Program Outcome

• Understanding prominent writers and their writings of different ages and cultures and expressing them comprehensively with appreciation
• Enabling receptive and productive skills of language for effective communication and enhancing the theoretical concepts of language and literature
• Familiarizing with humanism as exposed in world literature and English studies to inculcate the spirit of global citizenship
• Enhancing capabilities to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate any text or cultural construct
• Acquiring and applying leadership skills as an efficient individual to meet the demands of the situation
• Applying research-based knowledge to face the global challenges
• Enabling to disseminate of moral values in social and professional responsibilities
  

Curriculum Structure

 List of the Courses for BA (Hons) Program

SN	Course Code		Course title	Credits
	BNQF	PU
1.	7-0232	BNG 1101	Bangla Language and Literature	03
2.	7-0231	ENG-1102	Listening and Speaking	03
3.	7-0231	ENG-1103	Reading and Writing	03
4.	7-0231	ENG-1104	Remedial Grammar	03
5.	7-0232	ENG-1105	Literary Terms, Rhetoric, and Prosody	03
6.	7-0232	ENG-1106	Introduction to Poetry and Drama	03
7.	7-0232	ENG-1201	Introduction to Prose and Fiction	03
8.	7-0231	ENG-1202	Introduction to Linguistics	03
9.	7-0222	HEB 1203	History of the Emergence of Bangladesh	03
10.	7-0232	ENG-1204	History of English Literature	03
11.	7-0611	CSE- 1205	Computer Fundamentals	03
12.	7-0231	ENG-1206	Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology	03
13.	7-0232	ENG-2101	Old and Medieval English Literature	03
14.	7-0232	ENG-2102	Renaissance Poetry and Prose	03
15.	7-0232	ENG-2103	Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama	03
16.	7-0231	ENG-2104	Comprehension and Composition	03
17.	7-0222	BDS 2105	Bangladesh Studies	03
18.	7-0232	ENG-2106	Neoclassical Literature	03
19.	7-0231	ENG-2201	Fundamentals of ELT	03
20.	7-0231	ENG-2202	English in Media and Communication	03
21.	7-0421	LLB-2203	Fundamentals of Legal Studies	03
22.	7-0232	ENG-2204	Romantic Literature	03
23.	7-0232	ENG-2205	Victorian Literature	03
24.	7-0223	PHI-2206	World Philosophy	03
25.	7-0231	ENG-3101	Computer Assisted Learning Methods	03
26.	7-0231	ENG-3102	Advanced English Grammar	03
27.	7-0232	ENG-3103	Western Classics in Translation	03
28.	7-0232	ENG-3104	Postcolonial Theory and Literature	03
29.	7-0231	ENG-3105	Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics	03
30.	7-0231	ENG-3106	Linguistic Theories	03
31.	7-0314	SOC-3201	Sociology and Anthropology	03
32.	7-0232	ENG-3202	Literary Theory and Criticism	03
33.	7-0232	ENG-3203	American Literature	03
34.	7-0231	ENG-3204	Teaching Language through Literature	03
35.	7-0231	ENG-3205	Syllabus Designing and Materials Development	03
36.	7-0211	ENG-3206	Film and Media Studies	03
37.	7-0413	BUS-4101	Entrepreneurship and Office Management	03
38.	7-0231	ENG-4102	Language Planning and ELT Policies	03
39.	7-0231	ENG-4103	Critical Discourse Analysis	03
40.	7-0232	ENG-4104	Feminist Literature	03
41.	7-0231	ENG-4105	Translation Studies	03
42.	7-0232	ENG-4106	World Literature in English	03
43.	7-0413	BUS-4201	E-Commerce and Communication	03
44.	7-0232	ENG-4202	Modern English Literature	03
45.	7-0232	ENG-4203	Postmodern English Literature	03
46.	7-0231	ENG-4204	Professional Communications and Public Speaking	03
47.	7-0111	ENG-4205	Research Methodology and Dissertation	04
48.	7-0111	ENG-4206	Viva Voce	03

 

Course Code: BNG-1101

Course Title: Bangla Language and Literature

 Texts:

কবিতা:

১. আবদুল হাকিম- নূরনামা

২. মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত- বঙ্গভাষা

৩. লালনসাঁই- খাঁচার ভেতর অচিন পাখি

৪. রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর- নির্ঝরের স্বপ্নভঙ্গ

৫. কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম- আজ সৃষ্টি সুখের উল্লাসে

