Department of English

Programme Outcome, Programme-Specific Outcome & Course-Specific Outcome

(Provided to correspond with the syllabuses-CBCS+FYUP- as followed in the current academic session: 2023-24)

Programme-Specific Outcomes (PsO)
• Within a sizable number of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts, students should be familiar with representative literary and cultural texts.
• Students should be able to use critical and theoretical methods to reading and analyzing literary and cultural materials in a variety of contexts.
• The important concepts, values, and themes that arise in literary and cultural works should be easy for students to recognize, evaluate, interpret, and describe. They should also be able to explain how these ideas, values, and themes influence culture and society both now and in the future.
• In addition to essays, research papers, reflective writing, and critical evaluations of secondary sources, students should be able to write critically in a number of genres.
• Students should be able to responsibly collect, comprehend, assess, and synthesize data from various textual and electronic sources.
• Students should be able to comprehend how to use disciplinary frameworks and historical settings to communicate and analyze human experiences via literary representation.
• The ability to communicate well in both official and casual settings is a must for students.
• It should be possible for students to try out creative writing.
• Students should be able to build communication skills both verbally and nonverbally.
• Students should be able to pursue careers in a variety of fields.

Course Specific Outcomes (CsO)

BA in English (FYUP) Detailed Syllabus

Semester-I

Title of the Course: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Century

Course Code: ENGC1

Nature of the course: Major

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know the political, social, cultural, and literary context of 14-17 Century Britain.
  • determine the influence of the European Renaissance on the works of the Elizabethan authors, including Shakespeare.
  • understand the two genres – poetry and drama – in terms of their history and development till the Elizabethan period.

Title of the Course: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Century

Course Code: MINENG1

Nature of the course: Minor

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know the political, social, cultural, and literary context of 14-17 Century Britain.
  • determine the influence of the European Renaissance on the works of the Elizabethan authors, including Shakespeare.
  • understand the two genres – poetry and drama – in terms of their history and development till the Elizabethan period.

Title of the Course: Introducing English Poetry

Course Code: GECENG1

Nature of the course: Generic Elective Course

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know about the types, movements, elements, and theories of poetry, especially from English literary history
  • appreciate the genre that has witnessed massive transformations over a period of five hundred years
  • explore further this realm, and become competent critics or poets in their own right.

Title of the Course: Soft Skills

Course Code: SEC105

Nature of the course: Skill Enhancement Course

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Derive competency in the world of work, where effective interpersonal skills are very important
  • Develop writing competency in such a way that it enables one to frame CVs, memos, applications properly
  • Develop computer skills, especially those that are necessary in work stations, like using MS Word document, excel sheets., etc.
  • Develop leadership skills, as well as the capacity for networking, and effective teamwork.

Semester-II

Title of the Course: British Poetry & Drama: 17th to 18th Century

Course Code: ENGC2

Nature of the course: Major

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know the political, social, cultural, and literary context of 17-18 Century Britain
  • understand the ways in which English drama and poetry emphasized on adhering to classical norms and forms

Title of the Course: British Poetry & Drama: 17th to 18th Century

Course Code: MINENG2

Nature of the course: Minor

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know the political, social, cultural, and literary context of 17-18 Century Britain
  • understand the ways in which English drama and poetry emphasized on adhering to classical norms and forms


Title of the Course: Introducing British Drama

Course Code: GECENG2

Nature of the course: Generic Elective Course

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • know about the types, movements, elements, and theories of drama, especially from English literary history
  • appreciate the genre that has evolved considerably over a period of five hundred years
  • explore further this realm, and become competent critics or poets in their own right


Title of the Course: English Language and Communication Skills

Course Code: AECENG2

Nature of the Course: Ability Enhancement Course (AEC)

 After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Develop effective interpersonal and group communication skills
  • Develop writing competencies like framing CVs, memos, applications properly
  • Develop core competencies to perform effectively in GDs, personal interviews, etc.

