ENGLISH

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

UNIT – I

POETRY
Sarojini Naidu – Queen’s Rival
Toru Dutt – The Lotus
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House
Nissim Ezekiel – A very Indian poem in Indian English

UNIT – II
PROSE
Gopala Krishna Gokhale – Students and their duties

UNIT – III
DRAMA
Rabindranath Tagore – The post office

UNIT – IV
FICTION
R.K.Narayan – Swami and Friends

UNIT – V
SHORT STORY
K.A.Abbas – The Sparrows

Books for Reference:

1. Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English New Delhi: Sterling
Publishers, 1985
2. Gupta, Balaram Ed. Links Chennai: Macmillan India Ltd, 1977.
 SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

UNIT – I
Renaissance and Reformation

UNIT – II
Feudalism and Dissolution of the Monasteries

UNIT – III
The East India Company
Age of Queen Anne

UNIT – IV
The Agrarian and Industrial Revolution
The French Revolution and its Effects

UNIT – V
The Effects of World War

Book for Reference:

1. Xavier, A.G. Introduction to the Social History of England. Chennai:
Viswanathan S. Publishers and Printers Ltd, 2009.
 BASIC GRAMMAR, SPOKEN ENGLISH AND WRITING SKILLS

UNIT – I
Spelling Rules – Word Formation, Pronunciation and Accent

UNIT — II
Sentence Pattern - SV / SVO / SVC SV IO DO / SVC OC
Active Voice / Passive Voice
Tenses, Qualifiers and Verbs
Uses of Articles and Prepositions

UNIT — III
Paragraph Writing on topics like:
a. Water Scarcity
b. Pollution
c. Unemployment
Letter Writing - Formal and Informal

UNIT — IV
Correct the spelling mistakes and errors in sentences

UNIT — V
Making the students read aloud from the text book or from any newspaper
Group Discussion
Book for Reference

1. Halliday, M.A.K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. Great Britain: Hodder

Educational Publishers, 2004.
 POETRY

UNIT — I
Shakespeare - Sonnet XVIII ‘Shall I compare thee’
Donne - Valediction Forbidding Mourning

UNIT — II
John Milton ~ Paradise Lost (Book I)

UNIT — III
Dryden - Alexander’s Feast
Blake - The Tyger

UNIT — IV
William Wordsworth - The Solitary Reaper I
John Keats - Ode to autumn
P.B. Shelley - Ode to the Skylark

UNIT — V
Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

Book For Reference

1. Quiller-Couch Ed. Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919
 LITERARY FORMS

UNIT — I
Epic — Ancient Epic Characteristics, Similes with
Reference to Paradise Lost.

UNIT — II
Ballad — Origin & Development of Ballad
Features of Ballad — Famous Ballad

UNIT — III
Origin of Drama - Miracles, Morality, Interlude, Chorus
One — Act Play Characteristics of one Act- Play

UNIT — IV
Essay - Aphoristic Essay - Bacon
Personal Essay - Charles Lamb
Dissertation upon a roast pig
Periodical Essay - Sir Roger at the Church.

UNIT — V
Short Story - Difference between short story and novel.

Book for Reference:

1. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms Cambridge, M.A. U.S.A: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993
2. Nair, Ramachandran. Literary Forms, Chennai: Emerald Publishing, 2009.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

UNIT - I
University Wits
Spenser
Shakespeare
Elizabethan Sonneteers — Wyatt and Surrey and Sidney

UNIT — II
Milton
Metaphysical Poets

UNIT — III
Dryden
Pope
Dr. Johnson
Periodical Essayists — Addison and Steele
Anti-Sentimental Comedy — Sheridan, Goldsmith
18th Century Novel — Fielding, Richardson

UNIT — IV
Romantic Movement
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron
Charles Lamb, De Quincey and Hazlitt
Jane Austen & Walter Scott

UNIT — V
Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold.
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy
T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Hopkins
War Poets

Books for Reference

1. Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the History of English Literature Ludhiana:

Kalyani Publishers, 1988.
 PROSE

UNIT — I
The Spectator — Richard Steele
Sir Roger at home — Addison

UNIT — II
The Londoner — Charles Lamb

UNIT — III
On lying in bed - G.K. Chesterton

UNIT — IV
Science and Society — Albert Einstein
Mastery over Physical Nature - Bertrand Russell

UNIT — V
Some Memories A - C.V. Raman

Book for Reference:

Cairncross, A.S. Ed. Eight Essayists. Chennai: Macmillan, 1961.