৬. জীবনানন্দ দাশ- রূপসী বাংলা

৭. হাসান হাফিজুর রহমান- অমর একুশে

৮. আলাউদ্দিন আল আজাদ- স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ

৯. শামসুর রাহমান- তোমাকে পাওয়ার জন্যে হে স্বাধীনতা

১০.  সৈয়দ শামসুল হক- আমার পরিচয়

প্রবন্ধ:

১. বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়- বাঙ্গালা ভাষা

২. রবীন্দ্র্রনাথ ঠাকুর - সভ্যতার সংকট

৩. হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী- তৈল

৪. প্রমথ চৌধুরী- যৌবনে দাও রাজটিকা

৫. কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম- বর্তমান বিশ্বসাহিত্য

৬. মুহম্ম্দ  আব্দুল হাই- আমাদের বাংলা উচ্চারণ

৭. কবীর চৌধুরী- আমাদের আত্মপরিচয়

ছোটগল্প ও অন্যান্য রচনা:

১. রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর- পোস্ট মাস্টার

২. রোকেয়া সাখাওয়াত হোসেন - অবরোধবাসিনী

৩. বিভুতিভূষণ বন্দোপাধ্যায়- পুঁইমাচা

৪. সৈয়দ ওয়ালীউল্লাহ- নয়নচারা

৫. জাহানারা ইমাম- একাত্তরের দিনগুলি

৬. হাসান আজিজুল হক- ঘরগেরস্থি

৭. আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস- অপঘাত

 Reference Books

অনিমেষ কান্তি পাল: ভাষাবিজ্ঞান ও বাংলা

মুহম্মদ আবদুল হাই: ধ্বনিবিজ্ঞান ও বাংলা ধ্বনিতত্ত্ব

মোহাম্মদ মনিরুজ্জামান: বাংলা কবিতার ছন্দ

তারাপদ মুখোপাধ্যায়: আধুনিক বাংলা কবিতা

হুমায়ুন আজাদ: রবীন্দ্র-প্রবন্ধ: রাষ্ট্র ও সমাজচিন্তা

আজাহার ইসলাম: বাংলাদেশের ছোটগল্প : বিষয় - ভাবনা স্বরূপ ও শিল্পমূল্য

দেবীপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় (সম্পাদিত): আধুনিক বাংলা কবিতার ইতিহাস

রামেশ্বর: সাধারণ ভাষাবিজ্ঞান ও বাংলা ভাষা

আবুল কালাম মনজুর মোরশেদ: আধুনিক ভাষাতত্ত্ব

অধীর দে: আধুনিক বাংলা প্রবন্ধসাহিত্যের ধারা

নীহাররঞ্জন রায়: রবীন্দ্রসাহিত্যের ভূমিকা

Course Code: ENG-1102

Course Title: Listening and Speaking

 Reference Books:

Alexander, L.G.: Fluency in English

Daniel Jones: English Pronunciation Dictionary

Mark Hancock: English Pronunciation in Use

Ann Baker: Ship or Sheep

Course Code: ENG-1103

Course Title: Reading and Writing

Reference Books:

Mc Millan: Vocabulary and Grammar

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Webster’s Essential Vocabulary

Bangla Academy/English-Bangla Dictionary

Bangla Academy/Bangla-English Dictionary

Course Code: ENG-1104

Course Title: Remedial Grammar  

Reference Books:

Hornby, A.S. ed.: The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (5th ed.)

Islam, J.: Basics of English

Leech, G. and Svartvick: A Communicative Grammar of English

Murphy, R.: Intermediate English Grammar

Tregidgo, P.S.: Practical English Usage for Overseas Students

Palmer, F.: The English Verb

Martinet and Thompson: Practical English Grammar

Course Code: ENG-1105

Course Title: Literary Terms, Rhetoric and Prosody

 Texts:

Ali, M. A.: Essential Literary Terms

Pandey, K.: Rhetoric & Prosody

Reference Books:

NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms

Bose and Sterling: Rhetoric and Prosody

Rahman, Dr. M Mostafizar Rahman: An ABC of English Literature

Abrams, M.H.: A Glossary of Literary Terms

Course Code: ENG-1106

Course Title: Introduction to Poetry and Drama

 Texts:

Poetry

“All the World a Stage” by William Shakespeare

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” by Gawain “No Man Is an Island” by John Donne

“A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti

“Ode on Solitude” by Alexander Pope “Ode to Duty” by William Wordsworth

“Home Thoughts, from Abroad” by Robert Browning and “Never for Society” by Emily Dickinson

“Love Spell: Against Endings” by Erica Jong

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost “Sonnet18, Sonnet 132,” by William Shakespeare

“The Sun Rising” by John Done

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” by John Keats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats

“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot “The Snake” by D. H. Lawrence

