MA English 2-Year Programme

BS English 4-Year Program 

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Course Outline for B.A English

1.    Foundations of English – I

• Use of grammar in Context
Tenses: meaning & use
Use of active and passive voice
Use of articles and prepositions
Different sentence patterns
Combining sentences
• Oral Communication Skills (Listening and Speaking)
Express ideas/opinions on topics related to students’ lives and experiences
Participate in classroom discussions on contemporary issues
• Reading and Writing Skills
Skimming
Scanning
Identifying main idea/topic sentence
Inference and prediction
Recognizing and interpreting cohesive devices
Note taking and note making
Generating ideas using a variety of strategies e.g. brainstorming
Developing a paragraph outline (topic sentence and supporting details)
Vocabulary building skills
• To develop the ability to use a dictionary

2.    Islamic Studies

Quranic Verses: Translation and Explanation: Selected from various Sections of Quran Relating to different issues like Salat, Zakat, Ramadan, Tuheed etc.
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Ahadis: Translation and Explanation: Selected Ahadis relating to different issues like, Haqooq- ul- Habad, Jehad, Husn-e- Ikhlaq etc

History of The Prophet’s Life: Various incidents and battles taken from the life of the Holy Prophet. (PBUH)

Islamic Culture and Civilization: Islamic Culture and Civilization through the History, its development, achievements etc

3.    Primary Readings in Poetry

Robert Herrick, To Daffodils
John Donne: Go and Catch a Falling Star, The Flea
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Milton: On His Blindness
William Blake, Introduction to ‘Songs Of Experience’, Tiger
W. Wordsworth, The Daffodils, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802, The Solitary Reaper, The World Is Too Much With Us
S.T. Coleridge, Kubla Khan
P.B. Shelly, Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Ode to the West Wind, To A Skylark
J. Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to A Nightingale, 
A.L. Tennyson, Ulysses
Robert Browning, Love Among The Ruins
Mathew Arnold, Dover Beach
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening 
W.B. Yeats, Among School Children, The Leda And the Swan, Byzantium 
T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Christina Rossetti, When I am Dead my Dearest

4.    Introduction to Literature and Literary Movements - I

Literary Forms: their origin and development
What is Poetry? Various forms/types of Poems/Verse/Stanza, metre,     rhyme, rhythm    
What is drama? Various types of drama, Plot, Setting, Character/,     Characterization, Story, Dialogue, Spectacle, etc.

Some Literary Movements

Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Formalism, Realism, Symbolism, etc.

5.    History of English Literature- I

The Age Of Chaucer, 14th Century
The Renaissance Period
Elizabethan Age
17th Century (Milton, The Puritan Movement, The Metaphysical and The  Cavalier Poets, The Reformation Age)
Restoration Period

Year 01, Semister II

1.    Foundations of English – II:

• Use of grammar in context
Phrase, clause and sentence structure
Reported speech
Modals
• Oral Communication Skills (Listening and Speaking)
Comprehend and use English inside and outside the classroom for social and             academic purposes
• Reading and Writing Skills
Distinguishing between facts and opinions
Recognizing and interpreting the tone and attitude of the author
Recognizing and interpreting the rhetorical organization of a text
Generating ideas using a variety of strategies e.g. mind map
Developing an outline for an essay
Writing different kinds of essay (descriptive and narrative)
Vocabulary building skills

2.    Pakistan Studies

Ideology of Pakistan: Definitions, Historical Background, Speeches delivered by Quaid-e-Azam etc.
Life and Works of : Mujadid-Alf- Sani, Shah Waliullah, Sayed Ahmad Shaheed etc.
Two Nations Theory: Services of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and others.

1900_1930: The establishment of All India Muslim League, Lacknow Pact, Khilafat Movement, Nehro Report, Quaid-e-Azam’s Fourteen Points,
Round Table Conferences, Allah Abad’s Address etc.

