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Description of all courses of the program:
ENG 1101: English Reading Skills and Public Speaking
Rationale of the Course: By completing this course, the students will be able to develop English reading and public speaking skills by group, pair and individual efforts to get prepared for English medium education at tertiary level.
Course content: The course is designed to improve students’ Academic English skills integrating reading and public speaking skills to prepare the students entering the University for studying through the medium of English. Along with strengthening students’ reading skills e.g., skimming, scanning and so on, the module will enrich their vocabulary by reading about a variety of adapted and authentic texts in group, pair and individual works. After reading on some intriguing topics, students will also improve oral communication skills for academic interactions through extensive conversational practices as a reflection on reading. Reflective oral practices include forming and communicating opinions by discussing on contemporary issues and developing formal and informal oral informative and persuasive presentations after reading a number of texts on particular topics and outlining on them.
BAS 1101: Bangla Language and Literature
Rationale of the Course: This course prepares students to learn error-free Bengali, necessary for writing news and other scripts for television and orally delivering news. There are extensive classroom activities which help them sharpen their existing skills.
Course Content: The course will explore the basic tenets of Bangla linguistic and literature features. Texts and poems of several literary maestros make students acquainted with Bangla’s rich literary elements in relation to Bangladeshi cultural values. In this course, students will grasp the evolution of modern Bengali language, culture, history and art (including cinema, painting and songs as well as literature). This course covers history of Bengali Language and Literature, Short Story and Novel, Author’s Biography, Practical Bengali vocabulary and functional grammar exercises, Bengali Poems, Translation, Contemporary text analysis and writing of paragraphs/essays/letter and creative pieces, and topic-based conversation and role-play. At the end of the course, students should acquire a widespread knowledge in Bangla language and literature and develop proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking standard colloquial Bengali.
BAS 1102:Foundations of Sociology
Rationale of the Course:The purpose of the course is to enlighten students with knowledge and analytic skills necessary to understand increasingly complex and changing social world in which we live by exploring social issues ranging from culture, socialization, family and marriage to social structure, stratification and deviance. The course emphases on the changes of social and cultural patterns over time and different settings. It also highlights the importance of sociological perspectives and theories for understanding Bangladesh society, focusing on identifying, studying, and solving social problems based on empirical data.
Course content: The course intends to acquaint students with an overall introduction to the fundamental concepts and views of Social Sciences particularly Sociology and its relationship with other Social Science fields. It offers the foundational Sociological theories and examines some major social issues and problems in contemporary society with a special focus on Bangladesh. In addition to the theories, topics such as social interaction, family, culture, social inequality, gender, crime and deviance are also covered in this course. The course also aims to develop the ability to identify, analyze and apply sociological perspectives to current social problems and to everyday life to better understand how larger society affects individual behavior and choices.
CSC 1101: Computer Fundamentals
Rationale of the Course:
Computer fundamentals blend computer science and digital literacy to help students develop confidence in technology operations. These skills can be applied in everyday life by helping them to choose technology and use it effectively, troubleshoot current technologies, and transfer that knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Course content:
This course aims to familiarize students with the usage of computers as business and personal tools, office application software, information systems relating to the business environment, and business-oriented utilization of the internet. Practical business computer applications will emphasize word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, and a few web applications to be familiar with the basic principles of the computer system, usage of internet business, and E-commerce, and learn the use of internal hardware, operating system, and application software.
ENG 1102: Introduction to English Literature
Rationale of the Course: This course is offered to the students to introduce themselves with the stylistic approach to Literature. It will enable students to understand and study the styles of language in a variety of literary genres. Moreover, this course helps the students to identify the correlation between the nature of literary themes and values of stylistics in social context.
Course content: This course is designed to provide a foundation for students to be able to read, analyze and appreciate prose, poetry, and drama in English. This course aims to address many humanistic concerns about the nature of literature as well as the practice of literary criticism. By close reading texts, some of the compelling reasons for reading and studying literature will be explored. The course also aims at equipping students with the stylistic features of different literary genres. It will enable students to think beyond the underlying meaning of the text. Students will also watch, listen, and perform in different literary displays through art, film, music, and stage to develop comparative analysis skills. The course will cover the following contents.
William Wordsworth: ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ozymandias’
John Keats: ‘Ode to Psyche’
James Joyce: ‘Eveline’
Orwell, G. (2003). Animal Farm. In G. Orwell, Animal Farm & 1984. New York: Harcourt.
Shaw, G. B. (2003). Arms and the Man. In G. B. Shaw, Plays Pleasant. London: Penguin Classics.
ENG 1103: Introduction to Linguistics
Rationale of the Course: This course is a basic one to raise students’ awareness of what linguistics is, what and how it studies. It prepares them for further in-depth study of other related subjects. The discipline gives the basic knowledge of such issues as the language as a scientific discipline and its phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic structure.
Course content:
This course aims to introduce students to the nature of language and some fundamental concepts of linguistics. It enables students to discover language data and acquaints them with the major areas of linguistics, including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics and techniques of linguistic analysis—scientific approaches of analyzing language and fundamental areas of linguistics with special reference to English. It also helps students to develop the skills of logical reasoning and deduction, which are both essential for other areas of study.
ENG 1202: English Writing
Rationale of the Course: By completing this course, the students will receive an orientation to the basics of English academic writing skills through a carefully designed course module that guides students step by step into the writing process. The course is vital for written communicative competence in English medium education at the tertiary level.
Course content: The course is designed to give students an orientation to academic writing and provide scope for adequate practice of the skill. The students will actively participate in task-based class activities both individually and in group and get practical exposure of academic writing practices required for tertiary level education. Selected units from the course book have built-in activities that are designed specifically to help students develop and organize ideas, creating and finalizing drafts, and being conscious about academic writing ethics.
ENG 1203:Morphology
Rationale of the Course: English Morphology course aims to provide students with key linguistic terms, concepts and theories related to morphology. The course introduces students to the development of the English language with particular reference to word-formation processes. Students will learn about the role and function of morphology in English language teaching and curriculum design. The course will provide students with teaching techniques so as to enable them to develop an approach to teaching English vocabulary and word formation processes. The overall aim of the course is to help students master the English language and its morphological and linguistic structure
Course content: This course offers a general introduction to English morphology with a view to helping students understand the morphological process of word formation. This course emphasizes on the major morphological processes including inflection, derivation, compounding, affixation, etc. that are commonly found in English. Students will learn about English words and practice morphological analysis on different data sets.
