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KRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY

(KKHSOU)

PROGRAMME PROJECT REPORT

ON

MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH

Submitted to

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION

BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG

NEW DELHI – 110 002

Submitted by

K. K. Handiqui State Open University

Guwahati, Assam

September 2017
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CONTENTS

1.1 PROGRAMME’S MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

1.2 RELEVANCE OF THE PROGRAMME WITH KKHSOU’S MISSION AND

GOAL

1.3 NATURE OF PROSPECTIVE TARGET GROUP OF LEARNERS

1.4 APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PROGRAMME TO BE CONDUCTED IN

OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING MODE TO ACQUIRE SPECIFIC
SKILLS AND COMPETENCE

1.5 INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

1.5.1 Curriculum Design

1.5.2 Duration of the programme
1.5.3 Credit Distribution
1.5.4 Faculty and Support Staff Requirement
1.5.5 Specialization
1.5.6 Project Study

1.6 PROCEDURE FOR ADMISSION, CURRICULUM TRANSACTION AND

EVALUATION
1.6.1 Admission Procedure
1.6.2 Lateral Admission
1.6.3 Continuous Admission
1.6.4 Fee Structure
1.6.5 Fees for Project
1.6.6 Financial Assistance
1.6.7 Curriculum Transaction and Activity Planner
1.6.8 The evaluation system of the programme

1.7 REQUIREMENT OF LABORATORY SUPPORT AND LIBRARY

RESOURCES

1.8 COST ESTIMATE OF THE PROGRAMME AND THE PROVISIONS

1.8.1 Programme Development Cost
1.8.2 Programme Delivery Cost
1.8.3 Programme Maintenance Cost

1.9 QUALITY ASSURANCE MECHANISM AND EXPECTED PROGRAMME

OUTCOMES

Annexure I: Structure of the MA in English Programme

Annexure II: Detailed Course wise Syllabus of MA in English Programme

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1.1 PROGRAMME’S MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

The MA English Programme has been designed in such a way that it meets the standard of a
Master’s Programme in English offered in other national and international universities of
repute. This programme aims to generate an interest in literature, to inculcate a spirit of
critical enquiry, and to develop analytical and creative faculties in the learners. The
programme begins with a basic introduction to English literature, its various sources and
forms. However, as the Semesters progress, new areas of literature and literary studies
including criticism and literary theory are also introduced. The programme also includes
compulsory courses on Language and Linguistics, Indian English Literature and American
Literature. In Semester IV, learners will also get an opportunity to take an optional course
between Modern European Literature and Literature from North-East India (in English and
Translation).

The MA English Programme has been thoroughly updated and revised according to the UGC
Regulations on Open and Distance Learning 2017. The quality of Curriculum and Syllabus of
this programme has been so designed to accommodate the recent developments in the field of
higher education in general, and the subject in particular. The MA English Programme aims at
generating an interest in Literature, developing an analytical and creative faculty among the
learners, developing human resource who might join the teaching fraternity, that might further
generate resources, and inculcating a spirit of critical enquiry.

The overall mission of MA English programme is to provide quality higher education at the
doorstep through a flexible open learning mode overcoming all barriers in conformity with
national priority and societal need. The University strives to provide ‘education beyond
barriers’. To achieve this mission, the MA English Programme has the following objectives:
a) To acquire the appropriate methods and approaches to study English literature.
b) To help the learners gain knowledge and ideas needed to conduct research in the field
of literature.
c) To become effective users of research for professional development.
d) To develop the required analytical, critical, and application oriented skills.
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1.2 RELEVANCE OF THE PROGRAMME WITH KKHSOU’S MISSION AND

GOAL
Since its inception, KKHSOU has been providing higher education in various subjects and
areas using the latest educational inputs and technology. KKHSOU has made it a point to
design and implement its academic programmes in such a way that it attracts the fresh
learners, highly educated learners, adult learners as well as those learners who could not
continue education for reasons more than one. The MA English Programme of KKHSOU has
been introduced in order to:

a) Expand the benefits of higher education to anyone who are desirous of education.
b) Maintain equity and justice in the field of higher education by providing opportunities
to learn a subject of international importance.
c) Increase research activities on various aspects of literature, society, and culture.

The MA English programme shall contribute towards accomplishment of the mission and
goals of a Open University like KKHSOU. Like some other PG Programmes of the
University, through the MA English Programme, KKHSOU has succeeded in providing the
employed and self-employed individuals an opportunity to plough through the wonderful
field of literature and enrich their life. Moreover, a Programme like MA English has also
been able to combat social, regional, and gender disparities as thousands of female learners
have empowered themselves with a Master’s degree in English. Moreover, the relevance of
the Programme has been ascertained by the fact that after successfully completing the MA
English Programme, a learner can

a) Enter in positions as teachers or lecturers or Assistant Professor in educational

institutions
b) Enter the research field by applying for a PhD programme in English
c) Pursue a career in mass communications and journalism
d) Find a job in publishing and translation agencies as copywriter, editor, and proof
reader
e) Find a job of campaign manager and speech writer in government departments
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1.3 NATURE OF PROSPECTIVE TARGET GROUP OF LEARNERS