“Jaguar” by Ted Hughes “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas “Digging” by Seamus Heaney

“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou

“Once upon a time” by Gabriel Okara

“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake

Drama and Dramatics

Poetics by Aristotle

King Oedipus by Sophocles

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Reference Books:

Kitto, H.D.F.: Greek Tragedy

Sengupta, S.C.: Shakespearean Comedy

Alexander, N.: A Critical Commentary on Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man and   

Pygmalion

Thorndike, A.H.: Tragedy

Schlegel, A.W.: Dramatic Art and Literature

 

Course Code: ENG-1201

Course Title: Introduction to Prose and Fiction

Texts:

Essays

“Of Studies”, “Of Truth”, and “Of Love”: by Francis Bacon

Preface to Lyrical   Ballads: by William Wordsworth

The Study of Poetry: by Mathew Arnold

“Poetry and Drama”, “The Three Voices of Poetry” by T. S. Eliot

Short Stories

“The Diamond Necklace”: G. D. Maupassant

“The Luncheon”: William Somerset Maugham

“The Tell-Tale Heart”: Edgar Allan Poe

“Shooting an Elephant”: George Orwell

“My Oedipus Complex”: Frank O’ Connor

“The Garden Party”: Katherine Mansfield

“Light is Like Water” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The Blind Dog” by R. K. Narayan

Novels

Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

Reference Books:

Alfred David, et al.: Norton Anthology of English Literature-7th edition

Fakrul, Ashraf, et al. ed.: An English Anthology

Alexander, L.G.: Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students

Brooks and Warren: Understanding Poetry

Kettle, A.: Introduction to the English Novel

Lascelles, M.: Jane Austen and her Art

Forster, E.M.: The Aspects of the Novel

 

Course Code: ENG-1202

Course Title: Introduction to Linguistics               

Texts: 

Yale, George: The Study of Language

Verma and Krishnaswamy: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction

Maniruzzaman, M.: Introduction to Linguistics 

Reference Books:

Fromkin, Victoria A.: Linguistics

Robson and Stockwell: Language in Theory

Nunan, David: Language Teaching Methodology

Course Code: HEB -1203

Course Title:  History of the Emergence of Bangladesh

Texts:

Dr. M. Shahinoor Rahman: Bangabandhu’s Dream and Sheikh Hasina’s Success

Milton Kumar Dev & Md. Abdus Samad: History of Bangladesh

Abul Maal A. Muhith: Bangladesh: Emergence of a Nation, Abul Maal A. Muhith

ড. মো. শাহিনুর রহমান: বঙ্গবন্ধু ও শেখ হাসিনাঃ বিশ্ব নেতৃত্বের পথিকৃৎ

Reference Books:

Rounaq Jahan: Pakistan: Failure in National Integration

Harun-or-Rashid: The Foreshadowing of Bangladesh: Bengal Muslim League and Muslim Politics: 1906-1947

Talukder Maniruzzaman: Radical Politics and Emergence of Bangladesh

Course Code: ENG-1204

Course Title: History of English Literature

Texts:

Long, W. J.: English Literature: Its History and Its Significance

Mukherjee, L: A Study of English History

Reference Books:

Trevelyan, G.M.: A Shortened History of England

Meyers, F.L.H.: A Short History of Europe

Evans, I.: A Short History of English Literature

Albert, E.: History of English Literature

Conrad, P.: History of English Literature

Ford, Boris ed.: Pelican Guide to English Literature

Daiches, D.: A Critical History of English Literature

Edward, A.: History of English Literature

Course Code: CSE-1205

Course Title: Computer Fundamentals

 References Books:

Warford: Computer Science

Leary, O and O, Leary: Computer Fundamentals

Norton, P.: Introduction to Computers

Rahman, M. L.: Computer Fundamentals

Course Code: ENG-1206

Course Title: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Texts:

Roach, P.: English Phonetics and Phonology

Davenport and Harrah: Introducing Phonetics and Phonology

O’Connor, J.D.: Better English Pronunciation

Abercrombie, D.: Elements of General Phonetics

Reference Books:

Elizabeth C. Zsiga: The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Mike Davenport and S. J. Hannahs: Introducing Phonetics and Phonology

J. C. Catford: Phonetics: A Practical Introduction

Peter Ladefoged and Keith Johnson: A Course in Phonetics

Michael Ashby and John Maidment: Introducing Phonetic Science

 Course Code: ENG-2101

Course Title: Old and Medieval English Literature

 Texts:

Old English Lyric Poetry;

“The Seafarer”

“The Wanderer”

“The Husband’s Message”

