Unit I
Middle English Poetry
-Geoffrey Chaucer: “The General Prologue”-Pardoner, The Nun, Doctor, Friar
Unit II
Elizabethan Poetry
– Edmund Spenser: “Prothalamion”
– John Donne: “The Canonization”
Unit III
Seventeenth Century Poetry &Eighteenth Century Poetry
– John Milton: “Paradise Lost” Book IX
– Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
– John Dryden: “Absalom and Achitophel” [ Lines 150 – 476 ]
– Thomas Gray: “Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
Unit IV
Romantic & Victorian Age Poetry
– William Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey”
– S.T.Coleridge “Rime of an Ancient Mariner”
– P.B.Shelley “Ode to the West Wind”
– Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”
– Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach”
Unit V
Modern Poetry
– Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”
– T.S.Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
-W. H. Auden: “Elegy on the death of W.B. Yeats
– T.S.Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
-Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
-Philip Larkin: “Whitsun Weddings”
-Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”
-Seamus Heaney: “The Tollund Man”
Unit I
Beginnings of Drama
– Miracle and Morality Plays
– The Senecan and Revenge Tragedy:Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
Unit II
Elizabethan Theatre & Jacobean Drama
– Theatres, Theatre groups, Audience, Actors and Conventions
– Tragedy and Comedy
– Ben Jonson – Volpone
-John Webster – The White Devil
Unit III
Restoration Drama
– John Dryden – All for Love
– William Congreve The Way of the World
Unit IV
-George Bernard Shaw -The Apple Cart
Unit V
Twentieth Century Drama
– Irish Dramatic Movement
J.M Synge – The Playboy of the Western World
-Epic Theatre – Bertolt Brecht – Mother Courage and her Children
-Post-Modern Drama – Samuel Beckett -Waiting for Godot
Unit I
Definition, types, narrative modes
Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe
Unit II
– Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Walter Scott -Kenilworth
Unit III
Jane Austen – Emma
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Unit IV
Charles Dickens – Hard Times
George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
Unit V
D. H. Lawrence -The Rainbow
Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway
Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Unit I
BACKGROUND STUDIES
Science Fiction and Fantasy, Cyberpunk (From M.H.Abrams)
Alien Invasion, Apocalyptic and Post -Apocalyptic Fiction
Gothic Science Fiction,
Crime Fiction, Mystery Novels, Thriller (From M.H.Abrams)
Unit II
DETECTIVE FICTION
The Hound of Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Unit III
SCIENCE FICTION
Jules Verne – Journey to the Center of the Earth
H.G.Wells – The Time Machine
Isaac Asimov – I,Robot
Unit IV
FANTASY FICTION
Lewis Carrol -Alice in the Wonderland
Peter Straub – Shadowland
Unit V
SHORT STORIES
Edgar Alan Poe – “ The Murders in the Rue Morgues”
E.M. Forster – “ The Machine Stops”
Ray Bradbury – “All Summer in a Day” –
Unit I
Beginning of ELT – A Historical Overview
English as Foreign Language (EFL), English as Second Language (ESL), English for Specific
Purpose (ESP) Teaching of English as Second Language (TESL) in India Second Language Acquisition Theories; Krashen’s hypothesis; Chomskian perspective
Unit II
ELT Theories – Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism Approaches – Structural Approach, Lexical Approach, Communicative Approach, Task-Based Teaching and Learning Methods – Grammar-Translation, Audio-Lingual, Oral Situational, Direct Method
Unit III
Teaching Poetry, Prose, Drama, Fiction – Methods and Techniques Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – Teaching LSRW skills through Literature Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) – ICT tools – e-books, Mobile Learning, Video Conferencing, Podcasting, Digital Story-telling, YouTube videos, Mobile apps, and games