KKHSOU specially strives to cater to the needs of the learners irrespective of age, sex,
gender and backwardness so that they can have access to quality education. The MA English
Programme has been so designed to make the concerned learners acquainted with different
aspects of literature and criticism such as—history of English literature, Forms of Literature,
World Literature and aspects of Translation, Criticism and Literary Theory, as well as Post-
colonial Literatures in English. To achieve the University’s mission, the MA English
Programme has been designed first for those learners who have an interest in pursuing
English Language as the subject of higher studies in the Master’s Degree level. However, the
natures of the target learners of this Programme are as the following:

a) Regular and fresh learners who have passed their Bachelors in English but failed to
enrol in the regular face-to-face mode of education.
b) In-service persons who would also benefit from this programme in matters related to
career progression.
c) Students who are desirous to obtain a Master’s Degree taking English as a Major
subject.
d) Learners hailing from different rural, remote, and hilly areas and terrains, but desirous
of higher education in English.
e) People willing to earn for a descent standard of living, and learning at the same time
fulfilling the motto of lifelong learning.
f) Denied and deprived sections of people such as the jail inmates and differently able
learners who need education for uplifting their psychological as well as economic
conditions.
g) Women learners especially housewives, and elderly persons who believe in the
philosophy of lifelong learning.
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1.4 APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PROGRAMME TO BE CONDUCTED IN OPEN

AND DISTANCE LEARNING MODE TO ACQUIRE SPECIFIC SKILLS AND
COMPETENCE

The MA English Programme of KKHSOU has been designed to enable the learners
comprehend the history and concepts of English Literature. As the delivery and instructional
methods of a Open University is different from that of the conventional Universities, the
teaching-learning transaction is conducted through the philosophy of a ‘Teacher-in-print’.
Most of the instructions are imparted as per the distance education methodology which
comprises:
a) Printed study materials in self-instructional style are supplied to the learners at the time of
admission. The syllabi of the MA English Programme have been upgraded as per the
recommendations of the Report of the “Committee to Regulate the Standards of
Education being Imparted through Distance Mode” constituted by the Ministry of Human
Resource under the chairmanship of N. R. Madhava Menon, popularly known as the
Madhava Menon Committee Report. The SLMs of MA English Programme includes “Let
Us Know” (Additional Knowledge), “Illustrations”, “Check Your Progress”, “Possible
Questions” etc. to self-check that own progress by the learners concerned.

b) The SLMs of the MA English Programme have the following features conforming to
ODL norms:
i. Self-Explanatory and Self-contained: The contents are presented in such a way
that the learners can go through the materials without much external support, or even
a physically present teacher.
ii. Self-Directed: The SLMs of MA English Programme are aimed at providing
necessary guidance, hints, and suggestions as the Semesters progress.
iii. Self-Motivating: The SLMs of MA English Programme are designed in such a way
that arouses curiosity to explore the field of literature, sensitises the learners on
different philosophical problems and queries that mankind have been facing, relates
acquired knowledge to familiar real life situations, and makes the entire learning
meaningful throughout the entire life of the learners.
b. Audio-Visual Material Aids: Other than the SLMs, certain add-on learning resources
such as CDs, Community Radio Programmes, Youtube Programmes etc. are also
prepared for the benefit of the learners.
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c. Counselling Sessions: Normally counselling sessions are held every Sunday at the study
centers. The learners can clarify their doubts regarding the different aspects of the
syllabus from the interactions with the counsellors.

1.5 INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

1.5.1 Curriculum Design

The Curriculum of the MA English Programme has been designed by taking help of experts
in the subject from other reputed Universities in the region such as Gauhati University,
Guwahati, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, and Tezpur Central University, Tezpur. The
contents of the syllabi are updated and revised to meet the national standards. While
preparing the syllabi, the UGC Model Syllabi, syllabi of other Universities, and
recommendations of Madhava Menon Committee had been consulted.
[Structure of the MA English Programme is placed at Annexure-I and Detailed Syllabi are
presented in Annexure-II]

The following instructional instruments are provided to the learners of MA English

programmes:
Self-learning Materials (SLM): SLMs of MA English Programme are designed by the
subject experts in the field, considering the learning needs of the learners.
Regular Counselling Sessions at the Study Centre: The counselling sessions are held in all
study centers for the MA English Programme. The counseling sessions are held on Sundays
besides other days of the week as mutually agreed upon by the study centre and learners.
Learner Support Services: KKHSOU facilitates the learners of the MA English Programme
with some ICT based Services which include the following:
a) Access to library services at study centres and the Central Library of the University.
b) Audio-Visual materials on selected modules, available at study centres for display.
c) Community Educational Radio Programmes on selected topics of interest and related
to the syllabus.
d) Eklavya, a radio programme broadcasted from All India Radio Station, Guwahati and
simultaneously broadcasted by All India Radio Station, Dibrugarh.
e) Live Phone-in-programme is broadcasted by All India Radio, Guwahati on each
Thursday from 9.15am–10.15am. In this Programme, the learners shall get live
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responses to their queries, while the public in general can also interact with the
officials/faculty members of the University on varied issues over telephone.
f) Most of the Audio-Visual Programmes are also made available online through You
Tube videos.
g) Learners can also write emails to any officials/faculty members of the University. For
this, a general email ID: [email protected] has been created. Queries raised through
email at this mail id is redressed by concerned official/faculty members of the
University.
h) A Facebook account is also made available where the learners can communicate with
the University people. The System Analyst of the University has been assigned the job
of the Administrator of the account.
i) An Android App “KKHSOU” has also been designed. This App can be downloaded
free of cost from Google Play Store. Through this App, the learners can get detailed
information of the academic programmes available, district-wise and course-wise list
of study centres, contact information of the study centres, University officials and
faculty members etc. This Android App has also been widely recognized, and has
received an Excellence Award from IGNOU.
j) Learners can register for a free SMS service. This SMS service keeps the learner
updated on Schedules of Examinations, Declaration of results, Admission schedules
and other important events.

