Course Plan V sem Optional English - FEP and PSEng

Department of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

V Semester FEP, JPEng, PSEng

Literary Theory and Criticism

Course Plan 2007

Name of the Teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of hours (approx) : 37

Subject : Optional English

Papers : Literary Theory and Criticism, and Indian Literatures in Translation

No	Topic	No of Hours	Dates/Remarks
1	Literature a critique		June 06 – July 12
2	Structuralism Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan : ‘The Implied Order: Structuralism’ Gerard Genette : ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ Claude Levi-Strauss: ‘On Structuralist Approach to Levi-Strauss’	6-8	July 14- Aug 2
3	Post-structuralism Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan : ‘Introductory Deconstruction’ Paul de Man : ‘Semiology and Rhetoric’ J. Hillis Miller : ‘On a Post-structuralist Approach to Wordsworth’s a “Slumber Did my Spirit Seal”’	8-9	Aug 4 - Aug 30
4	Psychoanalysis William Vesterman : ‘A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Criticism’ Earnest Jones ‘Hamlet and Psychoanalysis’ Geoffrey Hartman : ‘A Psychoanalytic Approach to “A Slumber did my Spirit Seal”’	7-9	Sept 1- Sept 13
5	Introduction to Indian Poetics	12-14	Sept 15 – Sept 25
6	Review/Feedback		Last week of Sept

Methodology

The classes will follow lecture method. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisement and literary works. The lectures will not limit themselves to any particular discipline but rather explore ways of meaning making at the intersection of various disciplines. There will also be scope for student presentations.

Continuous Internal Assessment

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required essays. Failing to which you will not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

Course Plan I Sem Optinal English - I FEP

Dept of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

I Semester FEP

Print Culture and the Rise of the Nation-State

Course Plan

Name of the teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of Hours (approx) : 38

Subject : Optional English

Paper : British literature: Anglo-Saxon to Early Victorian

No	Topic	No of Hours	Dates/Remarks
1	Introduction	2	June
2	Essays	7	June, July
3	Robinson Crusoe	11	July
4	Northanger Abbey	11	Aug
5	Way of the World	07	Sept
11	Review/Feedback	1	Last week of Sept

Teaching Methods

The classes will have lectures and student presentations. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisements, print media and literary works. Lectures will explore the theme of the paper at the intersection of various disciplines. Supplementary reading will be announced from time to time.

CIA II

Will depend on the way discussion will shape up by the first week of July. It will be announced in the beginning of the II week of July.

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required texts. Failing to which you may not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown hard cover book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

Course Plan I Sem Optional English - JPEng

Dept of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

I Semester JPEng

Print Culture and the Rise of the Nation-State

Course Plan

Name of the teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of Hrs (aprox) : 24

Subject : Optional English

Paper : British Literature: Late Victorian to the Present

No	Authors / Texts	No of Hours	Dates/Remarks
1	Introduction	1	June
2	Chaucer	2	June
3	Shakespeare’s Sonnets	3	June/July
4	Introduction to Drama	1	July
5	Donne, Herbert	2	July
6	Dryden, Pope	2	July
7	Thomas Grey	2	Aug
8	Shakespeare - Macbeth	6	Aug
9	Blake	2	Sept
10	Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Keats	2	Sept
11	Review/Feedback	1	Last week of Sept

Teaching Methods

The classes will have lectures and student presentations. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisements, print media and literary works. Lectures will explore the theme of the paper at the intersection of various disciplines.

Supplementary reading will be announced from time to time.

CIA III

Will depend on the way discussion will shape up by the last week of July. It will be announced in the beginning of the I week of August.

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required texts. Failing to which you may not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown hard cover book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

ON THE JOB REPORT PATTERN

ON THE JOB REPORT PATTERN

Cover page
Declaration of student
Declaration of guide
Letter from college
Employer’s letter
Acknowledgment
Content
Intro to the course
Objectives of the internship
Choice of work place
Job description: appointment
Duration
Profile of workplace
Organizational structure
Tasks and analyses
Challenges
Retrospection
Appendices

For bibliography, footnotes, follow MLA style

AND THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT….

