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FIRST YEAR | 750 Marks (2011 – 2-15) Course Code
Course Title
Credit
Marks
E 101
Listening and Speaking Skills
4
100
E 102
Critical Reading and Academic Writing
4
100
E 103
Introduction to Poetry
4
100
E 104
Introduction to Drama and Theatre
4
100
E 105
Introduction to Prose
4
100
E 106
Socio-Political History of Europe
2
50
E 107
Bangladesh Studies
2
50
E 108
Bangla Literature
4
100
2
50
30
750
Viva-Voce
E 101 Listening and Speaking Skills 4 Credits | 100 Marks (35 Final Examination+35 Practical+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) This course is intended to help students strengthen three communication skills: verbal communication, nonverbal communication, and listening with a view to enabling students to attend classes and seminars efficiently, speak clearly and convincingly at workplace and make formal presentation and public speech. COMMUNICATION BASICS LISTENING Listening basics: definition of listening; listening process; types of listening; barriers to effective listening; strategies for effective listening Listening in practice: recognizing sounds and words; catching information; finding central information; listening at conferences and seminars; understanding lyrics Note-taking: style and strategy SPEAKING ASPECTS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE English sound systems Language variation: accent; dialect; slang VERBAL COMMUNICATION Social English Business English Projection and Articulation: speaking fluently at an appropriate pace; speaking clearly at an appropriate volume Pronunciation: IPA transcription; stress; intonation Performance: monologues and dialogues from plays, etc. NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION Elements of Nonverbal Communication: body language; eye contact and facial expression; vocal cues; use of time and space Joint Functions of Nonverbal and Verbal Messages PUBLIC SPEAKING Presentation: planning, preparing, and giving a presentation Making Announcement Analyzing famous speeches Recommended Reading Bonet, Diana. The Business of Listening: A Practical Guide to Effective Listening. Third Edition. Crisp Learning, 2001. Buys, William E, Thomas Sill and Roy Beck. Speaking By Doing: A Speaking-Listening Text. Illinois: NTC, 1995. Galvin, Kathleen M and Jane Terrell. Communication Works: Communication Applications in the Workplace. Illinois: NTC, 2001. Richards, Jack C., David Bycina, and Sue Brioux Aldcorn. Person to Person. Oxford: OUP, 2007.
E 102 Critical Reading and Academic Writing 4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) This course is designed to strengthen students’ skills in reading and writing. The course is divided into two parts. First, it helps students to learn how to read effectively as well as critically. Second, it enables students to write focused, coherent, organized, and grammatically correct essays as well as critical essays that they are required to write in the exams. CRITICAL READING Skimming and Scanning Extracting main ideas Understanding text organization Predicting and Inferencing Understanding form, voice, tone, and style Dealing with unfamiliar words and language variation Reading blurbs, media texts, etc. Understanding rhetorical and poetic uses of language Writing summaries ACADEMIC WRITING WRITING COMPOSITION Paragraph: topic sentence, supporting details, coherence and continuity, terminator Essay: title, introduction (Thesis statement), body, conclusion Patterns of writing: narration, description, illustration, definition, comparison and contrast, division and classification, causal analysis, process, argument, persuasion, etc. CRITICAL APPRECIATION Understanding explication, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation Writing about literature: theme; structure (Plot, Point of view etc.); style; imagery; prosody; .figurative languages (apostrophe, allusion, image, irony, oxymoron and paradox, personification, simile and metaphors, symbol, etc.) EDITING AND PROOFREADING Sentence structure: tense; voice; conditionals; prepositions; fragments, run-ons, misplaced modifier, dangling modifier, etc. Mechanics: capitalization; number style; punctuation, etc. REFERENCE SKILLS Taking notes Avoiding plagiarism: quoting, summarizing, paraphrasing Citation: in-text citation; bibliography
E 103 Introduction to Poetry 4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) The objective of this course is to introduce students to the study of poetry in English. It intends to familiarize students to the formal elements of poetry and music. It also helps students to study select poems of different genres and forms, ranging from the sonnet and elegy to concrete poetry and Spiritual. The students are expected to learn the ways a poem is formed and to write effective papers to analyze style, structure, theme, and other features of a poem. POETICS Genres: Ballad; Concrete Poetry; Dramatic Monologue; Elegy; Lyric; Narrative; Nonsense; Ode; Prose Poetry; Ruba’i; Sonnet; Spiritual, etc. Elements of Poetry: a) Lexical-thematic dimension: diction, rhetorical figures, theme, etc. b) Visual dimension: stanzas, concrete poetry, etc. c) Rhythmic-Acoustic dimension: rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc. Elements of Music: pitch, scale, time (metre, rhythm), harmony (polyphony, counterpoint), etc. POETRY ORAL TRADITION Anonymous “The Wife of Usher’s Well” Anonymous “Steal Away to Jesus” Anonymous “Didn’t My Lord Deliver, Daniel” WRITTEN TRADITION William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella (selection) George Herbert “Easter Wings” Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” William Wordsworth “I wandered lonely as a cloud” Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ode to a Skylark” John Keats “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Elizabeth Barrett Browning “How do I love thee?” Edward Fitzgerald (Trans.) The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1-17) Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Ulysses” Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali (“Little Flute,” “Purity,” “Journey Home”) A K Ramanujan “A River” Adrienne Rich “Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger” Seamus Heaney “Digging”
