English Honours (Semester -II) Syllabus - Burdwan University

The University of Burdwan 

SYLLABUS FOR B.A. HONOURS PROGRAMME 

IN 

ENGLISH 

Semester-II

 CC - III: Indian Writing in English

Section A

1. Lal Behari Day: Govinda Samanta or the History of Bengal Raiyat (ND)
2. Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

Section B

3. a) H.L.V. Derozio: ‘Freedom to the Slave’
b) Kamala Das: ‘Introduction’
c) Nissim Ezekiel: ‘The Night of the Scorpion’
d) Robin S. Ngangom: ‘A Poem for Mother’
4.Mahesh Dattani:Bravely Fought the Queen (ND)

Topics 

Indian English, Indian English Literature and its Readership,
Themes and Contexts of the Indian English Novel, The Aesthetics of Indian English Poetry, Modernism in Indian English Literature

 

CC - IV: British Poetry, Drama (16 – 17 Centuries) & Rhetoric and Prosody 

Section A 

1. a) William Shakespeare: ‘Sonnet No. 18’, ‘Sonnet no. 116’ 

    b) John Donne: ‘Good Morrow’, ‘The Sun Rising’’ Rhetoric and Prosody (Recommended Bose and Sterling)

Section B  

2. William Shakespeare: Macbeth 

3. Christopher Marlowe: Edward II (ND) 

4. William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (ND) 

Topics 

Renaissance Humanism, The Stage, Court and City, Religious and 

Political Thought, Ideas of Love and Marriage, The Writer in Society  

 

GE - 2: ESSAY, DRAMA, NOVEL
                                                 

1. George Orwell – “Shooting an Elephant’ 

R. K. Narayan – “A Library without Books”

2. George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man 

3. J. B. Priestley – An Inspector Calls 

4. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea (ND)

AECC – II (Communicative English/ MIL) 

Communicative English (MCQ Type Questions to be set to test command of Vocabulary, Usage, Collocation, Register, Difference between Formal and Informal speech, between Standard & Colloquial Language, Awareness about Linguistic Courtesy, Different types of Salutation, Letter-ending, and the like) 

Introduction: 

• Theory of Communication,   • Types and modes of Communication

1.  Language of Communication:  

• Verbal and Non-verbal (Spoken and Written)  

• Personal, Social and Business  

• Barriers and Strategies  

• Intra-personal,  Inter-personal  and  Group Communication  

2. Speaking Skills:  

• Monologue  

• Dialogue  

• Group Discussion  

• Effective Communication/ Mis- Communication  

 ▪ Interview  

 ▪ Public Speech  

3. Reading and Understanding 

• Close Reading  

• Comprehension  

• Summary Paraphrasing  

• Analysis and Interpretation  

• Translation (from Indian language to English and vice-versa)  

4. Writing Skills 

 ▪ Documenting  

 ▪ Report Writing  

 ▪ making notes  

▪ Letter writing Recommended 

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