Thursday, 17 March 2016

M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE SYLLABUS

M.A (English Literature)
Table -2 : Course Details and Scheme of Examination
                                    (For those who are joining in 2016 -2017 and after)
FIRST SEMESTER
Subjects
Title of the Paper
Hrs per Week
Credit
Exam Hrs
Marks
Total
Int
Ext
Core Subjects
British Literature I
6
5
3
25
75
100

British Literature II
6
5
3
25
75
100

A History of the English Language
6
5
3
25
75
100

English Phonetics
6
4
3
25
75
100
Elective Subject
1. Translation Theory (a)
 2. Diasporic Fiction (b)
6
4
3
25
75
100


SECOND  SEMESTER
Subjects
Title of the Paper
Hrs per Week
Credit
Exam Hrs
Marks
Total
Int
Ext
Core Subjects
British literature III
6
5
3
25
75
100

History of English Literature
6
5
3
25
75
100

Shakespeare
6
5
3
25
75
100

Indian Writing in English
6
4
3
25
75
100
Elective Subject
1. Computer for Effective       
    Communication (a)
 2. Fundamentals of Information  
     Technology (b)
6
4
3
25
75
100



THIRD SEMESTER
Subjects
Title of the Paper
Hrs per Week
Credit
Exam Hrs
Marks
Total
Int
Ext
Core Subjects
British Literature IV
6
5
3
25
75
100

Postcolonial Literature
6
5
3
25
75
100

Gender and Literature
6
4
3
25
75
100

American Literature
6
5
3
25
75
100
Elective Subject
1. Research Methodology (a)
 2. Introduction to Journalism  (b)
6
4
3
25
75
100

FOURTH  SEMESTER
Subjects
Title of the Paper
Hrs per Week
Credit
Exam Hrs
Marks
Total
Int
Ext
Core Subjects
World Classics in Translation
6
4
3
25
75
100

Introduction to Comparative Literature
6
5
3
25
75
100

Literary Criticism and Theory
6
4
3
25
75
100
Elective Subject
1. English Language Teaching (a)
 2. An Introduction to Linguistics  (b)
6
4
3
25
75
100
Project Work
Review
6
4
3
40
60
100

Extra Credits Paper:
Model Paper for NET/SET Examination: 3 Credits





SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper I                               No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE I

Objective:
·         To introduce students to the English literature from Geoffrey Chaucer to William Shakespeare

Unit I: Prose

            Francis Bacon      :        Of love
                                                  Of Studies
                                                  Of Friendship
                                                  Of Truth
                                                  Of Ambition

Unit II: Poetry-I
Geoffrey Chaucer       : Prologue to ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (Lines 1-100 only)
Thomas Wyatt             : I Find No Peace

Unit III: Poetry-II

Edmund Spenser         :   Epithalamion
William Shakespeare   :   Sonnets 29, 60,116 & 130

Unit IV: Drama-I
            Christopher Marlowe  :  Doctor Faustus
           
Unit V: Drama-II
John Webster              : The White Devil

Reference Books:

Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.

Abrams, M.H. Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. I. London: W. W. Norton & Co,

1968.
        

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper II                             No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE II

Objective:
           
·         To introduce students to the English literature of the 17th & the 18th Centuries

Unit I: Prose
            Jonathan Swift                        : The Battle of Books

Unit II: Poetry-I
John Donne                 : The Valediction Forbidding Mourning
            George Herbert           : The Collar
            Andrew Marvell          : To His Coy Mistress
            John Dryden               : A Song for St. Cecilia’s day

Unit III: Poetry-II
John Milton                 : Paradise Lost-Book IX

Unit IV: Drama
John Dryden               : All for Love

Unit V: Novel
Oliver Goldsmith        : The Vicar of Wakefield
            John Bunyan               : Pilgrim’s Progress


Reference Books:

Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.

Abrams, M.H. Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. I. London: W. W. Norton & Co,

1979.