Unit IV
Types of Syllabus; Materials Design and Development Outcome Based Education (OBE); Bloom’s Taxonomy, Revised Taxonomy (2001) Writing Lesson Plan and Class Summary Student Diversity and Classroom Management; Teacher as Facilitator or Mentor Classroom Observation; Teacher Reflection; Teaching Journals; Peer Teaching and Group Teaching
Unit V
Testing and Evaluation – Norm vs Criterion-Referenced Testing Test Types and Test Design; Formative and Summative Assessment; Wash-back effect Test Validity, Reliability, and Practicality Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) – Item Difficulty and Distractor Analysis
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR); IELTS and TOEFL
Unit I
Toru Dutt – “Sita”
Sarojini Naidu- “In the Forest”
Kamala Das- “Looking Glass,”
Nissim Ezekiel- “Morning Prayer”
A.K.Ramanujan – “A River”
Unit II
R. Parthasarathy – “ Under Another Sky”
Keki N.Daruwalla – “Hawk”
Arun Kolatkar -”A Low Temple”
Arundhathi Subramaniam -”To the Welsh Critic Who Doesn’t Find Me Identifiably Indian”
Easterine Kire -”Riddu Riddu”
Unit III
RabindranathTagore – Chandalika
Vijay Tendulkar – Silence, the Court is in Session
Girish Karnad – The Fire and the Rain
Unit IV
Sri Aurobindo – The Essence of Poetry, Style and Substance (from The Future Poetry)
Shashi Tharoor- The Looting of India (An Era of Darkness)
Unit V
Mulk Raj Anand- Untouchable
Shashi Deshpande – Small Remedies –
Arundhathi Roy – The God of Small Things
Pudumaippittan’s – “Redemption” (Akalikai and Sabavimochanam)
Unit I
POETRY
Walt Whitman -” Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”
Emily Dickinson – “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”
Robert Frost – “After Apple Picking”
E. E. Cummings – “Cambridge Ladies”
Wallace Stevens – “Anecdote of the Jar”
Sylvia Plath – “Mirror”
Adrienne Rich – “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law”
Robert Hayden – “Runagate Runagate”
Unit II
PROSE
Emerson – “The American Scholar”
Thoreau – Walden – Chapter “Pond”
Amy Tan- “Mother Tongue”
Alice Walker – “In Search of my Mother’s Garden”
Unit III
DRAMA
Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
Eugene O’Neil – The Hairy Ape
Unit IV
SHORT STORY
Edgar Allan Poe – “The Cask of Amontillado”
Mark Twain – “the Californian’s Tale”
Herman Melville – “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Philip Roth – “The Conversation of the Jews”
Unit V
FICTION
William Faulkner – Sound and Fury
Toni Morrison – Sula
Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Unit I
Shakespeare Theatre
Theatre Conventions
Sources
Problems of categorization
Trends in Shakespeare Studies up to the 19th Century
Sonnet and court politics
Famous actors & Theatre criticism
Shakespeare into film & play production
Unit II
Sonnets – 12, 65, 86,130
Comedy plays -Much Ado About Nothing , Winter’s Tale
Unit III
Tragedy – Othello
Unit IV
History -Henry IV Part I , Julius Caesar
Unit V
Shakespeare Criticism
Modern approaches – mythical, archetypal, feminist, post-colonial, New historicist
A.C. Bradley (extract) From Shakespearean Tragedy Chapters (Lecture V & VI)
Granville Baker – From Prefaces to Shakespeare – Chapter “Preface to Othello”
Stephen Greenblatt- From Shakespearean Negotiations- Chapter “Invisible
Bullets- Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV & Henry V”
[New York:Oxford University Press, 1988]
Unit I
Concepts of Sex and Gender, Gender and sexuality- various categories
Understanding Patriarchy
Sociological perspectives on gender
Gender identity, Gender role, Gender stereotyping
Gender discrimination, Gender equity
Gender stratification
Intersectionality
Unit II
