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MA ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBCS) 2007-08 ANNEXUR E 7 A of 67 SCAA DT. 29-2-2008

BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH COMPULSORY DIPLOMA IN

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

WITH EFFECT FROM 2007-08 PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES :

To build further linguistic and thinking capacities of students

To enable students to design models of interpretation and explanations through strategic thinking

To equip students with historical, literary and cultural dimensions of English studies

To train students in extracting processes and principles from the prescribed texts

To enable students to identify passages in texts for case study in soft/communicative/cognitive skills

To enable students write essays demonstrative of critical thinking REGULATIONS: 1. ELIGIBITY: A candidate who (1) has passed B.A. Degree Examination of this University with Branch

XII – English as the Main subject of study or (2) is a Graduate in B.A. and B.Sc. with part II

English, Or (3) an examination of other universities accepted by the Syndicate as equivalent

thereto shall be permitted to appear and qualify for M.A. Degree Examination of this University

in this Branch in the Department of this University.

2. Duration of the Course This Course of Study shall be based on Semester System. This Course shall consist of four Semesters covering a total of two Academic years. For this purpose, each Academic Year shall be divided into two Semesters; the first and third Semesters; July to November and the


second and the fourth Semesters; December to April. The Practical Examinations shall be conducted at the end of even Semester. 3. Course of Study The Course of the Degree of Master of Arts shall be under the Semester System according to the Syllabus to be prescribed from time to time. This Course consists of core Subjects and Elective Subjects. There shall be one Paper on applied Skill Oriented, subject preferably in each semester as part of the adjunct diploma Programme. 4 Scheme of examinations

Distribution of Marks Core - 1800 Diploma - 400 Total Marks - 2200 5. Requirement to appear for the Examinations a) A candidate will be permitted to take the University Examination for any Semester, if

i) he/she secures not less than 75% of attendance out of the 90 instructional days during the Semester.

b) A candidate who has secured attendance less than 75% but 65% and above shall be permitted to take the Examination on the recommendation of the Head of the Institution to condone the lack of attendance as well as on the payment of the prescribed fees to the University. c) A candidate who has secured attendance less than 65% but 55% and above in any Semester, has to compensate the shortage of attendance in the subsequent Semester besides, earning the required percentage of attendance in that Semester and take the Examination of both the Semester papers together at the end of the latter Semester. d) A candidate who has secured less than 55% of attendance in any Semester will not be permitted to take the regular Examinations and to continue the study in the subsequent Semester. He/she has to re-do the Course by rejoining the Semester in which the attendance is less than 55%. e) A candidate who has secured less than 65% of attendance in the final Semester has to compensate his / her attendance shortage in a manner to be decided by the Head of the Department concerned after rejoining the Course. 6. Restriction to take the Examinations a) Any candidate having arrear paper(s) shall have the option to take the Examinations in any arrear paper(s) along with the subsequent regular Semester papers.


b) Candidates who fail in any of the papers shall pass the paper(s) concerned within 5 years from the date of admission to the said Course. If they fail to do so, they shall take the Examination in the revised Text / Syllabus, if any, prescribed for the immediate next batch of candidates. If there is no change in the Text / Syllabus they shall take the Examination in that paper with the Syllabus in vogue, until there is a change in the Text or Syllabus. In the event of removal of that paper consequent to the change of Regulations and / or Curriculum after a 5 year period, the candidates shall have to take up an equivalent paper in the revised syllabus as suggested by the chairman and fulfill the requirements as per Regulations/Curriculum for the award of the Degree. 7. The Medium of Instruction and Examinations The medium of instruction and Examinations shall be in English, except languages. 8.Submission of Record Notebooks for Practical Examinations Candidates taking the Practical Examinations should submit bonafide Record Note Books prescribed for the Practical Examinations. Otherwise the candidates will not be permitted to take the Practical Examinations.

9. The Minimum (Pass) Marks

A candidate shall be declared to have passed in a paper if a student obtains not less than 50% of marks in that paper. A candidate shall be declared to have passed the whole Examination if the student passes in all the papers.

10. Improvement of Marks in the subjects already passed Candidates desirous of improving the marks secured in their first attempt shall reappear once within the subsequent Semester. The improved marks shall be considered for classification but not for ranking. If there is no improvement there shall not be any change in the original marks already awarded. 11. Classification of successful candidates A candidate who passes all the Examinations in the first attempt within a period of two years securing 75% and above marks in the aggregate shall be declared to have passed with First Class with Distinction. Successful candidates passing the P.G. Degree Examinations, securing 60% marks and above shall be declared to have passed the examination in First Class. All other successful candidates shall be declared to have passed the Examination in Second Class. 12. Ranking A candidate who qualifies for the PG Degree Course passing all the Examinations in the first attempt, within the minimum period prescribed for the Course of Study from the date of


admission to the Course and secures 1st or 2nd Class shall be eligible for ranking and such ranking will be confined to 10% of the total number of candidates qualified in that particular subject to a maximum of 10 ranks. The improved marks will not be taken into consideration for ranking. 13. Conferment of the Degree No candidate shall be eligible for conferment of the Degree unless he / she has undergone the prescribed Course of Study for a period of not less than four Semesters in an Institution approved of by and affiliated to the University or has been exempted there from in the manner prescribed and has passed the Examinations as have been prescribed. 14. Evening College The above Regulations shall be applicable for candidates undergoing the respective Courses in the Evening Colleges also.

15. Revision of Regulations and Curriculum

The above Regulation and Scheme of Examinations will be in vogue without any change for a minimum period of three years from the date of approval of the Regulations. The University may revise /amend/ change the Regulations and Scheme of Examinations, if found necessary. 16.Transitory Provision Candidates who have undergone the Course of Study prior to the Academic Year 2007-2008 will be permitted to take the Examinations under those Regulations for a period of four years i.e. up to and inclusive of the Examination of April 2012 thereafter they will be permitted to take the Examination only under the Regulations in force at that time.


BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY, COIMBATORE – 641046

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH COMPULSORY DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

FOR THE STUDENTS ADMITTED DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR

2007-2008 ONWARDS SCHEME OF EXAMINATIONS

Semester I 07ENGC01 Paper-I Chaucer & Elizabethan Age 6 3 100 4

07ENGC02 Paper-II The Neo-Classical Age 6 3 100 4

07ENGC03 Paper-III The Romantic Age and The

Victorian Age 6 3 100 4

07ENGE01 Elective -I Thinking and Cognition 6 3 100 4 07ENGS01 Supportive

Odd semester

Essentials Of Language and Communication - Basic

2 2 50 2

Semester II

Semester Paper Subject Hrs Per Week

University Examination

Credit

Duration in Hrs

Max.Marks*


07ENGC04 Paper-IV 20th Century British Literature 6 3 100 4

07ENGC05 Paper-V American Literature 6 3 100 4

07ENGC06 Paper-VI Indian Writing in English and Commonwealth Literature

6 3 100 4

07ENGC07 Paper-VII Language and Linguistics 6 3 100 4

07ENGE02 Elective –II Literature : Analysis, Approaches and Applications

6 3 100 4

07ENGS02 Supportive Even

semester

Listening and Speaking Skills 2 2 50 2


Semester III

07ENGC08 Paper-VIII Copy Editing 6 3 100 4

07ENGC09 Paper-IX Shakespeare 6 3 100 4

07ENGC10 Paper-X ELT and CALL 6 3 100 4

07ENGC11 Paper-XI Literary Theory and Criticism 6 3 100 4

07ENGE03 Elective –III Public Speaking, Journalistic and Creative Writing

6 3 100 4

Semester IV

07ENGC12 Paper-XII Soft Skills through Literature 6 3 100 4

Paper-IX Project Work - - 150 6

Total Marks : 1,800 72 credits

* An internal assessment of 40% is included The following diploma course is offered and the total marks for the diploma course is 400 marks. COMPULSORY DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC)

07ENGD01 Paper-I Basics of Communication 3 3 100

07ENGD02 Paper-II Lectures and Note Taking 3 3 100

07ENGD03 Paper-III Speaking for Academic Purposes 3 3 100

07ENGD04 Paper-IV Reference/Research Skills 3 3 100


SYLLABUS - SEMESTER I

M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH COMPULSORY DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

SEMESTER I -PAPER I - CHAUCER AND THE ELIZABETHAN AGE

(07ENGC01)

Objectives :

• To expose students to early English Literature and transition from middle English to the Elizabethan ethos

• To introduce students to representative texts

Unit I Chaucer - Prologue to Canterbury Tales (The Knight, The Prioress, The Wife

of Bath, The Doctor of Physic, The Pardoner) Unit II John Donne - The Sun Rising, Canonisation Unit III Dominant Poetic Forms of the Period : Sonnet, Ballad and Lyric Spenser - Prothalamion Surrey - ‘Of Soote Season’ Wyatt - ‘I find no peace and all my war is done’ Sidney - ‘The Nightingale as soon as April Bringeth’ Marlowe - ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his love’ Ballads - ‘Sir Patrick Spens’; ‘The Wife of the Usher’s Well’ Unit IV Ben Jonson - The Alchemist John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi Unit V Francis Bacon - ‘Of Ambition’, ‘Of Love’ The Gospel According to St.Mark (King James’ Authorized version)


M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER I -PAPER II - THE NEOCLASSICAL AGE

(07ENGC02) Objectives :

• To expose students to the shift in Classical tradition in literary and political terms

• To enable students to perceive and appreciate experimentation in literary forms

• To train the students to analyse the trends in literary expression of the period Unit I Milton - Paradise Lost Book IX Unit II Marvell - ‘To his Coy Mistress’ Dryden - ‘Absolam and Achitopel’ Pope - ‘The Rape of the Rock’ Unit III Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer Sheridan - The School for Scandal Unit IV Addison - From the Coverley Papers:

1. Sir Roger at Church 2. Sir Roger at Assizes

Jonathan Swift - The Battle of the Books Unit V Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

- Gulliver’s Travel Lilliput Section



SEMESTER I - PAPER III -THE ROMANTIC AGE AND THE VI CTORIAN AGE (07ENGC03)

Objectives :

• To expose students to the impact of ever changing trends brought about by social and scientific developments

• To enable them to identify and analyse diverse literary devices

• To enable them comprehend and explain the dialectic between Neo Classicism and

Romanticism Unit I Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Shelley - Ode to the West Wind Wordsworth - Tintern Abbey Keats - Ode to a Nightingale Unit II Tennyson - In Memoriam Browning - My Last Duchess Arnold - The Dover Beach Unit III Charles Lamb - Dissertation upon a Roast Pig Arnold - Sweetness and Light William Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets Carlyle - On Shakespeare (The Hero as Poet) Unit IV Wilde - Lady Windermere’s Fan UNIT V Jane Austen - Emma Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights



ELECTIVE I : THINKING AND COGNITION (07ENGE01)

Objectives :

• To orient students to form perspectives on thinking and cognition • To enable students to reflect on their own thinking and cognitive processes

and develop skills. Unit I: “The Nature of Thinking and Thinking Skills” - pp. 8-23 Frameworks for thinking :

A Handbook for Teaching David Mosley et. al.

Cambridge University Press

Unit II: The Six-Thinking Hats Method (Edward De Bono) Unit III: “Cognitive Psychological Foundations of Narrative Experiences” – pp. 33-52

Richard J.Gerrig and Giovanna Egidi in Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences Ed.David Herman, CSLI Publications Unit IV:

“ Multiple Intelligences,” – pp. 113-124 Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

Richards and Rodgers, Cambridge University Press Unit V: “Neuro Linguistic Programming” – pp. 125-131

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Richards and Rodgers, Cambridge University Press



SEMESTER II - PAPER IV - 20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (07ENGC04)

Objectives :

• To sensitize students to the momentous changes in the 20th century, especially, literature

• To enable them to understand experimental and innovative techniques used in literature

• To make clear the idea that changes in human experience demand changes in mode of expression

Unit I T.S.Eliot - The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock W.B.Yeats - The Second Coming Unit II Hopkins - The Wreck of the Deutschland Seamus Heaney - The Tollund Man Unit III Beckett - Waiting for Godot Osborne - Look Back in Anger Unit IV Orwell - Politics and the English Language D.H.Lawrence - Why the Novel Matters? Unit V Woolf - Mrs.Dalloway D.H.Lawrence - Sons and Lovers



SEMESTER II - PAPER V - AMERICAN LITERATURE (07ENGC05)

Objectives :

• To help students build knowledge levels needed to form a perspective in American Literature

• To enable them to develop an idea of how literature in US evolved

Unit I Walt Whitman - Passage to India Emily Dickinson - Success is counted sweetest A bird came down the walk Unit II Frost - The Road not taken Sylvia Plath - Daddy Unit III O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey into the Night Marsha Norman - ‘Night Mother Unit IV Emerson - Self-Reliance Thoreau - Walden (Chapters 1,2,17) Unit V Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King



