As technological tools and outlets for writing develop, writers must learn to adapt their writing styles to accommodate the different media. This course will guide students to create their own texts and edit those using word processors.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: 0232-055-553/ENG553/GED 502
Course Name:
Technology and the Writer
Credit Hours:
3.00
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Course Code: 0232-055-554/ENG554
Course Name:
Readings in Literary Translation
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will tackle texts in translation as well as strategies for translating literary texts. Major translation theories will be discussed during the course. The course will also cover issues of copyright and publication processes. Practical work with a focus on cultural issues that emerge during the process of translation will serve to enrich the experience.
Course Code: 0232-055-555/ENG555
Course Name:
Advanced Readings in South Asian Fiction & Non-fiction in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course seeks to closely study a range of modern and contemporary fiction and non-fiction in English from South Asia from cultural, historical, religious, political, economic, social, and aesthetic points of view to come to an understanding about their place in both local, global and some Diasporic contexts. The course will examine how such writing developed and the ways in which it has evolved over the years. This will include works of fiction and non-fiction that are increasingly coming to us through translation into English.
Course Code: 0232-055-556/ENG556
Course Name:
Advanced Readings in South Asian Poetry & Drama in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course seeks to closely study a range of poetry and drama in English from South Asia. Students will be able to appreciate cultural, historical, religious, political, economic, social, and aesthetic points of view. Which will allow students to come to an understanding of their place in a global context. The question of how these texts developed and the ways in which they have changed over the years will be examined. Some postcolonial theory is included in the course contents to better understand the cultural, historical, religious, political, economic, social, and aesthetic aspects of the texts.
Course Code: 0232-055-557/ENG557
Course Name:
Gender Politics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces the key issues in the contemporary discussion of gender as manifested in various cultural and critical practices. The course will be organized around a variety of topics which may include: body politics, subjectivity and sexuality, queer theory, the theoretical approaches to sexuality, the making of sexual identities, the relationship between sexuality and social institutions, and feminist theory. It will examine gender in the politics of personal identities, everyday activities, political participation, and social structures (language, media, education, religion, violence).
Course Code: 0232-055-567/ENG567
Course Name:
Digital Humanities
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course explores the interrelation between humanities, humanities computing, and digital humanities. It will examine the potential of Digital Humanities (DH) as a discipline, and how it has extended and transformed the traditional humanities discipline. It will also offer deeper understanding of concepts, theories, debates, and terms related to digital humanities. This course introduces students to a wide variety of digital tools, theory, and practice of using computational methods in digital humanities. By reviewing some of key projects and initiatives in DH and selected digital tools, the students will work towards developing their own DH project throughout the term.
Course Code: 0232-055-568/ENG568
Course Name:
Language, Power, and Gender
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
ENG568 (Language, Power and Gender) acquaints students with a broad range of theories and analytical tools for a critical study of linguistic practices, power, and gender in different countries around the world. The emphasis is specifically on spoken and written language, but discussions will include different features of nonverbal communication too. Students will understand the way both language and gender are embedded in structures of power and normative patriarchal authorities that perpetuate social inequality and injustice. They will also become sensitive about the historical, political, social, and cultural factors and ideologies that influence the intertwined relationship between language and gender, and instigate power struggles.
Course Code: 0232-055-570/ENG570
Course Name:
Teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will allow students to explore and evaluate the theory and practice of teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes. It will inform students about the academic practices, together with a wider awareness of higher education, can inform EAP teachers; understanding of student needs, academic discourse, curriculum, assessment, material and course development. It will train students to identify the language needs of specific disciplines, examine and assess suitable teaching materials, and design appropriate and meaningful activities for various occupational and educational purposes. The course will also include a study of the current issues, trends and research methods in ESP.
Course Code: 0232-055-572/ENG572
Course Name:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Including Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces the students to drama of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, including a selection of Shakespeare’s plays, that highlights major developments in Renaissance England: the emergence of a capitalist economy, the long reign of a “virgin queen,” colonialist expansion, changing perceptions about love and marriage, the dominant growth of London as a major urban centre and the stage conventions.
Course Code: 0232-055-573/ENG573
Course Name:
Literary Criticism (Sidney to Leavis)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will emphasize literary theory and criticism which emphasises on diverse analytical concepts and criticism by renowned theorists, authors, and critiques. The aim will be to understand primary theoretical concepts through the reading of literary works with attention to historical and social contexts. The course shall extensively study the twentieth-century development of literary criticism based on the concepts of formalism, feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, post-colonialism, and post-modernism. These concepts will help the students understand what “theory” is and how it can be related to “literature,” “literary criticism,” and “literary history”.