Faculty of Arts

Department of English

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in English (Evening)

The primary objective of this Bachelor of Arts (hons.) in English (Evening) program is to facilitate those who have already a Bachelor (pass)/Associate/Diploma (2-4 years) Degree or 4 years work experience in relevant fields after HSC. In fact, Bachelor (pass) degree and such is not a recognized Bachelor degree. Due to these degrees, graduates face so many problems in their academic and professional career. So, the aim and pursuit of this BAENG (Evening) program is to assist the above mentioned students to get a recognized Bachelor degree. That’s why the BAENG (Evening) is designed in 8 Trimesters where 39 credits are given waiver as for the prior academic and professional qualification of the students.

The courses offered by the Department of English for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in English has two concentrations: Literature and Linguistics.

The program requires an extensive reading of texts of literature in English and a familiarity with the theoretical and critical approaches, which have shaped English studies in recent years. The organization of the degree offers both structure and flexibility. The program focuses on a study of literary periods, genres and theoretical issues, as well as a study of non-native literature in English and literatures in other languages. Language skills and techniques are part of the degree. Students are thus offered the possibility of working with texts from a number of different historical periods and geographical areas, and are given the tools to analyze them in a variety of ways.

For Linguistics concentration, the program emphasizes an extensive reading of English phonetics and phonology, English grammar, Morphology, Syntax, applied linguistics and Language Acquisition. These count as core courses in the Linguistics major.

Admission Requirements:

Every applicant, without any exception, must fulfill the admission requirements as laid down by IBAIS University. Admission test and interview for admission into the first trimester will be held three times a year. No interim or supplementary admission test or interview will be arranged.

BA/B.Sc./B.Com (Pass)/Associate/Diploma (2-4 years) in any discipline/4 years work experience in relevant fields after HSC.

For all foreign certificates, the University as per rules of Bangladesh Government will determine equivalence.

Degree Requirements:

(a) Completion of 84 credit hours courses.

(b) Completion of the Dissertation with at least a ‘C⁺’ grade (6 credit hours).

(c) Passing all courses individually and maintaining a minimum CGPA of C⁺ (2.5).

Duration: Three years (9 trimesters)

Career Information: Students preparing to enhance their teaching careers can select any concentration from Literature/Language/ Applied Linguistics and ELT. The English Literature major is the ideal liberal arts major for students desiring to develop capabilities in research, writing, critical thinking, and textual analysis combined with the study of literature and language. And students preparing to teach English as a Second Language are advised to take linguistics major. For pre-professional and general liberal-arts majors, linguistics contributes to analytical and research skills that enhance professional résumé. Applied Linguistics and ELT are for students who are pursuing Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) endorsement concurrently with the MA in English.    

List of Courses

1st Trimester

2nd Trimester

3rd Trimester

Literature Major

4th Trimester

5th Trimester

6th Trimester

7th Trimester

8th Trimester

Linguistics Major

4^th Trimester

5^th Trimester

6^th Trimester

7^th Trimester

8^th Trimester

Syllabus

Syllabus

ENG 103 Introduction to Poetry

Shakespeare, William   :           ‘My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun’

Donne, John                 :           ‘The Sonne Rising’

Milton, John                 :           ‘How Soon Hath Time’

Gray, Thomas               :           ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

Wordsworth, William    :           ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’

Shelley, Percy Bysshe:  ‘The Cloud’

Keats, John                  :           ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’

Tennyson, Alfred          :           ‘Tithonus’

Browning, Robert         :           Sonnets from the Portuguese, No. 43

Hardy, Thomas :           ‘The Darkling Thrush’

Dickinson, Emily           :           Poem # 712 (Because I Could not stop for Death)

Dylan, Thomas :           ‘Fern Hill’

Eliot, Thomas Stearns:  ‘Preludes’

Hughes, Ted                 :           ‘Jaguar’

Heaney, Seamus           :           ‘Digging’

ENG 105 Introduction to Prose and Drama

Swift, Jonathan :           ‘A Modest Proposal’

Lamb, Charles              :           ‘A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of the Married                                                                      People’

Joyce, James                :           ‘Eveline’

Orwell, George :           ‘Animal Farm’

Woolf, Virginia :           A Room of One’s Own [“Shakespeare’s Sister” as in Norton]

Sophocles                    :           King Oedipus

Shakespeare, William   :           The Merchant of Venice

Wilde, Oscar                :           Importance of Being Ernest

ENG 108 Studies in English History

Chaucer’s England: The Middle Ages; Stuart and Tudor England; Shakespeare’s England; Milton’s England; The ‘Glorious Revolution’: Neo-Classical England; Romanticism (1798-1832): Wordsworth’s England; The Victorian age; Twentieth Century England upto World War II.