                               SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper III                            No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Objective:
           
·         To introduce students to the historical development of English literature
·         To provide them with a basis for an understanding of present –day English

Unit I:

            1.         The Indo-European Family of Languages and the place of English in it
            2.         Old English and the Influences
            3.         Middle English and the Influences

Unit II
            1.         Latin and Greek Elements in English
            2.         French and Scandinavian Elements in English
            3.         The Impact of the Renaissance, Reformation and Bible Translations on the                                     English Language.
Unit III          
.           1.         Contributions of the Chaucer, Spenser, Milton.
            2.         Contribution of Shakespeare
            3.         Standardization of Spelling and Pronunciation

Unit IV

            1.         Word-Formation in English
            2.         Change in the Meaning of Words
            3.         Standard English

Unit V

            1.         American English
            2.         Indian English
            3.         The Impact of Modern Science and Technology on the English Language


Text Book(s):

Wood, F.T. An Outline History of English Language. IInd Edition. Delhi: Macmillan

            Publisher, 1969.

Dr.Venkataraman, R.  A History of the English Languag. New Delhi: Rama Brother India

            PVT.Ltd, 2007.


References:

Baugh, Albert.C.  A History of the English Language. New Delhi: Allied Publisher Private

            Limited, 1978.



                       
























SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper IV                            No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: ENGLISH PHONETICS

Objectives:

·         To expose the students to the rules of English Phonetics and to make them speak English with correct pronunciation
           
·         To help them learn phonetic transcription which will help them read and speak fluently and accurately

Unit I
            Relevance of spoken English in India
            Ignorance of Spoken English in India
            General Issues of Indian Speakers in Spoken English
Unit II
            Air stream Mechanism
            Organs of Speech
            Description and Classifications of English Sounds
Unit III
            Syllables
            Word Accent
            Accent and Rhythm in connected speech
Unit IV:
            Intonation Patterns
            Assimilation and Elision
            The concept of General Indian English and Varieties of English
Unit V:
            Practice in Phonetic Transcription (Passages/Dialogues)

References:

Balasubramanian, T. A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students. New Delhi:
            Macmillan Publisher, 1981.

Jones, Daniel.  Dictionary of English Pronunciation. London: OUP,  1917.
                           
 SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : I                                                                    No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Elective Subject Paper V(a)                    No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: TRANSLATION THEORY
Objective:
·         To introduce students to the principles of Translation
·         To equip them with the Translation Skills
Unit I: Introduction to Translation
1.  Definition of Translation 
2.  Translation as a Science or an Art
3.  The importance of Translation
Unit II: Aspects of Translation
1.  Qualities of Good Translation
2.  Translation Studies
3.   Translation Process - Eugene Nida’s Classical Model
Unit III: Types of Translation
1.  The views of Dryden, Roman Jakobson, J.C. Catford & Theodore Savory
2.  Translation – Total & Restricted, Rank-bound & Unbounded, Free & Literal,
and Semantic & Communicative
                        3.   Transcription, Copying, Transliteration & Adaptation

Unit IV: Problems of Translation
1.  Equivalence in Translation – Eugene Nida & Popovic
2.   Translating Literary Texts (Poetry, Prose & Drama
3.   Translating Non-Literary Texts
                          4.  The Question of Loss and Gain in Translation
5.  Limits of Translatability
                       


Unit V: Translation Practice
Translating specified literary texts   (i.e., passages from prose texts, stories, novels, biographies, etc.)- English to Tamil & Tamil to English

Textbook:
Bassnett, Sussan. Translation Statics. New York: Routbdge ( 3rd Edition ), 2002.






































SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR - 626 203.
Department of English
(For those who are joining in 2016- 2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme : M.A English                                                          Subject Code :
Semester: I                                                                                    No. of hours allotted: 6/week
Paper: Elective Paper – V (b)                                                      No. of Credits: 4

Title of the Paper: DIASPORIC FICTION

Objectives:

·         To familiarize students with the basic principles of diasporic literature with special reference to the diasporic fiction.