“The Wife’s Lament”

Beowulf

The Exeter Book

Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Reference Books:

Stephen Greenblatt, Alfred David, and Barbara K. Lewalski: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume A - The Middle Ages

Maria Dahvana Headley: Beowulf: A New Translation

Geoffrey Chaucer (Translated by Nevill Coghill or A. C. Cawley): The Canterbury Tales

Larry D. Benson: The Riverside Chaucer

Course Code: ENG-2102

Course Title: Renaissance Poetry and Prose

 Texts:

Francis Bacon: “Of Revenge”, “Of Adversity”, “Of Marriage and Single Life”, “Of Unity in Religion/Of Religion”, and “Of Death”

Thomas More: Utopia

Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene

John Milton: Areopagitica

John Donne: Selected poems

George Herbert: Selected poems

Sir Philip Sidney: Selected poems

Sir Thomas Wyatt: Selected poems

Giovanni Boccaccio: Selected poems

Reference Books:

Stephen Greenblatt, Carol T. Christ, and Alfred David (Edited): The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume B - The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century

David Norbrook: The Art of Renaissance England: Politics and Poetry in Early Modern England

Thomas N. Corns (Edited): The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

 

Course Code: ENG-2103

Course Title: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

 Texts:

Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus

Ben Jonson: Volpone

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear

Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

Reference Books:

Brooke, N.: The Moral Tragedy of Dr. Faustus

Campbell, L. B.: Doctor Faustus: A Case of Conscience

Simpson, P.: Studies in Elizabethan Drama

Bradbrook, M.C.: Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Tragedy

Course Code: ENG-2104

Course Title: Comprehension and Composition

Texts:

Jondan, R.R.: Academic Writing

Williams, E.: Reading in the language classroom

Maniruzzaman, M.: Advanced Writing

McMillan: Vocabulary and Grammar

Selected texts by the course teacher

References Books:

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Webster’s Essential Vocabulary                                 

Fletcher, R.: A Writer’s Notebook Unlocking the Writer Within You

Elbow, R.: Writing Without Teachers

 

Course Code: BDS-2105

Course Title: Bangladesh Studies   

Texts:

1. Bangabandhu’s Dream and Sheikh Hasina’s Success, Dr. M. Shahinoor Rahman, Bangiya Publications

2. বঙ্গবন্ধু ও শেখ হাসিনাঃ বিশ্ব নেতৃত্বের পথিকৃৎ, ড. মো. শাহিনুর রহমান, বঙ্গীয় পাবলিকেশন্স

3. History of Bangladesh, 1905-2005 by Milton Kumar Dev, Md. Abdus Samad, 2014, Bishwabidyalaya Prokasoni, Dhaka

4. Bangladesh: History, Politics, Economy, Society and Culture; Edited by Mahmudul Haque, the University press Ltd., Dhaka.

5. Bangladesh: Landscape, Soil Fertility and Climate Change, Hugh Brammer; the University  Press Ltd

6. Human Rights in Bangladesh: Past, Present & Future; Imtiaz Ahmed; the University Press Limited

7. Bangladesh, Politics, economy and Civil Society; David J Lewis; Cambridge university Press;

8. Regional Cooperation and Globalization: Bangladesh, South Asia, and Beyond; Zillur R Khan; the University Press Limited

 

Reference Books:

Journals of BIDS

Imtiaz Ahmed: Human Rights in Bangladesh: Past, Present & Future

David J Lewis: Bangladesh, Politics, economy and Civil Society

Zillur R Khan: Regional Cooperation and Globalization: Bangladesh, South Asia, and Beyond

 

Course Code: ENG-2106

Course Title: Neoclassical Literature

 Texts:

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books II and X) and Samson Agonistes

John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel

William Congreve: The Way of the World

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of the Wakefield

Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

 

Reference Books:

Tillyard, E.D.W.: Milton

Waldock, A.J.A.: Paradise Lost and Its Critics

Rajan, B.: Paradise Lost and the 17th Century Reader

Simpson, P.: Studies in Elizabethan Drama

Bradbrook, M.C.: Themes and Conventions in Elizabethan Tragedy

Ross: Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Willy, B.: Eighteen Century Background

 

Course Code: ENG-2201

Course Title: Fundamentals of ELT

 Recommended Texts:

Nunan, David: Language Teaching Methodology

Brown and Lee: Teaching by Principles

Barman and Basu: Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching

Reference Books:

Nagaraj, Geetha: English Language Teaching

Robson and Stockwell: Language in Theory

Yale, George: The Study of Language

 Course Code: ENG-2202

Course Title: English in Media and Communication

 Reference Books:

