Word formation – Forming noun, forming adjective 10 Marks
Saurashtra University, B. A. (English) Syllabus, 2019 Page 1
Saurashtra University
Board of Studies in English
Draft Syllabus Bachelor of
Arts (Semester I to VI)
In effect from 2019 onwards
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY
Effective from Academic Year June 2019
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) (Semester 1 to 6)
Foundation Course in English (FCE), Core Course in English (CCE) and
Functional English (FE) Effective from June 2019
Semester 1
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 01
Course Title Foundation Course in English Course Credit 03
Category Foundation Course Course
No.
01
Course Code Foundation Course
Semester End
Exam
2:30 Hours 70 Marks
Program Semester Category Credit Internal
Marks
External
Marks
Practical/
Viva
Marks
Total
Marks
B. A. 01 Foundation
Course
03 30 70 -- 100
Internal Assessment: Assignment/ presentation/ test
Learning Objectives:
The students will be able to master themselves in grammar and usage
They will be able to understand the Indian culture and civilization through
the selected texts
Detailed syllabus:
Foundation Course in English (FCE 1)
Text: Images: A Handbook of Stories (Stories 1 to 5)
Edited by M. M. Lukose
Published by Macmillan Publishers India Limited, New Delhi.
ISBN: 10:0333-920201, AND, 13:9780333-920206
40 Marks
Grammar & Composition
Parts of Speech 10 marks
Tenses 10 Marks
Word formation – Forming noun, forming adjective 10 Marks
Semester end examination pattern
Question
No.
Options Marks
1 (A) Answer in one line (Text) 5/7 05
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(B) Short notes (Text) 2/3 15
2 Short answer question (Text) 5/7 20
3 Objective type questions
(A) Parts of Speech
(B) Tenses
10/10
10/10
10
10
4 Word formation (Objective
type)
10/10 10
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Semester 1 Core Course in English (CCE – 1)
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 01
Course Title Literary Form: Short Story Course Credit 03
Category Core Course / Elective 1 /
Elective 2
Course
No.
01
Course Code
Core
Elective 1
Elective 2
Semester End
Exam
2:30 Hours 70 Marks
Category Teaching
Hours
Credit Internal
Marks
External
Marks
Practical/
Viva
Marks
Total
Marks
Core
Course /
Elective 1
/ Elective
2
45 03 30 70 NA 100
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of short story. The objective of the
paper is to familiarize the students with the form and with major writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
Course Content:
Literary Form: Short Story
Text: Macmillan Stories for Colleges– Edited by K. G. Seshadri
Publishers: Macmillan Publishers India Limited. Seventh Impression,
2010
ISBN: 10-0333-921445, and 13-978-0333-921449
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Titles of short stories for study:
1. The Robe of Peace-O. Henry. 2. The Miracle of Puran Bhagat-Rudyard
Kipling. 3. The Truth about Pyecraft-H.G. Wells. 4. Quality-John Galsworthy. 5.
Mabel-William Somerset Maugham. 6. The Hammer of God-G.K. Chesterton. 7.
A Cup of Tea-Catherine Mansfield. 8. The Far and the Near-Thomas Wolfe. 9.
Half-a-Rupee Worth-R.K. Narayan. 10. Bachcha Lieutenant-Manohar
Malgonkar
Unit 1 Definition, Elements of short stories - character, setting, plot, conflict, theme
Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 2 Nature, Scope and Types of Short Stories Teaching time: 7 hours
Unit 3 Short Stories 1 to 3 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 4Short Stories 4 to 6 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Unit 5 Short Stories 7 to 10 from the anthology Teaching time: 12 hours
Semester End exam:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Short Stories) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Bangalore: Prison Books, 1993.
Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981. Anand, M.R.
"Introduction." Comparative Indian Literature. Vol. 2.
Ed. K.M. George. New York: Macmillan, 1966.132-133.
Bates, H.G. The Modern Short Story from 1809 to 1953. London: Robert Hale, 1988.
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. The Scope of Fiction. New York: Appleton
Crafts, 1960.
Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. New Delhi: Clarion Books, 1980.
Das, Sisir Kumar. (Ed.). A History of Indian Literature: 1800-1910: Western Impact,
Indian Response. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1991.
Gelfant, Blanche and Lawrence Graver (Eds.). The Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Hart, James (ed.) The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford, Gr. Brit.:
Oxford UP, 1995.
Isweren, Manjeri. "The Role of the Story Teller in the Modern World." The Aryan
Path. Dec. 1957. 216-217.
Kempton, K.P. The Short Story. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1954. Magill, Frank. (Ed.)
Short Story Writers. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997.
Matthews, Brander. The Philosophy of The Short Story. New York: Longmans, Green,
1901.
Mundra, J.N. and C.L. Sahani. Advanced Literary Essays. 4th Edition, Bareilly: Prakash
Book Depot, 1965.
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"A Study of Prose Fiction," by Bliss Perry, Chapter XII, The Short-Story, pp. 300-334.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902.
Rao, M. Rama (Ed.). "The Short Story in Modern Indian Literature." Fiction and the
Reading Public in India. Mysore: Mysore UP, 1967.
Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London: Longman, 1983.
"Short Story." The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. Micropaedia vol. 10.
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998.
Summer, Hollis (Ed.). Discussions of the Short Story. Boston: Heath, 1963.
Venugopal, C.V. The Indian Short Story in English: A Survey. Bareilly: Prakash Book
Depot. 1976.
Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature. London: Methuen, 1992.
Watson, Noelle (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.
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Semester – 1 Core Course in English (CCE – 2)
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 01
Course Title Literary Form: Lyric Course Credit 03
Category Core Course / Elective 1 /
Elective 2
Course
No.
02
Course Code
Core
Elective 1
Elective 2
Semester End
Exam
2:30 Hours 70 Marks
Category Teaching
Hours
Credit Internal
Marks
External
Marks
Practical/
Viva
Marks
Total
Marks
Core
Course /
Elective 1
/ Elective
2
45 03 30 70 NA 100
Internal Marks break up: Assignment/Presentation/ Written Test
Course Objective:
The Core Course intends to allow the learners to specialize in the broad subject area
and acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to that area. This paper initiates the
students into the literary field through the genre of lyric. The objective of the paper
is to familiarize the students with the form and with major creative writers of that
genre and to hone their ability to comprehend and analyze English literary texts.
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Course Content:
Form: Lyric
Text: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Editor: Board of Editors. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2014.
ISBN: 978-81-25-5606-5
Note: the following poems are to be taught and asked in the exam.
1. Sonnet 144 - William Shakespeare
2. Holy Sonnet 14 - John Donne
3. The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
4. Daddy -Sylvia Plath
5. Do Not Go Gentle into That Night -Dylan Thomas
6. Ode to a Nightingale -John Keats
7. Dejection: An Ode -S.T. Coleridge
8. Ode to Solitude -Alexander Pope
9. The Ballad of Father Gilligan -W.B. Yeats
10. A Lament -P.B. Shelley
Unit 1: Origin and Development of the genre Teaching time: 05 hours
Unit 2: Lyric Types: Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Ballad: 10 hours
Unit 3: Characteristics of Lyric Teaching time: 5 hours
Concepts of poetic techniques -regarding structure, rhyme, meter, alliteration, lines
and stanza, assonance etc. with reference to the prescribed works
Unit 4: Poetic Symphony: An Anthology of Sonnets, Elegies, Odes and Ballads
Teaching time: 25 hours
Semester end examination:
Q. 1 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 2 Long Answer Question (Form) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 3 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14Marks
Q. 4 Long Answer Question (Poems) (1/2) 14 x 1 14 Marks
Q. 5 (A) Short Notes Question (Form) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Q. 5 (B) Short Notes Question (Poems) (1/2) 07 x 1 07 Marks
Recommended reading:
Alexander, L. G. 1963. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for the Overseas Students.
Longmans.
Blackstone, Bernard. Practical English Prosody. Longmans.