1.5.2 Duration of the Programme

The MA English Programme comprises 4 Semesters, and the minimum duration of the
Programme is 2 years. The programme has 4 courses in each semester carrying 100 marks
each (80+20).
For 4 semesters, the Programme will have 16 courses. The academic session starts in July-
August. A learner is allowed to take a maximum of Six years to complete the Programme.
This means that a learner shall get additional 4 years to complete the Programme. This is
possible mainly because the mandate of KKHSOU is to provide ‘flexitime’ learning
opportunity to all learners.
In case, a learner is not able to qualify a course in the first attempt, he/she has to qualify in
the particular course within the next four attempts, subject to maximum duration of the study.
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1.5.3 Credit Distribution

The University follows the system of assigning 30 hours of study per credit of a course.
According to this norm, a 4-credit course constitutes 120 study hours. Out of the total credit
hours, a minimum of 10 percent, i.e., minimum 12 hours of counselling per course is offered
to the learners at their respective study centres. The MA English Programme has 64 credits in
total. [See Annexure I]

1.5.4 Faculty and Support Staff Requirement

The University currently has 3 full time Assistant Professors in the Department of English.

1.5.5 Specialisation
All the courses of the MA English Programme are compulsory. Optional Courses are offered
only in the 4th semester. Learners will have to opt for one course from any two. However,
more options shall be introduced in due course of time with the increase of the number of
faculty members who will be able to offer more optional courses.

1.5.6 Project Study

So far, the MA English Programme does not have the provision of Project Study.

1.6 PROCEDURE FOR ADMISSION, CURRICULUM TRANSACTION AND

EVALUATION

1.6.1 Admission Procedure

a) Admission for the 2018-19 session shall be undertaken through the Study Centers,
spread across the state of Assam only.
b) For admission into the MA English Programme, course fee is to be paid through the
Bank challan at any branch of State Bank of India. Application along with necessary
enclosures and a copy of the challan returned by the Bank after payment is required
to be submitted at the recongnised study centers on or before due date. Course fee
may also be paid in the form of Bank Draft drawn in favour of “Krishna Kanta
Handiqui State Open University”, payable at Guwahati. The University has also
introduced the system of online receipt through SBI.
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c) The Study Centres of KKHSOU shall undertake initial scrutiny of the application
forms as per the norms and qualifications required for each programme. After
scrutiny, the eligible applicants will be provisionally admitted by the Study Centre.
d) Intending learners with incomplete application may be given conditional admission at
the University’s discretion with the condition that required eligibility documents are
to be submitted latest by the dates prescribed for the purpose. Their enrolment will be
confirmed on enrolment of the eligibility requirements. To appear in the
examinations, confirmation of enrolment will be necessary.
e) All the enrolled learners will be provided with the registration number, programme
guidelines and identity cards.
f) Those learners who are unable to complete the programme within the specified
period will be required to register themselves afresh by paying the requisite fee as per
the University regulations.

1.6.2 Lateral Admission

As of now, there is no provision for Lateral Entry for the MA English Programme.

1.6.3 Continuous Admission

a) After successful completion of a particular Semester, admission into the next
Semester is required within one month of the last date of examination of the previous
Semester. It does not depend on whether appeared in examination, or the result of the
earlier Semester. Admission will have to be taken continuously in the Programmes
without any break. A learner will be allowed to appear in all the examinations
including examination for back paper within the stipulated time of the MA English
Programme.
b) A learner will have to take admission to the next semester within one month from the
last date of examination of the previous Semester.
c) A learner will be allowed to take admission to the next Semester beyond one month
but within two months from the last date of examination of the previous Semester
with a fine of Rs. 300.
d) Under special circumstances and on special consideration, a learner may be allowed
to take admission in the next Semester even beyond two months but before issue of
the notification for filling up forms for examination of that Semester by the University
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on individual application accompanied with valid reasons and on payment of a fine of

Rs. 500.
e) A learner may be allowed to take admission even after the issue of notification for
filling up forms for examination, but such learners will be allowed to appear in
examination of that semester in the next year only. A learner is not charged any fine
on such admission.
1.6.4 Fee Structure
The fee structure of the MA English Programme is as follows:
Semester wise Fee Structure
Semesters Fee (In Rupees)
First 4650.00
Second 4350.00
Third 4350.00
Fourth 4350.00
Total 17700.00

