BA English

Curriculum

Curriculum

BA English

  • Course Name

    Credits

  • Foundation Course (FC)

    24

  • Department Core Courses (DC)

    32

  • Departmental Elective Courses (DE)

    32

  • Allied Department Course - 1 (AC - 1)

    8

  • Allied Department Course - 2 (AC - 2)

    8

  • Degree requirement (FC+DC+DE+AC1+AC2)

    104

  • Semester 1

    Credits

  • Foundation Course 1

    4

  • Foundation Course 2

    4

  • English 122:  Indian Authors and Their Impact

    4

A rich tradition of Indian vernacular literatures is now available in English and allows us to compare Indian literature in English with demotic traditions.

  • Liberal Arts Elective

    4
  • 16

  • Semester 2

    Credits

  • Foundation Course 3

    4

  • Foundation Course 4

    4

  • COM 222 - Digital Storytelling and Writing

    4

  • English 202 - Creative Writing

    4
  • 16

  • Semester 3

    Credits

  • Foundation Course 5

    4

  • English 203 - Rhetorical & Critical Appr. to English

    4

Topics may include New Media Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Deconstruction, New Historicism and Queer Theory.

  • English 223:  Advanced Writing and Speaking

    4

  • AC 1- Allied Department Course - 1.a

    4

  • AC 1- Allied Department Course - 1.b

    4
  • 20

  • Semester 4

    Credits

  • Foundation Course 6

    4

  • English 246:  World Literature

    4

This course will think about the theory and practice of translation as well as study a selection of translated texts from around the world.

  • English 292: Writing and Film

    4

This course will study comparative traditions of film-making and think about the socio-cultural and filmic languages encoded in these productions.

  • AC 2- Allied Department Course - 2

    4

  • AC 2- Allied Department Course - 2

    4
  • 20

  • Semester 5

    Credits

  • English 322:  Analyzing the Novel

    4

This course will look at the rise of the novel, its development through realism, modernism, post-modernism, magical realism and the postcolonial novel.

  • English 332:  Literary and Rhetorical Criticism

    4

  • English 346:  Indian Myth, Literature and Narrative

    4

  • English/JRL 392:  Writing for the Mass Media

    4
  • 16

  • Semester 6

    Credits

  • English 302:  Critical Approaches to Literature

    4

Topics may include New Media Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Deconstruction, New Historicism and Queer Theory.

  • COM/JRL 333:  Cyber Culture

    4

  • English 369:  English Writing Lab/Special Topics

    4

  • English 398:  Capstone Course

    4
  • 16

  • Other Courses not covered above

  • Basic concepts in literature
  • British literature
  • American literature
  • Indian literature
  • Gender
  • Poetry
  • Nonfiction
  • Novel
  • Media
  • Theater
  • Authors
  • Religion
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