The course offers reading of a selection of short stories from the list below. The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the elements of short stories in all their varieties.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 304
Course Name:
Essayists of the Romantic period
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
In parallel with their poet-friends, many essayists of the Romantic period uphold the same romantic spirit of the time, of which their essays, usually called familiar esssys, give a good account. The selections below will help the students realize so.
Course Code: ENG 305
Course Name:
Contemporary Novels in Translation
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
In the twentieth century the novel in translation has arguably emerged as the global literary form through which cultures most avidly express themselves and also identify others. Attention will be given to the emergence of the global “bestseller,” their formal variety and innovations. The course will explore the politics that underlies the success of this form over others, and the particular success of certain types of texts over other ones.
Course Code: ENG 306
Course Name:
The Tragedies of Shakespeare
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Through this course students will be familiarized with the basic properties of Shakespearean Tragedy. They will know, for example, why Shakespeare had given such an extensive treatment to the theme of royalty in his tragedies, to what dramatic innovations he put the soliloquies, and how he embedded the structures of his tragedies with the conventions of supernaturalism and the play-within-the-play.
Course Code: ENG 307
Course Name:
Jacobean Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course gives an introduction to a variety of plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and successors. Evolving traditions and genres and the social and theatrical contexts will be examined.
Course Code: ENG 308
Course Name:
Psycholinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
he course aims at teaching different branches of Psycholinguistics. Items to be taught: Chomskyan Universal Grammar and Performance Model; Linguistic relativism—Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, etc.
Course Code: ENG 309
Course Name:
17th Century Prose and Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Jacobean prose and the poetry of the Metaphysical and the Cavalier groups of poets along with that of Milton will form the core texts of the course. These will be studied in relation to the socio-cultural flux of the period.
Course Code: ENG 310
Course Name:
Restoration and 18c Writings
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will examine the context of the neo-classical poetry and drama, assess the evolution of English wit and humor, and the mock-epic strain.
Course Code: ENG 3101
Course Name:
Victorian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course covers the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing students to explore the extraordinary cultural and social changes occurring in Nineteenth-century England. This is the brilliant age of Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson and Browning, Oscar Wilde, the Pre-Raphaelites among many others.
Course Code: ENG 3101
Course Name:
Victorian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course covers the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing students to explore the extraordinary cultural and social changes occurring in Nineteenth-century England. This is the brilliant age of Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson and Browning, Oscar Wilde, the Pre-Raphaelites among many others.