UNIT I
Salman Rushdie                :        Midnight's Children
UNIT II
            Anita Desai                        :      Baumgartner's Bombay
UNIT III
            Amitav Ghosh                   :      The Glass Palace
UNIT IV
            Kiran Desai                       :     The Inheritance of Loss
UNIT V
            Bharati Mukherjee              : The Tiger’s Daughter     








                       
SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VI                            No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE III

Objective:
·         To introduce English Romantic Literature and Victorian Literature to students.

Unit I : Prose

            Charles Lamb                          : “Dream Children: A  Reverie”
                                                              “A Dissertation upon Roast  Pig”
                                                             “The Praise of Chimney Sweepers”
Unit II : Poetry-I

            William Wordsworth              : Michael
            S.T. Coleridge                         : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
            John Keats                              : Ode on a Grecian Urn

Unit III : Poetry II
Alfred Lord Tennyson             : Ulysses
            Robert Browning                     : My Last Duchess
            Mathew Arnold                       : Dover Beach
Unit IV: Novel I
Thomas Hardy                         : The Return of the Native
            Charles Dickens                       : Oliver Twist

References:

Abrams, M.H.  et al.  Norton Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II) .New York: W.W. Norton

 & co, 1979.






                       
SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VII                          No. of Credits                        : 5
Title of the Paper HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Objectives:
·         To enable students to acquire a fair knowledge of the Literary History of England from the Age of Chaucer to the Present day
·         To help them develop an awareness of  the various Literary Movements / Trends in England
·         To expose them to the literary achievements of important English writers
·         To augment their understanding and appreciation of the English literary texts
Unit I: Chaucer to Marvell (5 Topics)        
1.      English Literature from the Age of Chaucer to the period of Tottel’s Miscellany, with special reference to the literary achievements of Chaucer, Thomas More, Wyatt and Surrey (for a Four-page answer)

2.      English Drama from its Origin to the Jacobean Age, with special reference to the Miracle Plays, the Mystery Plays,  the Moralities, the Interludes, the First English Comedy and the First English Tragedy, and the Plays of the ‘University Wits’, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Webster (for a Four-page answer)
3.      Elizabethan Poetry,  with special reference to the works of Spenser and Shakespeare (for a Two-page answer)
4.      English Metaphysical Poetry,  with special reference to the works of John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell (for a Two-page answer)
5.      Elizabethan Prose,  with special reference to the works of John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney and Francis Bacon (for a Two-page answer)
Unit II: Milton to Burns (6 Topics)
1.      English Poetry and Prose in the Age of Milton, with special reference to the works of John Milton and John Bunyan (for a Two-page answer)

2.      English Restoration Poetry, Prose and Drama with special reference to the works of John Dryden and William Congreve (for a Four-page answer)

3.      English Neo-Classical Poetry and Prose, with special reference to the works of Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele ( for a Four-page answer)
4.      English Prose, Poetry and Drama in the Age of Johnson with special reference to the works of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith  and       R.B. Sheridan (for a Two-page answer)
5.      Origin of the English Novel in the Age of Johnson, with special reference to the works of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Oliver Goldsmith (for a Two-page answer)
6.      Reaction against the English Neo-Classical Poetry, with special reference to the works of William Blake, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns and William Cowper (for a Two-page answer)
Unit III: The Romantic Age (3 Topics)
1.      English Romantic Poetry,  with special reference to the works of William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley and John Keats (for a Four-page answer)
2.      English Prose in the Romantic Age,  with special  reference to the works of William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, P.B.Shelley, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (for a Two-page answer)
3.      English Novel in the Romantic Age, with special reference to the works of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen (for a Two-page answer)
Unit IV: Tennyson to Hardy (4 Topics)
1.      English Poetry in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold (for a Four-page answer)
2.      English Prose in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold,               R.L. Stevenson and Newman (for a Two-page answer)
3.      English Drama in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the Plays of  Oscar Wilde (for a Two-page answer)
4.      English Novel in the Victorian Age, with special reference to the works of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, the Bronte Sisters and  Thomas Hardy (for a Four-page answer)


