Honours First Year Syllabus Department of English, Barguna Govt. College, Barguna.

                                           Department of English, 

             Barguna Govt. College, Barguna.

 

First Year Syllabus

Department of English

Syllabus for Four Year B.A. Honours Course
Subject: English

Session: 2020-2021

 

FIRST YEAR

 

Paper Code	Paper Title	Marks	Credits
211101	English Reading Skills	100	4
211103	English Writing Skills	100	4
211105	Introduction to Poetry	100	4
211107	Introduction to Prose: Fiction and Non- Fiction:	100	4
212111	Introduction to Social Work	100	4
211501	History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh	100	4
	Total =	600	24

Detailed Syllabus 

Paper Code : 211101		Marks : 100	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 60
Paper Title :	English Reading Skills

 

The Paper seeks to develop student’ reading skills and covers the following sub-skills:

a)       Guessing word meanings by using knowledge of word form (class), word function, word structure and formation and most importantly, contextual clues.

b)       Understanding ornamental expressions

c)       Tackling sentence meaning,

d)       Surveying text organization,

e)       Reading for specific information (skimming)

f)        Reading for general comprehension/gist (scanning),

g)       Summarizing,

h)       Predicting ,

i)         Interpreting and

j)         Recognizing, author’s position, tone and attitude

 

The reading texts will be chosen from different types of writing like descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, journalistic and academic text e.g. History, Philosophy etc.

 

Recommended books:

Williams. E. 1984 Reading in the Language Classroom.  Macmillan

Wallace.1992. Reading, OUP

Barr. P. Clegg, J. and Wallace, C. 1981 Advance Reading Skills Longman

Walter, Catherine. 1988. Class Readers, OUP 

 

Paper Code :  211103		Marks : 100	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 60
Paper Title :	English Writing Skills

 

a. Paragraphs using a variety of techniques such as examples, listing, cause and effect, comparison-contrast among others,

b. Essay: Descriptive, Narrative, Expository and Argumentative,

c. Report writing: Newspaper Report, Survey Report, Business Report

d. Letter: Formal / Informal/ Business and

e. Notice, Memo, Notes, Press Release, Minutes.

 

Paper Code :  211105		Marks : 100	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 60
Paper Title :	Introduction to Poetry

 

W. Shakespeare                          “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Milton                                        “On His Blindness”

John Donne                                “The Good-Morrow”

R. Herrick                                  “To Daffodils”

Thomas Gray                             “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

W. Wordsworth                         “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

P.B. Shelley                               “Ode to the West Wind”

John Keats                                 “To Autumn”

A. Tennyson                              “Ulysses”

R. Browning                              “Patriot”

Elizabeth B. Browning              “How do I love thee”

W. Whitman                              “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”

Emily Dickenson                       “Because I Could not stop for Death”

W.B. Yeats                                “A Prayer for My Daughter”

R. Frost                                      “Home Burial”

D.H Lawrence                           “The Piano”

Dylan Thomas                           “Fern Hill”

Ted Hughes                               “Pike”

R. Tagore                                 “ Where the mind is without fear” (Gitanjali-35)

Kaiser Huq                               “Learning Grief”

 

Literary Terms:

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Symbol, Irony, Climax, Anticlimax, Alliteration, Assonance, Hyperbole, Paradox, Onomatopoeia, Bathos, Allusion, Conceit, Pun, Imagery, Elegy, Sonnet, Lyric, Dramatic Monologue, Ode, Ballad, Fable, Satire, Lampoon

Prosody

Accent, Foot/ Measure, Blank Verse, Rhyme, Tercet , Couplet, Heroic Couplet, Scansion  of verse and others.

 

Paper Code :  211107		Marks : 100	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 60
Paper Title :	Introduction to Prose: Fiction and Non- Fiction:

 

F. Bacon                                  “Of Studies”

A. Lincoln                                 “Gettysburg Address”

R. Tagore                                 “Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood”

G. Orwell                                  “Shooting an Elephant”

Martin Luther King                     “I have a dream”

N. Mandela                               “Long Walk to Freedom” (Part Eleven: Freedom: Chapter

     115)

 

Fiction

 

S. Maugham                             “The Luncheon”

O Henry                                    “The Gift of the Magi”

James Joyce                             “Araby”

K. Mansfield                              “The Garden Party”

E. Hemmingway                          “A Cat in the Rain”

Anita Desai                                “Games at Twilight”

 

Novel   

 

G. Eliot                                       Silas Marner                                                                                                                            

 

Paper Code	212111	Marks : 100	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 60
Paper Title	Introduction to Social Work			Exam Duration : 4 Hours

1.       Social Work: Meaning, Characteristics, Scope and Importance Relationship of Social Work with other Sciences- Sociology, Economics, Psychology and Political Science.