Title of the Course: Creative Writing

Course Code: SEC205

Nature of the Course: Skill Enhancement Course

After the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Distinguish between the literary genres
  • The learner would be able to use the elements of the English language in their creative expressions.
  • The learner would be able to grasp the conventions of different genres and modes of expression in the English language such as poetry, fiction, essay, and reviews.
  • The learner would be able to expand their appreciation of other media.
  • Seek employment in various creative fields

SEMESTER III

Core Course 5: American Literature

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To show clarity with concepts and issues like the American Dream, slavery in the U.S, realism, etc.
  2. To discuss the different forms of American Poetry.
  3. To understand and explain even briefly the historical context and the development of American literature from it.
  4. It is hoped that learners would get a feel of American literature and they will be able to understand the poetics and politics of a literature characterised both by liberal and reactionary ideals.

Core Course 6: Popular Literature

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To appreciate the presence of a creative space and process that has the potential to affect readers to a degree that high-brow literature cannot achieve due to its propensity to target only a niche audience.
  2. To understand concepts like the nonsense genre, graphic literature, coming of age, difference between the canon and the popular, identity, etc. in relation to the prescribed works of literature.
  3. To have an idea of the genres that comes under the realm of popular literature.

Core Course 7: British Poetry & Drama: 17th & 18th Centuries

After the completion of this course, learners will be in a position:-

  1. To understand the ways in which English drama and poetry began to emphasize on the importance of adhering to classical norms and forms.
  2. To be able to show their understanding on forms like comedy of manners, mock-epic, etc. and retain the names of their most prominent practitioners of the period.
  3. To understand the political and socio-cultural climate of England of the concerned times and trace their influence on the emerging ideas and literature.

SEMESTER IV

Core Course 8: British Literature: 18th Century

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To understand the spirit of the age, as well as the literature embodying this spirit.
  2. To show their understanding on the enlightenment; on concepts like Neo-classicism; on representative forms of the age like the periodical, the novel, etc.
  3. To be able to mark how distinctively 18th century British literature majorly focuses on the city.

Core Course 9: British Romantic Literature

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To know and appreciate the values of a literature characterised by emotion, passion, love towards nature, exerting of imagination and so forth in order to create literature.
  2. To clearly point out and connect the nature & characteristics of romantic literature with the texts/works prescribed in the course.
  3. To understand the influence of the revolutionary zeal of the times and its influence on romantic literature.
  4. To have an understanding of the newly emergent fictional and poetic forms of the period.

Core Course 10: British Literature: 19th Century

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To understand the philosophical shift that came about due to the crises of faith pertaining to the culture of positivism that manifested its full presence during the Victorian period.
  2. To understand concepts like utilitarianism, surplus value, Victorian prudishness, survival of the fittest etc., and will be able to analyse it along these lines in the texts prescribed.
  3. To clearly point out the prevalent literary forms of the period and their nature.

SEMESTER V

Core Course 11: Women’s Writings

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To understand and be sensitized about gender-related issues, and would be able to see things from the perspective of the ‘Other’.
  2. To have a clear understanding on issues and concepts like Patriarchy, Sexual Politics, Race, Caste and Gender, Social Reform and Women’s Rights. Etc.
  3. To keep track of the literary forms through which women’s concerns have been expressed.

Core Course 12: British Literature: The Early 20th Century Literature

After completing this course the students are expected to be benefitted in terms of:-

  1. Getting acquainted with concepts like stream-of-consciousness, Oedipus complex, avant-garde, gyre, interior monologue, among many others.
  2. Learning about the major practitioners of modernism in literary forms and art as well.
  3. Being able to trace the use of myth in literature.

SEMESTER VI

Core Course 13: Modern European Drama

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To know Modern drama with its entire attendant problematic.
  2. To know about the various emerging experimental dramatic genres like the Theatre of the Absurd, Epic theatre, etc.
  3. To understand the relationship between politics and stage production.

 

Core Course 14: Post-Colonial Literatures

After completing this course the students are expected to be able:-

  1. To be acquainted with both the texts and the contexts of the given period.
  2. To understand issues related to post-colonialism like language, identity, point of view, displacement, physical and mental colonisation, Decolonisation, nationalism, fundamentalism, globalisation and diaspora, colonial legacy, gender and sexuality, regionalism, ethnicity, genocide, race, etc.
  3. To have an idea of the nations and writers from different nations that write on the aforementioned issues; the methods of decolonisation that they formulate and practise in their writings