SEMESTER II -PAPER VI - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH A ND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE


• To enable students to form an overview of literatures in Commonwealth Nations

• To help students capture the tenor and manner of expression in writings by non-native user of English

Unit I Aurobindo - Thought the Paraclete Nissim Ezekiel - Farewell Party to Miss.Pushpa T. A.D.Hope - Australia F.R.Scott - Canadian Authors Meet Unit II Tagore - Gitanjali (Songs 1-50) Unit III Girish Karnad - Nagamandala Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the Jewel Unit IV Nehru - From Nehru’s The Discovery of India Chapter IV – ‘The Discovery of India’ Chinua Achebe - The Novelist as a Teacher Unit V Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart



SEMESTER II -PAPER VII - LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (07ENGC07)

Objectives : To enable students to know and form ideas on

• Growth and development of English • Its structural, grammatical and functional aspects • Language’s links with society, culture and literature

Unit I The History of English Language The Descent of the English Language. The Old English Period : The Middle English Period; The Renaissance & After; The Growth of Vocabulary, Change of Meaning, The Evolution of Standard English. F.T.Wood : An Outline History of English language Unit II Phonology Transcription , The Syllable, Received Pronunciation and the need for a model, Accent, Rhythm and Intonation, Assimilation, Elision, Liaison and Juncture. T.Balasubramanian : A Text book of English Phonetics for Indian students Unit III Levels of Linguistic Analysis Morphology, Semantics and Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis.

George Yule : The Study of Language, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Unit IV Sociolinguistics Language varieties, language, society and culture George Yule : The Study of Language, Second Edition, OUP, 1996. Verma and Krishnaswamy : Modern Linguistics Unit V ‘Language and Literature’ (From Modern Applied Linguistics) N.Krishnaswamy et al-Macmillan (PP. 133-186)



SEMESTER II –ELECTIVE-II (07ENGE02) LITERATURE : ANALYSIS, APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS

Objectives :

• To orient students in the basics of literary interpretation

• To train the students in writing book reviews, design and preparation of user manuals and ads

Unit I Practical Criticism - Rhythm, Rhyme, Drama, Fiction, Prose Drama Congreve, The Way of the World (Act IV, Sc i) Shakespeare , King Lear (Act III, Sc iv) Webster, Duchess of Malfi, (Act V, Sc iii) Fiction

Conrad, Heart of Darkness Descriptions of the Journey down the river Dickens, Bleak House The passage on fog Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Passage where Mrs. Ramsay tries to comfort her son James Prose

Extract form Arnold’s ‘Culture and Anarchy’ Extract from Russell’s ‘Unpopular Essays’ Extract from Swift’s ‘The Battle of the Books’ Unit II Book Review - Novel, Drama, Collection (Articles/Essays)

(A book review to be written by every student on a book of his /her choice from the categories mentioned))

Unit III User Manual - Mobile Phone, Mixie, Automobile, Car/Two wheeler (Each student to design steps for any one operation in the

categories mentioned) Unit IV Advertising - Academic Programme, Dress, Computer

(Each student to design an ad in the categories mentioned on a product/ program of his / her choice)

Unit V Technical Writing - (Basics of Technical Writing; Effective Technical Writing)



SEMESTER III - PAPERVIII - COPY EDITING (07ENGC08)

Objectives :

• To train students in the basics of copy editing

• To give them practical orientation in copy editing

Unit I - Introduction

1. What is copy editing? 2. Typescripts : hard-copy, electronic and camera-ready 3. Capturing the text electronically 4. Typescripts corrected by the author 5. Author-generated camera-ready copy and print-ready files 6. Copy editing on-screen

Unit II - Preliminary copy-editing, design and specimen pages

Briefing the designer Unit III Preparing the text for the typesetter

1. Various legal aspects 2. Writing to the author 3. Numbering systems

Unit IV

1. Marking up the typescript 2. Copyright permissions and acknowledgements 3. Jacket and cover copy

Unit V Proof correction symbols (PP 479 – 484)

From Butcher’s Copy-editing, CAMBRIDGE PP. 1-116



SEMESTER III - PAPER IX - SHAKESPEARE (07ENGC09) Objectives :

• To enable students to establish Shakespeare’s importance to English Literature and Language

• To enable them to identify communicative strategies in the prescribed plays

• To orient them to a concrete understanding of his ‘Universality’ which means his ability

to communicate to all sections of society and all times

• To train them to recognize and appreciate his skills as a Wordsmith

Unit I : Macbeth

Unit II :

As you like it Unit III :

Richard II Unit IV :

Sonnet 30,60 and 130 Unit V :

1. Elizabethan Theatre and Audience 2. Contemporary Approaches: Feminist and Post-Colonial



SEMESTER III - PAPER X - ELT and CALL (07ENGC10)

Objectives :

• To sustain and enhance bilingualism • To equip students with the ability to read, write with understanding and to make them

autonomous learners • To enhance the competence of understanding by making connections and drawing on

experiences • To enable students to employ communicative skills in a variety of situations • To encourage holistic perspective on language proficiency • To make the students comprehend the importance of communications technology in

providing universal access to learning • To expose the students to the methods of language teaching

Unit I : Major language trends in Twentieth Century language teaching. 1. A brief history of Language Teaching 2. The nature of approaches and methods in Language Teaching 3. The Oral approach and situational Language Teaching Unit II : 1. Competency- based Language Teaching 2. Communicative Language Teaching 3. Content- based instructions 4. Task-based Language Teaching Unit III : Teaching, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Unit IV : 1. CALL and Communication 2. Enhancing Language Learning 3. Using Technology


4. Online Learning and Assessment 5. Integrated technology and Learning Unit V : Practical 1. Using oral approach or situational Language Teaching 2. Content-based instruction 3. Teaching any one of LSRW skills 4. Voice and accent training using software References :

1. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Jack.C.Richards and Theodore Rodgers

2. Speaking and Learning Skills II 3. Communicative Skills 4. Teacher Knowledge Test

Cambridge University Press



SEMESTER III -PAPER XI - LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM (07ENGC11)

Objectives :

• To introduce students to one of the most enabling forms of literary study

• To train students to analyze literary writings, based on ever evolving traditions of criticism

• To sensitize students to transition from Humanistic to Modern to Postmodern critical traditions

• To enable students comprehend dominance of theory in the Postmodern phase

Unit I Introduction to classical criticism. Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus and Sanskrit aesthetics :

Rasa, Dhvani, Literary genres, names and features of poetics, theme and technique of plot construction, other aspects of criticism