Bonvillain N.: Language, Culture & Communication. New Jersey: Prentice Hall

Boltz, C. and Seyler, D.U. eds.: Language Power. New York: Random House

Paddy Scannell, Philip Schlesinger, and Colin Sparks: Media and Communication Studies: Key Issues and Debates

James Watson and Anne Hill: Media and Communication: An Introduction

Jack Lule: Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication

Graeme Burton and Robert Stevenson: Media and Society: Critical Perspectives

Course Code: LLB-2203

Course Title: Fundamentals of Legal Studies

Texts:

Dr. Nur Mohammad: Introduction to Law in Bangladesh

M. Ishaq Beg and M. Rafiqul Islam: Legal System of Bangladesh

George P. Fletcher and Steve Sheppard: Introduction to Legal Studies

Raymond Wacks: Law: A Very Short Introduction

Reference Books:

Dr. Shahnaz Huq: Bangladesh Labour Code: A Comprehensive Guide

David K. Linnan: Introduction to the Study of Law

Craig R. Ducat: Understanding Law: An Introduction to Legal Studies

Course Code: ENG-2204

Course Title: Romantic Literature

 Texts:

William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience

Coleridge, S.T.: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind” and “To a Skylark”

John Keats: Selected Poems

Marry Shelly: Frankenstein

L.G. Byron: Don Juan, Canto-I and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Wordsworth, W.: Selected Poems

Jane Austen: Emma

Robert Southey: After Blenheim

Reference Books:

Bowra, C.M.: Romantic Imagination

Forster, E.M.: The Aspect of Gothic

Jerome J McGann: The Romantic Ideology

Hans Robert Jauss: Toward an Aesthetic Reception

 

Course Code: ENG-2205

Course Title: Victorian Literature

Texts:

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems

Robert Browning: Selected Poems

Mathew Arnold: Selected Poems

Cardinal Newman: The Idea of a University

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

George Eliot: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Reference Books:

Killham, J. ed.: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson

Johnson, W. S.: The Voices of Mathew Arnold

Burton, H.: Tennyson (A selection with commentary)

Drew, P.: The Poetry of Robert Browning: A Critical Introduction

Abercrombie, L.: Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study

Allot, M. ed.: Wuthering Heights: A Selection of Critical Essays

Bentley, J.: George Eliot, Her Mind and Her Art

Dyson, A.E.: Charles Dickens: Modern Judgments

Course Code: PHI-2206

Course Title: World Philosophy

Texts:

Russell, B.: History of Western Philosophy

Radhakrisnan, S.: History of Philosophy: Eastern and Western, vol.2

M Shahinoor Rahman; Bengali Poet Fakir Lalon Shah: Oral Poetry and Tradition in the Social Context of Contemporary Bangladesh  

 

Reference Books:

Radhakrishnan, S.: Indian Philosophy

Chaudhuri, N. C.: Hinduism

Creel, H.G.: Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Mao Tse-tung

Boer, T. J. ed.: The History of Philosophy in Islam

Copleston, F.S.J.: Contemporary Philosophy, CH. IX-XII

Flew, A.: An Introduction to Western Philosophy

 Course Code: ENG-3101 

Course Title: Computer Assisted Language Learning     

 References Books:

Tony Fitzpatrick and Daniel Xerri: Technology Enhanced Language Learning

Eric Baber: Multimedia Language Teaching

Graham Stanley: Language Learning with Technology: Ideas for Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Carol A. Chapelle: Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Learners, Teachers, and Tools

Michael Carrier: Digital Tools for Language Learning

Michael Thomas: Designing Language Teaching Tasks Enhanced by Technology

Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly: Digital Literacies for Language Teaching and Learning

 

Course Code: ENG-3102

Course Title: Advanced English Grammar           

Reference Books:

Michael Swan: Practical English Usage

Raymond Murphy: English Grammar in Use

Martin Hewings: Advanced Grammar in Use

Guide to Patterns and Usage of English

Islam, J.: Basics of English

Leech, G. and Svartvick: A Communicative Grammar of English

Murphy, R.: Intermediate English Grammar

Tregidgo, P.S.: Practical English Usage for Overseas Students

Palmer, F.: The English Verb

Martinet and Thompson: Practical English Grammar

 

Course Code: ENG-3103

Course Title: Western Classics in Translation

 Texts:

Homer: The Iliad

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Sophocles: Antigone

Euripides: Alcestis

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Phaedra

Aristophanes: The Frogs

Virgil: Aeneid

 Reference Books:

Bowra, C.M.: Sophoclean Tragedy

Camps, W.A.: An Introduction to Homer

Murray, G.: Euripides and His Age

Kitto, H.D.F.: Greek Tragedy

Hamilton, E.: Mythology

Course Code: ENG-3104

Course Title: Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Texts:

Critical Discourse

Homi K. Bhabha―Remembering Fanon

Stuart Hall―Cultural Identity and Diaspora

Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak―Can the subaltern speak?