Title page- centered and bold- times new roman- 14&12
Page numbers for the following in roman numerals (i, ii….) :-
Student declaration
Guide dec
Letter from coll
Employer’s letter
Acknowledgement
CONTENT page- do not number this page.
- “CONTENTS” write in bold+centered+caps
- Items-not bold, no caps
Intro to course- start numbering (1,2,3,4,…) from this page
Reason for choice of workplace- keep it short
Profile of workplace
Job description, tasks, analyses
Challenges, retrospection
Page numbers: centered+bottom
Logo of the college in title page-black, uniform in size
Paragraphs to be justified

Note:

1. I am emailing the initial page format with text for the benefit of all. Will try to mail it to all,. Just in case if you have not received it please contact Preethi who will forward it to you.
2. some of you have not given your diaries. Neither have you met me at the appointed time nor have you informed me about the absence or reasons for absence. I strongly disapprove this.
   
3. those of you have not given the diaries please do it by tomorrow. Lest I may be forced to penalise you in your evaluation.
   
4. I am available in the dept for general meeting between 8.30 and 9am. If you wish to leave any message you may either write it in the brown book left one my table or email me.
   

(I thank Nehal Shah for taking down the instructions meticulously last year and making them available this year)

Literary theory class 2 for PSEng on 20 June

Names dropped: Foucault, Lacan, Hayden White, Claude Levi-strauss and Derrida, Chomski

Concepts dropped: Narratology, power, language in psychoanalysis, binary

Issues:

1. Critique of notions of ‘Students own opinion”

2. Looking at student originality in terms of connections they make between ideas and see problems with the ideas/ works being engaged with when confronted with the local contexts/lived experiences.

3. Problems with existing frameworks of sociology and psychology as disciplines in the Indian academia

4. Our problems while engaging with concepts like nations. Conditioned by narratives

5. Unconscious is organized like Language – Lacan

6. Gap between linguists and psychoanalysis over language (I owe this insight to Prof Da Silva)

7. Do add what I have forgotten.

Course in Existentialism

Dept of Media Studies

organizes

Certificate Course in Philosophy

Existentialism: A Way of Life

Course content

1. Introduction - Existentialism as a 'Movement'
2. Soren Kierkegaard - A Journey through the Stages of Life
3. Martin Heidegger - A Call to Authenticity
4. Jean Paul Sartre - A Response to Challenges of Freedom
5. Gabriel Marcel - A Life of Intersubjectivity
6. Albert Camus - A Philosophy of Absurdity
7. Conclusion - Critical Appraisals

Classes: July first week onwards on Saturday afternoons

Course fee: Rs 1000 for CC students (Other s Rs 1500)

Course coordinator: Anil Pinto, Dept of Media Studies

For further details: Email - anil.pinto at christcollege dot edu

Or

Meet Anil Pinto between 8.30 and 9 am or Padma Kumar between 4 and 4.30 pm in room 107

II JPEng GE Groups for presentation

I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
1 11 21 30 39 48 57 67 77	2 13 22 31 40 49 58 68 78	3 14 23 32 41 50 59 69 79	4 15 24 33 42 51 60 70 80	5 16 25 34 43 52 61 71 81	6 17 26 35 44 53 62 72	7 18 27 36 45 54 64 73	8 19 28 37 46 55 65 75	9 20 29 38 47 56 66 76

• The roman numbers represent the II semester lessons in Perspectives and the numbers below them are of those of the respective team members.
• Each group has to present a summary of the lesson and two critical write ups of not less than 1000 words each. The rest of the group can explore the assigned piece through skits, films, musical compositions, songs, sketches, cartoons etc. However, such things should be supported with a write up giving the text and comments on them.
• Groups can decide on the venue of classes with prior intimation to me
• The groups have to choose leaders and give their names to Shwetha by Saturday.
• The students have to present the respective pieces on allotted dates.
• Evaluation criteria and the dates for presentation will be announced in the next week with mutual consent.

Groups	Leaders
I	Alphin (7D2301)
II	Anjan (7D2302)
III	Shikha (7D2350)
IV	Prakruthi (7D2370)
V	Shwetha (7D2352)
VI	Bhavani (7D2326)
VII	Sunaina (7D2354)
VIII	Sagarika (7D2319)
IX	Parinatha (7D2366)

Literary Theory Classes- suggestions

Suggestions from FEP: I have given my answers in brackets.

