This course is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to raise and debate issues related to exploring and incorporating literature in English language teaching with a special emphasis on discussing cross-cultural issues. Language teaching here is seen as the ESL context wherein literature is a component.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 346
Course Name:
Teaching Language through Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 379
Course Name:
Topics in Modern Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will introduce those authors who felt far removed from the conventional and traditional themes of Literature and drew strongly on the contemporary themes with seriously meditative and psychologically arresting topics. It will also deal with formal structure, technique, theme, and issues of race, gender, and politics.
Course Code: ENG 402
Course Name:
Victorian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course aims at giving an overall idea of the literature of the Victorian age. It includes famous literary pieces in poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens will be studied.
Course Code: ENG 403
Course Name:
Postmodernism in Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course deals with the major ideas of postmodernism as reflected in literature, architecture, visual arts and popular culture. And it also deals with the critiques of postmodernism.
Course Code: ENG 404
Course Name:
Postcolonial Theory and Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Post-colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonized countries, or literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized peoples. It focuses particularly on the way in which literature by the colonizing culture distorts the experience and realities, and inscribes the inferiority, of the colonized people and on literature by colonized peoples which attempts to articulate their identity and reclaim their past in the face of that past’s inevitable otherness.
Course Code: ENG 406
Course Name:
Gender Theory and Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The main goal of this course is to explore sexuality and difference in gender discussions, as they relate to literary theory. It will enable student to focus on the definitions and fixity of sexual identity with an interdisciplinary approach to cultural study. By studying selected texts they will be able to examine the role gender plays in texts related gender and feminist issues.
Course Code: ENG 407
Course Name:
Methodology of Language Teaching
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will study the various theories, methods, techniques and approaches involved in ELT. It will emphasize the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of English Language Teaching and explore the viability of the Communicative Language Teaching approach.
Course Code: ENG 408
Course Name:
Creative Writing – II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
A workshop/pedagogy course in poetry or fiction for students who wish to further their knowledge of literature through practice of the art, and for those who intend to become practicing writers and critics.
Course Code: ENG 409
Course Name:
Translation Theory and Practicum
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will teach about the relationship between the source language and the target language in the process of translation. The debate will centre on between fluent and non-fluent translation. It will also teach translation as a third code.
Course Code: ENG 410
Course Name:
Diaspora Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course examines problems and issues in the literature and film produced by diasporic and migrant communities. Structured around several modules in which various texts are used to investigate such issues as identity and subjectivity, displacement, memory, family and home, this course investigates the problematic nature of these issues and highlights their significance in global diasporas.