Faculty of Arts

Department of English

Master of Arts in English 

The Master of Arts in English offers three concentrations: Literature, Language, and ELT & Applied Linguistics. The Literature concentration emphasizes research and the application of various critical approaches to problems in literature and composition. The Language concentration emphasizes the skills and techniques of English Language. The Applied Linguistics and ELT concentration are primarily designed for those who hold or expect to hold positions of responsibility in the teaching of English Language.

 The Master of Arts in English Literature/Language/ELT and Applied Linguistics has been designed for two types of students:

 A-type: Students having graduation from any discipline will be eligible to apply. Students have to complete the Pre-requisite courses. After finishing the pre-requisite courses, students will be offered the required and specialization courses. The duration of the total program will be 2 (two) years.

B-type: Students having Bachelor degree in English will be waived pre-requisite courses. The duration of the total program will be 1 (one) year.

Admission Requirements:

Students seeking admission to the Master’s program must have minimum CGPA 2.5 in Bachelor Degree in English Literature/Language/Applied Linguistics/TEFL/TESL/TESOL or an equivalent degree from an approved university.

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

Degree Requirements:

The MA degree requirements will be as follows:

(a) Completion of 36 - 60 credit hour courses

(b) Completions of the thesis with at least a ‘C⁺’ grade (6.0 credit hours)

(c)    Passing of all courses individually and maintaining a minimum GPA of 3.00

Duration:

A. Group A: Since the pre-requisite courses will be offered to the students who do not have Bachelor degree in English, the duration of the total program will be 2 (two) years.

B. Group B: The students having Bachelor degree in English will require 1 (one) year to complete the degree.

Master of Arts in English Language

&

Master of Arts in ELT & Applied Linguistics

Prerequisite Courses: 

                                                                                                               Subtotal:   24

N.B. Students having Bachelor Degree in English will be waived Pre-requisite courses.

Required Courses: (Any Eight)

                                                                                                           Subtotal:   24

Specialization:

Language (Any Four)

                                                                                                               Subtotal:   12

ELT & Applied Linguistics (Any Four)

                                                                                                               Subtotal:    12

ENG 710 Thesis: 6 credits

Master of Arts in English Literature

Course Outline:

Prerequisite Courses:

                                                                                                            Subtotal:        24

N.B. Students having Bachelor Degree in English will be waived Pre-requisite courses.

Required Courses: (Any Twelve)

                                                                                                            Subtotal:        36

ENG 710 Thesis: 6 credits

Master of Arts in English Language

&

Master of Arts in ELT & Applied Linguistics

Course Contents

Prerequisite Courses

ELN 501 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.

ENG 502 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.

Phrases: Adverbial Phrases; Adjectival Phrases; Prepositional Phrases; Verb Phrases.     

Clauses: 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 503 Modern English Grammar

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

ELN 504 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

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.

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; semantics of intonation; transcription of utterances, assigning stress marks and showing intonation.

ENG 505 Advanced Reading Strategies and Writing

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

ENG 506 English for Professional Purposes

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

ELN 507 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.

CIS 518 Computer Programming and Application

The course acquaints students with the role and uses of computer in decision process. The basics of computer hardware and software are introduced with reference o evolution from abacus to notebooks. A procedural language is used to solve problems from business situations. Emphasis is given on database management with reference to various packages.

Required Courses

ELN 601 English Language Teaching and Learning

Linguistics and Language Teaching: relationship, insights, etc.

Syllabus and Curriculum: Purpose, Types, Construction; Needs Analysis, A Syllabus Design Learner-Centered Approach: Designing syllabuses for students at different levels.

Language Testing: Purposes and Kinds; Norm; Referenced and Criterion; Referenced Measurement; Some general requirements for tests: reliability and validity; Ways to estimate reliability; Factors affecting reliability; Types of validity; Factors influencing validity; Ways of assessing different skills.

Error Analysis: The concept of Error; Description and explanation of Error’s; Significance of Error Analysis; Limitations of Error Analysis.

