Semester I
Study Skills: The course develops practical skills and strategies
to improve academic performances such
as: note-taking strategies, presentation skills, formal writing, critical thinking.
It will give an introduction to the history of English literature
Classical Poetry
Chaucer: General Prologue.
Wyatt: The Long Love that in my Thought doth
Harbour, Whoso List to Hunt, They Flee From Me, I Know where is an Hind, Madam,
withouten many Words,
Surrey: My Friend the things that do attain
love, Love that doth reign and live within my thought, Wyatt Resteth Here
Elizabethan Drama
William Shakespeare:
Othello, The Winter’s Tale
Christopher Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus
Greek/Classical Literature
Aristotle: Poetics
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Seventeenth Century Poetry
John Donne: Love and
Divine Poems
John Milton: Paradise Lost
(Books I/IX)
Eighteen Century Novel
Jane Austen: Pride and
Prejudice
Anthony Trollope:
Barchester Towers
Semester II
Sixteenth Century Prose
Francis Bacon: Of Truth, Of
Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversity, Of Simulation and Dissimulation, Of Parents
and Children, Of Great Place, Of Nobility, Of Superstition, Of Friendship, Of Ambition,
Of Studies
Eighteenth Century Satire
Alexander Pope: The Rape
of the Lock
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s
Travels
Nineteenth Century Romantic Poetry
William Blake: Auguries of
Innocence, The Sick Rose, London, A Poison Tree, A Divine Image, From Milton:
And Did those Feet, Holy Thursday (I), Holy Thursday (II), The Tyger, Ah
Sun-flower
S.T. Coleridge: The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode
John Keats: Hyperion
Book—I, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn,
Nineteenth Century Drama
Anton Chekov: The Cherry Orchard
Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
Oscar Wilde: The Importance
of Being Earnest
Twentieth Century Novel
James Joyce: The Portrait
of an Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Victorian Novel
George Eliot: Adam Bede
Charles Dickens: A Tale of
Two Cities
Thomas Hardy: The Return
of the Native
Semester III
Twentieth Century Criticism & Critical Theory
Raymond Williams: Modern Tragedy
Catherine Belsey: Critical
Practice, Practical Application of Critical Theory
Twentieth Century Prose
Bertrand Russell: Unpopular
Essays
Edward Said: Introduction
to Culture and Imperialism
Seamus Heaney: The Redress
of Poetry
American poetry
Adrienne Rich: Diving into
the Wreck, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, Final Notation, Gabriel
Sylvia Plath: Ariel, Morning
Song, Poppies in October, The Bee Meeting, The Arrival of the Bee Box
Richard Wilbur: Still Citizen
Sparrow, After The Last Bulletin, Marginalia
John Ashbery: Melodic Train,
The Painter
American Drama
Eugene O’Neil: Mourning Becomes
Electra
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
American Fiction
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom
the Bell Tolls
Toni Morrison: Jazz
Research Methodology: MLA Formatting, Documentation styles, Avoiding
Plagiarism, Research Paper Writing Techniques
Semester IV
Twentieth Century Poetry
Philip Larkin: Mr. Bleaney,
Church Going, Ambulances, MCMXIV 1914
Seamus Heaney: Personal
Helicon, The Tollund Man, A Constable Calls, Toome Road, Casting and Gathering
Ted Hughes: The
Thought-fox, Chances, That Morning, Full Moon and Little Frieda
Postcolonial Fiction
Ahmed Ali: Twilight in
Delhi
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall
Apart
Modern drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting
for Godot
Bertolt Bretch: Life of
Galileo
Edward Bond: The Sea
Specialization Courses:
Linguistics: Phonology, Morphology,
Semantics, Stylistics
Literature Around the World:
An Anthology of Poetry
Brian Friel: Translations
Frederico Garcia Lorca:
The House of Bernarda Alba
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Research Paper
(Approximately 10,000 words)
This two year
programme aims at a comprehensive survey of British, American, Continental, and
European and Postcolonial literatures in English.