Chinua Achebe: “The African Writer and the English Language”

M Shahinoor Rahman: A Collection of Essays

Literary Works:

Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism, A Tempest, Notebook of A Return to the Native Lan

Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask, The Wretched of the Earth

W.E.B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk

V.S. Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival

Derek Walcott: Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

Edward Said: Culture and Imperialism

J M Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians

Wole Soyinka: The Road F

R K Narayan: Waiting for the Mahatma

Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa,” “Ruins of a Great House,” Another Life (select sections)

Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

 

 Reference Books:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin: The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Robert J. C. Young: Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction

 

 Course Code: ENG-3105

Course Title: Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics   

 Reference Books:

Wardhaugh, R.: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics                                               

Clark & Clark: Psychology and Language

Hudson, R. A.: Sociolinguistics                                                                           

Trudgill,P.: Sociolinguistics

 

Course Code: ENG-3106

Course Title: Linguistic Theories          

 

Texts:

Hudson, R. A.: Sociolinguistics                                                                          

Wardhaugh, R.: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics                                               

 

Reference Books:

Trudgill, P.: Sociolinguistics                                                                                                                                                                                                    Clark & Clark: Psychology and Language

 

Course Code: SOC-3201

Course Title: Sociology and Anthropology

Texts:

Anthony Giddens: Introduction to Sociology

Haralambos and Holborn: Sociology: Themes and Perspectives

Richard T. Schaefer: Sociology: A Brief Introduction

Prof. Dr. Rolf Wilhelm Brednich: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

 

Reference Books:

Jeffrey C. Alexander and Kenneth Thompson: Contemporary Sociology: An Introduction to Concepts and Theories

John J. Macionis and Kenneth Plummer: Sociology: A Global Introduction

Rebecca Stein and Philip L. Stein: The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft

 Course Code: ENG-3202

Course Title: Literary Theory and Criticism        

 Reference Books:

Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin: The Post-Colonial Studies

Lewis and Mills: Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Saintsbury, G.: A History of English Criticism

Wimsatt and Brooks: Literary Criticism: A Short History

Leitch, V.B. et al. (ed.): The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Tyson, Lois: Critical Theory Today

Goodman, W.R.: Contemporary Literary Theory

Nayar, Pramod K.: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

ড. শাহিনুর রহমান: ইংরেজি সাহিত্য: পরিপ্রেক্ষিত ও সমালোচনা

Berg, Henk De: Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies

Course Code: ENG-3203

Course Title: American Literature             

 Texts:

Poetry:

Walt Whitman: Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems

 Essay:

Mark Twain: “Advice to Youth”, “On Theft and Conscience” and “Advice to Little Girls”

H.D. Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”

Short Story:

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Black Cat”

O. Henry: “The Gift of the Magi”

 Drama:

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Eugene O' Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night

Novel:

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

 Reference Books: 

Nayar, Pramod K.: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

Berg, Henk De: Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies

Lewis and Mills: Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin: The Post-Colonial Studies

 

Course Code: ENG-3204

Course Title: Teaching Language through Literature   

 Reference Books:

Bassnett, Susan and Peter Grundy: Language through Literature

Lazar, Gillian: Literature and Language Teaching: A Guide for Teachers and Trainers

Simpson, Paul: Language Through Literature: An Introduction

Brumfit, C. J. and Carter R. A.: Literature and Language Teaching

Collie, J. & Stephen, S.: Literature in the Language Classroom: A Resource Book of Ideas and Activities

Lazar, G.: Literature and Language Teaching: A Guide for Teachers and Trainers

Course Code: ENG-3205

Course Title: Syllabus Designing and Materials Development

 Reference Books:

Richards, C. Jack: The Language Teaching Matrix: Curriculum, Methodology, and Materials

Nunan, D.: Designing Task for the Communicative Classroom

Willis, D.: Needs Analysis and Syllabus Specification

Munby, J.: Communicative Syllabus Design

Hughes, A.: Testing for Language Teachers

Nunan, D.: Syllabus Design

Jack C. Richards: Curriculum Development in Language Teaching

White, R.: Curriculum Design

Yalden, J.: Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching 

Nunan, D.: The Learner-Centred Curriculum: A Study in Second Language Teaching

 

Course Code: ENG-3206

Course Title: Film and Media Studies

 Reference Books:

Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen

The Oxford Guide to Film Studies edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson

Introduction to Documentary by Bill Nichols

 Course Code: ENG-4101

Course Title: Entrepreneurship and Office Management

Reference Books:

Bridge, S, O’Neill, K & Cromie, S: Understanding Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and
Small Business
Allen, K: Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Bangs, D: The Business Planning Guide: Creating a Plan for Success in Your Own Business
Barrow, C., Burke, G. Molian, D & Brown, R.: Enterprise Development: The Challenges of Starting, Growing and Selling Businesses

Bolton, B & Thompson, J: The Entrepreneur in Focus: achieve your potential

Burns, P: Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation

Harper, D: Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Hisrich R & Peters, M: Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New
Enterprise
Lynn G S & Lynn, N: Entrepreneurship: Turning Bright Ideas into Breakthrough Business for Your Company

Course Code: ENG-4102

Course Title: Language Planning and ELT Policies        

Reference Books:

Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky:

Language Policy and Planning: From Nationalism to Globalization by Thomas Ricento

ELT, Gender and International Development: Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World by Sue Starfield and Brenton Doecke

Language Policy in Schools: A Resource for Teachers and Administrators by James W. Tollefson

Language Planning and Policy in Africa: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa edited by Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf Jr.

Course Code: ENG-4103

Course Title: Critical Discourse Analysis  

 Texts:

Fairclough, Norman: Critical Discourse Analysis

Yale, George: The Study of Language

Robson and Stockwell: Language in Theory

 Reference Books:

Fromkin, Victoria A.: Linguistics

Maniruzzaman, M.: Introduction to Linguistics  

Brown and Lee: Teaching by Principles

 Course Code: ENG-4104

Course Title: Feminist Literature

Texts:

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar

Virginia Woolf: “A Room of One’s Own”

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

Anita Desai: Voices in the City

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana’s Dream

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Marry Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

 

Reference Books

Afsar, H.: Women and Politics in the Third World             

Brodribb, S.: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Butler, J.: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Phillips, A.: Feminism and Politics

Eagleton, T.: Introduction to Literary Theory

 

Course Code: ENG-4105

Course Title: Translation Studies

 Reference Books:

Bassnett, S.: Translation Studies

Munday, J.: Introducing Translation Studies

Venuti, Lawrence et al. ed.: Translation Studies Reader

Munday, Jeremy: Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications (2 nd ed).
Robinson, Douglas: Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche
Venuti, Lawrence: The Translation Studies Reader (2 nd ed.)

 

Course Code: ENG-4106

Course Title: World Literature in English

 Texts:

In English

Mulk Raj Anand: The Untouchable

Nirad C. Chaudhuri: An Autobiography of An Unknown Indian

Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines

Derek Walcott: Selected Poems

Olaudah Equiano: The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Aime Césaire: Tragedy of King Christophe

V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Petals of Blood

 

In Translation:

Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems

Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selected Poems

Mir Mosharraf Hossain: Ocean of Sorrow (translated by Prof Dr. Fakrul Alam)

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alonso Cueto: The Wind Traveler

Rodrigo Rey Rosa: Human Matter

 

Reference Books:

The Norton Anthology of World Literature edited by Martin Puchner et al.

A Companion to World Literature edited by Ken Seigneurie:

The Cambridge Companion to World Literature edited by Ben Etherington

Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy: Reading and Writing in African and Caribbean Fiction by Boydell, S. et al.

 

Course Code: BUS-4201

Course Title: E-Commerce and Communication

 

References Books:

Schneider, G. P.: Electronic commerce (12th ed.)

Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver: E-Commerce: Business, Technology, Society

Kenneth C. Laudon and Carol Guercio Traver: E-Commerce Essentials

David Whiteley: E-Commerce: Concepts and Practice

 

Course Code: ENG-4202

Course Title: Modern English Literature          

 Texts:

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems

W.H. Auden: Selected Poems

Bertrand Russell: “Functions of a Teacher”

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

George Orwell: Animal Farm

D. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Rudyard Kipling: Kim

G. B. Shaw: Man and Superman

 

Reference Books:

Jeffares, A. N.: A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats

Gardner, H.: The Art of T.S. Eliot

Matthiessen, F.O.: The Achievement of T.S. Eliot

Esslin, M.: The Theatre of the Absurd

Spears, M.K.: The Poetry of W. H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island

Kimbrough, R. ed.: Heart of Darkness

Sagar, K.: The Art of D. H. Lawrence

Dodiya, J.: Contemporary Indian Writing in English

Dwivedi, A.N.: Papers on Indian Writing in English

Chowdhury, S.I.: The Enemy Territory

Stephen, K.: Conrad and the Paradox of Plot

 