FEMININITY
The Second Sex [ Chapter from Part I – Destiny ] by Simone De Beauvoir
“Phenomenal Woman” – Maya Angelou
“Persephone Falling” – Rita Dove
“Spelling” – Margaret Atwood
“He Replaces Poetry”- Meena Kandasamy
Trifles – Susan Glaspell
Unit III
MASCULINITY
“What is Masculinity?” (page 1-24) from Masculinities and Culture –John Beynon
“On the Move” – Thom Gunn
“My Father’s Sadness” – Shirley Lim
“A Lucky Man” -Jamel Brinkley
The Power of the Dog – Thomas Savage [ Fiction ]
Unit IV
QUEER AND TRANS VOICES
“Critically Queer” – Chapter 8 from Bodies that Matter – Judith Butler
“Queer” – Frank Bidart
“I am Vidya” – Living Smile Vidya [Memoir]
The Danish Girl – David Evershoff [ Fiction ]
Unit V
PERFORMATIVITY
Section II- ‘Binary Genders and the Heterosexual Contract’ from “Performative Acts and
Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” by Judith Butler [
Lines beginning “To guarantee the reproduction of a given culture ……”upto Lines ending
“….gender is only socially compelled and in no sense ontologically necessitated.”]
“The Chess Players” – Munshi Premchand
“ The Fly” – Katherine Mansfield
Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani [Drama ]
Unit I
Shakespeare’s Macbeth adapted as Maqbool by Vishal Bharadwaj
Unit II
G.B.Shaw’s Pygmalion adapted as My Fair Lady by George Cukor
Unit III
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient adapted by Anthony Minghella
Unit IV
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets adapted by Chris Columbus
Unit V
Films for Appreciation
Stephen King’s Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption adapted as Shawshank Redemption
by Frank Darabont
Markus Zusak’sThe Book Thief adapted by Brian Percival
Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing adapted by Olivia Newman
Poomani’s Vekkai adapted as Asuran by Vetrimaran
Unit I
Introduction
Ø What is Copyediting? –
Ø Who is a Copyeditor and what are the required skills & Aptitude?
Ø What is the role of a Copyeditor?
Ø Different Kinds of Books
Ø House Style/ Style Guides/ Style Manuals
Ø Prospects of Copyediting as a career
Unit II
Basic Copy editing skills
Ø Fundamentals of Copyediting
Ø Skills and responsibilities of a Copyeditor
Ø Copyediting for Academic Books/ Fiction/ Non-fiction/ Newspapers/ Journals/
Magazines/ Theses & Dissertations
Ø On-screen editing, Tools for Editing – MS Word
(Review, Track changes/ Google drive)
Ø Art of Querying
when and how to ask
sending queries to authors
standard questions and effective wording
queries for text, tables, graphs and images
Ø Alt Text Writing
Unit III
Language Editing
Ø Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Ø Subject-verb agreement
Ø Split infinitives
Ø Dangling participles
Ø Modifiers
Ø Bias-free language
Ø organization
Grammar and Beyond Grammar (Einsohn Part III, 14 & 15)
Unit IV
Editorial Style
Ø Punctuation, spelling and hyphenation, capitalization
Ø Numbers and numerals
Ø Quotations, abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
Ø Tables, graphs and art
Ø Front and back matter
Ø Proofreading
Unit V
Practical Exercises
Unit I
Key Concepts
Centre/Margin (Periphery),
Dislocation,
Ecological Imperialism,
Eurocentrism,
Hegemony
Unit II
POETRY
Ben Okri – “An African Elegy” (Africa)
Kofi Awonoor – “The Weaver Bird” (Ghana)
Kath Walker – “No More Boomerang” (Australia)
James Reaney : “Maps” ( Canada)
Kamau Brathwaite- “Colombe” (Caribbean Islands)
Allen Curnow – “Time” (New Zealand)
Pablo Neruda – “The Dictators” (Chile)
Lakdasa Vikramsimha – “Don’t talk to me about Matisse” (Sri Lanka)
Syed Amanuddin – “ Don’t Call Me Indo Anglican” (India)
Unit III
DRAMA
Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s Horsemen
Derek Walcott: Dream on Monkey Mountain
Unit IV
FICTION
Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart.