Unit II Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Unit III Arnold – Study of Poetry T.S.Eliot – Tradition and the Individual Talent Unit IV Cleanth Brooks – The Language of Paradox Northrop Frye - Archetypes of Literature

Unit V Georg Lucas - Ideology of Modernism Roland Barthes - Death of the Author



SEMESTER III – ELECTIVE III PUBLIC SPEAKING, JOURNA LISTIC AND CREATIVE WRITING (07ENGE03) Unit I :

Introduction to Public Speaking Audience, Context, Speaker, Speech Planning Process, Speech making process, Speech effectiveness Unit II : Developing Confidence through the Speech Planning Process Understanding Public Speaking Apprehension Signs of Speech Apprehension, Causes of Speech Apprehension, Idea level of Apprehension Overcoming Public Speaking Apprehension General methods, Specific techniques Confidence through Effective Public Speaking

Step 1 : Select appropriate speech goal Step 2 : Understand audience Step 3 : Gather and Evaluate information Step 4 : Organize and develop ideas into speech outline Step 5 : Choose appropriate visual aids Step 6 : Practise the wording and delivery of speech Unit III : Informative Speaking

Characteristics : Intellectual stimulation, Creativity, Emphasis to aid Memory Methods of Informing : Description, Definition, Comparison and Contrast, Narration, Demonstration

(Rudolff F.Verderber and Kathleen S. Verderber, The Challenge of Effective Speaking, Thomson Wadsworth 13th ed., 2006, Unit I : pp 1-12, Unit II : pp 23-31, Unit III : pp 215-239).

Unit IV : Journalistic Writing Sports column

Film Review


Unit V : Creative Writing Short Story

Major Aspects : � Emotional � Rational � Psychological � Aesthetic � Compositional � Sociological



SEMESTER IV-PAPER XII - SOFT SKILLS THROUGH LITERAT URE - Personal qualities


• To train students in study of character/ human behaviour • To use characters from classics/their behaviour as parallels to reflect and introspect on

their own behaviour • To enable them in the use of right effects and develop skills in bringing personal

emotions under the scanner of cognition • To train them in the use of characters / interactions from literature and other areas listed

as case studies Unit I Responsibility / Altruism - Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities

Unit II Self – esteem - Shakespeare, Corialanus, Corialanus Unit III Sociability - Shakespeare, As You Like It, Rosalind Unit IV Self-Management - Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hamlet Unit V Integrity / Honesty - Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Enobarbus Case Writing – Areas :

1. Literature 2. Movies 3. Commercials 4. Popular Literature 5. Comics

Reading material for forming conceptual overview “The Personal Intelligences” Frames of Mind : The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner (pp 237-276)


PROJECT WORK

Objectives :

• To introduce students to the art of research Based on the project work the students are to be tested for their ability to

• Identify and state the research problem • Conduct survey • Select relevant data from primary sources • Make intelligent inferences • Use logic and analysis • Design model of interpretation and apply it

Research Methodology Joseph Gibaldi, MLA, Handbook, 6th Ed.


M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC) (07ENGD01 )

SEMESTER I PAPER I - BASICS OF COMMUNICATION

SYLLABUS Objectives :

• To sensitize students to communication • To enable students to perceive and reflect on their communicative behaviour • To enable them to move from concept to performance

Unit I General Introduction to Communication Unit II Listening : Announcements

News Foreign Accents Speeches

Unit III Speaking :

Group Discussion Interview Compeering Public Speaking

Unit IV Reading :

Newspapers Fiction Editorial & Special Features Advertisement

Unit V Writing :

Paragraph Essay Expansion of an idea Report Writing



DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC) ( 07EN GD02)

SEMESTER II - PAPER II - LECTURES AND NOTE TAKIN G

SYLLABUS

Objectives

• To train students in preparing and delivering lectures • To coach students in Note Taking • To enable students to move from text-bound answers to those born of reflection,

introspection on their experience of performing Unit I Lecturing Styles and Lecture Structure Unit II Listening cues Unit III Informal Language and Lecture Length Unit IV Taking Notes Unit V Structuring a lecture (Students are to design a lecture structure) R.R.Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, Cambridge University Press



DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC) ( 07EN GD03)

SEMESTER III -PAPER III - SPEAKING FOR ACADEMIC PUR POSES

SYLLABUS

Objectives

• To train students in spoken academic tasks • To enable students to write answers on doing aspects

Unit I Asking questions in lecture Unit II Seminars Unit III Oral Presentation Unit IV Verbalising data Unit V Individual Speech difficulties R.R.Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, Cambridge University Press.



DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC) (07EN GD04)

SEMESTER IV -PAPER IV - REFERENCE / RESEARCH SKIL LS

SYLLABUS

Objectives

• To provide practice in reference / research skills Unit I Dictionaries Unit II Dictionary Practice Unit III Books Unit IV Using the Library Unit V References R.R.Jordan, English for Academic Purposes, Cambridge University Press.


Attention – Question Paper Setters Each section of the question paper must carry questions from all the units. For Chinese Students: In the case of Chinese students, the word limit for sections B and C shall be 100 and 300 respectively instead of 200 and 500 with reference to Literature / Theory papers. The word limit of 50 words for short notes shall remain the same.



I YEAR - SEMESTER I– PAPER – I – CHAUCER AND ELIZAB ETHAN AGE (07ENGC01)

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Three Hours 60 marks

Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Chaucer’s use of dress to indicate character

2. The phoenix symbol in ‘Canonisation’

3. The significance of the refrain in Spenser’s ‘Prothalamion’

4. The theory of humour in ‘The Alchemist’

5. The parable of the sower in ‘The Gospel According’ to St.Mark’

Section B Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Explain how Chaucer deals with the character of the Prioress. Or Critically examine Chaucer’s depiction of The Wife of Bath. 2. Account for Donne’s playful audacity in ‘The Sun Rising.’ Or Do you think ‘Canonisation’ is an apt title for the poem? Discuss.


3. What are the typical characteristics of the ballad? Discuss with reference to the prescribed poems.

Or Comment on the word pictures Spenser creates in ‘Prothalamion.’

4. Write a critical note on Epicure Mammon in ‘The Alchemist.’

Or What dramatic role do violence and horror play in ‘The Duchess of Malfi.’

5. How uncharacteristic is Bacon’s treatment of love? Or Explain in detail the parable of the vineyard in ‘The Gospel According to Sr.Mark.’