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Semesters
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Semester I
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§ Research
Methodology
§ Critical
Theory
§ Twentieth
Century British Literature ?? (Poetry)
§ Tragedy
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Semester II
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§ Stylistics
§ European
Literature ?? (Drama)
§ American
Literature
§ Comedy
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Semester III
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§ Postcolonial
Literature
§ South
Asian Literature
§ Optional
(any two)
§ Mid-Eastern
Literature
§ Literature
in Translation
§ Travel
Writing
§ Feminist
Literature
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Semester IV
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§ Thesis
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Students must obtain a 2.50 CGPA
for the award of the MPhil degree. Only those students who score a 3.00 CGPA
may opt for the PhD Programme.
Upon admission Doctoral students
in English are required to undertake 18 credit hours of course work in areas
such as Research Methodology, Qualitative Research Writing Skills, Critical Theory,
Electronic Resource Management and Research Methods of English Studies. After
completion of the course work the student undertakes to write a PhD dissertation
of 40,000 to 120,000 words which is an extended scholarly work that makes an
original and substantial contribution to the understanding of the its subject. The
MLA documentation style is followed. The dissertation is evaluated by two
external foreign experts from academically advanced countries as well as
internal local examiners. Before submission of the thesis the student is also required to publish
at least one research paper from his/her dissertation.
Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching (PGD
ELT)
The Department offers a one year Postgraduate
Diploma in ELT. This is a one year evening programme designed for in-service
college/school/university teachers as well as for those fresh graduates who
intend to take up teaching as a profession. Classes are held thrice a week from
3-5 p.m. in the English Department. The admissions to this programme are
completed by December and the new session begins in January every year.
The programme aims at helping
English language teachers to acquire the competence needed for a change of
approach from current outdated teaching practice to the application of modern
strategies of teaching English. Students are required to participate in group
study projects, make presentations and also write a thesis in the final
semester.
Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching (PGD
ELT)
Semester I
Grammar (3 Credit Hours)
Prescriptive and
descriptive grammar, the role of grammar in language teaching, structure, word
order, classification of word classes, noun and the noun phrase (definition and
structure—categories, pre and post modification), verb and verb phrase (tense
and aspect, modality, conditions), adjectives, determiners and numerals,
adverbs, prepositions, and types of clauses.
Error analysis (3 Credit
Hours)
Types of errors,
psycholinguistic theories, process of error analysis, error analysis, and
second language learning/teaching, correction and remedial work
Psycholinguistics (3 Credit
Hours)
The psychology
of learning (behaviourism, mentalism) cognitive psychology and humanistic
psychology language acquisition and language development in children. Second language
acquisition: theories and problems, individual differences in language learning memory process in language learning
learner strategies.
Sociolinguistics (3 Credit
Hours)
The scope of
sociolinguistics, language standardization, dialects, and varieties, code
switching, diglossia, language
and culture/language and gender, ESL in Pakistan: historical factors, lanaguge
policy, bilingualism, language planning and education.
CALL (Computer Assisted
Language Learning) (3 Credit Hours)
Introduction to
CALL, methodology, integrating CALL into a study programme, introduction to
NBLT (network-based language teaching), introduction to computer hardware/software,
internet, using text tools in the classroom, exploiting world wide web
resources, overview of computer based teaching/learning resources,
evaluation/redesigning of internet based classroom resources.
Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching (PGD
ELT)
Semester II
ELT Methodology & Skills
(3 Credit Hours)
Principal
methods of second language teaching and their assessment, teaching of the four skills,
modern methods of teaching, listening and speaking skills, micro teaching
reading and the sub-skills of reading, teaching writing skills: controlled
practice, guided writing and free writing.
Phonetics & Phonology (3
Credit Hours)
Introduction to
phonetics: consonants and vowels of English, articulators, stress, intonation
(word and connected speech), teaching pronunciation.
