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Course Profile B.A English Programme BEG-205 Indian Short Fiction Amity School of Languages July-December, 2018
Course Profile B.A English Programme BEG-205 Indian Short Fiction Amity School of Languages July-December, 2018
BEG-205
July-December, 2018
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1. Staff Details(Teaching/ Non-Teaching)
2. Course information
Units of credit (03):
Class contact hours: 03
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2.2 Course aims
The study of Translated texts will help students to localize culture and identity through
understanding of a wide spectrum of perspectives on Indian nationhood and culture. The
study of Modern Indian Poetry will acquaint students with the development of new art form
as a result of multiplicity subjective positions initiated by a variety of experiences in Modern
India.
CLO 2 Explain how the texts, ideas, themes Demonstrate an understanding of, and
and modalities arose within a given appreciation of multicultural,
cultural or historic context. including global perspectives(PLO2)
Conduct research demonstrating
information literacy(PLO3)
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CLO 3 Relate your knowledge of socio- Clearly express ideas orally and in
historical background on the classical writing(PLO-1)
texts of those times.
Demonstrate an understanding of, and
appreciation of multicultural,
including global perspectives(PLO2)
CLO 4 Design and create texts/ posters for a Demonstrate an understanding of, and
variety of purposes and audiences, appreciation of multicultural,
evaluating and assessing the including global perspectives(PLO2)
importance of classical texts and the
writers. Analyse broad range of literature(s)
. (PLO6)
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Please remember that cheating, plagiarism, and all other forms of academic
dishonesty are very serious offences; none of them will be tolerated in my classes.
Any student who is shown to be guilty of any of these offences -- or indeed of dealing
dishonestly with me in any way -- will immediately be barred from returning to the
class, will receive an automatic F for the semester, and may also be subject to
additional retribution. It is your responsibility to become familiar with the
University's regulations on this topic, and to abide by them.
You must actively participate in classes and online group work
You are expected to complete all set work to a satisfactory standard as discussed in
class and in the course profile.
It goes without saying that we are all here to learn. For this to happen, we must all
work together to create an environment where intellectual discourse can occur freely,
without fear of ridicule or rudeness of any kind.
Courtesy is key in this regard. Be respectful of one another's ideas, however strange
they may initially seem to you. Refrain from making any racial, ethnic, religious,
sexual and/or sexist slurs. University maintains strict sanctions against such
intolerance.
I expect you to be attentive and engaged during lectures. I will do my best to make
this palatable for you. I do not mind such things as eating and drinking, provided they
are done discreetly and quietly, but I do mind having anyone other than myself
speaking during class. If you speak to your neighbour, not only are you missing what
I am saying: s/he is too. And in the process you may also distract still other people
around you.
Any of you found reading material other than the class taken will be ejected from
the class instantly.
Cellular telephones and pagers should never be audible in class; they are seriously
distracting and disruptive. So please note that I will take decisive action if I determine
that someone is inattentive and/or is distracting others in the class.
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Week 3 The Home Theme, Background, Identify texts, its socio-political
Coming Analysis of the story background, authors and genres of
http://www.readbookonline.net/ different ages and the development of
readOnLine/1757/
literary traditions.CPL0-1)
Interpret & discuss key ideas(CLO-3)
Week 4 The Post Master Theme, Background, Identify texts, its socio-political
Analysis of the story background, authors and genres of
http://www.online- different ages and the development of
literature.com/tagore- literary traditions.(CL0-1)
rabindranath/stories-from-
tagore/7/ Interpret and discuss key ideas,
themes, and aesthetic modalities of
different ages.(CLO-2)
Explain how the texts, ideas, themes
and modalities arose within a given
cultural or historic context.(CLO-3)
Week 5 R.K Narayan Introduction to the Novelist Identify texts, its socio-political
https://www.britannica.com/bi background, authors and genres of
ography/R-K-Narayan different ages and the development of
literary traditions (CLO-1)
Relate your knowledge of socio-
historical background on the classical
texts of those times.(CLO4)
Week 7 The Malgudi Days Introduction to the volume Identify texts, its socio-political
Background, Setting, background, authors and genres of
PPT. different ages and the development of
literary traditions.(CL0-1)
Week 9 Under The Banyan Background, Setting, Identify texts, its socio-political
Tree Theme, Analysis background, authors and genres of
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty different ages and the development of
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literary traditions.(CL0-1)
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Interpret and discuss key ideas,
themes, and aesthetic modalities of
different ages.(CLO-2)
Explain how the texts, ideas, themes
and modalities arose within a given
cultural or historic context.(CLO-3)
Week 10 The Grand Background of the story Interpret and discuss key ideas,
Mother’s tale Analysis, Theme. themes, and aesthetic modalities of
https://www.goodreads.co different ages.(CLO-2)
m/book/show/129865.Und
er_the_Banyan_Tree_and_ Explain how the texts, ideas, themes
Other_Stories and modalities arose within a given
cultural or historic context.(CLO-3)
Week 11 Khushwant Singh Introduction to the novelist Relate your knowledge of socio-
and short stories historical background on the classical
https://www.loc.gov/acq/o texts of those times.(CLO-4)
vop/delhi/salrp/khushwant Design and create texts/ posters for a
singh.html variety of purposes and audiences,
evaluating and assessing the
importance of classical texts and the
writers.(CL0-5)
5. Assessment
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The word limit for it is 300.
It will be of one hour.
Assessment 2: Viva-Voce (Project Work/Assignment/Presentation)
It has 15 marks for you.
You are expected to submit the Assignment / ready for the presentation / on...........
Questions will be asked on related Presentation/Assignment
Guidelines for Presentation/Assignment:
It should be of 10-12 pages/12-15 slides (Times New Roman)
Margin 1.5
Font size 12
Spacing 1.5
The presentation/Assignment should follow MLA style sheet (8th edition) for citation.
Assessment 4: Attendance
You have the privilege of obtaining 5 marks on completing 100% of attendance in all your
classes.
Further information
Amity grading system:
Amity assessment policy:
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Writing Skills Organized & Organized No respect to Vague in all
Structured Comprehensive Punctuations criteria of
Well Well attempted Less writing skills
attempted Less spelling organized
Impressive mistakes Too much
handwriting Spelling
No Spelling mistakes
mistakes
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5.2.2 Assessment criteria for End Term Examination (70 marks)
Criteria OS EXC. AVERAGE POOR
Writing Organized & Organized No respect to Vague in
Skills Structured Comprehensiv Punctuations all criteria
Well attempted e Less of writing
Impressive Well organized skills
handwriting attempted Too much
No Spelling Less spelling Spelling
mistakes mistakes mistakes
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and courage.1 At Amity, this means that your work must be your own, and others’ ideas
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detected in your work.
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