Thomas King : The One About Coyote Going West
Sam Selvon : The Lonely Londoners.
Unit V
POST-COLONIAL THEORY
The Empire Writes Back – Chapter 1 by Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin
Unit I
Biographia Literaria -Chapter XIV – S.T.Coleridge
Creative Writers and Day Dreaming – Sigmund Freud
The Archetypes of Literature – Northrop Frye
Unit II
“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”- Derrida
The Structural Study of Myth – Claude Levi Strauss
Unit III
Irony as Principle of Structure – Cleanth Brooks
The Death of the Author – Roland Barthes
Unit IV
Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism- Terry Eagleton
Towards a Feminist Poetics – Elaine Showalter
Unit V
“Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text: Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the
Rain’” – from Working with Structuralism – David Lodge
“Structural Analysis of Narrative”- Tzevtan Todorov
“Disjunction and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” – Arjun Appadurai
Unit I
Phonology
Sounds of Language (I)
Sounds of Language(II)
Unit II
Morphology
Morphemes – Free and Bound Morphemes, Derivational versus Inflectional,
Morphological Description: Morphs and Allomorphs
Unit III
Grammar and Syntax
Types of Grammar, Parts of Speech Bracketed , Traditional Grammar, Traditional Categories, Traditional Analysis, The Prescriptive Approach, The Descriptive Approach , Structural analysis, Immediate Constituent Analysis, Labeled and Sentences, A Gaelic sentence Syntax, Generative Grammar, Properties of Grammar, Deep and surface structure, Structural ambiguity, Different Approaches, Symbols used in syntactic description, Labeled diagrams, Phrase structure rules, Back to recursion, Transformational rules
Unit IV
Semantics
Semantics, Conceptual versus Associative Meaning, Semantic features, Semantic roles, Lexical relations, Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Prototypes, Homophony, Homonymy and Polysemy, Collocation
Unit V
Applied Linguistics
Sociolinguistics – code switching, Code mixing, Discourse analysis Psycholinguistics – Language and Psychology, Neurolinguisitic Programming
Unit I
Key Terms
Subalternity, Marginality, Dalit, Queerness , Disability, Minorities, Race and Indigenous people, Refugees, Migration and immigrants
Unit II
POETRY
Maya Angelou- “The Caged Bird’
Oodreroo Noonuccal – “We are Going”
Rita Joe – “I Lost My Talk”
Paula Gunn Allen – “Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins”
L.J. Mark – “It’s a New Day”
Louise Erdrich – “Captivity”
Unit III
PROSE
“Castes in India” and “Annihilation of Caste, Genesis and
Mechanism of Caste” by B.R Ambedkar
“Can the Subaltern Speak” – Gayathri Spivak
Unit IV
DRAMA
Nandan Kathai – Indra Parthasarathy – translated by C.T. Indra
No Sugar – Jack Davis
Unit V
FICTION
Oranges are not Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Pethavan – Imayan
In Search of April Rain Tree – Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
Unit I
Defining Kinds of Life Writing (1-4 from Sidonie Smith) Autoethnography, Bildungsroman, Confession, Diary, Memoir, Slave Narrative
1.Carole Angier : Biography (Essay) (pp. 47-63) The Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing biography, autobiography and memoir Sally Cline, Carole Angier
2.Sally Cline : Autobiography (Essay) (pp. 64-81) The Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing biography, autobiography and memoir Sally Cline and Carole Angier
3.Sidonie Smith : Fifty-two Genres of Life Narrative (pp. 183-208) Appendix A, Reading
Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
Unit II
Autobiography (BTCL- K2, K4)
1.Malini Chib : One Little Finger (Autobiography)
2.Manobi Bandopadhyay: A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi
3.Baby Kamble : The Prisons We Broke
Unit III
Memoirs and Testimonials (BTCL- K2, K4)
1. Viktor Frankl : Man’s Search for Meaning (Memoir)
2. Mourid Barghouti : I Saw Ramallah (Memoir)
3. Urvashi Butalia : The Other Side of Silence: Voices from
the Partition (Memoir / Testimonials)
Unit IV
Literary Works (Drama) (BTCL- K2, K4)
1. Eugene O’Neil : Long Day’s Journey into Night
Unit V
Autofiction and Short Life Narratives (BTCL- K2, K4)
1. Christopher Isherwood : Goodbye To Berlin (Autofiction)
2. Nandini Oza : Homeless: Revli’s Story Whither Justice: Stories of Women in Prison
Unit I
Introduction-Meaning and Importance- Evolution of term ‘Entrepreneurship’-Factors influencing Entrepreneurship-Psychological factors-Social factors Economic factors-Environmental factors.