Approaches, Methods and Techniques in ELT: Grammar; Translation Method; Direct Method; Audio-lingual Method; Communicative Approach; The Natural Approach; Total Physical Response; Silent way; Suggestopaedia; Community Language Learning.

Teaching the basic skills: Listening/speaking; the process of listening to and comprehending spoken language the interactive nature of listening and Speaking; the development of conversational techniques the acquisition of Pronunciation; Models of speaking;

Reading: Purpose; Selecting a Text; Reading difficulty at sentence level and at discourse level; Implications for the classroom.

Writing: Difficulty in writing; Composing process; Taking account of readership; organization; writing skills; Types of writing and correctness; How can writing be integrated with the other skills; How can writing be taught communicatively; How might a learner-centered methodology affect the teaching of writing.   

Lesson plan: Purpose, design, implementation and class-room observation.

ELN 602 Phonetics and Phonology

(a) General Phonetics & Phonology:

Phonetics and Phonology: Defining phonemes

Articulators and ir-stream mechanism. Segments, Description of sonsonants and vowels of different languages; Suprasegmental Phonology; Voice Quality and Voice Dynamics; Sound Varieties; Elision; Assimilation; Liaison, etc.

Phonological Theories: Daniel Jones’s Theory; Prague School Phonology; Sapir’s Theory; Bloomfield and the Post; Bloomfieldians; Prosodic Analysis; Distinctive Features Theory; Generative Phonology.

(b) English Phonetics and Phonology:

English vowels and consonants and their classifications.

Structure of English Syllables; Stress pattern; rhythm and intonation in English.

What is a stress language? Factors determining stress placement; Factors determined by stress placement; Natural stress rules; Degrees of stress; Levels of stress; Placement of stress in simple, complex and compound words; Variables stress.

Intonation: Intonation system in English; Functions of intonation; Structure of tone unit; High and low heads; pitch possibilities in the simple tone unit; Semantics of intonation.

Contrastive study of English and Bengali speech sounds.

ELN 603 The Fundamentals of Language and Teaching

This course will aim at an understanding of language and the way it works by looking at linguistic descriptions in terms of structure, morphology, phonology and functional relations. It will also provide a general background in linguistics thus exploring the ideas and issues that have contributed to the development of the subject. This provides the intellectual background to general issues in education and more specifically to an understanding of the pedagogy of second language learning.

ELN 604 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 605 Psychological and Sociological Aspects of Language

Group A: Psycholinguistics

Child Language Acquisition: Sound system/Phonology syntax, semantics, Speech Acts, etc.

Theories of L1 Acquisition: Behaviourist Theory; Mentalist Theory; Maturation Theory; Cognitive Sociological Theory

Theories of L2 Learning: The Monitor Model; Inter-language Theory; Universal Grammar Theory; Acculturation Theory; Cognitive Theory; Accommodation Theory.

Individual Differences in L2 Learning: Age; Personality; Aptitude; Attitude; Motivation; Learning Style; Memory; Transfer of Training; Intelligence.

Group B: Sociolinguistics

Theories of Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics and Linguistics

Language Varieties and Standardization: Social Functions of Language; Language and Nationhood; Language Policy and Language Panning; Diglossia and Bilingualism; Pidginization and Creolization; a study of stages and identification; Language in Curriculum; English as an International Language.

Language, Culture and Thought: Speech as social interaction; The qualitative study of speech; Linguistic and social inequality.

Surveys in sociolinguistics: Trudgill’s investigation of Norwich Speech; Milroy’s study of 3 small areas of Belfast; Labov’s Martha’s Vineyard study.

ELN 606 Linguistics Theories, Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics

Discourse Analysis: The Object and Aim of Discourse Analysis; Structure of Text and Discourse; Written and Spoken Language; Approaches to Discourse; Rules and Procedures in Discourse Analysis; Discourse Analysis and Language Processing; Role of Context in Interpretation; Topic and Representation of Discourse Content; The Nature of Reference in Text and Discourse; Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching.