BAS 1203: History of Emergence of Bangladesh
Rationale of the Course:This course will present a general overview of political events, organizations and issues that contributed to the birth of Bangladesh. The course will focus on various political history of this land along with iconic historical moments starting from the political events of ancient Bengal. This course will provide emphasis on the iconic historic moments such as the battle of Plassey of 1757, Sepoy mutiny of 1857, the partition of Bengal in 1905 and its multiple nationalist implications, partition of Bengal in1947; the 1952 Language Movement, Pakistan experiences as a background to the Liberation War of 1971 and the role of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Shekh Mujibur Rahman. The course will help to develop students’ knowledge on Political & Cultural traits, Heritage, and Socio-economic condition of Bangladesh. It will focus of its historical background, emergence of Bangladesh as a new nation, its social structure, politics, and governance.
Course content:The course will explore the basic tenets of our rich and varied Political, geographical, and historical inheritance of Bangladesh. It will add value of the political history of the country for better understanding of the glorious struggle and past tradition. Learners would be applying the holistic knowledge of the country in the decision making in professional life and to cope with the local community and values in future perspectives of life and career.
ENG 1204:Appreciation of Poetry
Rationale of the Course: Poetry as a literary convention can be traced to the earliest evidence of human civilizations. Poetry can help individuals express complex ideas about human experiences in brief, yet creative, aesthetic, and poignant manner. Thus, studying poetry helps students become empathetic and trigger their aptitude of language appreciation. The focus of the course being English poetry, allows a student to understand the form, and style of various poetic genres commonly practiced in English language by poets of different ages. The students will also learn to analyze the themes, tones and intricacies of ideas instilled in poetry.
Course content: The course aims to spark creative thinking, development sense of linguistic aesthetics among students. Students will read several selected poems and learn to analyze the literary convention for appreciating style and content. The course is also a foundation that will help students read and analyze complex literary forms and respond critically.
BAS 1204:Fundamentals of Economics
Rationale of the Course: This course will help the students to understand the importance of economics in everyday business decision-making, differentiate between microeconomics and macroeconomics and its implications for business organizations. Students will also understand fundamental economic principles, appreciate supply and demand analysis in market systems, understand short and long term cost curves, explain price and output decisions of a firm in various markets, learn economic reasons for regulations and build an awareness of related current issues, the aggregate performance of the economy with a focus on the determination of particular variables such as national income, the rate of unemployment, the rate of inflation, and the level of interest rates. Government fiscal and monetary policies and other relevant topics will be discussed to assist them in day-to-day business decision-making process.
Course content:It introduces students to the tools economists and policy makers use to understand how the market system works and how the economy as a whole functions and give insights into the decision-making policies of the governments.
BAS 1205:Natural Science
Rationale of the Course: Scientific literacy is necessary for all irrespective of disciplines. Everyone needs to use scientific information to make choices that arise every day. An understanding of basic sciences and its natural phenomena, contributes a lot in day-to-day functions of modern life and is important in all respects of our society. Importance of scientific knowledge is increasing day by day in the workplace since it helps in acquiring advanced skills, the ability to learn reason, think creatively, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will build students’ understanding of the fundamental concepts of each area of natural sciences and will make them confident of the facts in relation to these areas. As a result, students will find interest to work comfortably in a scientific environment and will try to understand the relationship among different disciplines that much of the scientific work done in the world draws on multiple disciplines.
Course content: As a prerequisite for Bachelor of Arts in English, Natural Science course is designed to enrich student’s knowledge in fundamental concepts of chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science and earth science suitable for standard undergraduate level. Study of the basic principles of natural sciences along with their applications to technology and other scientific fields will develop their analytical and mathematical skills too.
ENG 2104:Writing for Arts and Social Sciences
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with improved writing skills along with advanced intellectual faculties to address various academic and creative purposes for their Arts and Social Sciences discipline. This course also enables students to use digital literacy for writing in a variety of formats and techniques concerning ethical issues, e.g., plagiarism
Course content: This course enables students to develop effective academic, creative and journalistic writing skills or strategies in their Arts and Social Sciences discipline. Students’ critical thinking, digital literacies, and analytical abilities are also developed through this course by reading and reacting to a variety of adapted and authentic texts.
BAS 2106: Bangladesh Studies
Rationale of the Course: By taking a historical approach, this course explores the political process and institutions, the building blocks of a national economy, and key cultural debates in the country. The first part of the course will discuss electoral system, political parties, parliament, and forms of government. The second part will explore the building blocks of a national economy such as budget, taxation, banking and share market. And the final part will discuss key cultural issues such as identity, secularism, and nationalism.
Course content: The course helps to develop students’ knowledge of Political & Cultural traits, Heritage, and Socio-economic condition in Bangladesh. It will focus on the language and people of Bangladesh, its historical background, emergence of Bangladesh as a new nation, its social structure, arts and literature, religious philosophies, archaeological evidence of the cultural heritage, geography, politics, and the governance of Bangladesh.
BAS 2107:Arts and Aesthetics
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is learning wide fields of Art and its Aesthetic values time to time. The students are supposed to learn the role of Films in our society. They’ll understand about Art Film and the contribution of Filmmakers, and through film show they’ll absorb the fine techniques of Direction, Screen play writing, Music, Lyrics, Casting, Costume designing, Editing etc. Before they go to world of visual art, they’re expected to learn the Art & elements of Design and Art & principles of Design to understand the visual elements like, line, shape, direction, size, texture, values, balance, gradation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, unity etc. In colour theory they’ll learn the role of colour in work of art and life. In visual art they will learn the art movement of Impressionism, and other visual art topics like, Landscape Painting, still life Painting, Portrait painting etc. Visit of museum and art gallery will give them direct contact with art works and artifacts and they’ll develop their aesthetic senses instantly. In performing Art they’ll go through a bit of Indian classical music they’ll learn and understand few RAAGASof early morning, morning, afternoon, late afternoon, night, late night etc., and few seasonal raagas like monsoon, winter, spring, summer etc. They are also expected to learn the music of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Finally, they’ll learn the contemporary Art of Architecture of Bangladesh and will visit National assembly of Bangladesh to get a real architectural essence of Sansad Bhavan.
Course content: This course will eventually help students in getting familiar with key ideas of arts and aesthetics. They will acquire abilities to think critically using the concepts and methods of the visual and performing arts. This course will give them insights to understand “aesthetics in art” critically.