E 104 Introduction to Drama and Theatre 4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) The objective of this course is to introduce students to the study of drama in English. The course is divided into two parts. First, it familiarizes students to the theory and craft of drama and theatre. Second, it helps students read plays produced in different languages, times and places. The students are expected to learn the ways a drama is composed and staged to write effective papers to analyze style, structure, theme, and other features of a play. DRAMATICS AND THEATRE Aristotle Poetics Genres: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy; romance Elements of Drama: construction, language, action Elements of Theatre: atmosphere, stage, acting, direction, artistic direction, art direction Elements of Performance: persona; movement; projection; improvisation DRAMA Sophocles King Oedipus William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Mahesh Dattani Final Solutions
E 105 Introduction to Prose 4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) The objective of this course is to introduce students to the study of prose in English. It includes both the study of the art of appreciating prose narratives and critical reading of select novel, short stories, essays, letter, and speech. The students are expected to learn the ways a prose narrative is formed and to write effective papers to analyze style, structure, theme, and other features of a prose piece. ART OF FICTION E M Forster “Plot” (from Aspects of a Novel) Virginia Woolf “Modern Fiction” Genres: novel, short story, fable, tale, parable, essay, speech Elements of Fiction: theme, structure, plot, characterization, narrative technique, point of view, symbolism, style, etc. Elements of Essay: theme, structure, style, tone, etc. NOVEL Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice SHORT STORY Edgar Allan Poe “The Black Cat” James Joyce “Araby” Katherine Mansfield “The Garden-Party” NON-FICTION PROSE Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” Charles Lamb “Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of the Married People” Rabindranath Tagore “Letter to the Viceroy repudiating knighthood” George Orwell “Politics and the English Language” Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”
E 106 Socio-Political History of England 2 Credits | 50 Marks (35 Final Examination+10 Tutorial+05 Attendance) This course, in a broad historical scope, studies the social and political history of England. It intends to understand if and how the culture, society, and history of England are shaped by different European and national movements and events and how these movements also shaped the development of English literary periods. The course has a particular focus on the process and politics of the formation of the ‘United Kingdom.’ The Renaissance Reformation and Counter-Reformation Movements Civil War in England and the Commonwealth The ‘Glorious’ Revolution Formation of the ‘United Kingdom’ French Revolution and England: The Enlightenment; British Romanticism Victorian England: Industrial Revolution World War I (1914-1918) Bolshevik Revolution and England World War II (1939-1945)
E 107 Bangladesh Studies 2 Credits | 50 Marks (35 Final Examination+10 Tutorial+05 Attendance) This course intends to study the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation-state in a broad socio-historical scenario. The course is divided into two parts. The first part concentrates on the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped the history of the Bengal and Bangladesh while the second part focuses on the artistic tradition and achievement of the people of Bangladesh. LAND, PEOPLE, AND THE EMERGENCE OF BANGLADESH Ethnic origin Socio-political history of Bengal: Early Hindu and Buddhist periods; Sultani Bengal; Mughal Empire; the British Raj; Swadeshi movement, etc. Political and economic factors and major events leading to the independence ofBangladesh Culture: ritual, language, religion, cultural values, etc. Nationality and ‘indigenous’ population Language varieties ART AND ARCHITECTURE Art: music, drama, painting, pottery, etc. Architecture: ancient, colonial, modern, postmodern, etc. Recommended Reading
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Gough, Kathleen and Hari P. Sharma (Eds.). Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia. New York: Monthly Review Press: 1977. Islam, Sirajul. (Ed.) Banglapedia. English Version. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, —. History of Bangladesh 1704-1971. 3rd ed. (3 vols.). Dhaka: Asiatic society of Bangladesh. Khan, Azizur Rahman and Mahabub Hossain. The Strategy of Development in Bangladesh. London: Macmillan, 1989. Khan, Mohammad Mohabbat and John P Thorp. Bangladesh: Society, Politics and Bureaucracy. Centre for Administrative Studies: 1984. Rashid, Haroon Ar. Geography of Bangladesh. Dhaka: UPL, 1977.
E 108 Bangla Literature 4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance) This course samples the rich tradition of Bangla literature. It includes both the formal study of literary devices and critical reading of select poems, plays, novels, and short stories. The objective is to underscore the uniqueness and immense varieties of Bangla literature as well as to explore if and how Bangla literature has been influenced by the western and English literature and philosophy.
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