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 Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 556
Course Name:
Advanced Readings in South Asian Poetry & Drama in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
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Course Code: ENG 557
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: ENG 567
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: ENG 568
Course Name:
Language, Power, and Gender
Credit Hours:
3.00
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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: ENG 570
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: ENG 572
Course Name:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Including Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
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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: ENG 573
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”.
Course Code: ENG 574
Course Name:
Romantic Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will offer a detailed study of Romanticism to understand its significance in English poetic tradition. By exploring the works of the six major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and investigating some characteristics that they share, we will try to outline what Hazlitt called the “spirit of the age.” At the same time, we will highlight the distinctiveness of each romantic poet by studying their representative poems as well as their aesthetic ideas and life experience. Our approach will involve close reading, but we will also draw attention to the relationship between text and context, poetry and poet, poetic creation and critical value to ascertain the complexity of the term Romanticism.
Course Code: ENG 575
Course Name:
Victorian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course covers the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing students to explore the extraordinary cultural and social changes occurring in Nineteenth-century England. This is the brilliant age of Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson and Browning, Oscar Wilde, and the Pre-Raphaelites among many others. This is also the transitional period between the Romantics and the Modernists and the literature of the time depicts the internal conflicts the nation sustained in its journey from rural simplicity to urbanization.
Course Code: ENG 576
Course Name:
Ancient Greek Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Betrayal, revenge, and sometimes the intervention of unshakable fate and whimsical gods and goddesses—is that all there is to these often tragic and fearful tales? Or, perhaps there is more to it, something that allows it to transcend time and place, and appeal to a new generation. This course aims to enlighten students about the ancient cultures and different critical concepts that also changed through time. Students will study a selection of poetry, plays and critical reading to trace how the concept of literature evolved through time.