1930_1946: 1935 Act, 1936-37 Elections, Congress Ministries, Pakistan Resolution, Crips Mission, Shimla Conference, Dehli Convention etc.

After 1946: Cabinet Mission Plan, 3rd June 1947, Independence Act 1947, The Creation of Pakistan, Red Cliff’s Award, Early problems and difficulties of Pakistan.

3.    Primary Readings in Short Story and Essays

Short Stories:
Janet Frame, You Are Now Entering The Human Heart
Bessie Head, The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses
Etidal Osman, The House For Us
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier's Home 
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Naguib Mahfooz, The Answer is No
Khalida Asghar, The Wagon
Katherine Mansfield, The Doll’s House
Anton Chekhov, The Bet
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World
Essays:
George Orwell, A Hanging
N. Scott Momaday, The way To Rainy Mountains
Virginia Woolf, The Death Of The Moth
Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream
Deborrah Tannen, How to Give Orders Like A Man
Russel Becker, Slice Of Life
Suzanne Britt, Neat People vs. Sloppy People
E.M. Forster, My Wood
Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism In English: A 1990s Update
William Zinsser, College Pressure
Barbara Ehrenreich, Cultural Baggage
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

4.    Introduction to Literature and Literary Movements - II

Literary Forms: their origin and development 

What is Novel? Various types of Novel, Plot, Setting, Character,     Characterization, Story, Narrative Devices/Techniques, etc.
Short Story, Essay, Types, Constituents Elements/Essentials of short     stories and essays, etc

Literary Movements

Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction, Naturalism, Surrealism, Absurdism, etc.

5.    History of English Literature- II

Aims and Objectives: To make the students understand how historical and socio-cultural events influence literatures written in English and how the literature of a particular nation and age mould and shape the thinking of the writers. Although the scope of the course is quite expansive, the students shall focus on the historical survey of various genres of literature (Poetry, Prose, Novel, Drama, Short Story, Essay, etc., and literary periods/movements from 19th Century to 21st Century.

Topics:

Classical or the Neo-Classical Age
Romantic Age
Victorian Age
20th Century or the Modern Age 
21st Century 

Year 2, Semester III

1.    Communication Skills

• Preparing for interviews (scholarship, job, placement for internship, etc.)
• Writing formal letters
• Writing different kinds of applications (leave, job, complaint, etc.)
• Oral presentation skills (prepared and unprepared talks)
• Preparing a Curriculum Vitae (CV), (bio-data)
• Writing short reports

2.    Citizenship Education (HR)

• What are Human Rights (HR)?
• Evolution of the Concept of HR
• Four Fundamentals in HR: freedom, equality, justice, and human dignity
• Universal Declaration of HR
• Three Key Principles in HR: inalienability, indivisibility and universality
• Are HR Universal? (debate/ discussion etc)
• HR in South Asia: Issues
• Rights of Women
• Rights of Children (debate/ discussion on child labor, etc)

3.    A General Survey of American Literature

CONTENTS: Although historically speaking it is difficult to encompass all the merging and emerging traditions or trends of American literary sensibility in this short survey course, the parameters of the course will highlight some salient and unique features of literature written in English in the United States of America. The writings, not classics all the way but popular expressions of their time, can be analyzed in different historical, social, political, religious, mythical, and of course literary contexts. The teachers can focus on themes, issues or concerns that have run through American life from its beginnings and can ask what makes them particularly American. In this regard knowledge of American history and political theory in terms of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationalism as a background resource to tracing the frontier tradition and American hero will be very useful. As a guiding principle, some of the common themes to be picked and discussed may go around approaching American selfhood, American character and culture to further delve into exploring the American sense of adventure, human will to connect or conquer, toughness, courage, humor, expedition, exploitation, competition, experimentalism, materialism, dignity, freedom, opportunity, dream, desire, illusion, reality, self-reliance, search for identity, belonging, alienation, loneliness, isolation, pathos, optimism, difference, co-existence, human rights, building or bulldozing democracy, so on and so forth.