Cohesion and Coherence

Speech Acts: The Co-operative Principle

Conversation Analysis: Exchange Structure

Language and Literature: A Study of Register and Style; Linguistic Analysis of Texts (Prose, Poetry, and Drama).

Linguistic Theories: The Descriptivist School; The Sapir-Whorl Hypothesis; Functional Linguistics; The Prague School; Generative Linguistics and Noam Chomsky; The London School of Linguistics.

ELN 607 Applied Linguistics

a. Analysis of the term Applied Linguistics; History of the term.

b. Language behaviour: Grammar and language behaviour; Observations in the today of grammar and language behaviour.

c. Language learning: A behaviouristic approach; A mentalistic approach; A procedural approach.

d. Contrastive analysis: providing insights into similarities and differences between languages explanation and prediction of problems in second language learning; developing course materials for language teaching.

e. Error analysis: the concept of error; Description and explanation of errors; Significance of error analysis limitations of error analysis.

f. Performance analysis: Methodological aspects; Syntactic development; Morphological development; Lexical development; Phonological development.

g. Discourse analysis: Foreigner talk; Turn-taking and conversational correction.

h. Learner characteristics: Age; the critical period hypothesis; the biological arguments; other arguments; Aptitude; Cognitive Styles; Affective characteristics; The notion of attitude; The notion of motivation; the relation between attitude and motivation and language learning; personality.

i. Methodology: Survey of ELT methods; Grammar-Translation Method; Direct Method; Audio-Lingual Method; Silent way; Suggestopedia; Community Language Learning; Total physical Response Method; Communicative Approach. 

j. Theories of Second Language Acquisition/Leaning: The Monitor Model; Inter-language theory; Linguistic Universals; Acculturation theory; Cognitive theory.

k. Language Testing: Purposes of language testing; Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measurement; Some general requirements for tests; Reliability-ways to estimate reliability; factors affecting reliability; Validity; Types of validity; Factors influencing validity; ways of assessing different skills.

l. Notional/Functional Theories, Needs Analysis and Syllabus Design: Learner centered approach; designing syllabuses for students at different levels.

m. Phonological Theories: Daniel Jones’s Theory; Trubetzkoy’s Prague School phonology; Sapir’s Theory; Bloomfield and the post-Bloomfieldians; Prosodic Analysis; Distinctive Features Theory; Generative Phonology.

ELN 608 Research Methodology

Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics

a. What is Research? Asking appropriate questions - What is a “Systematic Way”? – Internal validity-External validity.

b. What is variable: Variable Scales; Nominal Scale; Ordinal Scale; Internal Scale; Functions of Variables; Independent Variable; Dependent variable; Moderator variable; Control variable; Intervening Variable.

c. Constructing Research Designs: Pre-experimental Designs; True experimental Designs; Quasi experimental Designs; Ex Post Facto Designs; Factorial Designs.

      d. Research Report Format.

e. Probability and Hypothesis Testing.

ELN 610 Semantics

Introduction: The terms semantics and meaning, Semantics and Linguistics, Historical semantics, Semantics in other disciplines

The Scope of Semantics: Naming, Concepts, Sense and reference, The word, The sentence

Context and Reference: Linguistic relativity, The exclusion of context, Context of situation, Behaviourism, Context, culture and style

Lexical Semantics: Fields and Collocation – Paradigmatic and syntagmatic, Semantic fields, Colour systems, Collocation, Idioms

Lexical Semantics: Sense Relations: Some simple logic, Hyponymy, Synonymy, Antonymy, Relational opposites, Polysemy and homonymy, Components, The problem of universals

Semantics and Grammar: Formal grammar, Grammatical categories, Grammar and lexicon, Grammatical relations, Components and the sentence, Predicates and arguments, Case grammar, Sentence types and modality

Utterance Meaning: The spoken language, Topic and comment, Performatives and speech acts, Presupposition, Implicatures

Semantics and Logic: Logic and language, Propositional logic, Predicate logic, Intension and extension, Truth-conditional semantics, Truth conditions and linguistics, Concluding remarks

Specialization

Language (Any Four)

ELN 701 The English Language

This paper explores how the grammatical, lexical and phonological features of the English language work together to create the underlying structures that are used as the basis of communication. It will examine the basic elements of the three components in relation to pedagogic issues, particularly in their communicative value in spoken and written discourse.

