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Objectives
The Department of English offers Bachelor of Arts in English (Honors) program with
concentration in English Literature and ELT (English Language Teaching). This program
aims at providing modern and extensive education in English language literature and
language teaching for preparing graduates equipped with knowledge and skills required
for professional success in different sectors. The program also aims at training students
To read analytically
To know about the major literary movements and periods, authors and their
representative works, and critical theories related to English literature
Specialization
Bachelor of Arts in
specialization/concentration
English
program
has
the
following
areas
as
a) English Literature
b) ELT (English Language Teaching)
Major in English Literature
Specific Objectives
Students who complete a major in English literature will be able to
Enable the learners to write academic essay, assignments, research paper and
thesis
Familiarize learners with the major literary movements in Great Britain, USA,
Indian subcontinent and Africa
Admission Requirements
Minimum GPA 2.5 in both S.S.C and H.S.C or equivalent
Duration of the Program
The duration of Bachelor of Arts in English program is 4 academic years with three
Semesters in each year.
Duration
Semester I
Spring
January April
Semester II
Summer
May August
Semester III
Fall
September December
Letter Grade
Grade Point
A+
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
D
F
4.00
3.75
3.50
3.25
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
2.00
0.00
Evaluation Procedures
The evaluation system is based on class attendance, in course/class test,
assignments/term papers, mid-term and final examination. No. of classes, class test and
assignment/term paper will depend on respective course teacher. There will be a
mid-term in the middle of the Semester. The distribution of marks is as follows:
Class Attendance
05%
10%
Assignment/Term paper
10%
Mid-Term
25%
Semester Final
50%
Program Structure:
The Bachelor of Arts in English program consists of
Orientation Course
Non Credit
12 Credit Hours
2 Credit Hours
9 Credit Hours
Free Electives
15 Credit Hours
60 Credit Hours
03 Credit Hours
4 Credit Hours
123 Credit Hours
Graduation
A total of 123 credit hours are required for the completion of Bachelor of Arts in
English program with major/concentration. A grade of 2.50 or higher CGPA is
required to obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English. In addition, students must
fulfill the professional development seminar and senior project requirements before
graduation. Students must also complete the thesis requirements and a mandatory
noncredit orientation course in 3 parts.
Courses
A.
Orientation Course
SL.
Course Code
Course Title
1.
ORE 101
Freshmen Orientation *
2.
ORE 102
Continuing Orientation *
3.
ORE 103
Professional Orientation*
* ORE 101, ORE 102 & ORE 103 are combined courses and all these three
courses will be treated as a single course.
B. General Education
4 courses of 3.00 credit hours each and 1 course of 2.00 credit hours each, total credit
hours are 13.
SL.
No.
Course
Code
Course Title
1.
CIS 101
Computer Fundamentals*
2.
HIS 202
3.
BAG 201
Bengali Literature
4.
HIS 201
European History*
BAG 101
6.
HIS 203
7.
SOC 101
Introduction to Sociology
8.
PSY 101
Introduction to Psychology
9.
IR
International Relations
101
Course Code
Course Title
1.
ENG 101
2.
ENG 102
Reading
3.
ENG 103
Writing
4.
ENG 104
Public Speaking
5.
ENG 105
Composition
6.
ENG106
writing
Technical
D.
Free Electives
5 courses of 3.00 credit hours each and total credit hours are 15
1. ENG 201
Academic Writing
2. ENG 202
Professional Communication
3. ELT 401
4. ENGL 402
Translation Studies
5. ENGL 403
6. MGT 401
Fundamentals of Management
7. FIN 201
8. HRM 301
Course Code
Course Title
1.
ENGL 101
2.
ENGL 102
3.
ENGL 103
4.
ENGL 104
5.
ENGL 201
Romantic Literature-I
6.
ENGL 202
Romantic Literature-II
7.
ENGL 203
Classics in Translation-I
8.
ENGL 204
Classics in Translation-II
9.
ENGL 301
10.
ENGL 302
11.
ENGL 303
12.
ENGL 305
13.
ENGL 304
14.
ENGL 307
15.
ENGL 306
16.
ENGL 309
17.
ENGL 308
18.
ELT 301
19.
ELT 302
20.
ENGL 401
Literary Criticism-I
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F. Concentration/Specialization
A student will have to choose 6 courses from one of the following specialization
areas (each course consists of 3.00 credit hours):
1. English Literature
SL.
Course Code
Course Title
a. ENGL 404
Literary Criticism-II
b. ENGL 406
American Literature-II
c. ENGL 405
Shakespeare
d. ENGL 407
e. ENGL 408
ENGL 409
f.
Course Code
Course Title
a.
ELT 402
b.
ELT 403
c.
ELT 404
d.
ELT 405
Discourse Analysis
e.
ELT 406
Practice Teaching
f.