MAT 2101: Statistics for Social Science
Rationale of the Course: At the core, this course provides a foundation for an understanding of statistics and help you gain confidence leveraging statistics to create strong business cases and make intelligent business decisions. This course examines the use of descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis, t-tests, and applications of technology for statistical analysis, including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical findings for business problem solving and decision making.
Course content: The course is designed to give an introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistics used extensively in business and economics. The statistical techniques covered in this course are used in functional areas including marketing, production, economics, human resource, finance and accounting. Topics include frequency distribution, charts and graphs, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, probability & probability distribution, sampling and sampling distribution, theory of estimation and test of hypothesis. The course will focus on real data applications, quantitative literacy, statistical thinking and the use of statistical software.
ENG 2107:History of English Language
Rationale of the Course: The course serves as a broad introduction to the history of English language, beginning with the remote Indo-European ancestors and working its way from Anglo-Saxon times down to the present day. Students will analyze numerous short passages of English, to compare the varieties of the language in different times and places. They will also acquire basic understanding of major linguistic changes that have taken place in English in different periods of time.
Course content: The course enables students to get a clear understanding and appreciation of the major historical events that have played crucial role in the making and development of English language from Anglo-Saxon times till today. This course also aims to raise learners’ awareness on how English language, being influenced by numerous languages in different periods of time and in more recent times, by colonization and worldwide trade, has experienced major linguistic changes from its earliest time to become what we call now Modern English.
BBA 2101: Elementary Accounting
Rationale of the Course: This course combines theoretical and mathematical concepts of understanding the use and users of accounting information. Topics include analyzing, recording, and processing financial data to produce accounting information, preparing financial statements for merchandising concern as well as for service concern, identifying the areas where management accounting can play an important decision-making role, and applying management accounting techniques in planning, control and decision-making situations.
Course content:This course provides the essentials of financial accounting such as: definition of accounting, users of accounting information, accounting concepts and principles, accounting equation, measuring, and recording of business transactions, adjusting entries, completing the accounting cycle, classified financial statements, accounting for merchandising operation, inventories, and accounting for receivables, plant assets, natural resources & intangible assets. The students are exposed to various practical exercises for mastery of accounting knowledge and skills.
ENG 2201:Appreciation of Prose
Rationale of the Course: The course is meant to give students a genre-based introduction to English prose writings. It will facilitate students to understand and appreciate different genres and style of prose. The course also provides a brief introduction to diverse literary and scholarly approaches to the study of texts.
Course content: The objective of the course is to introduce students to English prose in detail with examples from Fiction and Non-fiction sub-genres. Students will get exposure to different narrative techniques and observe the changes in style, and expression of different authors. Students will examine the texts for figures of speech, structural pattern, themes and focuses of the text. The syllabus includes the following texts:
Francis Bacon: “Of Studies”, “Of Marriage and Single Life”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Black Cat”
Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party”
George Orwell: “Shooting an Elephant”
Rabindranath Tagore: “Letter to the Viceroy Repudiating Knighthood”
Martin Luther King: “I Have a Dream”
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
ENG 2202:Classroom Management Techniques in ELT
Rationale of the Course: The course explores methods for maximizing student success by engaging students in a positive learning environment. This course will help a teacher make decisions regarding the physical environment and resources available to them, including furniture, resources, learners and themselves. Different classroom activities require very different management, and an essential part of planning is to make decisions about areas such as learner groupings, teacher involvement, positioning of furniture where possible, instruction giving and timing.
Course content: The general aim of this course is to acquaint students with strategies and techniques used in the management of English language classrooms. This course allows students to develop their classroom management skills by using interactive and engaging techniques in order to create a positive and safe learning environment. Participants will also learn how to structure and deliver their teaching in a more practical, impactful and effective way.
ENG 2203:Appreciation of Drama
Rationale of the Course: Appreciation of Drama as a form of literary text is focus of the course. Students are made aware of the structural components of English Drama with brief social and historical context. The course lets students understand and analyze various traditions and styles of English plays of different timeline to enable them to examine their cultural impact.
Course content: To be able to read and appreciate selected plays from Renaissance and Contemporary literary periods to develop an ability to analyze form, style, theme, and content. Focus is given to enable students understand the social and historical context and expose them to the culture and practices of the different periods. The texts include:The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, A Raisin in the Sun, The Merchant of Venice.
ENG 2204: Professional English
Rationale of the Course: The course blends the timeless essentials of communication with contemporary techniques and an emphasis on professional English improvement. Students will practice standard use of professional English along with a full range of communication skills that can help them launch an interesting and rewarding career.
Course content: This course enables students to develop effective communication skills or strategies by providing them with opportunities to get practice in a variety of non- verbal, oral and written communication situations in English related to multi- faced professional purposes including business/ official correspondence, presentation skills, resume writing and job interview skills, cross- cultural communication, media communication and so on.
BAS 2208:Social Science Research Methodology
Rationale of the Course: Research skills are crucial for students in academic studies and having the ability to support their views with evidence will benefit them in any future career. This course will help students to acquire 'research literacy' with regard to the basic principles of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies in the field of applied linguistics. Students will also have opportunities to get hands-on experience with the research procedure with practical exercises. Moreover, students will learn how to use technologies for different purposes, e.g., referencing, data collection, and analysis.
Course content: This course is designed to acquaint the students with scientific research methods to design and evaluate solutions to the social issues and social problems and with those issues which have policy implications. Each student will be exposed to and given a set of conceptual tools and techniques that will allow them to understand the nature of scientific methods as they apply to social research. Emphasis will be given on research design, problem formulation, collecting data, developing instruments, conducting a research project and application of social research in different special fields of the society.
BAS 2209:Cognitive and Social Psychology
Rationale of the Course: This course covers the fundamental concepts of Cognitive and social Psychology—particularly behavior, mental processes, personality, learning, memory, sensation and its major sub-fields. The world is getting tougher and tougher to keep up with.
Course content: Being one of the cores of social science discipline, this study of psychology will help the students to make sense of our increasingly complex and challenging world. Psychology is not a cure-all for knotty problem, but it contributes enormously to our knowledge about why people are the way they are, why they think and act the way they do and how they can cope more effectively with their lives.