Unit V: The Modern Age (5 Topics)
1.       Modern English Poetry,  with special reference to the works of the Georgian Poets ( Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke and John Masefield), Wilfred Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, D.H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Tom Gunn and Philip Larkin (for a Four-page answer)
2.      Modern English Prose,  with special reference to the works of T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, Sir Winston Churchill, Robert Lynd, A.G. Gardiner, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, T.E .Lawrence, Hilaire  Belloc and  G.K. Chesterton (for a Two-page answer)
3.      Modern English Drama, with special reference to the Plays  of  T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, J.M. Synge, J.M. Barrie, Samuel Beckett and John Osborne (for a Two-page answer)
4.      Modern English Novel, with special reference to the works of H.G Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and William Golding (for a Four-page answer)
5.      Modern English Short Story, with special reference to the Stories of G.K. Chesterton, Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield (for a Two-page answer)
Text Book:
            Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature. Madras: B.I Publications, 1986
Reference Books:
Nair, K.R. Ramachandran. Essays on the History of English Literature.  Chennai:   
Emerald , 2000.





                       

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper VIII                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: SHAESPEARE

Objectives: To give students knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays

Unit I Comedy

            Twelfth Night

Unit II Roman History Play

             Julius Caesar

Unit III Tragedy

Othello

Unit IV Last Play

            The Tempest

Unit V General Shakespeare

1.      Opening scenes in Shakespeare’s plays

2.      Comedies, Tragedies, Historical plays  (Roman and English), Dark Comedies

3.      Villain in Shakespeare’s plays

4.      Introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets

References:

Johnson, Samuel and George Steveens. (eds) The Plays of William Shakespeare. London: OUP, 

            1736.

Bradley, A.C. Shakespearian Tragedy. Delhi: Surjeet Publications, 2006.

 

SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper IX                            No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: INDIAN WRITING  IN ENGLISH

Objectives:
·         To introduce the students to representative pieces of Indian writing English

Unit   I
            A Study of the contribution of the following Indian writers
                        RabindranathTagore,  A.K Ramanujan, Kamaladas, Rajarao, Mulkraj Anand, R.K Narayan, Asif Currimbhoy, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani.

Unit II  Prose

            Sri Aurobindo           :   The Renaissance in India

  Unit III Poetry

            Rabindranath Tagor     : Heaven of Freedom
            R. Parthasarathy           : River, Once
            Nissim Ezekiel               : Poet, Lover and Bird Watcher

Unit IV DRAMA

            Mahesh Dattani           : Tara

Unit V FICTION

            Khushwant Singh                          : Train to Pakistan
            Chitra Benerajee Divakaruni      : Sister of my Heart

References:
Singh, R.P and S.K Prasad.(eds)  Anthology Of Indian English Poetry. India: Orient  
          Blackswan, 1989.
Srinivasa Iyengar, K.R. Indian Writing in English. India: Sterling Publishers
            Pvt.Ltd,1971.


SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : II                                                                   No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper X(a)                                No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper :   Computer For Effective Communication
Objectives:
·         This  course focuses  on how  to  use computer literacy for  Interpersonal,  Mass
line and Mass communication
·         This course also aims to inculcate  the quality use of computer to improve their
knowledge and express themselves effectively.
Unit I
            Introduction to Computers  - Characteristics of Computers- Computer Generations -Types of Computers - Basic Computer Organization -Windows Operating System.

Unit II
           Microsoft  Word:-  Editing  a  Document  -   Formatting  the  Text  -   Formatting  a Paragraph -  Bulleting and Numbering List - Checking Spelling and Grammatical Errors – Table  -  Mail  Merge Microsoft  Excel:  - Formulas  and  Data  Formatting - Creating Excel Functions, Filling Cells and Printing – Charts.
Unit III

Microsoft   PowerPoint:  Creating  PowerPoint  Presentation  -  Object  and  Slide Animations - Printing the PowerPoint presentation





Unit IV

What is  internet? - Internet  services –WWW  - Search Engines - Types  of Search Engines- Investigating search engines & Directories- Search Results.