Section C Answer three of the following (3x10=30 marks) Write essays in about 500 words

1. Bring out Chaucer’s strengths in characterization. Or Establish Chaucer as a satirist.

2. It is the quality of ‘uniqueness’ that makes Donne’s poetry great. Discuss with reference to the prescribed poems.

Or Define and explain ‘metaphysical conceit’ bringing in examples from the prescribed poems.

3. Attempt a brief survey of Elizabethan lyric poetry. Or Write a critical appreciation of Spenser’s ‘Prothalamion.’

4. Explain the use of comic intrigue in ‘The Alchemist’ with specific instances from


the play.

Or ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ anticipates the modern woman. Discuss.

5. List the features of Bacon’s style and analyse selectively their employment in the prescribed essays.

Or What qualities of a tragic play does ‘The Gospel According to St.Mark’ have? *******



I YEAR - SEMESTER I – PAPER II – THE NEOCLASSICAL A GE (07ENGC02)



Section A

Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Satan’s reaction on seeing Eve in the garden

2. The figure of the king as expressed in the opening lines of ‘Absolam and Achitophel’

3. Tony Lumpkin in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’

4. What do the two mountain peaks refer to in ‘The Battle of the Books’

5. Friday in ‘Robinson Crusoe’

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Comment on Eve’s decision to work all by herself and the ensuing debate with Adam. Or Describe the eloquent argument of the serpent to convince Eve. 2. Identify and list the features of Restoration literature in ‘Absolam and Achitophel.’

Or Bring out the characteristics of metaphysical poetry found in Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress.’

3. Comment on the Hardcastles in ‘She Stoops to Conquer.’


Or Describe Peter Teazle-Lady Teazle quarrel emphasizing the humour involved.

4. Give an account of Sir Roger’s experience at the Church. Or Comment on the debate between the spider and the bee in ‘The Battle of the Books.’

5. Describe Crusoe’s attempts at and experience of farming on the island. Or Consider ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ as belonging to Travel Literature.

Section C Answer Three of the following (3x10=30 marks) Write essays in about 500 words

1. Explain the circumstances leading to Satan’s success in making Eve eat the fruit of the Forbidden tree.

Or Give a critical estimate of Milton’s grand style with particular reference to Book IX of ‘Paradise Lost.’

2. Assess Dryden as a satirist with reference to ‘Absolam and Achitophel.’ Or To what effect does Pope employ epic conventions in ‘The Rape of the Lock.’

3. Write an essay highlighting the comic intrigue in ‘The School for Scandal.’ Or Mistaken identity is crucial for dramatic complexity in ‘She Stoops to Conquer.’ Discuss.


4. Comment on the prose style of Addison with reference to the essays prescribed.

Or Explain how Swift builds up an argument in favour of the Ancients in ‘The Battle of the Books.’

5. How successful do you think, is ‘Robinson Crusoe’ as a tale of adventure? Or Comment on satire and allegory in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. ********



I YEAR – SEMESTER I - PAPER – III – THE ROMANTIC AG E AND THE

VICTORIAN AGE (07ENGC03)



Section A Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. The Albatross in ‘The Ancient Mariner’

2. The implied listener in ‘My Last Duchess’

3. Lamb’s panegyric on the roast pig

4. Oscar Wilde’s epigrammatic style

5. Sense of family in Emma

Section B Answer all the questions Write in about 200 words on the following (5x4=20 marks) 1. How does Shelley suggest the power of the West Wind?

Or Comment on the sense of sadness conveyed by ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’ 2. Comment on the elegiac elements in Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam.’

Or Describe the ambience evoked in ‘The Dover Beach.’ 3. How does Lamb combine pathos and humour in ‘Dream Children :

A Reverie.’


Or

List and explain the key ideas expressed by Arnold in ‘Sweetness and Light’. 4. Give a character sketch of Lady Windermere.

Or Comment on the use of irony in ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan.’

5. Show how ‘Emma’ effects an interaction of social and moral worlds. Or The sense of place dominates ‘Wuthering Heights.’ Elucidate. Section C Answer Three of the following (3x10=30 marks) Write essays in about 500 words.

1.‘The Ancient Mariner’ is an exemplary ballad conveying a tale of supernatural events and horror. Discuss.

Or How does Wordworth present Nature and his responses to it in ‘Tintern Abbey.’

2. Critically analyse ‘My Last Duchess’ as a dramatic monologue. Or Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ carries the melancholy and pessimism resulting from Victorian Materialism. Discuss.

3. Assess Lamb as an essayist with reference to the prescribed essays. Or Critically examine Carlyle’s account of Shakespeare as a poet.

4. Single out three humour-generating instances from ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ and show how they are structured to achieve the purpose.


Or

‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ is very much in the tradition of comedy of manners, yet the characters in there are not mere types. Explain.

5. Do you think Emma can be considered an exercise in the depiction of

education of Emma, the character? Build up an argument. Or Heathcliff, as a character, draws varying and contradictory responses from the Reader. Discuss. **********



ELECTIVE I : THINKING AND COGNITION (07ENGE01) MODEL QUESTION PAPER Three Hours 60 marks

Section A Write Short Notes on the following (50 words) Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks)

1. Metacognition 2. Black Hat thinking 3. Constructionist theory 4. Naturalist intelligence 5. The meaning of the word Linguistic’ in the term Neurolinguistic programming

Section B

Answer all the questions in about 100 words (5x4=20 marks)

1. Dewey’s classification of thinking. Or

Sociological perspectives on thinking.

2. Explain ‘White Hat Thinking’ with illustrations. Or

Explain ‘Red Hat Thinking’ and write two questions appropriate to this type of thinking.

3. Theories of Narrative Experience. Or

Reader Assessment of the future and the past.

4. How does Gardner defend his Eight dimensional model of intelligence. Or


Lazear’s development of Sequence. 5. What was the purpose Grindler and Bandler developed Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) for? Or Comment on Revell and Norman’s explanation of NLP.

Section C Answer any three of the following in about 300 words (3x10=30 marks)

1. Can Thinking be taught – Discuss. 2. Why does Edward de Bono think that Blue Hat is the most important Hat – Explain with

example. 3. What are the goals of Cognitive psychological research.

4. List the eight intelligences suggesting two language learning activities for each.

5. Comment briefly on the origin, development and practice of NLP.



SEMESTER II - 20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (07ENGC04)



Section A Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words.

1. Spiritus Mundi 2. Inscape and Instress 3. Literary allusions in Look Back in Anger 4. Dying metaphors 5. Oedipus complex


1. The fog imagery in ‘Prufrock’ Or

The falcon and falconer in “The Second Coming” 2. How relevant is section one of the poem “The Wreck of Deutschland?”