ELN 702 World English

This course will review the existing literature on the spread of English in the world today and the development of several non-native varieties of English due to the prolonged language contacts, particularly the introduction, development and use of English in South Asia. Some key issues will be cross-cultural and localized functional range that English has developed in various domains. Concepts like nativisation, acculturation, attitude towards English, norms, standards, intelligibility along with distinctive features of varieties of English in the sub-continent will be the core content.

ELN 703 Philosophy of Language

Linguistic Philosophy; General philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Language: Ancient, Medieval and Modern period; Language philosophy of Chomsky; Science, Linguistics and Philosophy

ELN 704 Language Planning

Language Planning and Sociolinguistics; Scope of Language Planning; Different kinds of Language Planning; Historical background of Language Planning; Corporation of Language Planning; Language Development; The difficulty of selecting National Language; The scarcity of Multi-Lingualism; Extinct and endangered Language; Language Planning and Third world; Mixed Language; Artificial Language; International Language; Lingua Franka

ELN 705 Stylistics

Definition and concepts; Style and rules; Language and Style; Style and Stylistics; Concepts of Stylistics; Emergence and Development of Stylistics; Style of English Language; Stylistics: Scope and Implementation of Stylistics; Style sense of poetry, novels, drama and essays

Applied Linguistics and ELT (Any Four)

ELT 701 Teacher Education and Training: Issues, Principles and Methods

This module attempts to establish a bridge between theory and practice by linking into issues covered in the first two core modules. It will examine the underlying principles of teacher training and development, the knowledge of approaches, methods, and techniques common employed in ELT, and their theoretical rationale. It will examine models of teacher education and move on to an awareness of appropriacy and sensitivity to local context and culture in the training of teachers. Participants will undertake micro-teaching and teaching practice during which time they will be supervised and assessed.

ELT 702 Materials Development

This course looks at how to assess the relevance of existing teaching materials to one's teaching situation.  It will also help students develop materials for the classroom for their teaching. It is concerned with the principles of materials evaluation, development, adaptation, supplementation and production.

ELT 703 Syllabus Design

This course will examine the assumptions underlying the design of a syllabus. It will examine types of syllabus and the elements of an appropriate second language course syllabus in the context of English in Bangladesh. Students will then be asked to develop their own sample syllabus and examine its rationale.

ELT 704 Communicative Language Teaching

Communicative methodology at present stresses the importance of using language and having opportunities of interaction in natural contexts within the classroom. This course will examine the assumptions behind this through analysis of classroom based examples. The course will also look at developing and adapting materials for language teaching and learning with special reference to the principles and practice of skills-based language teaching.

ELT 705 Classroom Oriented Research

This module will look at the importance of looking at the language classroom with an enquiring mind. It will give students an introduction to the classroom research process. It will orient students to the format of an empirical research paper. Major tools of collecting and analyzing classroom data will be discussed both in the quantitative and the ethnographic traditions.

ELT 706 Testing and Evaluation

This course introduces students to two aspects, testing and evaluation. The first aims at the assessment of students' language ability for the purposes of measuring proficiency, progress and placement. It introduces the different forms of test items particularly with reference to skills. Issues of reliability and validity of test items are explored in depth. In addition, standardization in marketing and assessment is emphasized. The second aspect introduces the idea of evaluation of course syllabus, course content, methodology, management and other components that contribute to the success of a language teaching program with an awareness of modification and change as a positive element in professional development.

ENG 750 Thesis

All MA candidates must complete a 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.

Mater of Arts in English Literature

Course Contents

Prerequisite Courses

ENG 501 Critical Appreciation, Rhetoric and Prosody

Summary and Interpretation; Narrative prediction; language, dialogue and setting; sound patterns and interpretation; literary and non-literary language; word patterns; stylistic analysis Analyzing poetry and prose for sound, sense, imagery, structure, rhetoric and prosody.

