The course aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between language and the processes of the brain and mind. Hence, by the end of the course the learners will be able to comprehend, and explore different areas of Psycholinguistics; i.e. the theoretical fields that discuss on the philosophical approach along with the emergent, psychological, Behaviourist, cognitive, neuroscience, network, evolutionary, and Linguistic approaches as well as the applied frameworks such as language dissolution, speech perception, and therapy, intelligence, and the studies of acquisition of Sign Language.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3103
Course Name:
Ancient Greek Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to enlighten students about the ancient cultures and different critical concepts that also changed through time. Students will study a selection of poetry, plays and critical reading to trace how the concept of literature evolved through time.
Course Code: ENG 3104
Course Name:
Modern British Drama
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an intensive study of the British Drama of the last hundred years. The plays included show the evolution of the stylistic conventions of the British play, from the genteel drawing-room comedies of the late 19th century to the radical political theater of the last decade.
Course Code: ENG 3108
Course Name:
Cinema and Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an exploration of the productive traffic between the written word and the cinematic image. The comparative reading of film and literature, in their cultural, historical, technological and aesthetic contexts will help examine how the two have continued to modify one another during the past century.
Course Code: ENG 311
Course Name:
Modern Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course aims to familiarize the students with the major trends of English poetry in the post-Auden period.
Course Code: ENG 312
Course Name:
Modern American Drama
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will study American Drama from the early 20th century to the recent time. It will trace the developments in the American dramatic tradition with special focus on modernism, postmodernism, ethnicity and gender issues.
Course Code: ENG 313
Course Name:
Modernism: Early 20th Century English Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course teaches the most significant texts of early 20th Century which mark the age of Modernism. It aims at developing the students’ critical, theoretical, psychological and in-depth understanding of the 20th century authors exploring and exhibiting wide variety of changes in the theme and technique of their texts.
Course Code: ENG 314
Course Name:
Historical Linguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The purpose of this course is to study of the development in languages in the course of time, and the ways in which language change from period to period and the causes and result of such changes. The major topics to be studied in this course are the analysis of sound change, grammatical change, semantic change, language change, the comparative method and internal change.
Course Code: ENG 3201
Course Name:
American Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will survey American literature from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. After the Civil War, American society went through radical changes. Industrial culture took over the previous agrarian one.
Course Code: ENG 3201
Course Name:
American Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will survey American literature from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. After the Civil War, American society went through radical changes. Industrial culture took over the previous agrarian one.