BAS 3110:Philosophy and Ethics
Rationale of the Course: To understand the basic key concepts, methods, views and theories of Philosophy and some fundamental elements of logical reasoning are the rationale of this course. This course is an exploration of some of the central questions and issues of philosophy, concerning our knowledge of the external world, mind and body, sources of Knowledge, freedom of will, values, ethics, moral judgment, through the lens of classical and contemporary philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant Friedrich Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Foucault, W. James, J. Dewey, Heidegger and others. It will help students to evaluate and criticize interpretations of those Philosophers and apply their views in different real-life problems. This course will also develop basic set of skills (critical, analytical and problem-solving) that will improve students’ ability to think clearly and rationally.
Course content: The overall direction of the course is to introduce students with a comprehensive understanding of Philosophy, its origin & nature, the views and theories of many well-known Philosophers of different era and interpretations of these views. The course also explores and analyze the basic issues of Philosophy in the fields of Metaphysics, Axiology, Epistemology and Logic. It will also deal with some important ethical types and theories including: the duty ethics of Kant, ethical relativism and the virtue ethics. The course will help the students to grasp the critical and comprehensive outlook and view of the world.
ENG 3101:Classical Literature
Rationale of the Course: The course intends to make learners aware about ancient Greek culture, value, philosophy presented in their literature and reflect on how they have influenced the formation of world literature, philosophy and art.
Course content: The course covers four important works of the Classical Period. How the literary traditions of epic, tragedy came into formation and the development of literary criticism will be core focal point of the course. The influence of Greek literature on the other periods of English literature will also be highlighted. Apart from these, certain key concepts and literary terms necessary to understand classical literature will be the part of syllabus. Texts include:
Kenny, A. (Trans.) (2013). The Poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fagles, R. (Trans.) (1977). The Oresteian Trilogy. New York: Penguin
Fagles, R. (Trans.) (1956). The Theban Plays. New York: Penguin Books
Fagles, R. (Trans.) (1992). Iliad. London: Penguin Classics
ENG 3102:First Language Development
Rationale of the Course: The course is designed to give students fundamental knowledge on speech acquisition, comprehension, and production processes in their interrelation with the language system. Surveying central topics in normal adult language behavior, from the recognition of speech sounds up to the identification of discourse moves, the course shows how theoretical models and experimental methods help us understand the swift, invisible processes that make us fluent users of language.
Course content: At the end of the course, the students should be able to understand the relationship between language and the processes of the brain and mind. They will develop detailed knowledge of the biological bases of language (language & the brain), speech perception, the lexicon, sentence processing, discourse, speech production and language acquisition. In addition, they will examine the methods used in researches on first language development and to interpret the types of results these methods have uncovered and distinguish between basic language production and perception data and how these data have contributed to the development of the major theories in first language development.
ENG 3103:Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary
Rationale of the Course:
By completing the course, the students will develop practical skills for teaching grammar and vocabulary in an innovative, purposeful and contextualized manner in primary and secondary school classrooms in Bangladesh. The course also helps them to further develop their own grammatical and lexical competence and awareness, which will benefit their teaching competence through the development of professional excellence, ethical responsibility and application of innovative teaching methodologies.
Course content:
This course enables students to develop competencies for teaching grammar in a focused and contextualized manner in schools in Bangladesh. Students will get opportunity to try out teaching strategies in micro‐teaching sessions. The course also helps students to identify the types of grammatical problems that Bangladeshi learners tend to have and further develop their own grammatical competence and awareness.
ENG 3201:Phonetics and Phonology
Rationale of the Course:
The course introduces a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English and the principles of general phonetic description and classification from an articulatory point of view. Students will practice hearing and producing the linguistically relevant differences in English. Students will acquire working knowledge of phonological and phonetic transcription.
Course content:
The course enables students to develop a basic understanding of the phonological organization of English including consonants, vowels, the syllable, word stress, and intonation. This course also aims to raise learners’ awareness of how pronunciation contributes to communication applying their knowledge of phonetics and phonology.
ENG 3202:Contemporary South Asian Literature in English
Rationale of the Course:
The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of Contemporary South Asian Writings in English with reference to prominent writings from different parts of South Asia. The focus will be to bring out the salient features of South Asian literature that have given it a distinct identity. This course aims at giving students an overview of South Asian literature in English and introducing them to the formal and linguistic issues that underpin these writings. This course will also increase their understanding of contemporary South Asian culture and its interface with the western culture. A range of fictional writings in English from South Asia will be covered to appreciate the culture-specific interpretation required in close reading of postcolonial literatures. Emphasis will also be on the distinctive features of South Asian Writings, aspects of South Asian diasporic experience, multiculturalism, problems of colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, race etc.
ENG 3203:ELT Approaches and Methods
Rationale of the Course: The course serves to explore essential theories and concepts of ELT and distinguish among major methods and approaches. Students will come across preparing lesson plans and applying different teaching methods for microteaching. They will also acquire a basic understanding of applying different methods at different levels of education.
Course content: The course enables students to get a clear understanding and appreciation of the major current theories and concepts of ELT. They can be able to apply some techniques of different methods during microteaching sessions within the class according to the level and context of the students. This course also aims to raise learners’ awareness of demonstrating different strategies for teaching and providing feedback in microteaching sessions.
BAS 3208:South Asian History and Development
Rationale of the Course: A home of 2 billion people, South Asia is one of the most socially, geographically, culturally, and religiously diverse places on the planet. This course introduces students to the history and development of modern South Asia, beginning in the Mughal era and ending with consideration of the modern nation-states that make up the region, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This course incorporates a substantial amount of primary sources. Those sources will be used to raise and discuss questions about particular historical actors and developments as well.
Course content: The overall direction of the course is to introduce students with a comprehensive understanding of Political, cultural, and economic forces in which have conditioned the development of institutions and ideas in South Asia.
ENG 4101: Shakespeare
Rationale of the Course: The course is meant to help students cultivate an appreciation of Shakespearean works through a careful examination of his representative plays and sonnets. Students will study and examine the growth and development of Shakespeare’s abilities as a dramatist and the enduring nature of his ideas and vision.
Course content: The objective of the course is to introduce students to Shakespeare’s major plays and sonnets exploring the social, sexual, political, performative, and formal issues that these texts represent. The course will provide students with the tools to understand and analyze Shakespeare’s language as well as to discuss larger themes in Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies, and history plays regarding timeless issues such as love, jealousy, ambition, madness, greed, gender, and death and how they can inform contemporary life. The syllabus includes the following texts: Sonnets, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest.
ENG 4103:Literary Theory and Criticism
Rationale of the Course: Literary theory helps students to understand the nature, function, and value of literature. The richness and complexity of literary art can be objectively dealt with the help of literary theory and criticism. The course can equip a student for an analytical study of form, aesthetics, interpretations, associations, and impact of literature.