ELT 407
G. Thesis
3 credit hours
4 credit hours
Orientation
Freshmen Orientation
The purpose of orientation is to foster a sense of community that is open, just, nurturing, caring,
celebrative and supportive of excellence in teaching and learning. Orientation programs are also
designed to enhance the intellectual, cultural, social and spiritual experiences of the students. In
addition, orientation and assembly programs also focus on issues pertaining to leadership
development, quality of life and social responsibility. This program also informs rules and
regulation of this university, duties and rights of students during their program in daily academic
and related affairs.
This course provides entering freshmen with a background of the extra-curricular aspects of the
institution: the history, purpose, organization, policies and procedures of the university. The
student is introduced to academic survival skills, library skills, leadership development, study
skills, critical thinking, career planning, personal and social development and other relevant areas
necessary for a successful university experience. This course is required for all freshmen.
Students have to follow all rules and regulations of the University strictly without any deviation
as it is under the supervision of the University authority on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and
yearly basis during the total program period. The management team will grade the set factors on
a pre set numerical grading system confidentially to assess the individual. This course is required
for all students.
Continuing Orientation
A Continuing Orientation is a continuation of Freshmen Orientation and in addition, this course
introduces freshmen to various learning styles, career planning, health-related issues and
personal and social development.
This course aims at training the students
To receive the course plan from every course teacher before or in the 1st class of
the Semester and follow it in the classes.
To inform, if student(s) are disturbed by any class fellow or by any other reason,
immediately by writing to the registration section with a copy to the executive in
charge of the President and Vice-Chancellors office.
To report, if student(s) feel that they are being deprived by the course teacher in
classroom or in student counseling session as per the course plan, to the head of the
department in writing with a copy to the executive in charge of the President and
Vice-Chancellors office.
To strictly follow all the rules and regulations of the University without any
deviation, as it is under supervision of the University authority on hourly, daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The management team will grade the set factors on
a pre set numerical grading system confidentially to assess the individual. This course
is mandatory for all students.
Professional orientation
The aims are:
To prepare students for practical job operation.
To train them up by internship, on the job training in campus or outside of campus
To prepare students to face interview on an artificial mock interview board by
inviting real reputed employers of our country and get the performance report
evaluated for the students by those employers with recommendations and
suggestions to improve students in general & in particular.
To find out students main drawbacks and limitations to get the right job on the basis
of his/her qualifications and achievements during the program of this university
To teach and make them learn how to make a good Curriculum Vitae
To train the students dress up properly for an interview
To train up students to answer the question to the point, with no irrelevant
explanation or exaggeration in reply to a question but standard explanation should
be given if the situation demands
A. General Education
5 courses of 3.00 credit hours each. Total credit hours: 15.
SOC 101:
Introduction to Sociology
PSY 101:
Introduction to Psychology
Definition, nature and scope of psychology; Methods used in Psychology:
observation, Experimental, Introspection. Sensations and perceptions,
memory and imagination, attention, learning, intelligence, personality,
emotion and feeling, illusion and hallucination
Language: Definition, Characteristics and Criteria of language; Theories of
language development
Modern schools of psychology, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, mental
disorder.
Platonism
Neo-Platonism
Scholasticism
The Renaissance
Marxism
Evolutionism
Existentialism
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This course includes the intensive study of Bengali culture and History from its very
beginning to the present time.
The settlement of Vaddic race, from the age of Buddhist to the reign of Sen Dynasty.
The Reign of Mughal Emperors and the reign of the British. The pre-liberation and
post-liberation history of Bangladesh and the history of Bangladesh up to the present
time.
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B. Speaking:
Sound recognition
Recognising minimal pairs with the help of sentence context
Dictation
Dictocomp
Listening for specific information, e.g., answering specific questions, listening and
filling in gaps
Listening for general comprehension, e.g., giving the gist or summary after
listening to a text
Listening and note taking
Varieties of English
Speaking with acceptable (mutually intelligible level of) pronunciation
Speaking with natural speed (fluency)
Speaking with an acceptable level of grammar (accuracy)
Common notions, functions and situational expressions
Group/pair discussions on popular/familiar topics
Giving and taking interviews
Presentation skills
Extempore speech
At the same time the course gives primary knowledge of Phonetics and phonology
C.