Or Seamus Heaney’s reverential attitude to the past.

3. The boy in Waiting for Godot Or

The use of role play in Look Back in Anger


4. What maladies, according to Orwell, ail the English Language? Or

D.H. Lawrence’s attitude towards the human body.

5. Stream of consciousness. Or

Miriam in Sons and Lovers.

Section C Answer three of the following Write essays in about 500 words (3x10=30 marks)

1. Critically analyse the character of Prufrock. Or

Discuss the use of symbols and images in ‘The Second Coming.’

2. Historical analogy, myth and emotion characterize Heaney’s poetry. Elucidate. Or Consider the ‘The Wreck of Deutschland’ as an experimental poem. 3. Do you think the subtitle ‘A Tragi comedy in Two Acts’ is apt for Waiting for

Godot? Or

Discuss the character of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger.

4. Give an account of Orwell’s diagnosis of the illness of English Language.

Or Attempt a critical summary of ‘Why the Novel Matters.’

5. Discuss the characters and characterization in Mrs. Dalloway. Or

Analyse Sons and Lovers as a biographical novel.



SEMESTER II – AMERICAN LITERATURE (07ENGC05)

MODEL QUESTION PAPER Three Hours 60 marks


1. Whitman’s free verse 2. Road as metaphor in ‘The Road not Taken’ 3. The mother figure in ‘Night Mother’ 4. Nature in ‘Walden’ 5. The King and the Dauphin in Hucklberry Finn

Section B Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 200 words on the following. 1. Comment on the democratic spirit expressed in “Passage to India”.

Or Emily Dickinsons’s poetic style. 2. Bring out the underlying philosophical idea in Frost’s “The Road not Taken.”

Or Describe the ‘tone of vehemence’ in Plath’s ‘Daddy.’ 3. Comment on the title, “Long Day’s Journey into the Night.”

Or The attitude to suicide in ‘Night Mother’.

4. Bring out the transcendental elements in ‘Self-reliance’. Or

Highlight the descriptive power of Thoreau with reference to Walden.


5. Tom’s plan for Jim’s rescue.

Or Henderson’s encounter with the Arnewi tribe.

Section C

Answer three of the following (3x10=30 marks) Write essays in about 500 words

1. Give an account of Whitman’s celebration in “Passage to India” of the two technological feats.

Or Emily Dickinson’s poetry is characterized by preciseness and intensity. Elucidate.

2. Attempt a detailed critical estimate of “The Road Not Taken.” Or

‘Daddy’ is a poem full of emotional turbulence. Discuss.

3. Bring out the main thematic concerns of the play Long Day’s Journey into the Night.

Or ‘Night Mother’ is a study in self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Discuss.

4. Emerson’s ideas in ‘Self-Reliance’ are democratic and ennobling. Elucidate. Or

Give an account of instances of naturalistic intelligence in Walden.

5. Trace the development of Huckleberry Finn’s character. Or

Blundering, but Henderson is a learning character. Explain.



II SEMESTER

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATU RE

(07ENGC06)



Section A Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. To which country is Miss. Pushpa .T departing? 2. Justify the title – ‘Gitanjali’. 3. Who represents African culture in the play ‘The Lion and the Jewel’? 4. Briefly discuss the language of ‘Discovery’. 5. Does Okonkwo love his daughter? Quote two incidents.


1. Write a short note on Social Balance in A.D. Hope’s ‘Australia’.

Or Write a brief note on trends in Commonwealth and Indian English Literature with reference to the prescribed poems.

2. What do you think is Tagore’s attitude towards ritual in religion? Or

Give a note on imagery of God in ‘Gitanjali’.

3. Kurudava in ‘Nagamandala’ blind but intelligent – Establish. Or


What do you think of Lakunle’s character. Is he merely a comic figure? 4. What are the autobiographical elements in ‘Discovery of India’?

Or Read ‘Discovery’ as a postcolonial text.

5. Who is the protagonist of Midnight’s Children? Why is he known so?

Or Things Fall Apart is an extensive record of the life and culture of the Ibo People – Give a brief note.

Section C Answer three of the following : (3x10=30) Write in about 500 words

1. Discuss the Soul’s Journey to a superior realm with reference to Aurobindo’s ‘Thought the Paraclete’.

Or

Attempt a detailed critical appreciation of - ‘Farawell Party to Miss.Pushpa T.’

2. Consider ‘Gitanjali’ as a Bakti poem.

Or

What are the techniques used by Tagore in ‘Gitanjali’?

3. Write a critical appreciation of the play ‘Nagamandala’.

Or

Can you see the play ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ as asserting the validity of an African way of life?

4. Give a critical analysis of the form of ‘Discovery’.

Or


Outline Achebe’s arguments on the functions of writer in society.

5. Discuss Midnight’s Children as an allegory.

Or

Is Things Fall Apart a tragedy of an individual or of a society? Discuss.



II SEMESTER

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (O7ENGCO7)


SECTION-A ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS (5x2=10) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words. 1. Write a brief note on the origin of language

2. RP

3. Write a brief note on discourse writing

4. Idiolect

5. Diachronic and synchronic study of language

SECTION-B

Answer all the questions write in about 100 words on the following. (5x4=20)

1. List out the foreign influences on English vocabulary. Or Choose any four methods in the growth of vocabulary and explain them with examples. 2. TRANSCRIBE THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

How Old is the Earth?

This is a question to which we may never have the exact answer. Man has wondered about the age of the earth since ancient times. There were all kinds of stories that seemed to have the answer. But man could not begin to think about the question scientifically until about 400 years ago. Or Explain assimilation and elision.


3. Free morphemes and bound morphemes. Or

What is pragmatics? 4. Illustrate the varieties of language with suitable examples.

Or Write a brief note on language and society.

5. Consider stylistics as a tool of literary interpretation.

Or What is deconstruction? SECTION-C

Answer three of the following in about 300 words (3x10=30) 1. What were the features of Germanic languages and how did they lead to the development of the English language? Or Explain with examples five of the process of change of meaning. 2. Establish the importance of accent, intonation and rhythm. Or Explain syllable, liaison and juncture. 3. Explain the different aspects of discourse analysis with examples. Or Attempt a critical description of semantics. 4. Describe the relationship between language and culture. Or Illustrate the varieties of language with suitable examples.

6. Write an essay on the origin and development of stylistics. Or

Comment on the ideas of de Saussure and Derrida on language.