Course content: The course aims to enable students to approach literary texts from an intensely critical perspective. Students should be able to associate theoretical approaches of reading literature not only read to analyze form, style, and function. The course develops ability to question and criticize literary tradition and revalue the perspective of truth. Finally, a clear understanding should develop concerning history of modern civilization and how literature interprets it. The syllabus will be covered from the following texts:
ENG 4106:Sociolinguistics
Rationale of the Course: This course highlights a number of core concepts of sociolinguistics to enable students discuss, analyze and further work on the discipline. It discusses the relation between language and society, dialects, speech community, and code mixing between Bengali and English. It also explores their multilevel impacts with detail practical examples from relevant sociolinguistic contexts. In addition, it also explores the areas of bilingualism, multilingualism and global English. The aim of this course is to introduce participants to concepts and issues in sociolinguistics which are relevant to their lives as prospective or practicing language teachers. Thus, the course helps students understand and practice comprehensive principles of Sociolinguistics in academic presentations, research and writing.
Course content: This course is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical frameworks and analytic methods in sociolinguistics. The course will provide students with an understanding of the study of language as a social phenomenon and emphasize foundational and contemporary work in linguistic variation and change, examining how this variation can reflect social structures, construct diverse social identities, and allow us to make sense of our surrounding social landscapes.
ENG 4102:English Syntax
Rationale of the Course: The course helps students understand the basic terminology and concepts of English syntax, syntactic theory and argumentation. Elements of English sentence structure are analyzed and discussed in class. Students will discuss series of examples and exercises, focusing on grammatical v. ungrammatical sentences, noun phrases, verb phrases, adverbials, clauses and sentences.
Course content: This course is an introduction to the basic principles of syntax - the grammatical structure (phrase/sentence structure) of language. The major topics include classification of words into syntactic categories, and how words can be combined into phrases and phrases into sentences and the function of words and phrases in the sentence as well as different verb complementation types. The course focuses on the basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description, and the practical analysis and description of a range of phenomena from English.
ENG 4104:Semantics and Pragmatics
Rationale of the Course: The subject of study is to give an introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. This course gives an overview of basic concepts and problems central to study of semantics and pragmatics with current linguistic theory. In this course, students will learn about interaction between semantic and pragmatic aspects of utterances and second language acquisition. They will also analyze language from a sematic and pragmatic point of view and get familiarized to the variety of meanings which words and utterances can encode.
Course content: In this course you will explore the nature and scope of semantics and pragmatics and their place within Linguistics. Topics in semantics include: the nature and analysis of lexical meanings, the relationship between meaning and cognition, the relationship between semantics and grammar, and semantic change.Topics in pragmatics include: speech act theory, politeness theory, implicature and presupposition. You will have the opportunity to engage with and analyse genuine linguistic data. You will apply these ideas not only to English, but to other languages you know.
ENG 4107:Discourse Analysis
Rationale of the Course: This course will enable the students to develop skills in analyzing the properties of different text, in characterizing the interpersonal stances adopted by speaker and writers, and in identifying and classifying the various genres or text types which operate in particular social settings. The course will enhance students’ understanding of different tools of discourse analysis and integrate them as a key method to critically evaluate written materials in the field of discourse analysis.
Course content: In this course the students will explore the ways in which language varies according to subject area, social setting, communicative purpose and the social roles and identities of those involved. They will also examine the workings of various forms of speaking and writing- casual conversation, interviews and interrogations, public speaking, emailing, mobile phone texting and mass media articles.
ENG 4105:Global Englishes
Rationale of the Course: In this course, students are introduced to the historical spread of the English language, its status and functions across the world, and its variations. From an inclusive and pluralistic concept of Englishes, students develop an understanding of how language functions and how people learn and use language as a component of social and cultural identity, not only as a tool for communication.
Course content: This course aims to provide an overview of English as a global language, a socio-political, historical background of the emergence of Global Englishes, and the increasing use of English as a world language. The course intends to explore sociolinguistic concepts of pidgins and creoles, language contact, convergence, divergence, and nativization focusing on English-based varieties. The course reflects on the position of English in Bangladesh/South Asia and debates surrounding (non-) standard varieties, native speakers, the teaching of English, etc.
ENG 4201:Second Language Acquisition
Rationale of the Course: This course provides students with an understanding of second language acquisition (SLA) introducing the nature and process of SLA and explores how the process is affected by individual learner factors such as age, first language, and individual differences and social context of acquisition. The course presents linguistic, cognitive and social perspectives on the field of second language acquisition enabling students to apply the SLA knowledge in their teaching of English.
Course content: This course aims to familiarize students to key concepts in second language acquisition (SLA) theories in order to provide them with an understanding of how a second language is acquired and examine the theoretical and empirical issues in the field, including cognitive-interactionist and frequency-based perspectives of SLA and the roles of learner factors such as age, first language, and individual differences. The course provides students with opportunities to develop a personally relevant understanding of empirical issues reflecting upon their own language learning experiences and relate them to theoretical issues and concepts introduced in class.
ENG 4203:Bilingualism
Rationale of the Course: This course is designed to introduce students to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and societal aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism. This course enables students to understand and critically engage with language learning and teaching in institutional and non-institutional contexts with a particular focus on bilingual/multilingual settings, people, and institutions. The course supports, informs, and develops understanding of the complexities, constraints, and practicalities of bilingual/multilingual learning of people across their communicative repertoire.
Course content: The course objective is to introduce students to the multifaceted field of bilingualism and multilingualism in light of the growing influence of processes of globalization and diversity. This course will highlight and analyze multilingual speech communities and examine language choice patterns in these communities according to current language policies and ideologies. In this course, students will examine how children hearing two (or more) languages from birth turn into bilingual/multilingual speakers, tracing their overall development. In addition, they will highlight what socio-economic, cognitive and linguistic advantages may stem from the phenomenon of bilingualism in multilingual global and diverse contexts.
ENG 4205:Technology in Language Learning
Rationale of the Course: This Course aims to acquaint the learners with the technology used for both teaching and learning a language. Students will learn to adopt using the technology in classroom activities to support teaching and learning. Knowledge of technology will lead them to explore the new window of limitless resources along with knowledge of promoting collaboration and developing rational thinking through interactive and engaging activities.
