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.