SEMESTER II – ELECTIVE II (07ENGE02)

LITERATURE : ANALYSIS, APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS

MODEL QUESTION PAPER Three Hours 60 marks

Section A


1. Explain the following Alliteration Assonance Onomatopoeia Or Examine how Conrad uses words to evoke atmosphere.

2. List and describe the various stanza forms. Or

How is technical writing different from creative writing?

3. What are the requirements for technical writing? Or

Explain the rules of sentence structure. Section B Answer all the questions (3x15=45 marks) 4. Write a book review in about 500 words on a

Novel Or Drama


5. Design steps for any one operation in

Mobile Phone Or Car

6. Design an advertisement for

Academic Programme Or

Dress


M. A. ENGLISH LITERATURE

III SEMESTER

COPY EDITING (07ENGC08)


Three hours 60 marks

Section A Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write on the following in about 100 words

1. Copy editor’s role 2. Headings 3. Libel 4. Double-page spreads 5. Covering Note

Section B


1. Explain various kinds of editing. Or

Describe the stages in copy editing on screen.

2. Give an account of preliminary copy editing. Or

State how to brief the designer. 3. Explain various legal aspects.

Or What are the things one should remember in writing to the author?

4. Explain how to mark the types. Or


Why are copy right permissions important?

5. Proof read the following passage. (No choice)

Passage : For every correction two marks are to be awarded subject to the maximum of eight. The arti ficial ways of inducing sleep are leion, and are only A like in their ineffectuality.

In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character a victim of insomnia, who

finds that a volume of Wordsworth’s poems is the only sure soporific but that was borrow’s

malice. The famous old plan of counting sheep jumping over a stile has never served my turn. I

have hedred imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue

pigs, and I defy any reasonable man to fall asleep while mustering a herd of cerulean swine.



SEMESTER III – PAPER IX- SHAKESPEARE (07ENGC09)

MODEL QUESTION PAPER Three hours 60 marks Section A Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. Banquo’s ghost 2. Old Adam in As You Like It 3. Richard’s moment of self- realization in the abdication scene 4. The Dark lady of the sonnets 5. Pit

Section B

Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks)

Write in about 200 words on the following

1. Show how Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth in the murder of King Duncan. Or

Describe the first meeting between the three witches and Macbeth.

2. What dramatic function is served by Celia in As You Like It. Or

Analyse the melancholic strain in Jacques.

3. Give an account of the murder of Richard the Second. Or

Comment on the plot against Bolingbroke’s life.

4. Examine how Time is a major preoccupation in Shakespeare’s sonnets. Or

Comment on Shakespeare’s admiration for his friend of the Sonnets.


5. List and describe some of the theatrical devices employed on the Elizabethan Stage. Or

How relevant do you think is the feminist approach to interpreting Shakespeare plays. Section C Answer any three of the following in about 500 words (3x10=30 marks) 1. Inspite of his ghastly deeds we seem to sympathize with Macbeth at the time of his

fall. In what way, in your opinion, is the final soliloquy a cause for that? Or

Are we to treat the witches as literal manifestations or as externalization of Macbeth’s inner nature.

2. What features of the Romantic Comedy does Shakespeare use in As You Like It? Or

Brilliance, wit, repartee fuse with compassion and humanity in Rosalind. Elucidate.

3. Compare and contrast the character of Richard the Second before and after his fall. Or

Identify and illustrate the characteristics of the history play in Richard the Second.

4. Examine the treatment of the theme of love in Shakespeare’s sonnets. Or

Interpret the use of images in Shakespeare’s sonnets. 5. Write an essay on the Elizabethan audience emphasizing their taste and preferences.

Or Give an overview of feminist and postcolonial approaches to Shakespeare.



SEMESTER III - PAPER – X – ELT and CALL (07ENGC10)


Three hours 60 marks Section A


Write short notes on the following in about 50 words 1. Grammar Translation method 2. Individualized student-centered instruction 3. The role of instructional material 4. Effective Listening 5. On-line learning

Section B Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 100 words on the following 1. Give an account of the Nature of Approaches and methods of language teaching.

Or Elaborate the main concept of the oral approach and situational language teaching.

2. Comment on Hyme’s theory of Communicative competency-based language Teaching.

Or Distinguish between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ versions of Communicative language learning.

3. Illustrate content based instructions and identify suitable classroom situations for their

applications. Or

Give a critical account of how task-based language teaching influences effective classroom teaching.


4. Explain with suitable examples how reading enriches communication. Or

Critically examine the essentials of formal writing in the present context.

5. How do computers help in enhancing language learning? Discuss . Or

Analyse in detail the impact of Technology in acquisition of language learning. Section C Answer three of the following in about 300 words (3x10=30 marks) 1. Explain the Naturalistic principles of language learning.

Or Give a critical view of the psycholinguistic approach to language acquisition.

2. Give an account of the application of the principles of competency based education in language teaching. Or Comment on the characteristic features of communicative language teaching. 3. Discuss the role of instructional materials to support communicative approach to language teaching.

Or Comment on the guidelines for classroom practice.

4. Discuss ‘Enhancing learning through Technology’. Give illustrations. Or

Give an account of teaching LSRW skills in classroom situations.

5. Analyze the role of English software in enhancing language learning. Or

Discuss ‘On-line learning’ and its impact on mastery of language learning.



III SEMESTER

PAPER XI–LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM (07ENGC11)


Three hours 60 marks


1. Four levels of language awareness 2. Wordsworth’s comments on the literary tastes of the reader 3. The Touchstone method 4. The importance of paradox in poetry 5. Condition Humaine

Section B Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 200 words on the following 1. Explain the theory of Dhvani as propounded by Sanskrit Theorists.

Or Elaborate the main accusations of Plato on poetry. 2. Comment on Dr.Johnson’s description of Shakespeare’s age.

Or How is the principle of pleasure connected to metre according to Wordsworth?

3. What according to Arnold, are the dangers of historic and personal estimates?

Or Explain Eliot’s theory of poetry.

4. Give an account of Brook’s interpretation of the use of the Phoenix metaphor by Donne. Or


Describe centrifugal and centripetal criticism.

5. Differentiate between abstract and concrete potentialities. Or

How does Barthes establish that language acquires primary importance in a creative work? Section C Answer three of the following (3x10=30 marks) Write essays in about 500 words. 1. Explain the different types of Rasas.

Or How does Aristotle prove that Tragedy is superior to the Epic?

2. Give a critical estimate of Dr. Johnson’s assessment of Shakespeare. Or

Discuss Wordsworth’s views on poetic theme and poetic diction.

3. What are the standards that Arnold applies to the estimate of great poetry and how does he apply them to specific English poets?