4.    Classics In Poetry-I(Chaucer 1st Generation Of Romantics)

J. Chaucer, Prologue To The Canterbury Tales
E. Spenser, Fairie Queene (Canto-1)
J. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1
J. Donne, Love And Divine Poems: Selections: The Flea, The Sunne Rising, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Extasie, Death Be Not  Proud,
Thou Some have Called Thee, If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified
Pope, Rape of The Lock
S.T.Coleridge, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
W.Wordsworth, Intimation Ode, Tintern Abbey, It’s A Beauteous     Evening, The World is too Much With Us

5.    Linguistics & Major Schools in Linguistics -An Introduction

Basic terms And Concepts in Linguistics (language, design     features,     nature and functions of language, diachronic/synchronic linguistics,   paradigmatic/syntagmatic         relations)     
Elements of Language (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, etc.)
Scope of Linguistics (an introduction to major branches of linguistics)
Schools of Linguistics (generativism, structuralism, mentalism, etc.,)
Discourse Analysis

Year 2, Semester IV

1.    Academic Reading and Writing

a.    Critical Reading

Advanced reading skills and strategies building on Foundations of English I & II     courses in semesters I and II.
•    expository (description, argumentation, comparison and contrast)
b.    Academic Writing

Advanced writing skills and strategies building on Foundations of English I & II in semesters I and II:
•    report writing
•    assignments/term-papers
•    examination answers

2.    South Asian Literature

• Anita Desai: In Custody (novel) or Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India / Ice Candy-Man       (novel)
• Bapsi Sidhwa: “Breaking it Up” (essay)
• Arun Joshi: “The Only American from Our Village” (play)
• Aamir Hussain: “Sweet Rice” (poem)
• Tahira Naqvi: “Attar of Roses” (poem)
• Daud Kamal: “An Ode to Death” (poem)
• Taufeeq Rafat: “Reflections” (Poem)

3.    Classics in Poetry-II (2nd Generation of Romantics to 20th Century)

John Keats, Ode On Grecian Urn, Ode To A Nightingale, Ode To Autumn
A. L. Tennyson, The Lotus Eaters, The Lady Of Shallot, Break Break,     Break, Tears, Idle Tears
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Mending Walls
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The Love Song Of Alfred J. Prufrock
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting, The Owl, The Seven Sorrows, Crow' Fall, A Woman Unconscious
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, The Colossus, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Bee Meeting, The Arrival Of The Bee Box, Purdah

4.    Classics in Drama-I (Sophocles to Shaw)

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Shakespeare, The Tempest 
G.B. Shaw, Arms And The Man

5.    Phonetics and Phonology

Introduction
•    Stages in the production of speech
•    Speech Organs
•    Manner and Place of articulation
Segmental Phonology
•    Phonemes and allophones (consonants, vowels, dip h/diphthongs)   
•    The Cardinal Vowel System   
•    Syllable and syllabic structure (consonant clusters, syllable, word stress)
•     Sounds in connected speech (weak forms, elision and assimilation) Suprasegmental Phonology  
•    Word and Sentence stress and intonation
Contrastive Phonology
•    Teaching of pronunciation
•    Application of phonetic and phonological rules in daily life
•    Pakistani English    
Phonetic/Phonemic Transcription

Year III, Semester V

1.    Classics in Drama-II (Modern)

T.S. Eliot’s Murder In The Cathedral
Sean O’Casey’s  Juno And The Paycock
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot
H.Pinter’s The Caretaker
A. Millers The Death Of A Salesman     

2.    Grammar, Syntax and Semantics

Introduction
•    Grammar
•    Some Traditional Concepts
•    Morphology
•    Transformational Generative Grammar
Syntax
•    Introduction to Syntax
•    Aspects Of The Theory Of Syntax
•    Basic Concepts Of Syntax, Structure Of English And Syntactic Problems  
Semantics 
•    Introduction To Semantics
•    Ambiguity
•    Context
•    Pragmatics

