This course is designed to make students aware of the use and interpretation of language from different domains. Students will be able to explain the semantic and pragmatic, i.e., ethnomethodological or socio-cultural meaning of language effectively. Examples from media, off- and online, and different institutional and workplace registers (e.g., consultation, negotiation and instruction) and genres (e.g., emails, meeting-minutes, reports and manuals) will be studied in this course.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3211
Course Name:
Critical Language Awareness
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 3212
Course Name:
Methodology of Language Teaching
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to familiarize students with fundamental methods in English language teaching and learning. It equips students to analyze and assess different teaching learning scenarios and choose the best possible method or combination of multiple methods to bring out the maximum measurable outcomes. Importantly, it develops students’ critical reflection on teaching and learning scenarios through peer teaching.
Course Code: ENG 3213
Course Name:
English in the Workplace
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will examine the different styles and systems of language used in the English language workplace. In this course students will learn different linguistic approaches to analyze the language used in the workplace(s). Knowledge of sociolinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics and composition is crucial to understand the topics discussed in this course.
Course Code: ENG 3215
Course Name:
Classroom Techniques (pre-requirement for Teaching Practicum)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students the opportunity to develop critical awareness on fostering learning in classrooms. It addresses a number of practical factors - lesson plans, classroom layout, seating arrangement, teachers-students role, student-student role, classroom behaviour and most importantly specific learning needs - to maximize learning in the classroom.
Course Code: ENG 3216
Course Name:
Teaching Reading and Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to familiarize students with principles of teaching and learning in reading and writing. It intends to provide a comprehensive guide with tools and knowledge for pre-service teachers to teach reading and writing while meeting diverse learning needs of students. It also contributes in students’ understanding through critical analysis of materials, approaches and assessment in the domains of reading and writing.
Course Code: ENG 3217
Course Name:
Teaching Listening and Speaking
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students to teach the English Essential Skills: Listening and Speaking techniques in order to aid in students’ comprehension. For the course, students are exposed to updated theories and materials for teaching, listening and speaking, perhaps aided with authentic English audio files in the form of conversations, radio broadcasts and other aural sources of information.
Course Code: ENG 3218
Course Name:
Stylistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Stylistics is considered an applied field of linguistics that explains techniques of literary analysis. The aim of this course is to study the literary works, the techniques of linguistics and literature and the relationship between linguistics and literature. It will study in-depth methods and techniques used by writers in their writings to create particular effects with language.
Course Code: ENG 3304
Course Name:
South Asian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Students will be introduced to great works of South Asian Literature in English, which is one of the most vibrant of the new literatures. Fiction, poetry and prose from the Twentieth Century onwards will be covered.
Course Code: ENG 3390
Course Name:
Introduction to Translation Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to different approaches to translation in order to help them develop an understanding of the links between theory and practice. The wider cultural, ethical and professional contexts of translation will be taken into account.
Course Code: ENG 4101
Course Name:
Research Methodology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The Research Methodology course is designed to allow students to gain a sufficient amount of “explicit” (conscious) knowledge on research. Students will learn how to begin research, explore ideas, search for secondary sources, assess these sources, write annotated bibliographies, compile a literature review, document sources, write an abstract, and prepare a research proposal. The final product of this course is a research proposal that will be used to begin the dissertation in the final semester.