ENG 109 Old & Middle English

Beowulf, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Road, The General Prologue, Morte D’Arthur (last 2 Chapters)

PHL 110 Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy: Its origin and scope; Methods of Inquiry: the sources, nature and validity of Knowledge; Types of Philosophy: Materialism, Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism and related movements; Man and his place in the World: The physical sciences and philosophical problems, life and its development, The nature of man and the Self, Problem of Mind, Is man free?

The Realm of Values: The nature of Values, Ethics and Moral Life, Contrasting Value systems of orient and occident, Nature of Religion and Belief in God

ENG 201 The 16^th & 17^th Century English Literature – I

Sidney, Philip                                        Arcadia

Edmund Spencer                                  The Faerie Queenee (Book I Cantos I)

Kyd, Thomas                                       The Spanish Tragedy

Marlowe, Christopher                           Doctor Faustus

Shakespeare, William                           Sonnets (54, 118,130)

Francis Bacon                                      Essays (Selections from the Essays)

Milton, John                                         Paradise Lost, Books IX and X

John, Ben                                             Volpone

ENG 202 The 16^th & 17^th Century English Literature – II

Donne, John                                         Selections as in Grierson’s Metaphysical Poets

Herbert, George                                   Do

Marvell, Andrew                                  Do

Henry Vaughan                         Do

HIST 203 European History

Renaissance – scientific and geographical discoveries; Reformation, Counter Reformation, English Reformation, Thirty Year’s War, Absolute Monarchy in Europe – Louis XIV, Rise of Russia – Peter the Great and Catherine II, Fredrick II of Prussia (1740-1786), French Revolution and its impact, Unification of Germany and Italy, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, First World War (1914-1918), The Bolshevik Revolution (1917), Second World War (1939-1945).

ENG 205 Restoration and 18^th Century Literature

Addison and Steele                                           Coverley Papers (Selections)

Swift, Jonathan                                     Gulliver’s Travels

Pope, Alexander                                               The Rape of the Lock

Johnson, Samuel                                               Preface to Shakespeare

Congreve, William                                            The Way of the World

Dryden, John                                                    ‘Mac Flecknoe’

Defoe, Daniel                                                   Moll Flanders

PHL 206 History of Western Ideas

The Greeks and the Romans: The Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Cynics, Skeptics, The Medieval World View, The Renaissance: Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Bacon, The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, The Rise of Modern Science: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, The Rise of Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, The Enlightenment and 18^th-Century Thought: The Philosophes, Berkeley, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus, Rousseau, Kant, Romanticism and the French Revolution, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Birth of Feminism, The Americian War of Independence and Democracy, 19^th- Century Thought:  Hegel, Marx and Socialism, Utilitarianism, Darwin and the Theory of Evolution, Positivism (Comte), Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Feminism. 20^th-Cantury Thought: Bergson and Creative Evolution, Pragmatism, Modern Analytical philosophy and the Scientific World-View, Modern Psychology (Freud, Jung and Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Gestalt Psychology), Existentialism, Feminism. 

ENG 208 Advanced Reading Strategies and Writing

Intensive and Extensive Reading; Critical Analysis and Interpretation of Texts; Essays; Report Writing; Book Reviews; Research Papers.

ENG 301 English for Professional Purpose

Business Reports; Business Letters; Job Applications; Internal Memoranda; Translation; Editing; Developing Press Copies.

PHL 302 Eastern Thought

Indian:

The Vedas, The Upanishads, Buddhism, Jainism, Carvaka, The Six Orthodox Schools, Sankhya-Yoga, Mimansa-Vedanta, Nyaya-Vaisesikha, Bhakti, Indian Aesthetics.

Chinese/Japanese:

Taoism, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism.

Islamic:

Schools of Muslim Philosophy, Muslim Contribution to Western Thought, Sufism.

