EIGTH SEMESTER

Course Code Course Title Cr Hrs

BS(ENG)801 Post Colonial Studies (ELLC) 3
(New outline)

BS(ENG)802 American Literature (ELLC) 3

BS(ENG)803 Sociolinguistics & Psycholinguistics (ELLC) 3

(New Outline)

BS(ENG)804 Women Literature (ELLC) 3

BS(ENG)805 Research Thesis (ELLC) 3

BS (ENG) 806 Spanish/Russian 3

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 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES
Department of English Graduate Studies
BS Hons 8th Semester

Course Outline: Post Colonial Literature

Course Code: 801 Marks: 100

Course: Postcolonial Literature

Level: BS 8th
Course Code: ELL 413

Course Description:
This course is based on a study of some seminal and significant postcolonial literary texts
(selected poetry, drama and fiction) in order to introduce the student to the colonial project and see
how the colonial experience helped shape literature as a result of military, political, social and cultural
encounters between the colonizers and the colonized. The postcolonial literature(s) can be roughly
divided into three overlapping phases. The first type comes from the period of contact between the
colonial powers and the colonized, the second type is the response of the natives to the colonizers,
and the third is contemporary literature which comes from the parts that were earlier colonized, and
also from the diasporic authors. This study is also useful in assessing the developments which have
taken place in this field over time and relate with the material conditions of the contemporary world
and, consequently, with relevant theoretical concepts as well. An introduction to the key concepts and
terms related to Postcolonial Studies is also part of this course.

Objectives/Aims of the Course:

1. To develop an understanding of the key concepts and terms related to the postcolonial
studies.
2. To study the selected literature employing the postcolonial concepts in order to analyze this
literature.
3. To see how these readings relate with the contemporary realities, issues and debates of the
world and to understand the importance of this field of study in the developments taking place
in the world.

Core Texts:

Poetry
1. Derek Walcott. A Far Cry from Africa (1962)
2. Louise Bennet. Selected Poems (1983)

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 3. Wole Soyinka. Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems (1988)
4. A.K. Ramanujan. Collected Poems (2011)
(Note: First three poems, out of each of these collections, may be selected by the concerned
teacher.)

Drama
1. Wole Soyinka. A Dance of the Forests (1963)
2. Derek Walcott. Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970)
3. Jack Davis. Honey Spot (1985)

Fiction
1. Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart (1958), a novel.
2. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Devil on the Cross (1982), a novel.
3. Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel.
4. Rohinton Mistry. Tales From Firozsha Baag (1987), a collection of short stories.
(Note: First two Novels and Dramas have been selected to be taught at main campus.)

Outcomes of the Course:

1. To identify the postcolonial issues and conflicts through the reading of the texts.
2. To see what the text in question is discussing and critiquing.
3. To analyze the emerging themes and understand their significance in relation to the conflicts
of the contemporary world.

Further/ Suggested Readings:

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1989). The Empire Writes Back. London : Routledge.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1998). Post-Colonial Studies - The Key Concepts. London, New
York: Routledge.

Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.

Fanon, F. (1963). The Wretched of the Earth. (C. Farrington, Trans.) New York: Grove Weidenfield.

Innes, C. L. (2007). The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in English. Cambridge,

New York: Cambridge University Press.

Loomba, A. (1998). Colonialism/ Postcolonialism. London: Routledge.

Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. London: Routledge.

Said, E. W. (1994). Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage Books.

Spivak, G. (1988). Marxism and Interpretation of Culture: Can the Subaltern Speak? (C. Nelson, & L.
Grossberg, Eds.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Assessment:

Total marks: 100

Mid Term: (Marks: 30)
Class Participation/ presentation/ project: (Marks: 20)
End Term: (Marks: 50)

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Department of English Graduate Studies
BS Hons 8th Semester

Course Outline: American Literature

Course Code: 802 Marks: 100

MID TERM (Marks: 30)

1. Fiction: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

2. Poetry: Give me the Splendid Silent Sun, Walt Whitman
Success is Counted Sweetest, Because I could not Stop for Death,
Emily Dickinson
Birches, Robert Frost
The Hollow Men, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