3.    Literary Criticism   and Theory-I

Literary Criticism
Aristotle’s Poetics
Longinus’ On The Sublime
Dr. Johnson’s Preface To Shakespeare 
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Chapter 14 and 15)
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (Chapter 17, 18)
M. Arnold’s Function Of Criticism

4.    Sociolinguistics

Functions of Language in Society
Domains of Language Use
Speech Community
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
•    Dimensions of Bilingualism
•    Bilingualism and Diglossia
•    Causes of Bilingualism
•    Manifestations of Bilingualism
Loan-words
Borrowing
Code-switching/code-mixing
•    Effects of Bilingualism
Language Conflicts
Language Attitudes
Language Maintenance
Language Change/Shift
Language Death
Dialects, Pidgin and Creoles, Register, Genderlect, etc.
Standard Language
National Language, Language Planning And Policy, 

5.    Prose-I (Bacon to Ruskin)

F. Bacon, Bacon Essays (Of Studies, Of Death, Of Love, Of     Followers     And Friends) 
J. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
C. Lamb, Essays Of Elia (Dream Children, The Chimney Sweepers) 
W. Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance With Poets, From Mr. Wordsworth
J. Ruskin, The Crown Of The Wild Olive (Lecture-1 Work)  

Semester VI

1.    Classics in Novel- I (18th Century to Victorian)

Fielding, Joseph Andrews 
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Thomas Hardy, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles

2.    Psycholinguistics

The Nature Of Language
•    The Psychology Of Language
•    The Structure And Function Of Language
•    Processes In The Use Of Language
First Steps In Child’s Language Acquisition 
•    Communicating with Language
•    Issues In The L/A
•    Methods Of Studying Child’s Language

Later Growth In The Child’s Language 
The Psychology of Learning
•    Theories of language Acquisition/Learning (Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Interactionism)
•    Memory
•     Interlanguage
•     Error Analysis
Perception and Production of First and later Sounds
Individual Learner Factors
•    Age and Critical Age
•    Affective and personality factors
•    Cognitive styles
•    Motivation
Language and Thought (Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity) 

3.    Literary Criticism and Theory-II

New Criticism
T. S. Eliot’s Tradition And Individual Talent, Function Of Criticism
F.R. Leavis’     Literary Criticism And Philosophy (The Common     Pursuits)
Derida, Of Grammatology (Selection)

Modern, Post-modern and Contemporary Approaches/Theories (An Introduction) 
(At least four as per Choice or Requirement):
Postcolonial–With emphasis on Racial, National, and Global
Postmodern–With emphasis on Popular, Cyber-Spatial, and Technological
Linguistic – With emphasis on Structural, Post-structural, Translation
Psychoanalytic – With emphasis on Psycho and  Socio-pathological
Reception – With emphasis on Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response
Marxist – With emphasis on Economic, Social and Cultural
Feminist – With emphasis on Gender and Sexuality Studies
Myth-o-poetic – With emphasis on Archetypal, Phenomenal, and Genre based
Inter-textuality – With emphasis on Comparative World                         

4.    Prose- II (Modern)

T.H. Huxley, Selections: From Agnosticism And Christianity, From     Science And Culture, From A Liberal Education
Bertrand Russel, Bertrand Russel’s Best: Silhouettes In Satire
Martin Luther King, Non-violent Resistance
Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Dialogics 
Edward Said, Orientalism (Chapter-1)

5.    Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics

Language, Identity and Culture
Language and Gender
Globalization and its Impact on Teaching and Learning of English
Language and Development
World Englishes
Language Policy and Planning
Language in Education
Bilingual Education

NOTE:     Books/Materials related to the part of Contemporary Issues in     Applied Linguistics will be suggested and provided by the tutor of the     course.