Course content: This course offers an overview of contemporary CALL (computer-assisted language learning) technologies. Students will learn about CALL technologies and get opportunities to practice using tools both as learners and instructors. They will get an insight into theoretical issues discussed in language learning. Students will develop an understanding of using, evaluating, and designing digital materials and tools for language learning and teaching. The main goal of this course is to introduce students to a variety of instructional technologies and multimedia authoring tools to use for designing and developing lesson plans.
ENG 4202:Language Testing
Rationale of the Course: This course aims to provide students with essential background in the area of language testing. Questions that are addressed relate to test preparation, administration, and evaluation. Additionally, it provides students with knowledge of basic concepts and classifications of testing and characteristics of language tests, ability to evaluate tests and test results, and an understanding of test development procedures. Throughout the course there will be discussions of officially administered tests and their ramifications for the educational system.
Course content: This course is a practical introduction to the basics of language testing, with particular reference to classroom testing. The course includes items like: principles of good test design, different ways of testing grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, speaking and writing, and their suitability for different learners.
ENG 4204:English for Specific Purposes
Rationale of the Course:
This course presents a survey of the field of English for specific purposes. It includes discussion of the various subfields of the discipline (e.g., EAP, EBE, EST, EVP) along with clarification of ESP’s key principles (e.g., needs/genre analysis, learner needs vs. wants, learner-centered curricula). It is designed for students who wish to learn how to design ESP courses and programs in areas of specialization such as hotel management, medical or legal English, civil engineering, etc.
ENG 4206: Teaching Reading
Rationale of the Course: The course is aimed to develop knowledge, understanding and an awareness of theoretical aspects of teaching and learning of reading theories. This course intends to increase the chances for the language teacher to adopt a more effective methodology and promote students’ effective learning. It purposes to provide good opportunity to help teacher learners reflect upon their teaching practices and make them aware of their teaching weaknesses and strengths.
Course content: The course mainly provides an introduction to aspects of teaching reading and to understand the teaching and learning process better. Focus will be on a number of aspects: major theories of language learning, recent advances in educational psychology and individual differences in learning both in children and adults. In addition, this course will also place some emphasis on perspectives on additional learning processes, products and outcomes in a variety of contexts from around the world. The Program prepares participants to begin teaching reading English in home and abroad.
ENG 4207:Teaching Writing
Rationale of the Course: The course is designed to teach the prospective language teacher how to teach writing skill to the EFL students in Bangladesh. Students will also learn to teach the process of writing. This course will help students learn how to teach the students to think more clearly, organize thoughts in logical sequence, and improve writing skills through prewriting, writing, and rewriting processes. The underlying premise of the course is that the students who take it are inexperienced prospective language teachers who need practice theoretical and practical knowledge to be effective teachers.
Course content: This course mainly aims to provide the theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching writing and to help the learners to understand the teaching and learning process better. Focus will be on a number of aspects: major theories of language learning, teaching and learning strategies, ways of responding to written work, providing feedback etc. Further this course enables the learners to plan instruction, to facilitate evaluation and to aid communication with others.
ENG 4208:Teaching Listening and Speaking
Rationale of the Course: The course is aimed to develop knowledge, understanding and an awareness of theoretical aspects of teaching and learning of listening and speaking skills. This course intends to increase the chances for the language teacher to adopt a more effective methodology and promote students’ effective learning. It purposes to provide good opportunity to help teacher learners reflect upon their teaching practices and make them aware of their teaching weaknesses and strengths.
Course content: The course mainly provides an introduction to aspects of teaching speaking, pronunciation and listening and to understand the teaching and learning process better. Focus will be mostly on the micro skills of Listening (for example- retain chunks of language in short-term memory, process speech containing pauses, errors, corrections, and other performance variables etc.), Speaking & pronunciations (produce chunks of language of different lengths, Produce English stress patterns etc.). Also, the program prepares participants to begin teaching speaking and listening English in home and abroad.
ENG 4111: Old and Middle English literature
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of Old and Middle English literature with reference to prominent writings from different parts of Britain. The focus will be to bring out the salient features of Old and Middle English literature that have given it a distinct identity.
Course content: The objective of this course is to prepare students t reflect on literary production from Old and Middle English period, its literary style, and language. Simultaneously, the course creates an understanding of culture reflecting on the history, politics, society and language. The course also aims to equip students with proper knowledge, value and skills needed to respond critically and ethically towards socio-political and cultural issues of the period. This course will include prominent writers to show how their works embodies the treatment of theme, style and language to influence the later eras in English literature.
ENG 4112:Romantic Poetry
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of Romantic Poetry with reference to prominent poetry from England and America. The focus will be to bring out the salient features of Romantic Poetry that have given it a distinct identity.
Course content: This course is primarily an introduction to the prominent poetry of the Romantic period in Britain (1789‐1832), with a particular focus on the poetry of William Blake, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, G G Byron, P. B. Shelley, and John Keats. Main themes include the poets’ interest in the Self and its various interactions with society and nature, the human mind, and the transformative power of the imagination. The course will emphasize close reading, but it will also draw attention to the relationship between text and context, poetry and poet, poetic creation and critical value.
ENG 4113:Victorian Literature
Rationale of the Course: This course is designed to introduce and contextualize the key texts (e.g., poems, sonnet, play) of some remarkable authors of the Victorian era.
Course content: It aims to help students develop an appreciation (through literary devices) of Victorian literature alongside creating an awareness of the fact that the texts may reflect the socio-cultural history, religion and politics of that time. The syllabus includes the following texts:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Ulysses,” “Tithonus.”
Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess,” “Porphyria’s Lover,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” and “Andrea Del Sarto.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “The Cry of the Children.”
Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach.”
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (a play).
Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles
ENG 4115:Modern Fiction and non-fiction
Rationale of the Course: The course is designed to help students understand the impact of modernity on English prose focusing on fiction of the early 20th century. Significant themes such as alienation, transformation, the relativity of truth, and existentialism are features of most of the seminal works of this period. Studying this course should prepare students of literature to perceive and question tradition, identity, and structures. Additionally, the course enriches the critical competence of students and broadens their outlook toward analyzing literary pieces.
Course content: The course aims to help students study and identify the features of modern fiction. The loss of hope and faith resulting in intense pessimism about the future; reconstruction of myth and revelation and depiction of the catastrophe in the contemporary; existential crisis, alienation, and trauma reflected in the literature will be explored and critically analyzed. Apart from this, the students should be aware of the various artistic movements and their impact on fiction of the early 20th century. The syllabus includes the following texts:
Hemingway, Earnest (). Old Man and the Sea
Lawrence, D. H. (1993). ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6th edition)
Woolf, Virginia (1993). ‘The Mark on the Wall’. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6th edition)
Joyce, James (). Araby, Dubliners
Salinger, J. D. (). The Catcher in The Rye
Kafka, Franz (1996) The Metamorphosis. Staney Corngold (trans. & ed.). Princeton University. W.W. Norton Company. Newyork: London.