1. Avoid reading the text in class (ok)
2. Go beyond the text (Fine)
   
3. Keep the exam point of view as well during the discussion (Will integrate the classroom discussion and text in testing)
4. Give question bank (since such a move will undermine the classroom discussion, will let that go)
5. Online forum for clarification (have already created post on my blog. Open to orkut as well, if you initiate)
6. Train in writing (will analyze some answers in classroom)

Suggestions from PSEng:

1. Expect students to read essays (absolutely)
2. Give also your views after the student persentaitons/ group work should be backed by teacher response (sure)
3. Keep exam in mind while explaining (aye)
4. Give homework on concepts (would love to)
5. Give training in answering (yes)
6. Give a clear framework (done)
7. Give an essential bibliography of the books available in the library (will do)
8. Give adequate time for assignments/ do not give it along with those of other papers. (will bear this in mind. Will also experiment with online assignments.
9. 
   

Literary theory Class 1 for FEP

Today I discussed three concepts - literature, theory and criticism.

I have not yet critically engaged with your explanations of these concepts. I must say it was a stimulating class for me, despite the fact that some of you said you were lost and some wondered at this pace whether we would complete our syllabus. All reactions are welcome and encouraging.

Some of the additional questions that emerged were the difference between theory and conjuncture; Do assumptions make theory or assumptions backed by facts do? Going back to radical doubt.

We also engaged with the words like creativity and imagination.

The discussion also steered towards philosophy of science and Karl Popper’s notion of science.

Some names dropped were: Raymond Williams, Jean Baudrillard, Descartes, Kant, Derrida, Plato.

Other concepts that were dropped: Postmodernism, post structuralism, structuralism, cultural studies. hyperreality, postmodernism

Please do comment on what made you ‘get lost’. Was it information overload or complete lack of exposure to theoretical terrain? Feel free to share all your views. By the way look forward to my next class which will be differently conducted. After which I want you do a comparative study of both the classes.

Have a nice time till you see me again.

Post Graduate Diploma in Philosophy

The parent institution of Christ College, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram is offering a one year PD diploma course in Philosophy through distance education mode. Those of you wish may apply for it. The minimum qualification required is graduation in any discipline. The course is of one year duration and the course fee Rs 4800.

The papers are

Subject		Credit
Introduction to Philosophy		1
Formal Logic		2
Philosophy of Being		2
Ancient Western Philosophy		2
Ancient Indian Philosophy (Sruti & Smrti)		3
Medieval Western Philosophy		2
Moral Philosophy (General Ethics)		3
Philosophy of God		3
Indian Orthodox Systems		2
Research Methodology		1
Modern Western Philosophy		2
Modern Indian Philosophy		2
Contemporary Western Philosophy		2
General Psychology		2
Existentialism and Phenomenology		2
Philosophy of Knowledge		2
Philosophy of Human Person		2
Philosophy of Science and Nature		2
Research Paper		3

For further information you may visit: http://www.dvk.in/dade.htm#12.1.%20%20PG%20Diploma%20in%20Philosophy
You may also write to Fr Kurian Kachappilly <kkachappilly@hotmail.com>

Please forward this information to those who might be interested.

MA in English with Communication Studies at Christ College

We are staring MA in English with Communication Studies this year. The papers are :

Semester I

British Literature:Genres and ideas
Reading Twentieth Century Art, Culture and Society
Literary Criticism
American Literary Thoughts and Ideas
Professional Communication

Semester II
Gender Studies
Contemporary Theory
Linguistics
English Language Teaching
Mass Communication

Semester III
Indian Writing in English
World Literature
Postcolonial Studies
Comparative Drama
Research and Writing Heuristics

Semester IV
Dissertation

Film Studies
Indian Writing in Translation
Cultural Studies

Translation Studies

Script Writing

Note: After the second semester there is a compulsory internship in any of the following area- media, schools, colleges, research centres.

For any information, help regarding the course or admission please contact me on : ajpinto42 at gmail dot com or post your comments on this blog.