END TERM (Marks: 50)

3. Drama: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill

Assignment/ Presentation (Marks: 20)

Recommended Readings:
a. Beach, J.W. The Twentieth Century Novel, 1952
b. Kettle, Arnold. Introduction to the English Novel II. London: Hutchinson, 1978.
c. Waggoner, H.H. American Poetry from the Puritans to the Present, 1968, Rev. 1984.
d. Lumley, Fredrick. Trends in Twentieth Century Drama. Fairlawn: 1956 revised
1960.Bigsby, C.W.E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama:
l, 1900-1940; ll William, Miller, Albee; lll Beyond Broadway, 1982-85.
e. Modern Critical Interpretation edited by Harold Bloom, 1980s editions.

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 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES
Department of English Graduate Studies
BS Hons 8th Semester

Course Outline: Sociolinguistics & Psycholinguistics

Course Code: 803 Marks: 100
Core Text: Sociolinguistics: An Introduction by Peter Trudgill
(New York: Penguin Books, 1974)
The Articulate Mammal by Jean Aitcheson3rd Ed
(London: Unwin Hayman, 1976)
MID TERM (Marks: 30)
1. What is language?
2. Dialects, Sociolect, Idiolect
3. Standard Language
4. RP
5. Kinship System
6. Taboos
7. Langue Varieties
8. Social Stratification
9. Social Class
10. Langue and Gender
11. Restricted and Elaborated Codes
12. Linguistic Purity
13. Ethnicity
14. Pidgins and Creoles
15. Extinct and Endangered Languages

END TERM (Marks: 50)

1. Introduction to Psycholinguistics

 What is language and mind connection

 The history and methods of psycholinguistics
 Models in Psycholinguistics
 Where did language come from?
 Do Animals have language?

2. The Foundations of Language

 The biological basis of language

 The cognitive basis of language
 The social basis of language

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  Relation between language and thought

3. Language Development

 Introduction
 The language acquisition device
 How children develop language
 Phonological development
 Lexical and Semantic development
 Syntactic development

4. Language Recognition

 Recognizing visual words

 What makes word recognition easier (or harder)
 Models of visual word recognition
 Reading & Recognition
 The writing system
 A model of reading
 The processes of normal reading
 Recognizing speech
 Models of speech recognition

5. Language Comprehension

 Comprehension: Intro
 Memory for text and inferences
 Reference and ambiguity
 Models of text processing
 Individual differences in comprehension skills

6. Language Production

 Introduction
 Slips of tongue
 Syntactic planning
 Lexicalization
 Phonological encoding

7. Language and Brain

 Language parts in Brain

 Language Disorders

8. Neuroscience & Language

 Neuroscience of language learning: Critical period

 Neuroscience of language recognition/ comprehension
 Neuroscience of language/ text processing
 Neuroscience of speech production

Assignment/ Presentation (Marks: 20)

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Recommended Readings:
a. Fromkin, V.Rodman, R. Hyams,N.(2003) An Introduction to Language. USA:
Thompson.
b. The Linguistic Encyclopedia

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Department of English Graduate Studies
BS Hons 8th Semester

Course Outline: Women Literature

Course Code: 804 Marks: 100

MID TERM (Marks: 30)

1. Emily Bronte
 Come Walk with Me
 Me Thinks this Heart
 Encouragement
 A death Scene
 No Coward Soul is Mine
2. Charlotte Bronte
 Jane Eyre
3. Adrienne Rich
 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

END TERM (Marks: 50)

4. Jean Rhys
 The Wide Sargasso Sea
5. Eavan Boland
 The Journey

Assignment/ Presentation (Marks: 20

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Department of English Graduate Studies
BS Hons 8th Semester

Course Outline: Research Project

Course Code: 805 Marks: 100
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A research thesis is to be written under the guidance/supervision of faculty member/s. It
is also followed by a compulsory Viva Voce.

Marks Division
Written: 50
Viva Voce: 50

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