Literature Major

ENG 303 The Romantic Period

Blake, William                          Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Selections                                                                 as in Norton)

Wordsworth, William                            The Prelude (Book 1); ‘Lines Composed a Few                                                                                  Miles above Tintern Abby’; ‘Ode: Intimations of                                                                                   Immortality’; ‘Michael’; ‘She Dwelt Among the                                                                                     Untrodden Ways’; ‘Three Years She Grew’;

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor                      The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner; Dejection: An                                                                            Ode; Kubla Khan; Biographia Literaria (Chapter                                                                                 XIV and XVII)

Byron, George Gordon             Don Juan (Canto –1)

Shelly, Percy Bysshe                             Prometheus Unbound

Keats, John                                          The Odes; ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’

ENG 304 High Victorian Literature (1830-1880)

Dickens, Charles                                  Great Expectations

Brontë, Emily                                        Wuthering Heights

Eliot, George                                        Silas Marner

Tennyson, Alfred                                  ‘The Lotos-Eaters’; ‘Locksley Hall’; In Memoriam;                                                                             ‘Ulysses’

Browning, Robert                                 ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’; ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’;                                                                           ‘Andrea del Sarto’; ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’; ‘Prophyria’s                                                                               Lover’

Arnold, Matthew                                  ‘Dover Beach’; Culture and Anarchy (Chap. 1:                                                                       ‘Sweetness and Light’)

Mill, John Stuart                                   ‘What is Poetry?’ ‘Of individuality’

ENG 305 American Literature – I

Whitman, Walt                         ‘Song of Myself’

Frost, Robert                                        ‘The Death of a Hired Man’; ‘Apple Picking’;                                                                           ‘Design’; ‘Fire and Ice’; ‘The Road not Taken’;                                                                                    ‘Stopping by the Wood on a Snowy Evening’

Dickinson, Emily                                   Poems 49, 130, 185, 241, 249, 435, 510, 6536

Williams, William Carlos                       ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’; ‘Portrait of a Lady’;                                                                           ‘Willow Poem’; ‘To Elsie’; ‘A Sort of a Song’

Emerson, Ralph Waldo             The American Scholar

Thoreau, Henry David              Civil Disobedience

Hawthorne, Nathaniel                           The Scarlet Letter

Hemingway, Earnest                             ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’, ‘The Short Happy Life                                                                  of Francis Macomber’

O’Neil, Eugene                         Long Day’s Journey into Night

Williams, Tennessee                              A Street Car Named Desire

ENG 306 Late Victorian to Modernist (1880-1930)

Hardy, Thomas                         The Return of the Native

Lawrence, David Herbert                     The Rainbow

Conrad, Joseph                                    Heart of Darkness

Yeats, William Butler                            ‘Easter 1916’; ‘The Second Coming’; ‘Leda and the                                                     Swan’; ‘Byzantium’; ‘Crazy Jane Talks with the                                                                        Bishop’; ‘No Second Troy’

Eliot, Thomas Stearns                           ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’; ‘Gerontion’

ENG 307 American Literature – II

Faulkner, William                                  As I Lay Dying

Wright, Richard                                    Native Son

Morrison, Toni                         The Bluest Eye

Albee, Edward                                     The Zoo Story

Miller, Arthur                                        The Death of a Salesman

Rich, Adrienne                          ‘Double Monologue’; ‘The Knot’; ‘Orion’

Ginsberg, Allen                         ‘September on Jessore Road’; ‘Howl’

Merwin, W. S.                                     ‘The Drunk in the Furnace’; ‘Losing a Language’

ENG 308 Postcolonial Literature – I

Narayan, R. K.                         The Guide

Naipaul, V S                                        A House for Mr. Biswas

Achebe, Chinua                                    Things Fall Apart

Ngugi, wa Thiong’o                              The Petals of Blood

Soyinka, Wole                                      The Road

Parthasarathy, Kumar                           Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets

Baier, U.                                              Modern Poetry from Africa

ENG 309 Literary Criticism

Aristotle                                               Poetics

Plato                                                    The Republic

Longinus                                               On the Sublime

Sidney, Philip                                        An Apology for Poetry

Dryden, John                                        An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

Wordsworth, William                            Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Eliot, Thomas Stearns                           ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’

Eagleton, Terry                         ‘The Rise of English in Modern Times’ (from                                                                 Literary Theory: An Introduction)

ENG 401 Postcolonial Literature – II

Ghosh Amitav                                       The Shadow Lines

White, Patrick                                      A Fringe of Leaves

Rushdie, Salman                                   Midnight’s Children

Lamming, George                                 Pleasures of Exile

Gordimer, Nadine                                 July’s People

ENG 402 Classics in Translation

Homer                                                  The Iliad

Virgil                                                    The Aeneid

Aeschylus                                             Agamemnon

Sophocles                                            Electra

Euripides                                              Alcestis

Aristophanes                                        Lysistrata

The Mahabharata (Abridged version by C J Rajagopalachari)

ENG 403 Introduction to Critical Theory

Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Marxist Literary Theory, Structuralism, New Historicism, Post- Structuralism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminist Literary Theory, Reader’s Response Theory, Deconstruction.