Year 04, Semester VII

1.    ELT (English Language Teaching)

Methods of Language Teaching
•    Approach, Method and Technique
•    Selected ELT Methods: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method,
Audio-lingual, etc.
•    ELT models for Pakistan
Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills
•    Nature of Oral Communication
•    Theory and techniques of teaching listening and speaking
•    Lesson Planning for Teaching Oral Skills
Theory and Practice of Teaching Reading Skills
•    Nature of Reading
•    Theories of Reading – Interactive and Schema
•    Designing activities for reading skills
•    Lesson Planning for teaching reading
Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing Skills
•    Nature of Writing
•    Theories of Writing – Product and Process
•    Lesson Planning for teaching writing
•    Techniques for giving feedback and correcting written work
Teaching English Pronunciation

2.    Classics in Novel- II (Modern)

Joseph Conrad, Heart Of Darkness
D.H. Lawrence, Women In Love
J. Joyce, The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man
Virginia Woolf, To The Light House
William Faulkner, The Sound And The Fury

3.    Stylistics

Introduction
•    What is stylistics? 
•    Subject and Discipline
•    Stylistics as a Bridge between Linguistics and Literature.
•    Literature as Text and as Discourse
The Nature of Literary Communication.  
Literature as Foregrounded Language.
The Theory of Deviation and its Application to the Study of Poetry
•    Lexical, Grammatical, Phonological, Semantic, Dialectal deviation
•    Deviation of Register
•    Deviation of Historical Period 
Parallelism
•    Scheme as Foregrounded repetitions of expression e.g. Verbal repetition and its poetic effects, Rhythm and Rhyme.
•    New concepts of meter such as Measure.  Tropes as Foregrounded irregularities of content: figurative language i.e. metaphor, oxymoron, synecdoche, irony, hyperbole, litotes etc.
The stylistic analysis and appreciation of the short stories, poems     and      essays (Written in the form of assignments and Oral in the  form of Class     Presentations or Seminars) with reference to     concepts such as conflict,     the Narrative Voice,  Irony etc.     

4.    Research Mechanics/Methodology (Applied Linguistics And Literature)

Introduction: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Paradigms
Identifying and Defining a Research Problem
Selection Of the Topic and delimitation of The Topic
Ethical Considerations
Sampling Techniques
Tools for Data Collection: Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation &
Documents
Data analysis and Interpretation
Some Aspects of the Research Work
•   Review of literature
•   Transcription and Transliteration
•   Referencing and Citation

5.    Language Assessment

The contexts in which language assessment takes place;
• Concepts, principles and limitations of measurement;
• The educational and research uses of language assessment;
• The nature of the language abilities that affect performance on language assessment       instruments;
• The characteristics of assessment methods that affect performance on language       assessment instruments;
• Procedures for investigating the reliability of assessment results and the validity of the     uses of assessment results;
• Current issues and problems in language assessment and language assessment     research.
• Evaluating and designing tests for assessing different language skills and grammar.

Year 04, Semester VIII

1.    ELT Practicum

Lesson Planning
•    Making and using Lesson Plans for teaching Listening,
Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills, Grammar and                     Vocabulary.
Classroom Observation
•    The importance of Classroom Observation
•    Observation of English Language Classrooms/Peer             Observation
Classroom Dynamics
•    Roles of Teachers and Learners
•    Classroom Interaction
•    Teaching the Whole Class
•    Pair-Work
•    Group-Work
Microteaching         
•    Students will teach on topics (either in the University classes     or     outside in the affiliated colleges) of their choice from the     lessons that they have already planned with support from the     tutor/peers.