Unit V
Basic  Components  of  Web  Site- Domain  Name- services-  Blog-  How to  create  a Blog? - Book Blogging Basics – Cyberspace.
Reference Books:
1.  “Learning Computers & Microsoft Office Suite”, S.Pradeep Kumar Kenny,     KK Publications, 2012.
2.  “Web Site Basics”, SSRG Solutions, Kindle Editions, 2013.
3.  “How to Blog a Book”, Nina Amir, Writers Digest.




















                       
SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  
SATTUR – 626 203.
Department of   English
(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A English                                                              Subject Code               :
Semester         :  II                                                                              No. of Hours allotted  : 6/ Week
Paper              : Elective Paper-X(b)                                                  No. of Credits             :
Title of the Paper:  Fundamentals of Information Technology
Objectives:
·         To know the basic concepts  of Information Technology
·         To know the Basic concepts of Computer System
·         To know the Concept of Multimedia and Information Technology in Buisness.
UNIT-I:
Information Technology Today : Information Technology - An Introduction- Information Systems - Software and Data - IT in Business and Industry - IT in Home and at Play - IT in Education and Training - IT in Entertainment and the Arts - IT in Science, Engineering and Math - Computers in Hiding - Picture Essay:The Global Positioning System(GPS).
UNIT-II:
The Computer System : Types of Computers: Corporate and Departmental Computers - Types of Computers: Desktop and Personal Computers - The Anatomy of a Computer - The Foundations of Modern Information Technology: Binary Numbers -0s and 1s  - The Foundations of Modern Information Techonology: Digital Signals - The Foundations of Modern Information Technology: Bits and Bytes - The Binary Code.Software-An Introduction - Software: What is it? - User Interfaces - Application Programs.
UNIT-III:
Multimedia: Multimedia: Introduction - The Tools of Multimedia: Paint and Draw Applications - The Tools of Multimedia: Graphic Effects and Techniques - The Tools of Multimedia: Sounds and Music - The Tools of Multimedia:Video - The Tools of Multimedia: Multimedia Authoring Tools - Delivering Multimedia: Presentation Devices - Multimedia on the web: Sound and Motion - - Multimedia on the web:Video and Television .



UNIT-IV:
         Information Technology in Business : Corporate Computing :Introduction - Transaction Processing - Information Tools for Management Control - Marketing, Advertising, and Sales - Design,Production and Manufacturing - Business on the Internet - Life Outside the Office - Careers - Keeping Up-to-Date.
UNIT-V:
            Personal, Social and Ethical Issues : Computers and your Health - Computers and Ethics Viruses - Intellectual Property Rights - Computer Crime - Cryptography - The Burning issues.

Text Book:
Title of the Book                 : Information Technology (The Breaking Wave)
Name(s) of the author         : Dennis P.Curtin,Kim Foley,Kunal Sen.Cathleen Morin
Publisher                             : Tata McGraw-Hill Edition
Edition / Year                      : 1999.
Unit I                     :           Chapter 2
Unit II                   :           Chapters 3 (3.1 – 3.6), Chapter 6  (6.1 -6.3)
Unit III                   :           Chapter 10(10.1 -10.10)   
Unit IV                  :           Chapter 11(11.1 - 11.10)
Unit V                    :           Chapter  13(13.1 - 13.7)
Reference Book(s):
Reference Book-1:
Title of the Book                     : Introduction to Information  Technology 
Name(s) of the author              : Turban,Rainer,Potter
Publisher                                  : Wiley
Edition / Year                          : 2000.




SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XI                No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: BRITISH LITERATURE IV

Objectives: To introduce students to 20th century English literature.

Unit I – PROSE
            Bertrand Russell                   :  i) Education and Discipline
                                                               ii) Philosophy for Layman
                                                              iii)  Good and Bad
                                                              iv)  A New Approach to Peace
Unit II – POETRY- I
            T.S. Eliot                               : Hallow Men
            W.B Yeats                             : Easter 1916
           W.H. Auden                          : The Unknown Citizen

Unit III – POETRY- II
Philip Larkin                      : Church Going
            Tom Gunn                           : On the Move
            Sylvia Plath                         : Daddy

 Unit IV– DRAMA
G.B.Shaw                            : Arms and the Man

Unit  V– FICTION
D.H.Lawrence                    : Sons and Lovers
            Graham Greene                : The Power and the Glory

References:

            Russell, Bertrand. Wit and Wisdom .London: The Beacon Press, 1951.
           