Research Methodology (3 Credit
Hours)
Introduction to
research, methodology: qualities and quantitative, types of research,
approaches to educational research, interpretation and analysis of data,
introduction to MLA/APA documentation styles
Semester III
Syllabus Design (3 Credit
Hours)
Various models
of syllabus design: structural, functional, notional, situational, process etc.
Course design related to Pakistan’s educational needs, English for academic
studies, English for science and technology, material design,
adaptation/evaluation of materials, designing supplementary materials, management
of large classes
Language Testing (3 Credit
Hours)
Aims and
characteristics, types of tests and their function: diagnostic tests,
proficiency tests, performance tests and achievement tests, characteristics of a good language
test: validity, and practicability, testing listening comprehension, oral
performance, reading and writing, relating language testing and language
learning/teaching.
Teaching Practice/Microteaching
(6 Credit Hours)
Lesson planning,
observation and evaluation of teaching through micro teaching.
Dissertation (3 Credit Hours)
Each student is required
to submit a thesis of 30,000 to 40,000 words exploring significant ELT issues
with specific reference to the Pakistani situation.
Linguistics is the systematic
study of the elements, and the principles of their combination and organization
in language. The English Department offers a Diploma in Linguistics to promote
the understanding of concepts and techniques of linguistic analysis and the
ways in which language is used. It covers all modern linguistic movements.
The one year Diploma is a fully
instructional evening programme with classes held thrice a week from 3-5 p.m.
in the English Department. Admissions are completed in December and classes
begin in January every year. Students are encouraged to participate in
workshops and group study projects. The most notable addition is a course on
ear training and performance. There is a practical examination in General Linguistics.
Semester I
Fundamental to Linguistics (4
Credit Hours)
Introduction to
linguistic terms, principles on which linguistics is based, characteristics of
linguistics, an inquiry into the nature of language, major themes in
linguistics, branches of linguistics: synchronic and diachronic linguistics,
general and descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics, historical linguistics,
comparative linguistics.
Morphology and Syntax (3
Credit Hours)
Morphology: Morpheme and morph, inflectional morphology,
derivational morphology, morphological processes, items and arrangement model.
Syntax: Immediate constituent analysis, phrase structure grammar,
transformational—generative grammar.
Semantics (3 Credit Hours)
Philosophical semantics,
structural semantics, major theories in semantics, behaviorists semantics,
semantics field, speech acts, componential analysis.
Lexicography (3 Credit Hours)
How to build up dictionaries,
types of dictionaries: monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, learner dictionaries, and
thesaurus.
Semester II
Modern Movements in Linguistics
& Semiotics (4 Credit Hours)
Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
ethnolinguistics.
Register: tenor, mode,
domain/analysis of text at the phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic
levels/standards of texuality/metrics.
Principles of pragmatics/speech
acts.
The Spoken English Certificate
Course aims to enhance students’ ability to speak with accuracy and fluency in
a variety of social and academic situations as well as enhance the participants’
understanding of spoken discourse. It provides motivating activities and
meaningful input to maximize communication, increase confidence and stimulate learning.
Activities include presentation skills, pronunciation drills, fluency exercises
and conversational English. This is a three month course and the class timings
are from 5-7 p.m. three days a week held in the Department of English.
This module is intended to
improve the pronunciation of the participants. It will train them to pronounce
basic English sounds and help them speak the English language with a knowledge
of phonetics word stress, intonation etc.
This module is intended to
improve and enrich students’ proficiency in spoken English by enabling them to
use vocabulary to express ideas about variety of subjects like travel, personal
health, food sports etc. topics to be covered are: casual conversations
(greetings, providing and obtaining information), expressing feelings and
emotions, introduction to public speaking, handling job interviews, discussions
on current issues.
This module is intended to give
students practice in the integrated skills of speaking, listening and reading with
main emphasis on speaking skills.