Unit II
Characteristics of an entrepreneur-Types of entrepreneur: business, use of technology, motivation, growth, stages- New generations of entrepreneurship vs Social Entrepreneurship.
Unit III
Entrepreneurship-health entrepreneurship-tourism entrepreneurship- women entrepreneurship- barriers to entrepreneurship.
Unit IV
Motivation-Maslow’s theory, Herjburg’s theory, McGragor’s theory- Culture and society Risk taking behavior
Unit V
Creativity and entrepreneurship- Steps in creativity- Decision making and
problem solving- assistance to an entrepreneur-Incentives and facilities-New
ventures
Unit I
An Overview of Comparative Literature
Definition and Scope
French and American Schools European and American Schools
Difference/ Alterity and the Ethics of Plurality
National Literature and World Literature
Unit II
Concept of Indian Literature – Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in
Indian Aesthetics(Prescribed: Translator’s note to Poems of Love and War by AK
Ramanujam (Oxford), Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy)
“Is Poetry always worthy when it’s old?” -Kalidasa (Malavikagnimitra)
“ What She Said” – Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3
“What She Said – Kapilar,Akananooru 318
“The Gate of Hell” : Canto III(Inferno)-Dante Alighieri
Unit III
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Abhijnanashakuntalam -Kalidasa
Unit IV
Short Stories
“Penalty” -Premchand
“A Horse for the Suns”- U.R.Ananthamurthy
“What Men Live By” -Leo Tolstoy
“Two Friends” – Guy de Maupassant
Unit V
Fiction
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Unit I
POETRY
“If You Forget Me , Ode to the Onion” – Pablo Neruda
“The Street” – Octavio Paz
“The Power of the Dog” – Rudyard Kipling
“Oracle” – Seamus Heaney
“Gitanjali 1 & 83” – Rabindranath Tagore
Unit II
PROSE
“Spoken English and Broken English” – George Bernard Shaw
“A Novelist as a Teacher” – Chinua Achebe
Unit III
DRAMA
The CaretakerHarold
Pinter
Justice- John Galsworthy
Unit IV
SHORT STORY
“The Bear Came Over the Mountain Boys and Girls” — Alice Munro
“Distant Relations” -Orhan Pamuk
“ The Arriver’s Tale.”- Abdul Razak Gunrah
Unit V
FICTION
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unit I
Blue Studies
The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh The Life of Pi Yann Martel
Unit II
Animal Studies
Margo DeMello “Human Animal Studies” from Animals and Society:
An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello pp. 3-18
Mario Ortiz Robles “What is it like to be a trope?” from Literature and
Animal Studies
Unit III
Medical Humanities
Thomas R. Cole et al. “Introducing Medical Humanities” from Medical
Humanities: An Introduction
Dan Millman Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Unit IV
Climate Studies
Introduction to Climate Change and Studies
Barbara Kingsolver Flight behavior
Unit V
Disability Studies
Lennard J. Davis “Introduction: Disability, Power and Culture” From the Disability Studies Reader
Clarke Barker and “Introduction: On Reading Disability in Literature”
Stuart Murray from The Cambridge Companion to Disability Studies
Unit I
Formatting The Research Project
Margins
Text Formatting
Title
Running Head and Page Number
Internal Headings and Subheadings
Placement of the List of Works Cited
Proofreading and Spell Checkers
Binding a Printed Paper
Electronic Submission
Mechanics of Prose
Spelling
Dictionaries
Plurals
Punctuation
Commas
Hyphen
Semicolons and Colons
Dashes and Parantheses
Quotation marks, Italics, Capitalization of English Terms
Titles, Use of Numerals or words, Dates and Times
Unit II
Principles of Inclusive Language and Documenting Sources: An Overview
Why Plagiarism Is a Serious Matter
Avoiding Plagiarism
Careful Research
Giving Credit
Paraphrasing
When to paraphrase
How to paraphrase
How to paraphrase and give credit
Quoting
When to quote
How to quote and give credit
When Documentation Is Not Needed
Unit III
Creating and Formatting Entries: An Overview
The MLA Core Elements
Author
Title
Title of Container