Conrad, Joseph (2018 ed). Heart of Darkness. Friend’s Book Corner
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Fiction, 3rd Edition: Volume 1, Modern Poetry. (2003). London: Norton, W.W.
ENG 4211:Modern Drama and Poetry
Rationale of the Course: The course is designed to help students understand impact of modernity on English poetry and drama of the early 20th century. Through reading and analyzing selected works of Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht students are expected explore the reactions to long held and established traditions, institutions, and ideas. Individualism, alienation, changes in worldview, identity reformation as some defining concepts of modernist psyche will also be studied in the poetry and drama.
Course content: The course aims to help students study and identify the features of modern poetry and drama. The loss of hope and faith resulting in intense pessimism about future; reconstruction of myth and revelation and depiction of the catastrophe in the contemporary; existential crisis, alienation and trauma reflected in the literature will be explored and critically analyzed. Apart from this the students should be aware of the various artistic movements and their impact in poetry and drama. The syllabus includes the following texts:
Brecht, B. (1982). Mother Courage. Sydney: Metropolitan West.
Beckett, S. (2004). Waiting for Godot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 3rd Edition: Volume 1, Modern Poetry. (2003). London: Norton, W.W.
Krasner, D. (2012). A History of Modern Drama (Vol. 1). West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons.
Poplawski, P. (2008). English Literature in Context. (P. Poplawski, Ed.) New York, USA: Cambridge University Press.
ENG 4212:American Literature
Rationale of the Course: The course is designed to introduce major American writers in the genres of poetry, short story, novel, and drama in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. It aims to develop an appreciation of American literature among students as well as an awareness of how the literary texts reflect the nation’s history and culture.
Course content: The syllabus includes the following texts: The objective of the course is to cover some of the major American authors and some representative literary pieces to give students idea about the mainstream American literature with particular focus on the concept of democracy, American dream, capitalism, consumerism, transience of life, individualism, gender and sexuality, racism and so on. The course includes the following texts:
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself” (Selection)
Robert Frost: “Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening”
Sylvia Plath: “Daddy”
Adrienne Rich: “Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger”
William Carlos Williams: “Red Wheel Barrow”
ENG 4215:African Literature in English
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of African literature in English with reference to prominent writings from different parts of Africa. The focus will be to bring out the salient features of African literature that have given it a distinct identity.
Course content: The objective of this course is to prepare students to reflect on how literary production from Africa simultaneously embodies and creates culture through an interdisciplinary structure that blends history, politics, sociology and linguistics. The course also aims to equip students with proper knowledge, value and skills needed to respond critically and ethically towards socio-political and cultural issues encountered by Africa as one of the postcolonial countries. The syllabus includes the following texts:
Achebe, Chinua (1958) Things Fall Apart. Anchor Books Edition 1994, New York: Anchor Books.
Coetzee, James Michael. (1999). Waiting for the Barbarian. UK: Penguin Books Ltd.
Baier, U. (1965). Modern Poetry from Africa.
Diop, David, “Africa”, from Poetry Compilation (2017).
Okara, Gabriel, “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed” from Poetry Compilation (2017).
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, “Assassinations”, from Poetry Compilation (2017).
Soyinka, Wole. (1981). The Road. Harlow, Essex: Longman.
Walcott, Dereck. “A Far Cry from Africa”, “Omeros” from Poetry Compilation (2017).
ENG 4216:16th and 17th Century English Literature
Rationale of the Course: The salient features, such as frequent use of wit, irony, satire, and wordplay in 16th and 17th century English literature have given it a distinct identity which has impacted on the literature of subsequent era produced in different part of the world. This era marks a shift from an age of faith to an age of reason. Therefore, the rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of the literature of these periods with reference to prominent writings from English literary canon. Also, the learners of English literature need to be equipped with the proper knowledge, value and skills needed to respond critically and ethically towards socio-political and cultural issues connected to 16th and 17th century literary canon and its impact on the world literature.
Course content: The course aims at providing a broad sample of 16th and 17th century English literature through a wide range of literary genres, including poetry, epic and play. The objective of the course is to familiarize the student with the development of different genre of English literature of these two centuries. Students will familiarize themselves with prominent authors of the periods and the styles and genres associated with those. These genres and styles ranging from epic to metaphysical, to mock epic, and to early romantic poems are representative of the eras like Puritan, Neo Classical, and early Romantic age. They will also apply literary criticism and critical approaches to the reading of the texts in order to elicit a critical understanding of poems by poets like Milton, Spenser, Herrick, Kyd, Donne, Marvel and the literary works of the other significant authors of the era. The course also discusses the socio-political context in order to reveal the continuous commotion in religion, science, sentiment, domestic relationships, culture and creates the scope for students to discover different perceptions of the period.
ENG 4218:Translation Studies
Rationale of the Course: Translation Studies is the field of study that deals with the theory, description, and application of translation. It examines translation not only as an interlingual transfer but also as intercultural communication. The course also deals with the practical experiences of the translator. Moreover, it explores the history and philosophy of the field from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Therefore, Translation Studies is an essential course for students who are interested to do literary translation in future.
Course content: This course aims to offer an introduction to the theory and practice of translation. It will survey some of the significant historical stages of developments in the rise of the translation studies as a discipline. The main focus of the course is on applying some of the insights gained from translation studies in order to translate texts from English to Bangla and vice versa. Students will be assigned to translate poems, reflections, short stories and non-literary texts.
ENG 4213:European Literature in English
Rationale of the Course: European literature is rich in its projection of diversity not only in terms of ethnicity, and geography but also time. The influence of European literature among the literary circles, even general readers all over the world, living on different eras, is unquestionable due to its universality of theme, concepts, and genres despite linguistic, spatial, and cultural differences. Although it may be argued that translations are not a direct exploration into the world of the authors, however an ardent student may attain the core essence of the literary traditions, form critical opinions and reflect based on affective experiences.