ENG 404 Twentieth Century Poetry

Eliot, Thomas Stearns                           The Waste Land

Pound, Ezra                                          ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’

Auden, Wystan Hugh                            ‘Shield of Achilles’; ‘In Memory of W B Yeats’;                                                                       ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’; ‘Lullaby’

Hughes, Ted                                         ‘Jaguar’; ‘Crow’; ‘November’

Plath, Sylvia                                          ‘Daddy’; ‘The Rival’

Lowell, Robert                         ‘The Crucifix’; ‘The Quaker Graveyard at                                                                                             Nantucket’; ‘The Lesson’; ‘For the Union Dead’

Wallace, Stevens                                  ‘The Snowman’; ‘Table Talk’; ‘Thirteen Ways of                                                                                  Looking at a Black Bird’

ENG 405 Twentieth Century Novel

Forster, E. M.                                      A Passage to India                             

James Joyce                                         A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

Greene, Graham                                   The Heart of the Matter

Woolf, Virginia                         To the Lighthouse                              

Huxley, Aldous                         Brave New World

Kipling, Rudyard                                  Kim

ENG 406 Twentieth Century Drama

Shaw, G B                                           Major Barbara                                               

Synge, J M                                           The Playboy of the Western World

Beckett, Samuel                                   Waiting for Godot

Osborne, John                                      Look Back in Anger

Ibsen, Henrik                                        A Doll’s House

Brecht, Bertolt                                      Mother Courage                                

ENG 407 Shakespeare

Richard II, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, The Tempest.

Sonnets No. 12, 33, 55, 73, 97, 130, 138, 144, 146.

ENG 450 Dissertation

All BA candidates should complete supervised study and research culminating in a dissertation in their field of specialization. The completed dissertation should be bind and printed in accordance with the regulations of IBAIS University.

Linguistics Major

ELN 303 Introduction to Linguistics

Language: Definition and Characteristics; Origins of Language, Society and Culture; History of English Language and the Study of English Language Changes; Different Branches of Linguistics: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics; Relationship between Linguistics and Literature; Role of Linguistics in Language Teaching; Second Language Acquisition/Learning; Recent Developments in Linguistics.

 ELN 304 English Language Teaching

I.                    History of ELT: Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Chomskyan Revolution and Contemporary Methods, The Communicative Approach and the Natural Approach.

II.                 Teaching and Testing the Four Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

III.               Testing: General principles of testing, different types of tests. Designing language tests: multiple choice, cloze tests, open-ended tests, etc.

IV.              Syllabus Design: Purpose, types, construction. Needs Analysis and syllabus design: a learner-centred approach.

V.                 Teaching Practice: Designing lesson plans, class observation, experimental teaching and feed-back.

ELN 305 Language, Society and Culture

Interdisciplinary introduction to language in its social and cultural contexts.

ELN 306 Structure of English or Traditional Grammar

Nouns: Position and Function-Noun Classes: count, non-count, proper nouns. Determinatives: Pre-determiners, central determiners, post-determiners. The use of Articles Verb: Major verb classes-time, tense and the verb. Sequence of Tenses - Conditional.

Adverbs: Characteristics of the adverb—the adverb as a clause, element-the adverb and other word classes-syntactic functions of adverbs—correspondence between adjectives and adverbs—comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectives: Characteristics of the adjective—central and peripheral adjectives—the adjective in relation to other word classes—syntactic function of adjectives—syntactic and semantic sub-classification of adjectives.

Adverbial Phrases—Adjectival Phrases—Prepositional phrases—verb phrases.     

Tensed, Non-Tensed and Verb less Clauses.

Voice—Principles of Passivization –--Voice Constraints. Operators and traditional interpretation of the use and usage of modals.

