This course offers a complete survey of the 19th century American Literature with emphasis on the imaginative and intellectual framework that gives American Literature its distinctive identity.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 333
Course Name:
Survey of American Literature – II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 334
Course Name:
The Novel
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Novels in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth century were particularly engaged with the events, circumstances, beliefs and attitudes of their time. This course encourages students to enjoy and understand them through the study of some novels from England and the USA. The focus is on understanding the role of the novel in representing and exploring social and cultural changes, the flexibility of the genre and how it has developed aesthetically, stylistically and structurally.
Course Code: ENG 335
Course Name:
Literary Theory and Criticism — II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is devised to introduce students to the development of literary theories and criticism since the beginning of the twentieth century until today in England, Europe, America and the worlds outside them. The target is to provide students with pleasure, vision, and critical insight that the theorists try to generate through texts (both articles and monographs) of various tastes and temperaments.
Ideas/areas to highlight: New Criticism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, Bakhtinian Approach, Deconstruction, Foucauldian Approach, New Historicism, Ecocriticism and postmodernism.
Course Code: ENG 336
Course Name:
New Literatures in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is about fiction written in English in erstwhile colonies of Britain. It discusses the growth and development of English as a substitute for the vernacular. It also discusses muticulturalism.
Course Code: ENG 3390
Course Name:
Introduction to Translation Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to different approaches to translation in order to help them develop an understanding of the links between theory and practice. The wider cultural, ethical and professional contexts of translation will be taken into account.
Course Code: ENG 341
Course Name:
History of English Language Teaching
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will study the history of teaching English as a foreign language from the late 16th century to the present era. It will emphasize the developments that have taken place in English language teaching since the late-nineteenth century Reform Movement with emphasis on current trends and new directions.
Course Code: ENG 342
Course Name:
Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Credit Hours:
3.00
Course Code: ENG 343
Course Name:
Teaching English as a Second Language
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course studies the process of learning English as a second language. Theories and variables of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) are explored with regard to psychology and language learning.
Course Code: ENG 344
Course Name:
Materials Development
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The objectives of the course are to:
a. examine principles of language curriculum and materials development;
b. prepare, select, adapt, language teaching materials for classroom use; and
c. evaluate samples of language teaching materials.
Course Code: ENG 345
Course Name:
Syllabus Design
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a variety of approaches to syllabus design employed in foreign language teaching. It will also provide the tools students need to scrutinise and critically analyse teaching programmes used in student’s current and future teaching contexts.