 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

UNIT — I
Children’s Literature : Definition and Perspectives.

UNIT — ll
Aesop’s Fables
The maid and the pail of milk
The mouse and the frog
The lark and her young ones

UNIT — III
The Panehathantra
Mouse maid made mouse
How the Rabbit Fooled the Elephant
The Ass in the Tiger Skin

UNIT — IV
Mem — Fox —— Wilfrid Gordon Mc Donald Partridge.
Hazel Edwards — Fake ID
J .K. Rowling - Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone

UNIT — V
Asha Nehemiah — Granny’s Sari
Deepa Agarwal- The Walking Tree

Books for Reference:

1. Hunt, Peter. Ed. Understanding Children’s Literature. London and New York:
Routledge, 1999.
2. Srinivasan, Prema. Children's Fiction in English in India, Trends and Motifs
Chennai: TR Publications, 1998.
 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

UNIT — I
lndo—European Family of Languages

UNIT — II
Middle — English ; Influences of French and Latin Languages

UNIT — III
Growth of Vocabulary

UNIT — IV
Makers of English

UNIT — V
Standard English, Received Pronunciation

Books for Reference:

1. Wood, F.T. An Outline History of the English Language. London: Methuen, 1941
 LINGUISTICS

UNIT — I
What is Linguistics?

UNIT — II
Socio Linguistics, Psycho Linguistics, Discourse Analysis

UNIT — III
Semantics — Word Meaning, Different Levels of Meanings

UNIT — IV
Style - Simple Communication - Dialect, ldiolect, Register

UNIT — V
Phonology : - Speech —» Mechanism; Classification of Speech – Sounds

Books for Reference:

1. Balasubramaniam, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. New
Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd., 2000.
2. Darbyshire, A. E. A Description of English. New Delhi:Arnold- Heinemann, 1972
 ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

UNIT — I
Vocabulary

UNIT - II
Idioms and Phrases

UNIT — III
Essay Writing

UNIT — IV
Letter Writing

UNIT — V
Dialogue Writing

Book for Reference:

1. Bhatnagar, R. B. English For Competitive Examinations. New Delhi: Macmillan

India Limited. 1989.
 PERSONALITY ENHANCEMENT

UNIT — I
Shiv Khera — Goal Setting

UNIT — II
Norman Vincent Peale — Building Self — Conhdence

UNIT — III
Scharada Bail - Women’s Empowerment and ‘Aruna Roy’

UNIT — IV
S Radhakrishnan - The Need for Religion

UNIT — V
E.M. Forster - Tolerance

Books for Reference:

1. S Radhakrishnan, . “The Need For Religion”. Religion and Culture.. New Delhi:
Orient Paperbacks, 1968.
2. Khera, Shiv. You Can Win. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd. 2004.
3. Raju, A.K. Touchstone: Synergy of Values Madras University Publications, 2003
4. Scharada Bail. Icons of Social Change New Delhi: Puffin Books, 2004.
 AMERICAN LITERATURE

UNIT — I
POETRY
The Raven - Edgar Alan Poe
Mending Wall - Robert Frost
Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer - Ogden Nash
Daddy - Sylvia Plath

UNIT — II
PROSE
I have a Dream - Martin Luther King
Gettysburg’s Speech — Abraham Lincoln

UNIT — III
DRAMA
All my sons — Arthur Miller

UNIT — IV
SHORT FICTION
The Fall of the house of Usher - Edgar Alan Poe

UNIT — V
FICTION
I know why the caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelo.

Book for Reference:

1. Baym, Nina and Wayne Franklin. Norton Anthology of American Literature. New
York: W.W. Norton and Co. 2007
 SHAKESPEARE

UNIT — I
As You Like It

UNIT — II
Macbeth

UNIT — III
Tempest

UNIT — IV
Romeo and Juliet

UNIT — V
Shakespearean Theatre
Women in Shakespeare’s Plays
Villains in Shakespeare’s Plays
Fools and Clowns
Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespearean Comedy

Books for Reference:

Craig, W. J. The Complete Works of Shakespeare. London: OUP, 1914.