2.    Literary Pedagogy and Practicum

Theoretical Background
• Curriculum Development
• Teaching Methodology for Literature
• Material Development
• Adaptation and Design for Literature
• Assessment of Literature
• Lesson Planning
• The Teaching of Literature in the Sub-Continent

Practicum
• Classroom Observation
• Presentation /Micro-Teaching

3.    Syllabus and Material Development

• Principles and process of syllabus design
• Kinds of ELT syllabus
• Conducting needs analysis
• Evaluating and designing a syllabus
• Evaluating, adapting and designing print and web-based materials for language          learning including prescribed textbooks in Pakistani schools 
• Evaluating, adapting and designing self study materials for language learning
• Designing no-cost, low-cost materials for language teaching 

4.    Research Thesis/Dissertation or Research Paper

Writing Thesis/Dissertation (40-60 pages) and 08 CHs means a serious and concentrated effort to write their research work on a topic of choice and it becomes mandatory for them having been exposed to literary taste and linguistic style for more than three years. At this final stage of their readings the students are expected to write their research works. Details regarding research may be connected back to the training received through the introductory course in “Research Methodology/Mechanics” offered in Semester VII.

Course Outline For M.A (English)

Year 1 Semester I

History Of English Literature
The Age Of Chaucer, 14th Century
The Renaissance Period
Elizabethan Age
17th Century (Milton, The Puritan Movement, The Metaphysical and  The Cavalier Poets, The Reformation Age)
Restoration Period  Classical or the Neo-Classical Age  Romantic Age
Victorian Age
20th Century or the Modern Age 
21st Century or the New millennium Literature
Linguistics & Major Schoos and Movements in Linguistics – An Introduction
Basic terms And Concepts in Linguistics (language,design features, nature and functions of language,diachronic/synchronic linguistics,paradigmatic/syntagmatic relations)     
Elements of Language (Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology,Syntax, 
Semantics, etc.,
Scope of Linguistics (an introduction to major branches of linguistics
Schools of Linguistics (generativism, structuralism, mentalism, etc.,)
Discourse Analysis
Introduction to Literature And Literary Movements
Literary Forms: their origin and development 
What is Poetry? Various forms/types of Poems/Verse/Stanza, metre, rhyme, rhythm    
What is drama? Various types of drama, Plot, Setting, Character/, 
What is Novel? Various types of Novel, Plot, Setting, Character, Characterization, Story,                       Narrative Devices/Techniques, etc.
Short Story, Essay, Types, Constituents Elements/Essentials of     short     stories and essays, etc
Literary Movements 
Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Formalism, Marxism,   Feminism, Deconstruction, Naturalism, Surrealism, Absurdism, Realism, Symbolism, etc.
Classics In Poetry-I(Chaucer 1st Generation Of Romantics)
J. Chaucer, Prologue To The Canterbury Tales
E. Spenser, Fairie Queene (Canto-1)
J. Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1
J. Donne, Love And Divine Poems: Selections(J. Donne, Love And     Divine        Poems: Selection, The Flea, The Sunne Rising, A     Valediction:     Forbidding Mourning, Extasie, Death Be Not Proud,     Thou Some have     Called Thee, If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified
Pope, Rape of The Lock
S.T.Coleridge, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
W.Wordsworth, Intimation Ode, Tintern Abbey, It’s A Beauteous Evening, The World is  too Much With Us
Classics In Drama-I(Sophocles to Shaw)
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Shakespeare, The Tempest 
G.B. Shaw, Arms And The Man

Year 01, Semester II

Phonetics and Phonology
Introduction
•    Stages in the production of speech
•    Speech Organs
•    Manner and Place of articulation
Segmental Phonology
•    Phonemes and allophones (consonants, vowels, diph/triphthongs)   
•    The Cardinal Vowel System   
•    Syllable and syllabic structure (consonant clusters, syllable, word stress)
•    Sounds in connected speech (weak forms, elision and assimilation)          
Suprasegmental Phonology  
•    Word and Sentence stress and intonation
Contrastive Phonology
•    Teaching of pronunciation
•    Application of phonetic and phonological rules in daily life
•    Pakistani English    
Phonetic/Phonemic Transcription