Green, David. The Winged Word. India: Macmillan publisher, 1974.





SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XIII                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

Objective:

·         To make students familiar with postcolonial literatures
·         Introduction to postcolonial literature

Unit I: Prose
           
            Ngugi  Wa Thiongo                : From Decolonizing the Mind
            Shashi Despande                   : Writing from the Margins

Unit II:Poetry
            Derek Walcott             : A far Cry from Africa
            Wole Soyinka                          : Telephone Conversation
            A.D. Hope                              : Australia
            P.K page                                 : Adolescence
            Sujatha Butt                          : A Different History

Unit III: Drama
           
Manjula Padmanabhan            : Harvest

Unit IV: Novel-I

            Chinua Achebe                     : No Longer at Ease
Unit V :
            Amitav Ghosh                      : Shadow Lines

References:

Thieme (ed).  The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literature in English  London: Macmillan,
2000.
Narasimhaiah, C. D. (ed). An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India

Prese,1990.
SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XII                          No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: GENDER AND LITERATURE

Objective:
·         To make students understand the relationship between literature and gender

Unit I: Prose I
            Virginia Woolf                        : A Room of One’s Own

Unit II: Poetry
Judith Wright                          : Woman to Man
            Kamala Das                             : Dance of the Eunuchs
            Mary Gilmore                          : Eve Song
            Margaret Atwood                   : This is a Photograph of Me
            Elizabeth Barrett Browning    : The Mask

Unit III: Drama
            Usha Ganguly                          : Rudali

Unit IV: Novel
            Alice Walker               : The Color Purple
            Jhumpa Lahiri             : The Namesake

Unit V: Short Stroies
             Bharati Mukherjee         : The Middle Man and Other Stories
References:
Narasimhaiah, C. D (ed).  An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Chennai: Macmillan India

            Prese,1990.

Rice, Philip and Patrick Waugh (ed). Modern literary Theory: A Reader (IVthEdition).New York:

            OUP, 1989.




SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XIV                         No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Objective:
·         To make Students familiar with American Literature and its History.
Unit I:
            History of American Literature with special reference to Thoreau, Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Arthur Miller. Hermen Melville, Ernest Hemingway.

Unit II: Prose

            Ralph Waldo Emerson                        : The American Scholar          

Unit III: Poetry
           
            Edgar Allen Poe                                  : The Raven
            Walt Whitman                                     : Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
            Robert Frost                                        : Mending Wall

Unit IV: Drama
            Arthur Miller                                       : Death of a Salesman
Unit V: Novel
            Hermen Melville                                 : Moby Dick
            Ernest Hemingway                             : The Old Man and the Sea


References:
Fisher, William J.  et al(eds). American Literature of the Nineteenth Century: An     Anthology.       New Delhi: Eurasia, 1970.

Dr. Oliver, Egbert S. (ed.).  American Literature 1890-1965: An Anthology. New   Delhi: Eurasia, 1970.







SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : III                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper XV (a)                No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Objective:
     To enable the students learn the mechanics, formats, documentation of writing a research paper.

Unit I:
                        Research and Writing

1.  Research as a Form of Exploration
2.  Selecting a Topic
3.  Conducting Research
4.  Compiling Bibliography
5.  Language and Style

Unit II: 
                        The Mechanics of Writing

1.  Spelling
2.  Punctuation
3.  Italics
4.  Quotation
5.  Titles of the Works in the Research Paper





Unit III:

Plagiarism

1.  Definition of Plagiarism
2.  Forms of Plagiarism
3. Related Issues in Plagiarism
Unit IV:  

            The Format of the Research Paper

1.  Printing and Typing
2.  Margins
3.  Spacing
4.  Heading – Title
5.  Page Number
6.  Correction and Insertion
7.  Electronic Submission

Unit V:
            Documentation: Citing Sources in the Text
            1.  Parenthetical Documentation and the list of Works cited
            2.  Readability
            3.  Sample Reference
            4.  Using Notes with Parenthetical Documentation


Reference Book:

Gibaldi, Joseph.MLA Hand Book for Writers of Research Paper. (Book VII). New Delhi; Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd., 2004.





SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  
SATTUR – 626 203.
Department of English
(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A English                                          Subject Code                       :
Semester         :  III                                                  No.of Hours allotted                 : 6/ Week
Paper              : Elective Paper-XV(b)                                       No.of Credits                      : 4
Title of the Paper: Introduction to Journalism
Objectives:
ØTo enable the students learn history of Journalism
ØTo know the ethics of Journalism

Unit - I
            Principles of Journalism
            Functions of the journalistic medium as a part of mass communication.
Unit- II
            Government and the Press
Press Laws (Simples ones) like defamation , libel, contempt of court; copyright law , Working Journalistic Act, and Press Registration Act.
Unit- III
Reporting, news value, human interest, story angle.
Unit- IV
            Writing features ,opinion - editorials, personal columns, reviews etc.
Unit - V
Editing-duties, functions, rights of the editor, editing marks, headlines, telegrams, make-up of front page and other pages, advertisements, display.

Reference Books.
Shulka, A.S. Journalism Today Concepts and Practices, New Delhi: Rajat Publications, 2010.

Choudhary.R. Journalism Ethics,. New Delhi: Centrum Press,  2010.

 Pandey, Pramod. Modern Journalism at a Glance,. Jaipur: Sublime Publications,2011.







































SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVI                         No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: World Classics in Translation
Objective:
·         To introduce students to some world classics

Unit I
            Aristophanes        :    The Frogs

Unit II

 Virgil                   :     The Aeneid

Unit III

            Tolstoy                  :    Anna Karenina
Unit IV
            Kafka                   :    The Castle
Unit V
            Thomas Mann     :   Death in Venice












SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVII                       No. of Credits                        : 5

Title of the Paper: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Objectives:

·         To expose the students to the comparative study of literatures.
·         To acquaint them with the concept of schools of comparative literature and inculcate the idea of oneness of literature and the view that literature is one as atr and humanity are one.
Unit –I
            Definition and History of Comparative literature

Unit-II
            Schools of Comparative Literature
American, French, Russian, Indian Schools
Unit-III
            Thematology: Themes, Motifs, Genre Study
Unit-IV
            Literature and Society, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Psychology
            Literature and other arts
Unit-V
            Comparative Literature and Postcolonial World

References:

Bassnett, Sussan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. London: Macmillan Press,

            1988.

Subramanian. Introduction to the study of Comparative Literature Theory & Practice. Madurai:
TEESI publications, 2000.






SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted : 6 /week
Paper              : Core Subject – Paper XVIII                      No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY

Objectives:
·         To expose the students to literary concepts and theories and their application to literary pieces.

Unit-I
            M.H Abrams                           :                 Orientation of Critical Theories               
                         T.S Eliot                                             :                  The Function of Criticism
Unit-II
                        John Crowe Ransom                :                  Criticism
Rene Wellek                             :                  Literary Theory, Criticism and History

Unit – III
                         L.C. Knights                          :               Restoration comedy: The Reality and The                                                                                          Myth
 George Orwell                       :               Politics and the English Language
Unit IV
                        C.G Jung                                 :             Psychology and Literature
                        Northrop Frye                         :            The Archetype of literature
Unit V
                        Sigmund Freud                       :         Creative Writing and day-dreaming
                        Lionel Trilling                         :           Freud and literature

Reference:
            Lodge, David.(ed) 20th century Literature Criticism.London:Longman,1972.


SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with “A” Grade by NAAC)
SATTUR-626 203
Department of English
(For those are joining in 2016-17)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester         : IV                                                                 No. of Hours allotted: 6 /week
Paper              : Elective Subject – Paper XIX (a)               No. of Credits                        : 4

Title of the Paper: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Objectives:
·         To teach the students various aspects of English Language Teaching Theories and Skills

Unit   I
1.      Problems and Principles of English Language Teaching
2.      The role of English in India as Second Language and Foreign Language
3.      Objectives of English teaching in India

Unit II
1.      The Theories of Language Learning and their relevance to English Language Teaching
2.      Learning Versus Acquisitions, Difference between First and Second language learning
3.      Attitudes to Errors in English

Unit  III
1.      Methods: Grammar- Translation Method, Direct Method and Dr. Michael West Method
2.      Approaches: Structural, Situational and  Functional Approaches
3.      Communicative Language Teaching: Class Room Interaction and Learner center Teaching

Unit IV
1.      Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing – Macro Skills and Micro Skills

Unit V
1.      Teaching of Grammar, Prose, Poetry and Fiction
2.      Testing and Evaluation




Text(s)
           
            Tickoo, M. L. Teaching and Learning English. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003.
           
            Vincent, S. The Teaching of English: Madurai, Soundra Publications, 2007.

References:

           Yardi, V. V. Teaching English in India Today. Goa: Parimal Prakashan  Publishers, 1977.
           West, Michael. Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances. London: Longman,1960.
































SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  
SATTUR – 626 203.
Department of English
(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A English                                                            Subject Code     :
Semester         :  IV                                                             No.of Hours allotted           : 6/ Week
Paper              : Elective Paper-XIX (b)                                    No.of Credits          : 4
Title of the Paper: An Introduction to Linguistics
Objectives:
·         To introduce students  the principles of linguistics
·         To know the Basic concepts of Linguistics

Unit- I
The Origins of Language : The divine source; The natural sounds source; The oral gesture source, Physiological adaptation; speech and writing
Unit- II
The properties of language : communicative versus information, unique properties, displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission, discreteness, duality.
Unit- III
            Animals and human language.
Unit- IV
The sounds of language : phonetics, voiced and voice less sounds, places of articulation, charting consonant sounds, manner of articulation, vowels. 17





Unit- V
Language history and change : family trees, family relationships, cognates, comparative reconstructions, language change, Old English, Middle English, sound changes, lexical changes, the process of change.

Text :
George Yule, The Study of Language, Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1,3,4,5,
Frank Palmer, Grammar (ELBS and Penguin) D) Transcription Words and single sentences  
            Daniel Jones, English Pronunciation

































SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  
SATTUR – 626 203.
Department of English
(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme    : M.A English                                          Subject Code                       :
Semester         :  IV                                                      No.of Hours allotted              : 6/ Week
Paper              : Core Subject Paper XX                 No.of Credits                                   : 4
Title of the Paper: Project Work
Objective:
·         To evaluate the critical competence, logical reasoning and scholarly composition of the students at the end of the M.A. Programme.

                                PROJECT
·                  To be submitted on or before the last working day of the semester. It should not be less than 30 pages. It should be a critical perspective of an author or a work or an area of interest. It may also be a translation or about an aspect in linguistics.

Allotment of Marks
Internal                                 -40 Marks
                                 
Project Proposal                    -10 Marks

Proposal Presentation            -10 Marks

Progressive Report                -10 Marks

                                      Pre- Submission Presentation-10 marks




External                                -60 marks
Evaluation Method for Project:



Max. Marks
Credits
Internal
External
Project Evaluation
40
40

Viva Voce

20
Total
100
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SRI S.RAMASAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL COLLEGE
(An Autonomous Institution Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)  
SATTUR – 626 203.
Department of Computer Science
(Those who joined in 2016-2017 and after)
SYLLABUS
Programme         : M.A. English                                               Subject Code             :
Semester  : IV                                                                              No. of Credits           : 3
                                                 Extra Credit paper
Title of the Paper: Model Paper for NET/SET Examination
Objectives:
·         To create an awareness of the NET/SET  Examination
·         To make the students prepared for NET / SET  Examinations

Unit- I

     Renaissance to Restoration
  Unit- II

     Augustan Age to Romantic Age
Unit- III

     Victorian Age to Contemporary period
Unit- IV

     American and other non- British Literature
Unit- V

Contemporary Theory
Literary Criticism
Rhetoric and prosody

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