Course content: The course aims to give students an overview of European literary trends from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period. The texts include works of prominent, critically acclaimed and worldwide translated authors and poets. Starting with the translation of the classical work of Dante Alighieri to several well received translations of 18th -21st century writers and poets namely Baudelaire, Bachmann, Celan, Marias, Ibsen, Jelinek, Perec, Unset, Proust and Gunter Grass will be studied in this course. The students’ responses to these texts in various learning domains will be considered for assessment and evaluation.
ENG 4214:Caribbean Literature in English
Rationale of the Course: The course is aimed to acquaint with major Caribbean writers in the genres of poetry, short story, novel, essay and drama in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. It intends to develop an appreciation of Caribbean literature among students as well as a responsiveness of how the literary texts reflect the nation’s history and culture.
Course content: The objective of the course is to cover some of the major Caribbean authors and some representative literary pieces to give students an idea about the mainstream Caribbean literature with a specific focus on the concept of diaspora, imperialism, legacy of colonialism and slavery, modernity effect on Caribbean nations, gender and sexuality, racism and so on.
ENG 4217:Teaching English Literature
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of different technique, methods and approaches of teaching English literature with reference to prominent models such as language-based model, cultural model, personal growth model etc. and approaches such as Traditional Approach, Language Based Approach, Reader's Response etc.
Course content: This course is designed for undergraduate students in English to prepare them for the teaching of literature across the primary and secondary levels of education in Bangladesh. This course aims at giving students an overview of different purposes for teaching literature; the content for teaching literature; and pedagogical approaches for teaching literature. The focus will be on different models, such as cultural model, language model and personal growth model of teaching literature used in ESL/EFL classes; It will also focus on the literature teaching approaches, such as traditional approach, language-based approach, reader's response etc.
ENG 4221:Bangladeshi Literature in English
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of Bangladeshi literature in English with reference to prominent writings from Bangladesh and from Bangladeshi writers in Diaspora. The focus will be to bring out the salient features of Bangladeshi literature in English that have given it a distinct identity.
Course content: This course aims at giving students an overview of Bangladeshi literature in English and introducing them to the formal and linguistic issues that underpin these writings. This course will also increase their understanding of contemporary Bangladeshi culture and its interface with the western culture. A range of fictional writings in English from Bangladesh will be covered to appreciate the culture-specific interpretation required in close reading of postcolonial literatures. Emphasis will also be on the distinctive features of Bangladeshi Writings, aspects of Bangladeshi diasporic experience, multiculturalism, problems of colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, race etc.
ENG 4222:Creative Writing
Rationale of the Course: In this introductory course, students will read fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and they will cultivate a portfolio of original writing in more than one genre throughout the course of the semester. The class will survey exciting literature from different parts of the world, with an emphasis on works that challenge accepted forms and styles. To complement the discussions, the class will focus on honing craft. The class will examine the tools at the disposal as writers.
Course content: This course aims to offer an introduction to the methods and practices of creative writing. Students will develop their own definitions of craft elements - such as tone, plot, setting, rhythm, and syntax, etc. - and use them to revise their works, as well as critique their peers’, in meaningful ways. By the end of the course, students will acquire fundamental skills to become better writers and readers.
LNG 4201: Global Language (Elementary French)
Rationale of the Course: The rationale of this course is to equip the learners with the basic knowledge and skills of a third language which help nurture the criteria of world citizenship.
Course content: This is an elementary course of the French Language. The main objective of this course is to enable students to use French as the elementary level. It is tailored for using French at the elementary level of proficiency for effective communication in everyday life and different situations. According to modern pedagogy, emphasis is given on a function-based communicative approach to facilitate the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Students develop their vocabulary, grammar, structural accuracy, pronunciation, oral fluency and overall acquisition through different activities, pair work, group work, role play, exercises.
ENG 4230: Independent Project
Rationale of the Course: The Independent Project course is a blend of theory and practice enabling the student to apply existing knowledge in a real-world setting.
Course content: This course is a capstone experience that requires students to draw on their academic skills and knowledge acquired in the BA English program to develop an independent project under the supervision of an English faculty member. In this course, students carry out a project and either emphasis on evaluation and analysis of the English language communication process or write a thesis in either linguistics or literature. The course may involve a practical production of a communication product, such as a training video, staff handbook, public campaign, market research report, database, website, seminar, newsletter or brochure for example or a creative communication collaterals in English, such as an exhibition, event, video, script, speech, public relations or advertising campaign, website, seminar, feature articles, magazine, poster or brochure for example, in collaboration with a host organisation provides a direct stimulus for critical thinking, evaluation and reflection of the entire communications process in the professional context. Alternatively, under the guidance of an academic supervisor, the student may identify a suitable research topic, locate research materials, collect data or analyze texts, document and present the results of an original and coherent research contribution of approximately 10,000 -12,000 words in form of dissertation.
ENG 4227:Professional Development
Rationale of the Course: This course designed to give the final year students a very early start on the process of career planning and development. The course will aid them in transition from university student to professional employee and give them a more direct route to their long-term career goals by anticipating and acquiring the requisite skill sets, courses, and experiences for an entry-level job that will be the best starting point on their chosen career path.
Course content: This course is designed to enhance the students' experience such as building networking skills, verbal and written communication skills, business etiquette and learning how to increase their human capital. Students will learn how to build a personal career portfolio including an approved resume and a LinkedIn profile, how to set and achieve goals, how to market themselves, how to prepare for job interviews and how to utilize professional networking capabilities. The goal of this course is to make students more marketable and valuable professionals in 21 st Century.
ENG 4228:Teaching Practicum
Rationale of the Course: This course provides a teaching practicum for the students of BA in English program with their major in Linguistics and TESL. The practicum includes initial meetings covering ethics of classroom teaching and observation as well as principles of lesson plan design, observation of ESL courses taught by experts in the area, individual teaching of 1-2 ESL lessons, preparation of 5-6 focused lesson plans, writing a report based on the observations and tasks accomplished throughout the course. The practicum is designed to prepare and support student-teachers throughout their classroom experience. Students plan and deliver lessons, discuss classroom management strategies, and reflect on their practicum sessions.
Course content: This course requires students in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language to apply theory and practice in English language classrooms. Students observe experienced teachers, discuss classroom applications in the context of student need, plan lessons, teach under the supervision of a qualified and experienced teacher, and receive feedback and guidance on their teaching. Students apply principles of inquiry-based investigation and reflective teaching to their developing practice of English language teaching. The student is responsible for finding a qualified teacher and suitable host institution to sponsor the practicum. A host classroom of English language learners that meets descriptors established by the professional body with which the student plans to accredit or certify must be available in order to carry out the requirements.