2.    Literary Criticism   and Theory-I
Literary Criticism
Aristotle’s Poetics
Longinus’ On The Sublime
Dr. Johnson’s Preface To Shakespeare 
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Chapter 14 and 15)
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (Chapter 17, 18)
M. Arnold’s Function Of Criticism
Grammar, Syntax and Semantics
Introduction
•    Grammar
•    Some Traditional Concepts
•    Morphology
•    Transformational Generative Grammar
Syntax
•    Introduction to Syntax
•    Aspects Of The Theory Of Syntax
•    Basic Concepts Of Syntax, Structure Of English And Syntactic Problems  
Semantics  
•    Introduction To Semantics
•    Ambiguity
•    Context
•    Pragmatics

4. Classics In Poetry-II (2nd Generation Of Romantics to 20th Century)
John Keats, Ode On Grecian Urn, Ode To A Nightingale, Ode To Autumn
A. L. Tennyson, The Lotus Eaters, The Lady Of Shallot, Break, Break, Break, Tears, Idle Tears
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Mending Walls
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The Love Song Of Alfred J. Prufrock
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting, The Owl, The Seven Sorrows, Crow's Fall, A Woman Unconscious
Sylvia Plath, Ariel, The Colossus, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Bee Meeting, The Arrival Of The Bee Box, Purdah
Classics in Drama-II (Modern)
T.S. Eliot’s Murder In The Cathedral
Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot
H.Pinter’s The Caretaker
Arther Miller’s The Death Of A Salesman

YEAR 2, Semester III

Prose-I (Bacon to Ruskin)
F. Bacon, Bacon Essays (Of Studies, Of Death, Of Love, Of     Followers And Friends) 
J. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
C. Lamb, Essays Of Elia (Dream Children, The Chimney Sweepers) 
W. Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance With Poets, From Mr. Wordsworth
J. Ruskin, The Crown Of The Wild Olive (Lecture-1 Work)  

Literary Criticism And Theory-II
New Criticism
T. S. Eliot’s Tradition And Individual Talent, Function Of Criticism
F.R. Leavis’     Literary Criticism And Philosophy (The Common     Pursuits)
Derida, Of Grammatology (Selection)

Modern, Post-modern and Contemporary Approaches/Theories (An Introduction) 
(At least four as per Choice or Requirement):
Postcolonial–With emphasis on Racial, National, and Global
Postmodern–With emphasis on Popular, Cyber-Spatial, and Technological
Linguistic – With emphasis on Structural, Post-structural, Translation
Psychoanalytic – With emphasis on Psycho and  Socio-pathological
Reception – With emphasis on Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response
Marxist – With emphasis on Economic, Social and Cultural
Feminist – With emphasis on Gender and Sexuality Studies
Myth-o-poetic – With emphasis on Archetypal, Phenomenal, and Genre based
Inter-textuality – With emphasis on Comparative World
Socio/Psycholinguistics
Functions of Language in Society
Domains of Language Use
Speech Community
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
•  Dimensions of Bilingualism
•  Bilingualism and Diglossia
•  Causes of Bilingualism
•  Manifestations of Bilingualism
Loan-words
Borrowing
Code-switching/code-mixing
•  Effects of Bilingualism
Language Conflicts
Language Attitudes
Language Maintenance
Language Change/Shift
Language Death
Dialects, Pidgin and Creoles, Register, Genderlect, etc.
Standard Language
National Language, Language Planning And Policy, 
The Nature Of Language
•   The Psychology Of Language
•   The Structure And Function Of Language
•   Processes In The Use Of Language
First Steps In Child’s Language Acquisition 
•   Communicating with Language
•   Issues In The L/A
•   Methods Of Studying Child’s Language

Later Growth In The Child’s Language 
The Psychology of Learning
•   Theories of language Acquisition/Learning (Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Interactionism)
•   Memory
•   Interlanguage
•   Error Analysis
Perception and Production of First and later Sounds
Individual Learner Factors
•    Age and Critical Age
•    Affective and personality factors
•    Cognitive styles
•    Motivation
Language and Thought (Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity) 