Course Code: ENG-4203

Course Title: Postmodern English Literature          

 

Texts:

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Strange Pilgrims

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Doris Lessing: The Grass Is Singing

 

Reference Books:

Stuart Hall: “The Politics of the Popular”

Ihab Hassan: “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism”

Geyh, Paula et.al. Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

Hutcheon, Linda: A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction

Jameson, Fredric: Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Lyotard, Jean-François: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Storey, John (ed.): Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader

Taylor, Victor E and Charles E Winquist: Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

 

Course Code: ENG-4204

Course Title: Professional Communication and Public Speaking

 References Books:

Dale Carnegie and Joseph Berg Esenwein: The Art of Public Speaking

Chris Anderson: TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

Dale Carnegie: Public Speaking for Success

Nancy Duarte: Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

 

Course Code: ENG-4205

Course Title: Research Methodology and Dissertation

 

Reference Books:

Gibaldi, J. (2004). MLA Handbook for Writers of Research papers (6^th ed.). East-West Press Private Limited

Cothary, C.R. (2011). Research Methodology. (2^nd ed.)New Age International Private Ltd.

Tondan, R.R.: (1995) Academic Writing

 Course Code: ENG-4206

Course Title: Viva Voce

 This course covers 100 marks spreading over four years each carrying 25 marks with examination to be held at the end of the particular academic year.

Course Distribution

1^st Year, 1^st Semester 

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-101	Listening and Speaking	03
2.	ENG-102	Reading and Writing	03
3.	ENG-103	Remedial Grammar	03
4.	ENG-104	Literary Terms, Rhetoric, and Prosody	03
5.	ENG-105	Introduction to Poetry and Drama	03
6.	ENG-106	Introduction to Prose and Fiction	03
	ELC-1	English Language Course, Level-1	N/A

 

1^st Year, 2^nd Semester

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-107	Introduction to Linguistics	03
2.	ENG-108	Computer Fundamentals	03
3.	ENG-109	History of English Literature	03
4.	ENG-110	Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology	03
5.	BNG-111	Bangla Language and Literature	03
6.	HEB-121	History of the Emergence of Bangladesh	03
	ELC-2	English Language Course, Level-2	N/A
	ENG-412	Viva Voce	0.75

 

2^nd Year, 1^st Semester 

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-201	Old and Medieval English Literature	03
2.	ENG-202	Renaissance Poetry and Prose	03
3.	ENG-203	Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama	03
4.	ENG-204	Comprehension and Composition	03
5.	ENG-205	Neoclassical Literature	03
6.	ENG-206	Fundamentals of ELT	03

 

2^nd Year, 2^nd Semester

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-207	English in Media and Communication	03
2.	ENG-208	Fundamentals of Legal Studies	03
3.	ENG-209	Romantic Literature	03
4.	ENG-210	Victorian Literature	03
5.	BDS-211	Bangladesh Studies	03
6.	ENG-212	World Philosophy	03
	ENG-412	Viva Voce	0.75

 

3^rd Year, 1^st Semester 

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-301	Computer Assisted Learning Methods	03
2.	ENG-302	Advanced English Grammar	03
3.	ENG-303	Western Classics in Translation	03
4.	ENG-304	Asian and Latin American Classics in Translation	03
5.	ENG-305	Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics	03
6.	ENG-306	Linguistic Theories	03

 

3^rd Year, 2^nd Semester

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-307	Sociology and Anthropology	03
2.	ENG-308	Literary Theory and Criticism	03
3.	ENG-309	American Literature	03
4.	ENG-310	Teaching Language through Literature	03
5.	ENG-311	Syllabus Designing and Materials Development	03
6.	ENG-312	Film and Media Studies	03
	ENG-412	Viva Voce	0.75

 

4^th Year, 1^st Semester 

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-401	Entrepreneurship and Office Management	03
2.	ENG-402	Language Planning and ELT Policies	03
3.	ENG-403	Critical Discourse Analysis	03
4.	ENG-404	Feminist Literature	03
5.	ENG-405	Translation Studies	03
6.	ENG-406	South Asian, African, and Caribbean Literature in English	03

 

4^th Year, 2^nd Semester

SN	Course Code	Course title	Credit Hours
1.	ENG-407	E-Commerce and Communication	03
2.	ENG-408	Modern English Literature	03
3.	ENG-409	Postmodern English Literature	03
4.	ENG-410	Professional Communications and Public Speaking	03
5.	ENG-411	Research Methodology and Dissertation	04
6.	ENG-412	Viva Voce	0.75