This course provides an introduction to literary Modernism as an artistic movement that transformed literary production in Europe and the United States from the end of the nineteenth century and across the first half of the twentieth century. In response to the unsettling social, political, and cultural changes brought about by an era of 'modernity', writers sought to create art that would engage with and reflect these changes. Through the study of key Modernist texts (prose, poetry, play), students will learn about the diverse innovations in form, style, and subject matter characteristic of the movement. Authors include, but are not limited to W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T.S.Eliot, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Samuel Becket. Students will study how these prominent writers and their work interpret and express the experience of modernity, and the ways in which they reacted to, reflected on, or tried to give shape to the social and political tumult of their times.
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The course introduces the concepts on the Articulatory Phonetics: The Vocal Organs, Places of Articulation, The Oro-Nasal Process, Manners of Articulation, The Articulation of Vowel and Consonant Sounds, Phonemic Transcriptions, Acoustic Phonetics, Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types, Syllables and Suprasegmental Features, Linguistic Phonetics, along with additional concepts such as Syllables and Consonant Clusters, Strong and Weak Forms, Types of Transcriptions, Bangla Phonetics, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Phonetics. For the students minoring, this course shall help soften an accent and increase confidence when communicating, by teaching the sounds stresses and rhythms that can be so tricky to figure out when English is not the native tongue of the students.
This course, sociolinguistics, provides a general introduction to the study of the relationship between language and society. Importance is given to the study of language variation and change, sociology of language, correlational sociolinguistics (how social factors like age, sex and social class influence language) and social context of linguistic diversity including dialectology, language and gender, pidgins and creoles, language and ethnicity, new varieties of English, intercultural communication and applied sociolinguistics. It will focus on language variation according to users, including regional and social dialects as well as variation by gender. It will also discuss language variation according to use. It also includes issues related to disciplines such as education, gender & cultural studies, and politics.
This course has been designed to offer students an introduction to the study of word structure with a range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages; especially English. It also explores the theoretical models for word and sentence construction.
This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of language meaning. It also offers the study of symbolic processes and how meaning is encoded in words, phrases, sentences, and utterances; a discussion of modern theories of meaning; and an exploration of relationships among language, thought and action. It surveys basic topics in semantics such as sense and reference, lexical semantics and basic sense relations, semantics and grammar, and simple logic. It also introduces pragmatics and the negotiation of interpersonal meanings in contexts of situations. The course also explores the relationship between how the use and the users determine the meanings of words.
The course aims to develop understanding of the relationship between language and the processes of the brain and mind. By the end of course the learners will be able to comprehend, and explore different areas of Psycholinguistics, i.e., the theoretical fields that discuss on the philosophical approach along with the emergent, psychological, Behaviorist, cognitive, neuroscience, network, evolutionary, and Linguistic approaches as well as the applied frameworks such as language dissolution, speech perception, and therapy, intelligence, and the studies of acquisition of Sign Language.
This course will explore the traditional theories associated with language learning and how they have affected the evolution of language teaching. Particular attention will be paid to learner characteristics (attitude, aptitude, and motivation), cognitive and metacognitive strategies, interlanguage theory, the monitor model, acculturation, and accommodation. All theories will be learned in the context of application to teaching pedagogy.
Under supervision of a faculty member, students taking the independent study will select a topic and conduct an independent research study. Faculty supervisors must agree to supervise student work before semester registration. All topics must be pre-approved by faculty supervisors before research is conducted.
The outcome of this course is a major piece of guided independent research on a topic agreed between the student and their supervisor. Students will critically analyse and evaluate existing knowledge of a field, identify a problem of interest to them and design and conduct a research project investigating the problem. It may involve fieldwork and/or extensive research on secondary sources. The dissertation must show evidence of wide reading and understanding of critical analysis and appropriate use of advanced research techniques. Students are expected to work in close consultation with their assigned supervisors and produce a 12,000-15,000 words long dissertation that they will defend in front of a panel of examiners consisting of two internal and one external examiner. To be eligible for writing a dissertation, a student must earn a minimum CGPA of 3.3.
Students will work one-on-one with their thesis supervisor and create a mutually agreed upon plan for communication throughout the process of completing the Master’s Thesis. Students should take responsibility of making regular contact with their supervisor (number of meetings to be decided by the supervisor) and are expected to email their work in good time before each meeting for the supervisor to give feedback.
Direct current, voltage, power and energy. Resistance, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s law, Voltage and Current law ; Series parallel circuits, voltage and current division, wye-delta transformation. Nodal and mesh analysis. Source transformation, Thevenin’s, Norton’s and superposition theorems. Maximum power transfer condition and reciprocity theorem. Inductors and capacitors, series parallel combination of inductors and capacitors. Responses of RL and RC circuits. Alternating current, sinusoidal waveforms, phasors and complex quantities. Impedance, real and reactive power, power factors. Series and parallel RC, RL and RLC circuits. Nodal and mesh analysis. Network theorems. Series and parallel resonance and Q-factors. Balanced and unbalanced Polyphase systems. Coupled circuits and transformers. Passive filters. The course includes lab works based on theory taught.