ELN 307 Modern English Grammar

Systematic description of English sentences according to structuralist and transformational-generative principles.

ELN 308 Language and Philosophy

Theories of Meaning, Meaning and the Use of Language, Language and Its Near Relations, Empiricist Criteria of Meaningfulness, Dimensions of Meaning

ELN 401 Introduction to Phonetics

Phonetics—Articulatory and acoustic Phonetics; the organs of speech; IPA symbols; description of consonants and vowels of different languages; contrastive study of English and Bengali speech sounds; cardinal vowels; English short vowels, long vowels and diphthongs; English plosives, fricatives, affricates and nasals. Principles of phonetics studied with reference variously to American English, French, Spanish, or German.

ELN 402 Introduction to Phonology

Introduction to the scientific study of the sound systems of the world’s living languages. Includes discussion of the basics of phonetic transcription and phonemic analysis and the development of formal models in phonology. Topics include articulatory and acoustic phonetics, the phoneme, phonological rules and representations, nonlinear models, harmony prosodic morphology, and sound symbolism.

Phonology—Defining phone, allophone and phoneme. Supra-segmental phonology—voice quality and voice dynamics.

phonemic transcription—stress – the nature of stress; factors of stress prominence; weak and strong forms.

Intonation System in English; Functions of intonation; structure of tone unit; high and low heads; pitch possibilities in the simple tone unit; semanfics of intonation; transcription of utterances, assigning stress marks and showing intonation.

ELN 403 Morphology and Syntax

Introduction to the description and analysis of word formation processes and sentence structure from a cross linguistic perspective. Instruction in basic morphemic analysis and constituent testing using data drawn from languages outside the Indo-European family. Also includes an introduction to typological analysis in the study of morpho-syntax.

ELN 404 Introduction to Socio-linguistics

Introduction: Key terms and approaches—relationship between language and society—Socio-linguistics and the sociology of language.

Language, dialect and varieties: regional dialects—social dialects—styles and register—Standard Language and developing a standard variety.

Pidgins and Creoles: Definition—Linguistic characteristics-from pidgin to Creole and beyond.

Choosing a Code: Diglossia and bilingualism—definition and relationship—code switching and code mixing—borrowings.

National Language and Language planning: National and official languages—planning a national language—the linguist’s role in language planning.

Language   and Identity: Language and social inequalities-attitude towards language and speech-Language and gender. Studies in Language Dynamics: Language change-language maintenance and language shift-multilingual and multicultural societies-proto Indo-European languages.

ELN 405 Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Introduction: Definition—different branches of psycholinguistics-relationship between Psycholinguistics and Psychology of language.

Language Acquisition in the early years: Communicating with language—what young children talk about—how young children use their utterances—how   adults talk to young children.

Stages in Language Acquisition: The babbling stage—Holophrastic stage—the two-word stage.

First sounds in the child’s language: Perception of speech sounds—production of speech sounds.

Later growth in the child’s Language: Learning, complexity and processing—elaboration of language structure—elaboration of language functions.

Acquisition of meaning: Early word meanings—context and strategies—semantic components.

Theories if First Language Acquisition: Behaviorist Theory- Innalist Theory—Cognitive Theory—Maturation Theory.

ELN 406 Second Language Acquisition

I.                    What is SLA? FLA, Acquisition vs Learning, Competence vs Performance. Accuracy vs Fluency in SLA.

II.                 Language Learning principles, conditions and variables: the learner processes, levels of proficiency, role of input and formal instruction materials.

III.               Theories of SLA: The Acculturation Model; the Monitor Model; Accommodation Theory; Inter-language Model.

IV.              The Language Learner in the classroom:

1.1          Individual learning differences: Attitude, Aptitude, Memory, Motivation, Age, Personality, Cognitive Style and Transfer of Training.

1.2          Learner Strategies: Social strategies, Cognitive strategies, Communicative strategies.

1.3          Classroom Interaction: Mode of teaching—group work, pair work, whole class, teacher talk and class management, especially dealing with large classes.

ELN 407 Applied Linguistics

Course in the professional application of linguistics, such as language diversity and teaching English, Lexicography, or English as a Second Language. May be repeated with change of topic.

ENG 450 Dissertation

All BA candidates should complete supervised study and research culminating in a dissertation in their field of specialization. The completed dissertation should be bind and printed in accordance with the regulations of IBAIS University.