Course Code: ENG-0232-4144
Course Title: Continental Literature
Course Type: Theory
Pre-requisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42

Rationale of the Course:

This course captures in translation some of the best-known modernist poets, short fiction writers, and playwrights from different countries and languages in Continental Europe, and relies on the implied judgment that the poets and writers chosen for translation must be the ones whose works are the most significant, not only for their own immediate communities but for the wider world. This course also focuses on literary movements like humanism, existentialism, and absurdism in twentieth-century European literature, mainly fiction, with special attention to the key literary figures like Albert Camus and Frantz Kafka. Students will have some ideas about humanism, existentialism, and absurdism through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses, and politically socio-economic circumstance.

Contents:

1. Poetry:

• Charles Baudelaire: Selections
• Rainer Maria Rilke: Selections
• Federico García Lorca: Selections

2. Drama:

• Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
• Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
• Luigo Pirandello: Six Characters in search of an Author
• Bertolt Brecht : The Good Woman of Setzuan

3. Fiction:

• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
• Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
• Albert Camus: The Outsider
• Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

• After completing this course, students will be able to:
• CLO 1: Demonstrate knowledge of some of the best-known literary masterpieces produced in the European cultures.
• CLO 2: Familiarize with the versatile authors from the continents who are famous all over the world.
• CLO 3: Establish critical thinking skills in understanding the breadth and depth of European literature.
• CLO 4: Recognize the development of the literary genres of the Europe.
• CLO 5: Understand how reason and emotion interacts in the various situations presented in each of the literary masterpieces of each European country.
• CLO 6: Appreciate contributions and cultural insights of Europe to our modern times.

Learning Materials:

References:

1. Arnold Hauser. The Social History of Art. Vintage, 1957.
2. Gaskell, Philip. Landmarks in Continental European Literature. Edinburgh, EUP, 1999.
3. Lewis, P. (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2011.
4. Bakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination, U of Texas P, I981.
5. Sorrell, Martin. Translator. Federico García Lorca: Selected Poems. Oxford World’s Classics, 2007.
6. Coates, Paul. Words after Speech: A Comparative Study of Romanticism and Symbolism. London: Macmillan, 1986.
7. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 2: Literature of Western Culture since the Renaissance. Edited by Maynard Mack, and others. W.W. Norton, 1985.
8. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 4 th Ed. Edited by R.V. Cassill. W.W. Norton, 1990.
9. Linda, Ochlin. Realism and Tradition in Art 1848-1900. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
10. Anthony Capirl: Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness.
11. John Cruickshank: Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt.
12. John Northan: Ibsen’s Dramatic Method.
13. P.F.D. Tennant: Ibsen’s Dramatic Technique.
14. Roger Oliver: Dreams of Passion: The Theatre of Luigi Pirandello.
15. Ronald Gray (Ed): Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays.
16. Cousin, Victor. ‘Du vrai, du beau, et du bien’ (‘The True, the Beautiful, and the Good’. (Sorbonne lecture, 1818).
17. Thomas Hanna: The Thought and Art of Albert Camus.
18. Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1971.
19. King, Bruce. ‘New English Literatures’. Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Ed. Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck, pp. 1113-1124.
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Course Code: ENG-0231-4145
Course Title: Testing and Evaluation
Course Type: Theory
Prerequisite: Intro to linguistics
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42
Total Marks: 100
Year/Level: 4
Semester/Term: 2

Rationale of the Course:

This course will familiarize students with theory and techniques in the construction, analysis, use, and interpretation of second language tests. Students will look critically at a variety of second language tests including standardized tests, integrative language tests, tests of communicative competence etc. In particular, this course examines the role of testing; surveys types of tests; discusses the criteria of a good test; analyzes tasks that variously require listening, speaking, reading, writing and communicative competence; and provides practice in evaluating and constructing test items.