1.6.5 Fees for Project

As of now, there is no provision for Project for the MA English Programme.
1.6.6 Financial assistance
The University offers free education to the jail inmates and differently abled learners. At
present, the University offers free education in 13 central/district jails of Assam. The
University is in the process of adding more central/district jails in the Academic Session
2018-19.
The University also offers subsidised education to the learners living below the poverty line
(BPL). On production of BPL certificate from competent authority, the University offers 50%
concession on the course fee.
1.6.7 Curriculum Transaction and Activity Planner
An activity planner, that guides the overall academic activities in the English Programmes,
shall be made available prior to the admission schedule of the University. Besides, the CIQA
office of KKHSOU has been newly constituted as per the UGC guidelines. The office of the
Dean (Academic) will upload the Academic Plan and month wise Academic Calendar in the
University Website, to enable the learners to plan their studies and activities accordingly.
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1.6.8 The Evaluation System of the MA English Programme

a) The University adopts both formative and summative evaluation for all its courses.
The evaluation of the MA English Programme is conducted in two parts: internal and
external. The internal evaluation is to be undertaken by the learner himself/herself.
For this, the University has designed some “Check Your Progress” questions, which
would help the learners to self-check the progress of their study. However, this is
undertaken by the learners themselves, and is non-credit based. Besides, there is also
the provision of self-assessment exercises within each unit of study.
b) Continuous evaluation is done mainly through tutor-marked assignments.
c) For overall evaluation of a course, the University follows the two types of evaluation:
1) Continuous Evaluation (Assignments) : Weightage assigned 20%.
2) Semester-end Examinations : Weightage assigned 80%.
d) The learners will have to submit the assignments within the schedule of a Semester at
the respective study centres. The counsellors at the study centres evaluate the
assignments and return them to the learners with feedback.
e) Semester-end examinations are conducted on scheduled dates at selected examination
centres.
f) Evaluation is done by the external examiners at the zonal centres. After evaluation,
further scrutiny is done. Results are declared within scheduled dates as laid down in
the Activity Planner.
g) Learners will be able to get their scripts re-evaluated if they are not satisfied with the
previous evaluation.
h) Questions for the semester end examination will be set as per the Evaluation policy of
the University that covers all the modules of the respective courses.
i) The evaluation of learners depends upon various instructional activities undertaken by
them. A learner has to submit assignment before term-end examination time to
complete an academic programme.
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1.7 REQUIREMENT OF LABORATORY SUPPORT AND LIBRARY RESOURCES

Being a theoretical subject, the MA English Programme does not require the assistance of a
Laboratory. However, well-organised library services are offered to the learners through
physical library facilities set up by the University Headquarters as well as at the respective
study centres. Reference books for the learners of the MA English Programmes are suggested
by the faculty members of the Department.

The Central Library at KKHSOU has a sizeable repository of relevant textbooks and
reference books relating to literature and related areas. The books have been carefully
selected and procured based on the recommendations of the faculty members from the
respective departments. Besides, the library resources have immensely helped the course
writers and the content editors of the Study Materials of the MA English Programme. The
digital version of the University Central Library, KKHSOU has also been made available
through the website: http://www.kkhsou.in/library/. On this website, the entire catalogue
(title/ author/ publisher wise) of the library resources is made available, while the Open
Access Search Engine (OAJSE) has been helping as a gateway to over 4,500 e-journals
including those in English literature that can be accessed by everyone.

1.8 COST ESTIMATE OF THE PROGRAMME AND THE PROVISIONS:

The office of the Finance Officer of KKHSOU keeps all the records of finances regarding
print of SLMs, honorarium paid to the members of the Expert Committee, honorarium to be
paid to Content Writers, Content Editors, Language Editors, Translators, Proof Readers and
also the expenditure related with organizing counsellors’ workshops, meeting of the co-
ordinators of the study centres etc. Moreover, the finance office also maintains records of
purchase of computers, online space, books, journals etc. The accounts are maintained as per
the laid down procedures of government.
As regards, the cost of programme development, programme delivery, and programme
maintenance, the finance office conducted an exercise based on historical costing method to
arrive at indicative figures of cost. The findings are presented below in respect of the MA
English Programme.
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1.8.1. Programme Development Cost: Rs 1,861,500.00

The office of the Finance Officer of KKHSOU has worked out the following also.

a. SLM Development Cost for Master Degree Programme per unit - Rs. 7,300/-
b. Printing Cost per SLM - Rs. 56/-
c. Cost of CD per unit - Rs. 23/-

1.8.2 Programme Delivery Cost:

The SLMs prepared have to be delivered to various study centres located at the far
flung remote areas. On an average, the University delivers about 15 kgs of study
materials per student. The cost of delivery of 1 kg of such material is Rs.10.
Accordingly, depending upon the number of candidates, the cost for the MA English
Programme will be provisioned by the University. The office of the Finance Officer
has calculated the delivery cost of SLM per student at Rs. 150/-