 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

UNIT — I
Second language acquisition

UNIT — II
An Introduction to approaches
Methods and Techniques of Teaching English

UNIT — III
Recent Trends in ELT

UNIT — IV
Teaching the four skills

UNIT — V
Tests and Examination

Book for Reference

Bose, M.N.K. English Language Teaching. Chennai: New Century Book House, 2005
 POETRY II

UNIT — I
Robert Bridges - Nightingales
Robert Browning - Andrea Del Sarto

UNIT — II
Hopkins - God’s Grandeur
Yeats - A Prayer for My Daughter

UNIT — III
Walter de la Mare - The Listeners
D.H. Lawrence - Snake

UNIT — IV
T.S. Eliot - Journey of the Magi
Ted Hughes - Jaguar

UNIT — V
Reading Theory
Recognizing Kinds of Poetry
Discovering Themes in Poetry

Books for Reference:

1. Kirszner, Laurie G.K. and Stephen R. Mandell. Portable Literature – Reading,

Reacting, Writing. USA: Thomas Wadsworth, 2009
 BUSINESS ENGLISH

UNIT — I
Letters, faxes and memos.
Basic skills and techniques for business correspondence.

UNIT — II
On the Phone
Basic skills and techniques for using the telephone in business.

UNIT — III
Summaries, notes, reports
Basic skills and techniques for writing reports, making notes, summarizing
and taking notes of conversations in business.

UNIT — IV
Marketing
Marketing a product, market research, promotion and advertising

UNIT — V
Jobs and careers
Applying for jobs and seeking promotion, participating in interviews

Book for Reference:

1. Jones, Leo and Richard Alexander. New International Business English,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
 FICTION

UNIT — I
Jane Austen - Emma

UNIT — II
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

UNIT — III
H.G. Wells - Time Machine
Sherlock Holmes,
(i) The Adventure of the
Blue Carbuncle
(ii) The Adventure of the Speckled
Band

UNIT — IV
George Orwell - Animal Farm

UNIT — V
Plot
Characterization
Setting

Book For Reference:

1. Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the History of English Literature Ludhiana:

Kalyani Publishers, 1988.
 DRAMA

UNIT — I
G.B, Shaw - St. Joan

UNIT — II
J.M. Synge - Riders to the Sea

UNIT — III
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

UNIT — IV
John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

UNIT — V
The Irish Theatre
The Theatre between Wars
Drama in the l950’s Theatre of the Absurd

Book for Reference:

1. Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century English Literature 1901- 1960. London: Methuen 1964.
 POST-COLONIAL WRITING

UNIT — I
POETRY
Africa - Abisoch Nicol - The Continent that lies within us -
Australia - AD. Hope - Australia
New Zealand - Jessie Mackay - The Noosing of thc Sun Cod
Canada - The Canadian Author’s Meet.

UNIT — II
PROSE
Edward Said - Introduction — Orientalism
Chinua Achebc - Novelist as Teacher

UNIT — III
DRAMA
Africa - Wole Soyinka - The Swamp Dwellers

UNIT — IV
FICTION
Africa - Chinua Achebc - Things Fall Apart

UNIT — V
Helen Tiffin, Bill Ashcroft et-al - The Empire Writes Back - Introduction

Books For Reference

1. Ashcroft, Bill. Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back.
London: Routledge, 2003.
2. Ashcroft, Bill. Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. The Postcolonial Studies Reader.
London: Routledge, 1995.
 JOURNALISM

UNIT — I
Principles of Journalism
Editorial Staff and Their Functions

UNIT — II
Kinds of Reporting
Different kinds of Lead and Journalistic Vocabulary

UNIT — III
Copyright Laws, Press Registration Act in Democracy

UNIT — IV
Photo Journalism and Journalism through Radio and Television

UNIT — V
Relevance of Journalism in Modern Times
Neighbourhood Journalism

Book for Reference:

Eaman, Ross. The A to Z of Journalism. Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

 SKILLS FOR WORKPLACE

UNIT — I
Enhancing Speaking Skills

UNIT — II
Telephone Skills
Interview Skills

UNIT — Ill
Presentation Skills

UNIT — IV
Writing a resume
E-mail etiquette

UNIT — V
Group Discussion
Team Work and
Decision making Skills

Reference:
Modules devised by Sutherland Global Services, Chennai, 600096.