ELT (English Language Teaching)
Methods of Language Teaching
•    Approach, Method and Technique
•    Selected ELT Methods: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method,
Audio-lingual, etc.
•    ELT models for Pakistan
Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills
•    Nature of Oral Communication
•    Theory and techniques of teaching listening and speaking
•    Lesson Planning for Teaching Oral Skills
Theory and Practice of Teaching Reading Skills
•    Nature of Reading
•    Theories of Reading – Interactive and Schema
•    Designing activities for reading skills
•    Lesson Planning for teaching reading
Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing Skills
•    Nature of Writing
•    Theories of Writing – Product and Process
•    Lesson Planning for teaching writing
•    Techniques for giving feedback and correcting written work
Teaching English Pronunciation
Classics in Novel- I (18th Century to Victorian)
Fielding, Joseph Andrews 
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
Thomas Hardy, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles

Semester IV

Classics in Novel- II (Modern)

Joseph Conrad, Heart Of Darkness
D.H. Lawrence, Women In Love
J. Joyce, The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man
Virginia Woolf, To The Light House
William Faulkner, The Sound And The Fury
Stylistics
Introduction

•   What is stylistics? 
•   Subject and Discipline
•   Stylistics as a Bridge between Linguistics and Literature.
•   Literature as Text and as Discourse
The Nature of Literary Communication.  
Literature as Foregrounded Language.
The Theory of Deviation and its Application to the Study of Poetry
•   Lexical, Grammatical, Phonological, Semantic, Dialectal deviation
•   Deviation of Register
•   Deviation of Historical Period  Parallelism.
•    Scheme as Foregrounded repetitions of expression e.g. Verbal repetition and its poetic           effects, Rhythm and Rhyme.
•   New concepts of meter such as Measure.  Tropes as Foregrounded irregularities of content:  figurative language i.e. metaphor, oxymoron, synecdoche, irony, hyperbole, litotes etc.
The stylistic analysis and appreciation of the short stories, poems     and     essays (Written in the form of assignments and Oral in the     form of Class Presentations or Seminars) with reference to     concepts such as conflict, the Narrative Voice,     Irony etc.
Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics and ELT Practicum
Language, Identity and Culture
Language and Gender
Globalization and its Impact on Teaching and Learning of English
Language and Development
World Englishes
Language Policy and Planning
Language in Education
Bilingual Education
Lesson Planning
•    Making and using Lesson Plans for teaching Listening,
Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills, Grammar and  Vocabulary.
Classroom Observation
•    The importance of Classroom Observation
•    Observation of English Language Classrooms/Peer Observation
Classroom Dynamics
•    Roles of Teachers and Learners
•    Classroom Interaction
•    Teaching the Whole Class
•    Pair-Work
•    Group-Work
Microteaching
•    Students will teach on topics (either in the University classes or outside in the affiliated  colleges) of their choice from the lessons that they have already planned with support from the   tutor/peers.

NOTE: Books/Materials related to the part of Contemporary Issues in Applied Linguistics will be suggested and provided by the tutor of the course.

Prose- II (Modern)

T.H. Huxley, Selections: From Agnosticism And Christianity, From Science And Culture, From A Liberal Education
Bertrand Russel, Bertrand Russel’s Best: Silhouettes In Satire
Martin Luther King, Non-violent Resistance
Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Dialogics 
Edward Said, Orientalism (Chapter-1)
Research Mechanics/Thesis
Contents:

Introduction: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Paradigms
Identifying and Defining a Research Problem
Selection Of the Topic and Delimitation of The Topic
Ethical Considerations/Plagiarism
Sampling Techniques
Tools for Data Collection: Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation &
Documents
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Punctuation
Some Aspects of the Research Work
•   Developing A Synopsis
•   Review of Literature
•   Transcription and Transliteration
•   Referencing and Citation