1.8.3 Programme Maintenance Cost:

The University will keep financial provision for organizing stake holders’ meetings,
counselling workshops etc. as per the Academic Plan and Academic Calendar
approved by the Academic Council of the University. The workshops conducted by
the University will not only benefit the learners of the programme, but will also
benefit the learners of other programmes. The University will also bear the cost of
organizing the meeting of Syllabus Revision Committee etc. and also for supply of
additional study materials if required for improving the quality of the programme.
Moreover, the University will keep on investing in developing the IT infrastructure so
that the learners can benefit from the ICT enabled programme. Maintenance Cost for
MA English Programme per student is Rs. 4,925.00 as calculated by the office of
Finance Officer.
1.8.4 The figures, indicated above will be applicable for the MA English Programme of the
University. The University will keep adequate financial provision for development,
delivery, and maintenance of the programme presented as per the Programme Project
Report.
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1.9 QUALITY ASSURANCE MECHANISM AND EXPECTED PROGRAMME

OUTCOMES
Quality Assurance Mechanism: With regard to the quality concerns of the Self Learning
Materials, the department of English is involved in the following activities:
a) The Programme design and structure is decided upon after a series of discussions and
deliberations with a few carefully chosen subject experts, who are mostly eminent
scholars and professionals in the respective fields belonging to reputed institutions of
higher education. Formed with due approval from the University authority, this expert
Committee is helped by the in-house faculty members of the English department in
preparing the framework of the Programme.
b) After the completion of the framework, preparation is undertaken to allot the
papers/courses (which is composed of 15 units) to the prospective authors/course
writers. For this purpose, the in-house faculty members, who also play the role of
Programme coordinator/s prepare a carefully chosen list of authors for the task, and
subsequently, assigns the task of course writing to these authors. The in-house faculty
members also contribute units and edit the units submitted by course writers who are
mostly research scholars, and faculty members from reputed higher educational
institutions.
c) After the English Department received the units from the course writers, they are sent
to content editors, who are mostly academicians from reputed higher educational
institutions. They will examine and evaluate the contents of the units, and provide
their suggestions and feedbacks to be included by the coordinator/s of the MA English
Programme.
d) After careful completion of content editing, the materials are either checked by the
faculty members of the English Department or sent to the Language Editor. Once the
units become ready for print, they are sent for final printing.
e) After printing is done the SLMs shall be distributed to the respective study centres.
Arrangements shall be made to distribute the SLMs to the learners at the time of
admission.
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f) The newly constituted CIQA Office is planning to conduct stakeholders meeting,

SLM and Counselling Workshops, which is expected to provide the University and
the Department with required inputs for quality enhancement.
g) In order to keep the programme up-to-date, the Programme will be revised and
necessary changes will be incorporated for the benefit of the learners, based on the
inputs received from the mechanism as mentioned above.
Expected Programme Outcomes: The outcomes of the programme are manifold:
a) It will enable the learners to acquire knowledge enabling them to articulate well the
conditions around them.
b) The programme will also help the learners to seek employment and career prospect
avenues in their field of choice.
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Annexure I: Structure of MA English Programme

Semester Course Code Title of the Course Marks Credit

Semester 1 Course Code 01 English Social and Cultural History 20+80 4

Course Code 02 English Poetry: Chaucer to the 20+80 4

Neoclassical
Course Code 03 English Drama from Elizabethan to20+80 4
Restoration
Course Code 04 Non-fictional Prose 20+80 4

Semester 2 Course Code 05 18th and 19th Century Novels 20+80 4

Course Code 06 Language, Linguistics and Grammar 20+80 4

Course Code 07 Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 20+80 4

Course Code 08 Literary Criticism 20+80 4

Semester 3 Course Code 09 20th Century Novels 20+80 4

Course Code 10 Modern Drama 20+80 4

Course Code 11 Modern Poetry 20+80 4

Course Code 12 Indian English Literature 20+80 4

Semester 4 Course Code 13 Literary and Critical Theory I 20+80 4

Course Code 14 Literary and Critical Theory II 20+80 4

Course Code 15 American Literature 20+80 4

Course Code 16 Modern European Literature (Option 1) 20+80 4

Literature From North East India (in
English and Translation) (Option 2)
Total Marks 1600 64
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Annexure II: Detailed Course wise Syllabus of MA English Programme

SEMESTER I
COURSE 1: ENGLISH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY

[Section A: English Social History]

Block 1: Medieval to Renaissance
Unit 1: Concepts of Medievalism (Feudalism)
Unit 2: Growth of English Towns/Urbanisation in London
Unit 3: Christianity, Reformation and Role of the Church
Unit 4: Renaissance Humanism (Print Revolution)

Block 2: Enlightenment to Imperialism

Unit 5: Enlightenment I
Unit 6: Enlightenment II
Unit 7: Industrialisation and Its Impact
Unit 8: Imperialism and Colonialism

Section B: History of English Literature

Block 3: Medieval to Neo-classical
Unit 9: The Medieval Age (Major Literary Form(s) & Important Writers)
Unit 10: The Renaissance (Intellectual Contexts)
Unit 11: Restoration and After
Unit 12: Neo-classical Age

