This course explores speech sounds as physical entities (phonetics) and as linguistic units (phonology). The course intends to develop students’ skills in perceiving, articulating, and transcribing speech sounds.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 1203
Course Name:
Pronunciation: Phonetics and Phonology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 1301
Course Name:
Introduction to Linguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course teaches primary concepts of Linguistics that include morphology and syntax, phonetics and phonology, psycholinguistics, theories of Second Language Acquisition, Research Methodology; Syntax and Morphology; semantics and pragmatics; sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis.
Course Code: ENG 1303
Course Name:
Old and Middle English Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course focuses on texts from Old and Middle English literature, from the first Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to the works of Chaucer. Students will examine the economic, the social, and the political conditions of the period in England as reflected in the prescribed texts to understand the growth of the English literary tradition.
Course Code: ENG 2101
Course Name:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course focuses on non-Shakespearean drama and 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 rise of female authorship, the dominant growth of London as a major urban centre and the stage conventions.
Course Code: ENG 2102
Course Name:
Writing about Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course reinforces the integration of literature and composition. It is designed to develop students’ abilities to think, organize and express their ideas clearly and effectively in writing while engaging with literary texts.
Course Code: ENG 2103
Course Name:
Morphology and Syntax
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Morphology, the study of words, is interrelated with syntax, phonology, and semantics. This course is an introduction to the study of the internal structure of words and sentences.
Course Code: ENG 2107
Course Name:
16th and 17th Century English Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Jacobean prose and the poetry of the Metaphysical and the Cavalier groups of poets along with that of Milton will form the core texts of the course. These will be studied in relation to the socio-cultural flux of the period.
Course Code: ENG 2108
Course Name:
Shakespeare
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will look closely at four of Shakespeare’s plays, finding their genre characteristics and the thematic and stylistic issues. Students will explore a range of critical approaches to these plays, ideas that Shakespeare presented as well as the characters, both major and minor , which are as relevant today as they were four hundred years ago.
Course Code: ENG 2201
Course Name:
Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an introduction to theoretical frameworks and analytic methods in sociolinguistics. The course will discuss the possible relationships between language and society. Students will learn about linguistic variation and change, examining how this variation can reflect social structures (how social factors like age, sex, and social class influence language) and construct different social identities.
Course Code: ENG 2202
Course Name:
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims at presenting the cross-currents of English Literature during the Restoration and the 18th Century and will introduce students to poets’ /dramatists’ startling innovations with words, and ideas of personal, the period's volatile intellectual and political currents.