Free Electives
5 courses of 3.00 credit hours each. Total credit hours: 15
Recommended Materials:
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This section will be an application of the theoretical knowledge students acquire in real-life
situations. It will familiarise students with and train them in media writings such as
News reports with catching captions/headings
Subtitling
Translating reports
Writing special features for the press or electronic media
Issuing press releases
Editing
Focus will also be (if possible) on:
Press briefing (oral and written)/conferences and preparing reports on the briefings
Interviewing
Conducting surveys and preparing reports for the media
News casting with emphasis on pronunciation, stress, intonation, confidence and
naturalness
b) Assignment on Translation:
Translation assignments will be from English into Bangla and from Bangla into English
Religion
Customs and Traditions
Language
Arts and Literature
Economic System
Forms of Government
Theme
Structural devices : Contrast, illustration, repetition
Mood
Imagery
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e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
Tone
Principal verse-forms : descriptive, lyrical, narrative, reflective and others
Interrelationships
Effect
Rhetoric
Sonnet 19
A Description of the Morning
A Nocturnal Reverie
Ozymandias
No Coward Soul is Mine
My Last Duchess
An Apple Gathering
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Pike
Rivers
Aunt Jennifers Tiger
Ars Poetica
DRAMA
a) Action
b) Plot and its Structure
c) Conflict
d) Characterization
e) Style
f) Dialogue
G. B. Shaw
Oscar Wilde
J.M. Synge
Point of view
Plot
Characterization
Setting
Style
Narrative technique
Joyce
Narayan
W. Somerset Maugham
Araby
The Financial Expert
The Luncheon
Charles Lamb
Francis Bacon
J.B. Priestley
James Thurber
Virginia Woolf
Jonathan Swift
M. L. King
George Orwell
ENGL 204:
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Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Aristophanes
Oedipus Rex
Agamemnon
Medea
Lysistrat
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Doctor Faustus
Thomas Kyd
John Webster
Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
John Milton
John Donne
Selected Poems*
Andrew Marvell
Selected Poems
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels
Alexander Pope`
John Dryden
Mac Flecknoe
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Silas Marner
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Robert Browning
Mathew Arnold
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W. H. Auden
: The Quest; The Sea and the Mirror; The Shield of Achilles
W. B. Yeats
: Selected Poems
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Dylan Thomas
: Selected Poems
: Heart of darkness
: Sons and Lovers
: A portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
: To the Light House
Dickinson
Frost
Wallace Stevens
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Nature of Linguistics
Definition and Characteristics of Language
Basic areas of Linguistics: Phonology; Morphology, Syntax, Semantics
Stylistics
Sociolinguistics: varieties of language; dialect; pidgin; creole; register;
status; situation
Psycholinguistics
Discourse and Speech Acts
Philip Sydney
Samuel Johnson
: Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth
Arnold
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F. SPECIALIZATION/MAJOR
6 Courses of 3.00 credit hours each will have to be chosen from any of the
following areas:
1. English Literature
ENGL 404: Literary Criticism-II
T.S. Eliot
T. Eagleton
Edward Said
Introduction to Orientalism
L. Trilling
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Earnest Hemingway
Tony Morrison
ENGL 405:
Shakespeare
Richard-II
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Taming of the Shrew
Merchant of Venice
ENGL 407:
Frances Bacon
: Selected Essays
John Milton
: Areopagetica
William Congreve
John Bunyan
: Pilgrims Progress
ENGL 408:
G. B Shaw
John Osborne
Beckett
Harold Pinter
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ENGL 409:
Narayanan
Achebe
Anita Desai
Monika Ali
The course will introduce the students with the history of English Language Teaching.
How the quest for a plausible basis of language teaching moved through different phases
and experimented with different teaching methods and approaches over ages. And it will
also focus on what need and what goal have inspired these investigations.
Stage in language acquisition: The babbling stage- holophrastic stage- the two word
stage.
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ELT 405:
Discourse Analysis
The aim of this course is to promote critical thinking through critical analysis of actual
discourse/texts.
There will be two major components of the course:
(1) Critical discourse analysis:
A) What does it involve?
From Critical reading to Critical discourse analysis
Language and ideology
Language and power
Power of encoders and decoders
Language and Power in cross gender discourse
Language and power in inter-class discourse
Race and Class in discourse
(B) Different Approaches to CDA (CriticalDiscourse Analysis):
Faircloughs approach of CDA
Vandijks approach to CDA
Woodaks approachto CDA
Role of Historicism and intertextuality in CDA
(2) Practical Analysis:
(i)Analysis of the power of encoders and decoders with reference to advertising
discourse
(ii) Analysis of political discourse ( Some famous political speeches from home
and abroad, e.g. Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln, President Bushs
speech declaring Iraq war, Presidential address of South African President in the
VIII Non-Alignment Movement), and speeches by political leaders of Bangladesh
and the sub-continent)
(iii) Analysis of literary discourse
(iv) Analysis of media discourse
ELT 406: Practice Teaching
The purpose of this course is to prepare students as effective ESL/EFL teachers. Students
will be required to operate in actual classroom situations. The course incorporates
different teaching methods and their pedagogical implications. Students will be required
to implement theoretical insights they received about approaches and methods of
language and literature teaching in real teaching. They will plan lessons and teach lessons
for teaching the different skills and their sub-skills, and will teach 2 or three lessons each
in their own class where the other students of the class will be the learners. Each
student will also teach two lessons in first year honours class. Special classes will be
arranged with first year students throughout the year to facilitate real and authentic
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practice of teaching. The practice teaching classes will also be observed by two
concerned teachers who will continually assess the students performance (which will be
part of final assessment) and will keep record. Teachers and other students in the
classroom will comment on the teaching performance of each lesson. Teachers will also
provide constructive feedback on the performance of each lesson. Of the two lessons
with first year students, the last lesson will be evaluated by the course teachers. Students
will also submit their lesson plans for each lesson.
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