Block 4: The Romantic to Modern

Unit 13: The Romantic Age
Unit 14: The Victorian Age
Unit 15: The Modern Age (Till WW II)
Unit 16: The Modern Age (After WW II)
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COURSE 2: ENGLISH POETRY: CHAUCER TO THE NEOCLASSICAL

Block 1: Chaucer to Shakespeare

Unit 1: Introducing Medieval Poetry
Unit 2: Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Part I)
Unit 3: Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Part II)
Unit 4: Thomas Wyatt & Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey:
The Appeal “And wilt thou leave me thus?” (Wyatt) &
A Praise of his Love “Give place ye lovers” (Surrey)
Unit 5: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 65 “Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”
Sonnet 144 “Two Loves I have of Comfort and Despair”

Block 2: Metaphysical Poetry to Milton

Unit 6: Introducing Metaphysical Poetry
Unit 7: John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“Death Be Not Proud”
Unit 8: Andrew Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress”; “The Garden”
Unit 9: John Milton: Paradise Lost “Book I” (Part I)
Unit 10: John Milton: Paradise Lost “Book I” (Part II)

Block 3: Neo classical Poetry

Unit 11: Introducing Neoclassical Poetry
Unit 12: John Dryden: “Absalom and Achitophel” (Part I)
Unit 13: John Dryden: “Absalom and Achitophel” (Part II)
Unit 14: Alexander Pope: “The Rape of the Lock” (Part I)
Unit 15: Alexander Pope: “The Rape of the Lock” (Part II)

COURSE 3: ENGLISH DRAMA: ELIZABETHAN TO RESTORATION

Block 1: Marlowe and Jonson
Unit 1: Introducing Renaissance Drama
Unit 2: Christopher Marlowe: Life and Works
Unit 3: Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta
Unit 4: Ben Jonson: Life and Works
Unit 5: Ben Jonson: Volpone
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Block 2: Shakespeare
Unit 6: William Shakespeare: Life and Works
Unit 7: William Shakespeare: King Lear (Part I)
Unit 8: William Shakespeare: King Lear (Part II)
Unit 9: William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night or What You Will
Unit 10: William Shakespeare: The Tempest (Part I)
Unit 11: William Shakespeare: The Tempest (Part II)

Block 3: Jacobean to Restoration

Unit 12: John Webster: The White Devil (Part I)
Unit 13: John Webster: The White Devil (Part II)
Unit 14: William Congreve: The Way of the World (Part I)
Unit 15: William Congreve: The Way of the World (Part II)

COURSE 4: NON-FICTIONAL PROSE

Block 1: Essays
Unit 1: Montaigne: “Of Solitude”
Unit 2: Francis Bacon: “Of Truth” & “Of Studies”
Unit 3: Charles Lamb: “My Relations”
Unit 4: Virginia Woolf: “Modern Fiction”
Unit 5: George Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant”

Block 2: Life Writing (Biography/Autobiography)

Unit 6: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Confessions, Vol- I: Book 1–Childhood
Unit 7: Samuel Johnson: “Life of Milton”
Unit 8: “Florence Nightingale” from Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians
Unit 9: Russell’s Autobiography (Chapters: I & II)
Unit 10: Diary of Virginia Woolf (Select Entries)

Block 3: Letters and Travel Writings

Unit 11: Keats’ Letters: To Benjamin Bailey, 22 November, 1817
To John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818
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Unit 12: Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Chapter IV “Pera Palce” and Chapter V
“The Dying Nomad”) I
Unit 13: Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Chapters: IV & V) II
Unit 14: V.S. Naipaul: An Area of Darkness (Chapter 1)

SEMESTER II

COURSE 5: 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY FICTION

Block 1: Theories of Fiction

Unit 1: Milan Kundera: Art of the Novel
Unit 2: Wayne C. Booth: “Telling and Showing” from The Rhetoric of Fiction
Unit 3: Narratology
Unit 4: Shlomith Rimmon Kenan: Concepts from Narrative Fiction

Block 2: Fiction: Fielding to Dickens

Unit 5: Henry Fielding: Life and Works
Unit 6: Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Unit 7: Jane Austen: Life and Works
Unit 8: Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Unit 9: Charles Dickens: Life and Works
Unit 10: Charles Dickens: Tale of Two Cities

Block 3: Fiction: The Brontes to Hardy

Unit 11: Emile and Charlotte Bronte: Life and Works
Unit 12: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Unit 13: Emile Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Unit 14: Thomas Hardy: Life and Works
Unit 15: Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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COURSE 6: LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND GRAMMAR

Block 1: History of English Language and Phonetics

Unit 1: History of the English Language I
Unit 2: History of the English Language II
Unit 3: Introduction to Linguistics
Unit 4: Phonology and Phonetics I
Unit 5: Phonology and Phonetics II

Block 2: Morphology, Syntax and Semantics

Unit 6: Morphology
Unit 7: Syntax I
Unit 8: Syntax II
Unit 9: Semantics I
Unit 10: Semantics II