ENG 502 English Language

I.                   Grammar: Tenses, articles, prepositions, subject-verb agreement, clauses, conditionals, word clauses. Transformation of sentences: Active-passive transformations, reported speech.

II.                Phonetics: How to use a Dictionary; IPA symbols; word transcriptions; intonation and stress.

III.             Vocabulary Building: Correct and precise diction; affixes; idiomatic expressions; level of appropriateness; colloquial and informal; standard and formal.

IV.              Developing Writing Skills: Sentences: sentence variety; generating sentences; sentence clarity and correctness; linking sentences to form paragraphs. Paragraphs: Paragraph structure; topic sentence; developing paragraphs with specific details and example; paragraph unity and coherence.

V.                 Developing Reading Skills: Strategies of Reading: Skimming, scanning, predicting, inferencing, analyzing and interpreting variety of texts and text types. Comprehension and summary.

VI.              Listening and Note Taking: Listening to recorded texts and class lectures and learning to take useful notes based on the listening.

VII.           Developing Spoken Skills

ENG 503 The 16^th and 17^th Century English Literature

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)

Donne, John                                         Selections as in Grierson’s Metaphysical Poets

Herbert, George                                   Do

Marvell, Andrew                                  Do

Francis Bacon                                      Essays (Selections from the Essays)

Milton, John                                         Paradise Lost, Books IX and X

John, Ben                                             Volpone

ENG 504 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

ENG 505 Advanced Reading Strategies and Writing

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

ENG 506 English for Professional Purpose

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

ENG 507 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’

CIS 518 Computer Programming & Application

The course acquaints students with the role and uses of computer in decision process. The basics of computer hardware and software are introduced with reference o evolution from abacus to notebooks. A procedural language is used to solve problems from business situations. Emphasis is given on database management with reference to various packages.

Required Courses

ENG 602 Modern Literary Theory

From Russian Formalism to French Structuralism, Russian Formalism & Prague Structuralism, Anglo-American New Criticism, Phenomenological Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Archetypal Criticism, Linguistic Criticism, French Structuralism.

                                                OR

Post-Structuralism & Beyond, Deconstruction, Semiotics, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism, Feminist Criticism, New Historicism, Colonial Discourse.

ENG 603 Middle English

Chaucer, Geoffrey           The General Prologue, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Nun’s            Priest’s Tale.

Malory, Sir Thomas         Morte D’Arthur (as in Kenneth Sisam’s Anthology)

Anonymous                     Everyman, The Pearl, Spring, Alysoun, The Blacksmiths (all as in Kenneth Sisam’s Anthology)

ENG 604 Ancient European Epic and Drama

Homer                                      The lliad

Aeschylus                                 Agamemnon

Sophocles                                King Oedipus

Aristophanes                            The Frogs

Virgil                                        The Aeneid

ENG 605 Shakespeare in Theory and Practice

Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure.

Students should have an understanding of the following approaches:

New Historicist, Formalist, Feminist, Psychological, Marxist, and Post Colonial.

ENG 606 Victorian Literature

Dickens, Charles                                  Great Expectations

Brontë, Emily                                        Wuthering Heights

Eliot, George                                        Silas Marner

Tennyson, Alfred                                  ‘The Lotos-Eaters’; ‘Locksley Hall’; In Memoriam;                                                                             ‘Tithonus’; ‘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 607 20^th Century English Fiction

Conrad, Joseph                        Heart of Darkness

Forster, E M                            A Passage to India

Joyce, James                            A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Woolf, Virginia                         Mrs. Dalloway

Lawrence, D H                         The Rainbow

Graham Greene                       The Heart of the Matter

Doris Lessing                          The Grass is Singing

ENG 608 20^th Century English Poetry

W.B. Yeats                                          :         Selection

T.S. Eliot                                              :        The Wasteland. “Marina” and “Burnt Norton”