Or Substantiate the view that “Tradition and the Individual Talent” is the unofficial manifesto of Eliot’s critical creed.

4. Explain how Brooks uses Donne’s ‘Canonisation’ to illustrate new critical concepts. Or

How convincing is Frye’s claim that the search for archetypes will provide a comprehensive theory of criticism?

5. Analyse Lukacs’ arguments against the ideology of Modernism.

Or How does Barthes prove that creative writing exists only on the strength of the reader and not the writer?



SEMESTER III – ELECTIVE III

PUBLIC SPEAKING, JOURNALISTIC AND CREATIVE WRITING (07ENGE03)


Three hours 60 marks Section A

Answer All the Questions (400 words) (3x10=30 marks)

1. Establish the connections between audience, context and speaker in Public Speaking. Or

Describe the processes of speech planning and making and show how these result in speech effectiveness.

2. How can public speaking apprehension be overcome? Or

Explain the six steps in gaining confidence through effective speech planning.

3. Comment on the characteristics of effective informative speaking. Or

Explain with illustrations the methods of informing.

Section B


6. Draw a model structure for a film review and attempt one on your own. Or

Mention the qualities of a good sports column and write a column on a game of your choice.

7. Write a detailed essay on the major aspects involved in creative writing? (600 words) Or

Select a well-known short story of your choice and discuss it in relation to plot, theme, setting, style and narrative mode.




SEMESTER – IV PAPER – XII – SOFT SKILLS THROUGH LIT ERATURE - Personal qualities

(07ENGC12) Duration:3 Hours maximum marks 60 Section A Students have to collect definitions of the five personal qualities listed in the syllabus from related disciplines. Forming a perspective, they are required to identify and list attributes/ characteristics / behavioral components in the characters given in the syllabus. Answer all the questions ( 100 words) (5x4=20 marks)

1. Sydney Carton 2. Coriolanus 3. Rosalind 4. Hamlet 5. Enobarbus

Section B

Students have to write cases for each of the personal quality from the areas suggested. Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x8=40 marks) 1. Responsibility / Altruism : Literature or Movies 2. Self-esteem : Commercials or Comics 3. Sociability : Movies or Popular Literature 4. Self-esteem : Literature or Movies 5. Integrity / Honesty : Movies or Commercials


( 07ENGD01)


DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC)

PAPER I BASICS OF COMMUNICATION MODEL QUESTION PAPER Three Hours 60 Marks Section A Answer all the questions (5x2=10 marks) Write short notes on the following in about 50 words

1. List the types of Communication

2. Distinguish hearing and listening

3. What are the four major areas of public speaking

4. Define Reading

5. List the principles of paragraph writing Section B Answer all the questions (5x4=20 marks) Write in about 150 words on the following 1. What are the five concepts of emotional intelligence? Or Comment on the four basic definitions of Communication. 2. Explain listening to News, Speeches and Announcements. Or What are the common broadcast formats. 3. Bring out the main feature of compering in the media. Or Comment on the importance of stage presence and personality in public speaking.


4. Describe the layout of a newspaper. Or Explain plot and setting in a story. 5. How would you work out an outline for an essay? Or Describe the body of the Report.

Section C Answer all the questions (5x6=30 marks) Write essays in about 250 words on the following 1. Establish the importance of communication in today’s world. Or Explain interpersonal and intrapersonal communication with examples from literary texts prescribed for study. 2. Explain how to listen to the Radio and the Television. Or Comment on the features of American English. 3. Highlight the important aspects of Group Discussion. Or Discuss in detail the structure of an interview. 4. Bring out the unique characteristics of an editorial. Or List and explain features of advertising language with suitable examples. 5. Explain the stages involved in expanding an idea.

Or Examine the process of structuring and writing an essay.

*******


M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC)

MODEL QUESTION PAPER SEMESTER II – PAPER II – (07ENGD02)

LECTURES AND NOTE-TAKING

Three Hours 60 Marks Section A Answer all the questions: (100 words) (5x4=20)

1. Conversational style in lecturers 2. Prosodic features 3. Asides in lectures 4. Types of Note Taking 5. Lynch’s four phases of students’ understanding

Section B

Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x8=40) 1. What are the micro-skills needed for academic listening?

Or Give an account of different lecturing styles. 2. What are micro and macro maskers?

Or Explain Yorkey’s Note-making clues.

3. How is informal language used in lectures? Or

Specify Lecture length and discuss the steps, stages involving students’ understanding. 4. Explain the three types of notes.

Or What are the skills involved in Note-Taking. 5. Design a lecture structure for a topic of your choice. (Compulsory question – No choice).


DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC)

SEMESTER III - PAPER III

SPEAKING FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES (07ENGD03)

Three Hours 60 Marks

Section A Answer all the questions (100 words) (5x4=20 marks)

1. Turn taking 2. Language functions needed in seminars 3. Nation’s 4/3/2 Technique 4. Jordan’s ‘describe and draw’ technique 5. Personality factors in speech difficulties

Section B

Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x8=40 marks)

1. List and explain constraints in turn taking. Or

State and analyse McKenna’s categorization of questions.

2. Comment on the variety of form of seminars. Or

List and elaborate on seminar skills.

3. Discuss five possible stages in the presentation of the topic. Or

Comment on Lynch’s idea of peer evaluation.

4. Explain what is verbalizing data? Or

Discuss the difficulties in verbalizing data?

5. Identify and list some of the speech difficulties. Or

How can speech difficulties be overcome?



DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH (ACADEMIC) (07EN GD04)

PAPER IV REFERENCE / RESEARCH SKILLS

MODEL QUESTION PAPER Duration: 3 hours maximum marks 60 Section A Answer all the questions (100 words) (5x4=20 marks)

1. Monolingual Dictionary 2. Alphabetical order of entries 3. Date of publication 4. Closed access library 5. Foot notes

Section B

Answer all the questions (200 words) (5x8=40 marks) 1. Describe the different kinds of Monolingual dictionaries.

Or What are the questions a student must remember while choosing a dictionary?

2. As a dictionary user, explain how to use the dictionary with reference to finding words and meanings, spellings, abbreviations, pronunciation.

Or Explain how to use the dictionary for grammatical information learning and extending vocabulary.

3. Prepare a model content page for a book. Or

List and explain the uses of an index in a book.

4. Comment on the advantages of internet in learning. Or

Give the main outline of either the DEWEY DECIMEL SYSTEM or THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.

5. Explain with illustrations the six main purposes of ‘quotations’. Or

List and discuss the important bibliographic features.

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