Block 3: Branches of Linguistics

Unit 11: Sociolinguistics I
Unit 12: Sociolinguistics II
Unit 13: Psycholinguistics
Unit 14: English Language Teaching I
Unit 15: English Language Teaching II

COURSE 7: ENGLISH POETRY: ROMANTIC TO VICTORIAN

Block 1: Romantic Poetry I
Unit 1: Introducing Romantic Poetry
Unit 2: William Blake: “A Cradle Song” (Songs of Innocence)
“A Cradle Song II” (Songs of Experience)
Unit 3: William Wordsworth: Life and Works
Unit 4: William Wordsworth: “Tintern Abbey”,
“Ode on Intimations of Immortality”
Unit 5: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Life and Works
Unit 6: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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Block 2: Romantic Poetry II

Unit 7: John Keats: Life and Works
Unit 8: John Keats: “To Autumn”, “On a Grecian Urn”
Unit 9: P. B. Shelly: Life and Works
Unit 10: P. B. Shelly: “Ode to the West Wind”

Block 3: Victorian Poetry

Unit 11: Introducing Victorian Poetry
Unit 12: Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Unit 13: Robert Browning: “Fra Lippo Lippi”
Unit 14: Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”

COURSE 8: LITERARY CRITICISM: CLASSICAL TO MODERN

Block 1: Classical Criticism

Unit 1: The Greeko-Roman Tradition
Unit 2: Plato: Republic (Book X)
Unit 3: Aristotle: Poetics
Unit 4: Longinus: On The Sublime
Unit 5: Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry or, The Defence of Poesy

Block 2: Neo-classical and Romantic Criticism

Unit 6: Introducing the Neo-classical and Romantic Criticism
Unit 7: Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
Unit 8: Introducing Romantic Criticism
Unit 9: William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Unit 10: S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIII & XIV)

Block 3: Victorian to New Criticism

Unit 11: Introducing Victorian Criticism
Unit 12: Matthew Arnold: “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
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Unit 13: Introducing New Criticism

Unit 14: W. K. Wimsatt and M. C. Beardsley: “The Intentional Fallacy” (1946)
“The Affective fallacy” (1949)
Unit 15: F. R. Leavis: “Irony in Swift”

SEMESTER III
COURSE 9: 20TH CENTURY FICTION

Block 1: Conrad and Lawrence

Unit 1: Trends in Modern Fiction
Unit 2: Joseph Conrad: Life and Works
Unit 3: Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Unit 4: D. H. Lawrence: Life and Works
Unit 5: D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

Block 2: Joyce and Woolf

Unit 6: Introducing “Stream of Consciousness Novels”
Unit 7: James Joyce: Life and Works
Unit 8: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Unit 9: Virginia Woolf: Life and Works
Unit 10: Virginia Woolf: To The Light House

Block 3: Metafiction
Unit 11: Introducing Metafiction
Unit 12: John Fowles: The French Lieutenants’ Woman (Part I)
Unit 13: John Fowles: The French Lieutenants’ Woman (Part II)
Unit 14: Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children (Part I)
Unit 15: Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children (Part II)
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COURSE 10: MODERN DRAMA

Block 1: Modern Drama: Shaw and Synge

Unit 1: Background
Unit 2: George Bernard Shaw: Life and Works
Unit 3: George Bernard Shaw: Candida
Unit 4: John Millington Synge: Life and Works
Unit 5: John Millington Synge: Playboy of the Western World

Block 2: Modern Drama: Eliot and Osborne

Unit 6: Background
Unit 7: Thomas Stearns Eliot: Life and Works
Unit 8: Thomas Stearns Eliot: Murder in The Cathedral
Unit 9: John Osborne: Life and Works
Unit 10: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Block 3: Absurd Drama

Unit 11: Introducing Absurd Drama
Unit 12: Samuel Beckett: Life and Works
Unit 13: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Unit 14: Harold Pinter: Life and Works
Unit 15: Harold Pinter: The Caretaker

COURSE 11: MODERN POETRY

Block 1: History and Contexts

Unit 1: Introducing Modern Poetry
Unit 2: Symbolism in Modern Poetry
Unit 3: War Poetry
Unit 4: Poetry after WW II

Block 2: Till World War II

Unit 5: G. M. Hopkins: “The Windhover”, “Pied Beauty”
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Unit 6: W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”, “Byzantium”

Unit 7: T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Unit 8: T. S. Eliot: “Journey of the Magie”
Unit 9: Wilfred Owen: “Strange Meeting” change it
“Arms and The Boy”
Unit 10: Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”

Block 3: After World War II

Unit 11: W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
Unit 12: Dylan Thomas: “Poem in October”,
“A Refusal to Mourn the Death of a Child by Fire”
Unit 13: Ted Hughes: “Pike”, “Thrushes”
Unit 14: Phillip Larkin: “Next Please”, “Ambulance”
Unit 15: Seamus Heaney: “After A Killing”

SEMESTER IV
COURSE 13: LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY I

Block 1: Theoretical Approaches I

Unit 1: The Rise of Literary and Critical Theory
Unit 2: Russian Formalism
Unit 3: Structuralism & Post Structuralism
Unit 4: Deconstruction
Unit 5: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