Contributor, Key contributors, Other types of contributors
Version, Number, Publisher, Co – publisher, Books
Websites, Audio and visual media
Terms omitted from publishers’ names
Common abbreviations in publishers’ names
City of publication
Publication Date in Books, E-books, News articles, Journal articles
Publication Date: Year, Season, Time Date range
Location: What It Is
Page numbers
Online works, Location, DOIs, Permalinks, URLs, Truncating, Breaking
Ordering the List of Works Cited
Alphabetizing by Title
Cross-References, Annotated Bibliographies
Unit IV
Citing Sources in the Text
In-Text Citations, Overview
What to Include and How to Style It
Citing a work listed by author, Coauthors, Corporate authors
Two authors with the same surname
Two or more works by the same author or authors
Using abbreviations for titles of works
Quotations
Verse works, Prose works
Punctuation in the parenthetical citation
Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources
Short quotations
Long quotations (block quotations)
Poetry, Dialogue, Drama, Prose
Placement of Parenthetical Citations
Punctuation with Quotations
Introducing quotations
Quotations within quotations, Marking the end of a quotation
Periods and commas, Other punctuation marks
Using an Ellipsis to Mark Material Omitted from Quotations
Omission within a sentence
Omission in a quotation of one or more sentences
Other Permissible Alterations of Quotations
Unit V
PROJECT WORK
Unit I
British Literature
Historical Background – Ages & Movements; Origin and Development of British Poetry,
Drama, Fiction, and Non-Fiction with reference to Prescribed Writers and their Works
Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Congreve,
William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Wilfred
Owen, D.H.Lawrence, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes
Unit II
American Literature
Historical Background – Ages & Movements; Origin and Development of American Poetry,
Drama, Fiction, and Non-Fiction with reference to Prescribed Writers and their Works
Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe,
RalphWaldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Eugene O Neil, Robert
Frost,Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow
Unit III
Non-British Literatures
Historical Background – Ages & Movements; Origin and Development of Non-British
Poetry, Drama, Fiction, and Non-Fiction with reference to Prescribed Writers and their Works
African American writers – Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka
African Writers – Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri
Canadian Writers – Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro
Australian Writers – David Malouf, Judith Wright, Patrick White
Caribbean &Columbian Writers – Jamaica Kincaid, Dereck Walcott, Braithwaite
Indian English Writers – Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Girish Karnad, VijayTendulkar, A
K Ramanujan, V S Naipaul, Arundhati Roy
Unit IV
Literary Criticism
Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Coleridge, Mathew
Arnold, T.S. Eliot
I. A. Richards and F.R Leavis (New Criticism), Victor Shklovsky (Formalism), Saussure
and Roland Barthes (Structuralism), Foucault and Derrida (Post-Structuralism), Frederick
Jameson and Jean Baudrillard (Post-Modernism), Carl Jung and Northrop Frye
(Archetypal), Elaine Showalter and Simon de Beauvoir (Feminism), Edward Said (PostColonialism)
Unit V
Cultural Studies
Origin and Development of Cultural Studies – Characteristics of Schools of Thought –
Important Writers and their Works
Raymond Williams (Cultural Materialism), Richard Hoggart (Cultural History), John Fiske
and Janice Radway (Popular Culture), Marshall McLuhan (Media Studies), Katherine
Hayles (Posthumanism), Susan Faludi (Gender Studies), Lawrence Buell and Harold Fromm
(Eco-Criticism), Eve Kosofskvy Sedgewick (Queer Studies), Lennard Davis (Disability
Studies)
Unit I
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies;
Scope and importance; concept of sustainability and sustainable development.