Dylan Thomas                                      :        Selections

W.H. Auden                                         :        Selections

Philip Larkin                                         :        Selections

Ted Hughes                                          :        Selections

Seamus Heaney                                    :        Selections

ENG 609 20^th Century English Drama

Shaw, G B                               Pygmalion

Synge, J M                               The Playboy of the Western World

Beckett, Samuel                       Waiting for Godot

Osborne, John                          Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter                          The Birthday Party

Tom Stoppard                          Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

ENG 610 American Literature

Walt Whitman                                      :        “Song of Myself”

Herman Melville                                   :        Moby Dick

Emily Dicknson                                     :        Selections

Mark Twain                                         :        Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn

Nathaniel Hawthorne                            :        The Scarlet Letter

Robert Frost                                         :        Selections

Eugene O’Neil                                      :        Desire Under the Elms

Ernest Hemingway                                :        The Sun Also Rises

Arthur Miller                                         :        Death of a Salesman

Saul Bellow                                          :        Seize the Day

Wallace Stevens                                   :        Selections

Toni Morrison                                      :        Beloved

ENG 611 Modern European Poetry

Baudelaire, Charles                               Poems*

Rilke, Rainer Maria                               Poems*

Blok, Alexander                                   Poems*

Pasternak, Boris                                   Poems*

Jimenez, Juan Ramon                            Poems*

                                                              (*as in Penguin Book of European Poetry)

ENG 612 Modern European Novel

Flaubert, Gustave                                   Madame Bovary

Tolstoy, Leo                                           Anna Karenina

Dostoevsky, Fyodor                               Crime and Punishment

Kafka, Franz                                          Metamorphosis

Camus, Albert                                        The Outsider

Gunter Grass                                          The Tin Drum

ENG 613 Modern European Drama

Ibsen, Henrik                                          A Doll’s House

Strindberg, August                                  Miss Julie

Chekhov, Anton                                     The Cherry Orchard

Brecht, Bertolt                                        Mother Courage

Lorca, Federico Garcia                           The Blood Wedding                

Eugene Lonesco                         Rhinoceros

ENG 614 Indian Literature in English

Anand, Mulk Raj                                    Coolie

Narayan, R K                                         The Man-Eater of Malgudi

Chowdhury, Nirod C.                             Autobiography of An Unknown Indian

Desai, Anita                                            Clear Light of Day

Parthasarthi, N. (ed)                               Poems as in the Modern Indian Poets (selection)

Ghosh, Amitabh                          Shadow Lines

Salman Rushdie                          Midnight’s Children

ENG 615 African and Caribbean Literature

Achebe, Chinua                          Things Fall Apart

Thiongo, Ngugi Wa                                Petals of Blood

Soyinka, Wole                                        The Lion and the Jewel

Naipaul, V S                                          A House for Mr. Biswas

Walcott, Derek                                       Poems (selection)

Brathwaith, Edward Kamau                    Poems (selection)

ENG 616 Modern Latin American Literature

Dario, Ruben (Felix Ruben

Gracia Sarmiento)                                   Poems (Selection)

Borges, Jorge Luis                                  Essays from Other Inquisitions. ‘The Book and the Wall’, ‘Argentine Literature and Tradition’, ‘The Narrative Art and the Magic.’

Neruda, Pablo                                        Poems (Selection)

Asturias, Miguel Angel                            Mr. President

Paz, Octavio                                           Essays: “A Tradition against Itself” (from The Labyrinth of Solitude), “Children of the Mire” (from Children of the Mire) The Pachuco and Other Extremes

Lispector, Clarice                                   Selected Stories from Family Ties

Marquez, Gabriel Barcia                         One Hundred Years of Solitude

ENG 617 Translation Studies

In this course, students will practice the translation of factual texts and get acquainted with the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of the source and target languages. The student will learn to study language contrastively and become acquainted with the practical issues of translation. The student will translate a text either from English to Bangla or from Bangla to English. The text which the student intends to translate has to be approved by the Department Committee. This course does not require any tutorial test as the nature of the work is entirely practical.

ENG 750 Thesis

All MA candidates must complete a 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 the University.