UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Syllabus for M.A. Final Course in English
Session: 2009-2010
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
Total Marks : 600 marks
Written :
500 “
Tutorial :
50 “
Terminal : 25
“
Viva-Voce : 25 “
Course-Eng 501:
Shakespeare
Marks: 100
GROUP-A:
1. Hamlet: MNQI
2. Othello: AA
3. King Lear: MNQI
GROUP-B:
4. A
Midsummer Night’s Dream:QBM
5.
The Tempest:SB
6.
Measure for Measure:QMB
GROUP-C:
7.
King Henry IV, parts I&II.:MHC
8.
Sonnets:TSS
Course-Eng 502
Modern Continental Literature in
Translation
Marks: 100
GROUP –A:
1. Baudelaire:MM Selected
Poems (Tr. by Joanna Richardson)
penguin Books.
Spleen (I have more memories
than a thousand years),
Spleen (When, like a lid, the
low and heavy sky),
Correspondences,
The Albatross,
You would be all creation’s
concubine,
The Cat (Come, lovely eat),
The Living Flame,
To a Crcole Woman,
The ghost,
Joyful Death.
2. Rilke:MM Selected
Poems The Duino
Elegies: The First Elegy and the Ninth Elegy
GROUP-B
3. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment:DM
4. Kalfa, A Hunger Artist (Tr. by Willa and Edwin Muir):MHC
GROUP-C
5. Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Tr. Rolf Fjelde): CMA
6. Pirandello. Six Characters
in search of an Author (Tr. By Edward Storer):QMB
Course – Eng 503
English Language Teaching
Marks 100
A. Theories in Second Language Acquisition
1. Nativist theories of SLA:SM
(i) General Characteristics
(ii) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar and
SLA
(iii) A critique of language-specific
nativist theories
2. Environmentalist Theories of SLA:SM
(i)General characteristics
(ii) Schumann’s Pidginization
Hypothesis and Acculturation Model
(iii)A critique of the Pidginization
Hypothesis and Acculturation Model
B. Research & Teaching Methodology:CMA
1. Interlanguage studies
(i) introduction
(ii) Contrastive analysis
(iii) Error analysis
(iv) Performance analysis
2.Explanation for differential success
among second language leaners:
(i) Age
(ii)Aptitude
(iii) Social- psychological factors: Motivation and
Attitude
(iv) Personality
(v) Cognitive
(vi) Hemisphere specialization
(vii)
Learning Strategies
(viii)
Other Factors
3.Approach and Methods in Language Teaching
(i)Grammar-translation
Method
(ii)
Communicative Language Teaching
(iii)
The Audiolingual Method
(iv)The
Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching
(v)
Others.
4. Testing and Evaluation
C. Course and Material design:TSS
D. Syntax and morphology
(i) Articles
(ii)
Tense and aspects
(iii)
Prepositions
(iv)
Modals and Conditionals
(v)Affixation
–Derivation and inflections.
E. Discourse Analysis. Pragmatics and practical
Stylistics: MRU
(i)
Speech Acts and Conversational Maxims
(ii)
The analysis of literary discourse
(iii)
Teaching language through literature
Course –Eng 504(A):
Modern American Literature
GROUP-A
1. Whitman: Songs of Myself:TJB
2.Emily Dickinson: Selections:MM
(as in The Norton Anthology of American
Literature, 2 Edition)
3.Robert Frost: Selections:
(as in The Norton Anthology of modern
poetry (ed.) Ellman, et. al)
4.William Carlos Williams:
Selections (as in The Norton Anthology of
Modern poetry I (ed.) Ellman, et. Al)
GROUP-B:
5.Melville: Moby Dick.:
6.Twain: The adventures of
Hucklebury Finn:ZC
7. F. Scott Fitzerald: The
Great Gatsby
8. Hemingway: A Farewell to
Arms
9. Toni Morrison: Beloved
GROUP-C:
10. O’Neill:
The Long Day’s Journey into Night
11. Edward Albee: The Zoo Story:JBS
12. A Miller: Death of a Salesman:RJ
Recommended Reading:
Or
Course- Eng 504(B)
Middle English Literature
Marks 100
Course-Eng 505(A)
Post Colonial and Post Modern Literature
I. Post Colonial Literature
1. Kipling - Kim:
2. Coetzee.J.M. - Life
and Times of Michael K:ZC
3. Chosh. Amitav - Shadow
Lines:ZC
II. Post Modern Literature
4. Vonnegut, Kurt: -Breakfast
of Champions:
5. Kundera, Milan -The
unbearable Lightness of Being:
6. Marquez, - Strange
Pilgrims:MRU