Unit II
Ecosystem
What is an ecosystem? Structure and function of ecosystem; Energy flow in an
ecosystem:
Food chains, food webs and ecological succession, Case studies of the following
ecosystem:
a) Forest ecosystem
b) Grassland ecosystem
c) Desert ecosystem
d) Aquatic ecosystem (ponds, stream, lakes, rivers, ocean, estuaries)
Unit III
Natural Resources : Renewable and Non – renewable Resources
Land resources and land use change: Land degradation, soil erosion and desertification.
Deforestation : Causes and impacts due to mining, dam building on environment,
forests, biodiversity and tribal populations.
Water : Use and over – exploitation of surface and ground water, floods, droughts,
conflicts over water ( international and inter-state).
Energy resources : Renewable and non renewable energy sources, use of alternate
energy sources, growing energy needs, case studies.
Unit IV
Biodiversity and Conservation
Levels of biological diversity: genetics, species and ecosystem diversity,
Biogeographic zones of India: Biodiversity patterns and global biodiversity hot spots
India as a mega- biodiversity nation, Endangered and endemic species of India.
Threats to biodiversity: Habitat loss, poaching of wildlife, man- wildlife conflicts,
biological invasions; Conservations of biodiversity: In-situ and Ex-situ Conservation
of biodiversity.
Ecosystem and biodiversity services: Ecological, economic, social, ethical, aesthetic
and Informational value.
Unit V
Environmental Pollution
Environmental pollution: types, causes, effects and controls: Air, Water, soil and noise
Pollution.
Nuclear hazards and human health risks
Solid waste management: Control measures of urban and industrial waste
Pollution case studies.
Unit VI
Environmental Policies & Practices
Climate change, global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain and impacts on
human communities and agriculture
Environment Laws: Environment Protection Act, Air (Prevention & Control of
Pollution) Act; Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution ) Act; Wildlife Protection
Act; Forest Conservation Act. International agreements: Montreal and Kyoto
protocols and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Nature reserves, tribal populations and rights, and human Wildlife conflicts in Indian
context.
Unit VII
Human Communities and the Environment
Human population growth, impacts on environment, human health and welfare.
Resettlement and rehabilitation of projects affected persons; case studies.
Disaster management: floods, earthquake, cyclone and landslides.
Environmental movements : Chipko, Silent Valley, Bishnois of Rajasthan.
Environmental ethics : Role of Indian and other religions and cultures in
environmental conservation.
Environmental communication and public awareness, case studies(e.g. CNG Vehicles
in Delhi)
Unit VIII
Field Work
Visit to an area to document environmental assets: river / forest/ flora/ fauna etc.
Visit to a local polluted site – Urban / Rural/ Industrial/ Agricultural.
Study of common plants, insects, birds and basic principles of identification.
Study of simple ecosystem- pond, river, Delhi Ridge etc.