks

Summary writing:

Reading Skills: predicting, skimming, scanning, inferencing

Course Book: Writing Skills: John Langane.

References:

Grammar and Composition: Houghton Mifflin English.

The Advancing Writer: Karen L. Greenberg.

From Paragraph to Essay: Maurice Imhoof.

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9 COURSES (COMPULSORY FOR ALL STUDENTS)

4x3 + 5x4 =12+20= 32 Credits

GEC. 201: BANGLADESH STUDIES

Part-A : Society and Culture

The Sociological Perspective, Primary Concepts, Actors of social life, Social Structure

and Process, Social Institutions, Culture and Civilization, City and Country, Social

Change, Problems of Society, Social Problems of Bangladesh, urbanization Process and

its impact on Bangladesh Society will be covered.

Part B: Bangladesh History

1. Introduction: Sources of History, History in Nation Building.

2. Ancient Bengal: Ancient Geography and trade links with other world,-PalaL and Sena Dynasty.

3. Medieval Bengal: Muslim Conquest of Bengal, Socio-economic and cultural changes Unification

of Bengal, the Development of Bengali language and Literature. The Independent Sultanate in

Bengal-Bengal under the Mughals, the Nawaabi Rule in Bengal (1700-1765)

4. Modern Period: British Colonial Rule, Introduction of Zamindari System and decline of

socioeconomic condition, Resistance movements, English education and its impact, revival of

statehood in Bengal, the Growth of Indian national Congress, the Creation of New Province of East

Bengal and Assam, Muslim League (1906, Bengal Pact (1923).

5. Autonomous Bengal 1937-1947 & East Pakistan as a province of Pakistan: Foundation of Awami

League, Language Movement of 1952, united Front and Fall of Muslim League, the Military Rule

of Ayub Khan, Economic Disparity between the two regions, Cultural suppression of West

Pakistan, 6-point Movement, Mass upsurge in 1969, the Rule of Yahya Khan, Election of 1970, the

War of Independence and the Emergence of Bangladesh.

GEC. 202: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

The Greeks and the Romans:The Pre-Socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Cynics,

Skeptics. The medieval World view. The Renaissance: Earmus, More, Machiavelli, Bacon. The

Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Descartes, Hobbes, Locke. The Enlightenment and

18th Century Thought: Berkely Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus, Rousseau, Kant.

Romanticism and the French Revolution. The American war of Independence and Democracy.

19th Century Thought: Hegel, Marx and Socialism, Utilitariansim, Darwin and the Theory of

Evolution,

GEC. 203: WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Group-A

Characteristics of Ancient Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Characteristics of

Medieval Philosophy : Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm, Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Group- B

Characteristics of modern Philosophy: Rationalism, Descartes; Empiricism, Locke and

Hume; Critical Theory: Kant, Idealism: Hegel, Characteristics of contemporary

Philosophy: Pessimism; Schopenhauer: Dialectic Materialism: Karl Marx; Existentialism:

Kierkegaard and Jean Paul Sartre; Pragmatism: William James; Analytic Philosophy: Moore

and Bertrand Russel.

GEC. 204: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER

Introduction to the terminology and use of computers in organizations, including hardware and

software technology, business data processing, distributed processing and networking.

character manipulations and Files; Use of DOS, database, and major software packages for

business. Algorithm Design and Program development. Programming Language, Compiler,

Interpreter, Assembler, Operating Systems

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GEC. 205: EUROPEAN HISTORY

Classic Greece, Classical Rome, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Reformation, the

Enlightenment in History, the American Revolution the France Revolution, the Industrial

Revolution the German and Italian Unification, World war I, The Russian Revolution, the

World War II.

GEC. 206: INTRODUCTION TO BENGALI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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GEC. 207: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science: Its nature, meaning, scope and methods. Fundamental Concepts: State,

Sovereignty, Law, Liberty and Equality, Forms of Government: Democracy and Dictatorship,

Parliamentary, and Presidential; Unitary and Federal. Organs of Government: Legislature,

Executive and Judiciary, Theory of Separation Powers: Its meaning, Importance and

Working, Role of Political Parties and Electorate. The Constitution of Bangladesh.

GEC. 208: ECONOMICS

1. Definition and Subject matter of Economics: Distinction between micro & macro

economics-some basic economic concepts- Alternative economics systems- Capitalism,

Socialism and Islamic economics.

2. The Theory of demand and supply and their uses- Elasticity of demand and supply &

their measurement. Difference between demand and supply of agricultural and industrial

products.

The Law of diminishing marginal utility & the law of equimarginal utility-consumer’s

surplus.

3. The Indifference Curve analysis- Properties of Indifference Curve. Consumer’s

equilibrium-Income, substitution & price effects.

4. The Theory of Production- factors of production, returns to scale—production functions-

ISO-product and Iso-cost curves- producer’s equilibrium.

5. Market structure- Perfect, imperfect and monopoly-concepts of cost & revenue. short run

and long run, cost curves-producer’s equilibrium.

6. The Pricing of the factors of Production- The marginal productivity The of distribution-

determination of rent, wages, interest and profit.

7. National Income & its different concepts- methods of computing National Income-

problems of computing National Income-Uses of National Income.

8. The Theory of income determination- Keynesian approach-consumption function,

Investment function- Multiplier.

Page-14 9. Banking- The commercial banks-functions of commercial banks. Principles of

commercial banks and balance sheet-Multiple credit and credit creation-

Specialized financial institutions. The Central Bank-functions of Central Bank, various

instruments of credit control & their limitations- Monetary policy. Islamic banking systems.

10. Public Finance- Private Vs. public finance-Sources of revenue & heads of expenditure of

the governments. Public expenditure & Public borrowing budgets-capital & revenue.

Taxation-Principles of taxation-type of taxation-Incidence of taxation-zaket public debt:

Internal vs. external debt- Burden of public debt- fiscal policy.

GEC-209: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

The objective of the course is to familiarize students with both traditional and emerging

concepts and trends of management and organizational behavior. Students are prepared for

general management and supervisory positions and are provided background to study in

specialized topics in management and organizational behavior. The course covers issues

of individual behavior, group functioning and the actions of organizations in their

environments. Problems of work motivation, task design, leadership, communication,

organizational design and innovation will be analyzed from a theoretical and practical

perspectives. Implications for the management of organizations are illustrated through

examples, cases and exercises.

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GEC. 202: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

The Greeks and the Romans:The Pre-Socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans,

Cynics, Skeptics. The medieval World view. The Renaissance: Earmus, More, Machiavelli,

Bacon. The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Descartes, Hobbes, Locke. The

Enlightenment and 18th Century Thought: Berkely Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus,

Rousseau, Kant. Romanticism and the French Revolution. The American war of Independence

and Democracy. 19th Century Thought: Hegel, Marx and Socialism, Utilitariansim, Darwin and

the Theory of Evolution,