Block 2: Theoretical Approaches II

Unit 6: Psychoanalytical Criticism
Unit 7: Phenomenological Criticism
Unit 8: Hermeneutics and Reader Response Theory
Unit 9: Reception Theory
Unit 10: Marxist Criticism
Block 3: Theoretical Concepts III
Unit 11: Post Colonialism
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Unit 12: Feminisms

Unit 13: Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory
Unit 14: Eco criticism
Unit 15: Post Theory

COURSE 14: LITERARY AND CRITICAL THEORY II

Block 1: From Saussure to Bakhtin

Unit 1: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913): “The Object of Study”
Unit 2: Roman Jacobsson: “Linguistics and poetics”
Unit 3: Roland Barthes (1915-1980): “The Death of the Author”
Unit 4: Stanley Fish (1938-): “Interpreting the Variorum”
Unit 5: Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975): “From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse”

Block C: From Lacan to Fish

Unit 6: Jacques Lacan (1901-81): “Seminar on The Purloined Letter”
Unit 7: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human
Sciences”
Unit 8: Michel Foucault (1926-1984): “What is an Author?”
Unit 9: Hayden White (1928-): “The Historical Text as Literary Artefact”
Unit 10: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Production”

Block 3: From Toril Moi to Edward Said

Unit 11: Toril Moi: “Female, Feminine, Feminist” from Sexual Textual Politics
Unit 12: Elaine Shwoalter: “Towards a Feminist Poetics”
Unit 13: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the Sabaltern Speak?”
Unit 14: Hom Bhabha: “Nation and Narration” The Location of Culture
Unit 15: Edward Said: “Introduction” from Oreintalism
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COURSE 15: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Block 1: History of American Literature

Unit 1: Puritan Beginnings & Frontier Experience (Part I)
Unit 2: Puritan Beginnings & Frontier Experience (Part II)
Unit 3: Transcendentalism and American Modernism (Part I)
Unit 4: Transcendentalism and American Modernism (Part II)

Block 2: Poetry and Drama

Unit 5: Introducing American Poetry
Unit 6: Walt Whitman: “Wound Dresser”, “One’s Self I Sing”
Unit 7: Emily Dickinson: “A Bird Came Down the Walk”, “Much Madness”
Unit 8: Robert Frost, (1874-1963): “Stopping by the Woods”; “Mending Wall”
Unit 9: Eugene O’Neill: Life and Works
Unit 10: Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms

Block 3: Fiction
Unit 11: Ernest Hemingway: Life and Works
Unit 12: Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Unit 13: Herman Melville: Life and Works
Unit 14: Herman Melville: Billy Budd
Unit 15: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

COURSE 16: (OPTION A): MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE

Block 1: Important Aesthetic Developments

Unit 1: Impressionism and Realism, Symbolism and Naturalism
Unit 2: Futurism, Vorticism, Imagism, Acmeism
Unit 3: Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, Existentialism and Absurdism
Unit 4: Theories of Modern Drama
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Block 2: Modern European Poetry and Fiction

Unit 5: Charles Baudelaire: “Correspondences”
Unit 6: Federico García Lorca: “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías”
Unit 7: Pablo Neruda: “Ars Poetica”
Unit 8: Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Unit 9: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment I
Unit 10: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment II

Block 3: European Drama

Unit 11: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage (Part I)
Unit 12: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage (Part II)
Unit 13: Henric Ibsen: Wild Duck (Part I)
Unit 14: Henric Ibsen: Wild Duck (Part II)
Unit 15: Eugene Ionesco: Chairs (Part I)
Unit 16: Eugene Ionesco: Chairs (Part II)

COURSE 16 (OPTION B): LITERATURE FROM NORTH-EAST INDIA (IN ENGLISH

AND TRANSLATION)

Block 1: Poetry
Unit 1: Navakanta Barua: “Silt” (Translated by Pradip Acharya)
“Bats” (Translated by D.N. Bezboruah)
Unit 2: Nilamoni Phukan: “The Dancing Earth”
Unit 3: Mamang Dai: “The Voice of the Mountain”
“An Obscure Place”
Unit 4: Robin S. Ngangom: “Poetry”, “Everywhere I Go”
Unit 5: Desmond Kharmawphland: “Letter from Pahambir”,
“The Conquest”

Block 2: Fiction
Unit 6: Saurav Kumar Chaliha: “Slaves” (Translated by Aparna Bhattacharya)
Unit 7: Temsula Ao: “The Curfew Man”
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Unit 8: Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya: Love in the time of Insurgency (Earuingam)

Unit 9: Indira Goswami: Moth-Eaten Howda of the Tusker (Dantal Haatir Unie Khowa Howda)
Unit 10: Bina Barua: Along the High Road (Jibonar Batat)

Block 3: Prose and Drama

Unit 11: Hiren Gohain: “Two Roads to Decolonization: Gandhi and Tagore”
Unit 12: Chandrakanta Murasingh: “Kokborok—Her People Her Past”
Unit 13: Easterine Iralu: “Should Writers Stay in Prison”
Unit 14: Arun Sarma: Sri Nibaran Bhattacharya
Unit 15: Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha

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