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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

General Guidelines for I FEP, IJPEng, II JPEng, III PSEng, and III FEP students who are taking my courses

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 course at the intersection of various disciplines. Supplementary reading will be announced from time to time.

CIA II/III

Will depend on the way discussion will shape up by the first week of the semester.

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 University, 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 be allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, or through email. 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 Please visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly.

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

Ø If you wish give feedback or leave any message for me, you may do so in the brown hard cover book on my table.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

VI Semester FEP and PSEng (Nov 2008 – Mar 2009) Course Plan

Course: British Literature: World Literatures
Total No of Hours (approx) : 26
Framework: Understanding Modernity

Topics

Hrs

Dates

Introduction

2

Nov

400 Blows

2

Nov

A Doll’s House

9

Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb

Medea

3

Nov/Dec/Jan

Fire

2

Dec/Jan

Feminism as modernity

2

Jan

The Outsider

2

Jan

Albert Camus

2

Mar

Alexander Solzenitsyn

2

Mar

Feedback

1

Mar


II Semester FEP (Nov 2008 – Mar 2009) Course Plan

Course: British Literature: Late Victorian to the Present
Total No of Hours (approx) : 29
Framework : Industrialisation, Patriarchal State and Discontents

Topics

No of Hours

Dates/Remarks

Introduction to the course

2

George Orwell: Animal Farm

5

Nov

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’ Own

6

Dec

Charles Dickens: Hard Times

8

Jan

Modernity and Modernism

2

Feb

Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man

5

Feb, Mar

Feedback

1

Mar


II Semester JPEng (Nov 2008 – Mar 2009) Course plan

Total No of Hours (approx) : 42
Course: British Literature: Late Victorian to the Present
Framework: Industrialisation, Patriarchal State and Discontents

Topics

No of Hours

Dates/Remarks

Introduction to the course

3

Nov

Ulysses

3

Nov

My Last Duchess

3

Nov

Dover Beach

2

Dec

God’s Grandeur

2

Dec

Modernity and Modernism

3

Dec

The Second Coming

2

Jan

Psychoanalysis

2

Jan

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

6

Jan

The Unknown Citizen

2

Feb

The Thought Fox

3

Feb/Mar

Look Back in Anger

11

Mar

Feedback

1

Mar

Sunday, November 09, 2008

MA English - Linguistics Syllabus


Subject: MA in English with Communication Studies Credits: 4

Paper title: Linguistics Total Hours: 60

Paper Code: MEL234 Max Marks: 100


The economic globalisation since the early 90s has had a consequent interest in language studies for various socio-political, communicative and technological reasons. With communication - both oral and textual - becoming crucial to widen the global impact of political and economic organisations, and the consequent struggles of resistance to economic imperialism have contributed to the renewed interest in linguistics in multiple domains – Media studies, corporate communication, advertising and marketing, anthropology, and health. In the case of India, in the wake of language becoming a major site of identity politics and the consequent interest of the state through increased funding and establishment of research centres is a testimony for the relevance and need for this paper.


Objectives

  • To introduce the students to the scientific study of language

o To expose students to the locate language in a broader socio-political, and economic setting

o To expose students to the use of scientific study of language in multiple domains

  1. Introduction to Linguistics. Concept of Linguistics. Branches of Linguistics
  2. Language : Definition, nature, properties and functions of language, sub-systems of language
  3. Communication: Definition, nature, requirements and types of communication
  4. Phonetics: Definition and branches. Brief sketch of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics

Speech: Formation of speech. Speech mechanisms: Air stream, phonatory, articulatory and resonatory mechanisms

Classification of speech sounds: Segmentals and suprasegmentals

    1. Segmentals : Vowels and Consonants

Classification of consonants: Place and manner of articulation, voiceless ad voiced consonants

Classification of vowels: Concept of cardinal vowels

    1. Suprasegmentals: Stress, pitch, tone, and intonation
    2. Semivowels and diphthongs: Formation and classification
    3. Sounds formed using non-pulmonic air stream: Ejectives, implosives and clicks

  1. Phonology: Definitions of phoneme and allophones. Phonemic analysis with reference to Indian languages. Distinctive feature analysis.

Syllable: Types and structure of Syllables

  1. Morphology: Concepts of morph, morpheme, and allomorph and their relationship. Morphemic analysis. Morpheme types-inflectional and derivational. Word: Definition, types, process of word formation
  2. Syntax: Syntactic analysis, I.C. Analysis, Phrase structure grammar, Transformational grammar, components of functions of grammar. Acceptability and grammaticality of sentences.
  3. Semantics: Concept of meaning. Different types of meanings. Concepts of synonyms, homonyms and antonyms. Semantic ambiguity.
  4. Introduction to semiotics: Saussure, Pierce, and Barthes; Discourse analysis and Pragmatics
  5. Psycholinguistics: Introduction to psycholinguistics. Competence and Performance. Language acquisition in children. Major theories
  6. Introduction to Indian linguistic traditions


Bibliography

Balasubramanian, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics : For Indian Students. Macmillan 2000

Bansal R. K. and Harrison J. B., Spoken English for India: A Mannual of Speech and Phonetics. Longman. Madras, 1983.

Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. New York : 2002.

Hockett. C.F. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillian, 1958.

Krishnaswamy, N. and Archana S. Burde. The Politics of Indians' English : Linguistic Colonialism and the Expanding English Empire. New Delhi: OUP, 2004.

Krishnaswamy, N. and SK Verma. Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. New Delhi: OUP, 2005.

Leech G. N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.

Levinson S. Pragmatics. Cambridge, CUP, 1983.

O'Connor (1993) Phonetics. Hanmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Palmer, F. R. Semantics : A New Outline Cambridge, CUP, 1976.

Prakasam, V. and Abbi. A Semantic Theories and Language Teaching. New Delhi, Allied Publishers, 1985.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. A Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1966.

Thorat, Ashok. Discourse Analysis of Five Great Indian Novels. Macmillan, 2002.

Widdowson, H. D. Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature. London: Longman, 1975


Testing pattern

CIA – Two written assignments. The second CIA should to be a short research paper of five to 10 pages.

Mid-semester written exam based on modules 1 to 6 (2 hours)

End-semester written exam based on modules 7 to 10 ( 3 hours)


Note: The course might undergo minor changes by the end of this week.

President Elect Obama Speech

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