Goose, Edmund. 1990. Appreciation of Poetry. Orient BlackSwan Ltd. Palgrave,
F. T. Golden Treasury. Macmillan: London, New York Online support:
Cary, John. Practical English Prosody and Versification
http://www.archive.org/details/practicalenglis00caregoog
*[1 credit = 1 hour of teaching per week (1 credit Course = 15 hours of lectures per
semester; 3 credits = 3 hours of instruction per week (3 credit Course = 45 hours of
lectures per semester)]
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Functional English I (FE1) B. A. SEMESTER – I (For Regular Students Only)
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 01
Course Title Introduction to Phonetics Course Credit 03
Category Elective 2 (Optional) Course
No.
01
Course Code Elective 2 (Optional)
Semester End
Exam
2:30 Hours 50 Marks
Category Teaching
Hours
Credit Internal
Marks
External
Marks
Practical/
Viva
Marks
Total
Marks
Elective 2
(Optional)
45 03 30 50 20 100
Course Objective:
To initiate the students in the study of phonetics
To make students aware about the vowels and consonants and their
pronunciations
To make students aware about human speech mechanism
Course Content:
Unit I : Introduction to Phonetics, Phonetic Symbols
Unit II : Airstream Mechanism
Unit III: Organs of Speech
Unit IV : Classification of Consonants
Unit V : Classification of Vowels
Definitions: Linguistics, Phonetics, Airstream mechanism, Voiced and Voiceless
sounds, Oral, Nasal, Nasalized sounds, Vowels, Consonants, Plosives etc.
Diagrams: Organs of Speech, Vocal cords, Soft Palate
Transcription: 5 words to be transcribed, 5 transcribed words to be identified.
Semester end Exams: 50 Marks
1. Objective questions 10
2. Definitions (2/4) 05
3. Short notes (2/4) 10
4. Long Questions (1/2) 10
5. Diagram (1/2) 05
6. Transcription 10
Prescribed TEXTBOOK: A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students by T.
Balasubramanian, CIEFL, Hyderabad
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BA SEMESTER-I Functional English II (FE2) (For Regular Students Only)
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 01
Course Title Functional Grammar Course Credit 03
Category Elective 2 (Optional) Course
No.
02
Course Code Elective 2 (Optional)
Semester End
Exam
2:30 Hours 70 Marks
Category Teaching
Hours
Credit Internal
Marks
External
Marks
Practical/
Viva
Marks
Total
Marks
Elective 2
(Optional)
45 03 30 70 -- 100
Course objectives:
To initiate the students in the study of grammar
To enkindle interest in the formal study of English grammar
Course content:
Unit I: Parts of Speech, Formal and Functional Labels
Unit II: Noun Phrase
Structure: (The Head, Determiners, Articles, Pre-modifiers, Post-modifiers,
Relative Clauses) Representation of NP with the help of Tree Diagram
Functions :( Appositional Noun Phrases, Noun Phrase – Grammatical
Features
Number, Gender, Case)
Pronouns
Unit III: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrase
Simple and Complex Prepositions, Prepositional Meanings
Unit IV: Adjectives and Adjectival Phrase (Intensifiers, Degrees of Comparison)
Reference Books:
Making Sense of English – A Textbook of Sounds, Words and Grammar
by M. A. Yadugiri
English Grammar and Composition, Rajendra Pal and PremLata Suri
Semester end Exams: 70 Marks
1. Definitions/ objective type questions 14 Marks
2. Short notes (2/3) 14Marks
3. Tree Diagram (7/9) 14 Marks
4. Identify the determiners/article features/fill in the blanks 14 Marks
5A. Degrees of Comparison 7 Marks
5 B. Formal and Functional Labels 7Marks
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Semester 2 Name of the Course: Foundation Course in English-2 (FCE-2)
Saurashtra University
Faculty of Arts
English
Syllabus (Effective from June 2019 onwards)
Subject English Semester 02
Course Title Foundation Course in English Course Credit 03
Category Foundation Course Course
No.
02
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