2.       Evolution: Evolution of Social Work in UK, USA, India and Bangladesh.

3.       Social Reformers and their Movements in Pre-partition India and Bangladesh: Raja Rammohan Ray, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, A.K Fazlul Haque, Sir Syad Ahmed, Begum Rokeya.

4.       Social Legislations Related to Social Security, Women Welfare, Child Welfare.

5.       Profession and Social Work: Meaning and Characteristics of Profession, Social Work as           profession, Philosophical, Religions and Ethical Basis of Social Work.

6.       Industrial Revolution: Meaning, Impact on Society, Industrialization, Urbanization, Welfare State.

7.       Social Problems and Social Services in Bangladesh.

8.       Methods of Social Work: Basic and Auxiliary Methods and their Basic Issues such as Meaning,             Elements, Principles and Area of Use. Importance of Social Work Methods in Bangladesh.

Books Recommended:

1.                   Barker, Robert L. :Social Work Dictionary, 3rd ed. NASW, New York, 1995.

2.                   Coulshed, Veronica Social Work Practice: An Introduction 2nd ed. London. Macmillan, 1991.

3.                   Friedlander, Walter A. : Introduction to Social Welfare. Prentice Hall, 2nd ed. New Delhi-1967.

4.                   Khalid, M. : Welfare State, Karachi, Royal Book, 1968

5.                   Morales, A. And Shaefor, B. Social Work – A Profession of many faces, 4th ed. Allyan and Bacan, Boston, 1986.

 

Paper Code	211501	Marks: 100	Credits: 4	Class Hours: 60
Paper Title:	History of Emergence of Independent Bangladesh

 

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History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh

Introduction: Scope and description of the emergence of Independent Bangladesh.

Writing on this topic.

1.      Description of the country and its people.

a.       Geographical features and their influence.

b.      Ethnic composition.

c.        Language.

d.      Cultural syncretism and religious tolerance.

e.       Distinctive identity of Bangladesh in the context of undivided Bangladesh.

 

2.        Proposal for undivided sovereign  Bengal and the partition of the Sub Continent, 1947.

a.      Rise of communalism under the colonial rule, Lahore Resolution   1940.

b.      The proposal of  Suhrawardi and Sarat Bose for undivided Bengal : consequences

c.       The creation of Pakistan 1947 .

 

3.        Pakistan: Structure of the state and disparity.

a.      Central and provincial structure.

b.      Influence of   Military and Civil bureaucracy.

C .   Economic , social and cultural disparity

 

4.      Language Movement and quest for Bengali identity

a.      Misrule by  Muslim League and Struggle for democratic  politics .

b.      The Language Movement: context and phases .

c.       United front of Haque – Vasani – Suhrawardi: election of 1954, consequences.

 

5.      Military rule: the regimes of Ayub Khan and Yahia Khan (1958-1971)

a.      Definition of military rules and its characteristics.

b.      Ayub Khan’s rise to power and  characteristics of his rule (Political repression, Basic democracy, Islamisation)

c.       Fall of Ayub Khan and Yahia Khan’s rule (Abolition of one unit, universal suffrage, the Legal Framework Order)

 

6.      Rise   of nationalism and the Movement   for   self determination .

a.  Resistance   against cultura l aggression   and resurgence   of Bengali culture.

b. Sheikh Mujibur  Rahman and the six point movement

c. Reactions   :  Importance and significance

d . The Agortola Case  1968.

 

7.      The mass- upsurge   of 1969 and 11 point movement: background,programme and significance.

 

8.      Election of 1970 and the Declaration of Independence by Bangobondhu

a.      Election result and centres refusal to comply

b.      The non co-operation movement, the 7^th March   , Address , Operation Searchlight

c.       Declaration of Independence by  Bangobondhu and his arrest

 

9.      The war of Liberation 1971

a.      Genocide, repression of women, refugees

b.      Formation of Bangladesh government and proclamation of Independence

c.       The spontaneous early  resistance and subsequent organized resistance (Mukti Fouz, Mukti Bahini, guerillas and the frontal  warfare )

d.      Publicity Campaign in the war of Liberation (Shadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the Campaigns  abroad and formation of public opinion )

e.      Contribution of  students, women and the masses (Peoples war)

f.       The role of super powers and the Muslim states in the Liberation war.

g.      The Anti-liberation activities of the occupation army, the Peace Committee, Al-Badar, Al-Shams, Rajakars, pro Pakistan political parties and Pakistani Collaborators , killing of the intellectuals.

h.       Trial of  Bangabondhu and  reaction of the World Community.

i.        The contribution of India in the Liberation War

j.        Formation of  joint command and the Victory

k.      The overall contribution of Bangabondhu in the Independence struggle.

 

10. The Bangabondhu  Regime 1972-1975

a.        Homecoming

b.        Making of the constitution

c.         Reconstruction of the war ravaged country

d.        The murder of Bangabondhu and his family and the ideological turn-around.

 

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