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| Course Code: ENG 189 Course Name: Individual Writing Practicum Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course will look at the myriad of writing situations a student must deal with. While each student will be dealt with individually by the instructor in removing his/her deficiencies, the instructor will also arrange a peer reading device in order to develop strategies for dealing with specific writing-related issues. | |
| Course Code: ENG 202 Course Name: Critical Appreciation of Poetry Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: The course is designed to familiarize students with critical approaches at an elementary level to understanding poetry. The approaches may include 1. The historical-biographical approach; 2. The formalistic approach; 3. The genre approach; 4. The moral philosophical approach, 5. The empirical approach, 6. The psychological approach, 7. The mythological approach, 8. The feministic approach, 9. The cultural studies approach, 10. Cross-cultural and Christian approaches. | |
| Course Code: ENG 203 Course Name: Advanced Composition and Stylistics Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: The primary goal of this course is to exercise the students' ability in writing. “Writing maketh a man perfect" said Francis Bacon. The course, by making the students negotiate a world of words, will sharpen their skills in effectively presenting their ideas in unambiguous terms. It will also study the use of dialogue, the use of grammar and the distribution of sentence lengths. | |
| Course Code: ENG 204 Course Name: Introduction to Literary Theory Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course will introduce students to major trends in literary theory, both classical and contemporary. It will not attempt to be exhaustive, but to sensitize students to the long route with continuities and disruptions that literary theory and criticism have taken to become an autonomous activity. | |
| Course Code: ENG 205 Course Name: Survey of American Literature - I Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course will teach the first segment of American literature, from 1620 to 1820. Major themes: the Puritan Experiment; the Plymouth Plantation; the Great Awakening; the American Crisis, the Pursuit of Happiness. | |
| Course Code: ENG 206 Course Name: Shakespeare's Comedies Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course is an in-depth study of Shakespeare's comedies. The plays will be analyzed in terms of their structure, characterization, action, language, and the like and with special attention to the issues of romance and reality, gender roles for females and males. Another stream of the course will embrace the master dramatist's quality of melding pure comic delight with ironic tragic impulses. | |
| Course Code: ENG 207 Course Name: Elizabethan Drama (Excluding Shakespeare) Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: Basically the course focuses on non-Shakespearean drama and 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 rise of female authorship, the persecution of witches, and the rapid growth of London as a major urban centre and the stage conventions. | |
| Course Code: ENG 208 Course Name: Sociolinguistics Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: Key terms and approaches—relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Language, dialect and varieties: regional dialects—style and register—standard language and developing a standard variety; Choosing a Code: Diglossia and bilingualism—definition and relationship—code switching and code mixing—borrowing. | |
| Course Code: ENG 209 Course Name: Romantic Poetry - I Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course is devoted to the poetry and poetics of the first generation of the Romantic poets. The course begins by considering just what poetry is, in its semantic and technical elements, and then follows that by a quick review of major critical trends comparing Romantic statements of poetic theory with the poetry actually accomplished during the period under discussion. | |
| Course Code: ENG 211 Course Name: 19th Century Literature: The Intellectual Milieu Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course studies the intellectual perspectives of the Victorian Age such as evolution, materialism and colonialism. | |
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