SEMESTER 1:
GENERAL ENGLISH/I/FC/1: ENGLISH I ( Course I – FC)
Unit I: Parts of Speech, Tense and Voice
Unit II: Direct and Indirect Speech, Concept of Concord
Unit III: Reading comprehension, Precis writing
Unit IV: Letter Writing – Job application letter, Resume writing, Report writing, Essay writing
Unit V: Verbal Communication/Verbal Ability Test – Test of verbal skills through mock Interviews/Seminars/Presentations
Note : Oral Communication carrying 15 marks will be conducted in the college and marks will be submitted to the Examination Department independent of the Internal test marks.
SEMESTER II: English Paper II : POETRY AND PROSE
Full marks - 100
Unit I: 1. Let Me Not To The Marriage Of Minds - William Shakespeare
2. Death Be Not Proud - John Donne
Unit II: 3. Ode To Autumn - John Keats
4. A Prayer For My Daughter - W.B. Yeats
Unit III: 5. Kunwar Singh - Jim Corbett
Unit IV: 6. Letter To My Daughter - Jawaharlal Nehru
Unit V: 7. Lali - Biakliana
Prescribed
textbook: Anthology of English Prose
& Poetry, Board of Editors, Mizoram University, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018
Semester III: ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks 100
Unit I: 1. The Chimney Sweeper - William Blake
2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
Unit II: 3. The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy
4. The Night of the Scorpion - Nissim Ezekiel
Unit III: 5. Astrologer’s Day - R.K. Narayan
Unit IV: 6. Money and the Englishman - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Unit V: 7. Sialton Official - C. Thuamluaia
ENGLISH CORE SYLLABI
SEMESTER I
ENG/II/CC/2: Elective Core Subject 1: (Course 1- EC)
History of English Literature
Unit I: Old English Period – Pre-Elizabethan Period
Unit II: The Elizabethan Age
Unit III: 18th Century Literature (Emphasis on Satire)
Unit IV: 19th Century Literature (Romantic Age and Victorian Age)
Unit V: 20th Century Literature (Modern Age)
(Note: Objective questions may be based only on Units III, IV and V)
References:
1. English Literature, its history and significance. William J. Long, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi (latest edition)
2. Critical History of English Literature: David Daiches Vol I, II & IV. Macmillan Publication.
SEMESTER II
Core Subject Paper II: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & PHONETICS
Full Marks 100
Unit I: An Outline History of the English Language - F.T.Wood, Macmillan
Unit II: Our Language - Simeon Potter, Penguin
Unit III: Place and Manner of Articulation
Unit IV: Vowels, Consonants, Diphthongs, Clusters and Syllables
Transcription
Unit V: Stress Patterns
References:
1. Spoken English, RK Bansal & JB Harrison, Longman, 2006
2. From Old English to Standard English, D. Freeman, Macmillan, 1992
3. English Phonetics & Phonology: A Practical Course, Peter Roach, OUP, 1983
4. An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English Language, AC Genison
Note: Questions will be set taking at least one from each unit.
SEMESTER III
Core Subject Paper III: POETRY & SHORT STORIES
Full Marks 100
Unit I: 1. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - John Donne
2. The Tyger - William Blake
Unit II: 3. Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats
4. Ulysses - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unit III: 5. Sailing to Byzantium - W.B. Yeats
6. Journey of the Magi - T.S. Eliot
Unit IV: 7. Civility is all that Counts - S.J. Duncan
8. Chhingpuii - Kaphleia
Unit V: 9. Son of the Soil - Sebastian Zumvil
10. He’s Still Alive - Bimabati Thiyum Ongbi
Prescribed text for translated Stories from North East India The Heart of the Matter, published by Katha, New Delhi 2004.
Note: Questions will be set from all Units.
SEMESTER IV
Core Subject Paper IV – FICTION I
Full Marks 100
Unit I: Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Unit II: Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Unit III: The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Unit IV: Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Unit V: Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
SEMESTER V
Paper V : DRAMA – I
Full Marks - 100
Unit I: Everyman - Anonymous
Unit II: Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Unit III: King Lear - William Shakespeare
Unit IV: All For Love - John Dryden
Unit V: The School for Scandal - Richard Sheridan
Note: 5 questions should be attempted, taking at least one from each Unit.
Paper VI : WOMEN'S WRITINGS
Full Marks – 100
Unit I: Fire on the Mountain - Anita Desai
Unit II: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Unit III: To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Unit IV: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Unit V: The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Note: 5 questions should be attempted, taking at least one from each Unit.
Paper VII : ENGLISH LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Full Marks : 100
Unit I - Chapter I : Classical Criticism
Unit II - Chapter II : Medieval and Renaissance Criticism
Unit III - Chapter III : English Neoclassical Criticism
Unit IV - Chapter IV : Romantic and Victorian Criticism
Unit V - Chapter V : Twentieth Century Criticism
Prescribed Text : English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History
M.S. Nagarajan, Orient Blackswan, 2006.
Note: 5 questions should be attempted, taking at least one from each Unit.
Paper VIII: (Option II – POPULAR STUDIES)
Full marks 100
Unit I
1. Born to be Wild - Mars Bonfire
2. Blowin’ in the Wind - Bob Dylan
3. The Sound of Silence - Paul Simon
Unit II
4. Time - Roger Waters
5. Imagine - John Lennon
6. Let it Be - Paul McCartney
Unit III
7. The Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur
Unit IV
8. Second Thoughts - Shobha De
Unit V
9. One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat
Note: 5 questions should be attempted, taking at least one from each Unit.
SEMESTER VI
Paper IX: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Full Marks 100
Unit I: Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand
Unit II: Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
Unit III: Silence! The Court is in Session - Vijay Tendulkar
Unit IV: Tara - Mahesh Dattani
Unit V: Hayadana - Girish Karnad
Note: 5 questions should be attempted taking at least one from each Unit.
Paper X : DRAMA II
Full Marks 100
Unit I: Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw
Unit II: A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
Unit III: Look Back in Anger - John Osbourne
Unit IV: The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter
Unit V: Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Note: 5 questions should be attempted taking at least one from each Unit
Paper XI: LITERARY CRITICISM
Full Marks 100
Unit I: Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare – Dr Samuel Johnson
Unit II: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth
Unit III: The Study of Poetry - Matthew Arnold
Unit IV: The Function of Criticism - T.S. Eliot
Unit V: Literary Criticism and Philosophy - F.R. Leavis
Note: 5 questions should be attempted taking at least one from each Unit
Recommended text: Literary Criticism: A Reading – B. Das & J.M. Mohanty, OUP (2001)
Note: Full texts for Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare and Preface to the Lyrical Ballads must be sourced from Critical Texts by Enright and Chickera, OUP
Paper XII: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Full Marks 100
Unit I: The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Unit II: Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Unit III: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Unit IV: Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Unit V: A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Note: 5 questions should be attempted taking at least one from each Unit.