Main Course Contents:

• Teaching and Testing
• Types of tests
• Backwash effect
• Purposes of language tests
• Formative evaluation
• Summative evaluation
• Reliability
• Validity
• Practicality

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO1: Identify a range of purposes for assessment in language learning programs
• CLO2: Define and describe key terms and concepts in language testing and assessment
• CLO3: apply relevant language testing and assessment resources
• CLO4: Evaluate test usefulness using available frameworks

References:

Learning Materials:

Text Books:

1. Alderson, J. C., & Hughes, A. (1981). Issues in Language Testing. ELT Documents 111.
2. Davies, A. (1978). Language testing. Language Teaching, 11(3), 145-159.
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Course Code: ENG-0232-4146
Course Title: Educational Psychology
Course Type: Theory
Prerequisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42
Total Marks: 100
Year/Level: 4
Semester/Term: 2

Rationale of the Course:

This course covers the basic theories of learning and teaching and the application of theory to educational environments. Content includes the adaptation of the concepts of behavior, cognitive and constructivist learning theories to teaching and managing an effective learning environment. Units of study also include the principles of motivation, classroom management and assessment of student performance.

Main Course Contents:

• Teachers, teaching, and educational psychology
• Cognitive, personal, social, emotional, and language development
• Behavioral, cognitive, social, social cognitive, and constructivist views of learning
• Motivation, teaching, and learning
• Culture and community
• Learner differences
• Creating learning environments
• Teaching for learning
• Standardized testing
• Classroom assessment and grading

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO1: Explains the importance and necessity of educational psychology.
• CLO2: Apply theories of learning and development to classroom environments.
• CLO3: Describe theories of motivation and apply them to the motivation of students.
• CLO4: Use descriptive research methods to describe children and classrooms.

References:

Learning Materials:

Text Books:

1. Coon, D., & Mitterer, J.O. (2008). Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior with Concept Maps and Reviews. Cengage Advantage Books, USA.
2. Santrock John W.(2004), Educational Psychology, second edition, McGraw-Hill, a business unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, ISBN: 0-07-250006-9.
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Course Code: ENG-0232-4247
Course Title: Computer Assisted Language Learning
Course Type: Theory
Prerequisite: Intro to linguistics
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42
Total Marks: 100
Year/Level: 3
Semester/Term: 3

Rationale of the Course:

The course deals with the use of digital technology and media for teaching, instruction, and learning in language subjects. The course also covers approaches to writing in second- and foreign language learning in schools, specifically focusing on developing students' joy of writing in English and foreign language learning. The course aims to strengthen the students' ability to act as critical digital consumers and to lead work related to creative digital productions.

Main Course Contents:

• Teacher's professional digital competence (PDC)
• Reflections on the challenges of using digital media
• Teaching and learning languages with technology
• Web, wikis and culture
• Experiencing a mobile language learning application
• Language skills and technology
• Vocabulary and grammar and technology
• Using technology to adapt authentic materials research into CALL

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO1: Analyze and can critically assess digital technology and media's didactic potential
• CLO2: Analyze existing theories on digital literacy
• CLO3: Understand how particular technologies can be used to support learning in different situations by preparing students with problem solving skills
• CLO4: Develop ethical awareness and lifelong learning of the social and cultural aspects of CALL

References:

Learning Materials:

Text Books:

1. Chapelle, C. A. (2005). Computer-assisted language learning. In Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (pp. 767-780). Routledge.
2. Levy, M. (1997). Computer-assisted language learning: Context and conceptualization. Oxford University Press.
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Course Code: ENG-0232-4248
Course Title: Cultural Studies
Course Type: Theory
Pre-requisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42

Rationale of the Course:

The course offers an understanding of the intricate and often obscure link of culture and cultural productions where literary productions and criticism are made and constructed by the contents and forms of culture. Literary productions can be perceived as the philosophical and political representation of the realities formed by the elements of culture and subculture in a society. The course attempts to critically explore the missing link between knowledge and power, their discourses and institution that (re)construct the identity and dynamics of psyche, and (re)present as well as (re)produce literature as a product of cultural construct. The course covers the production, conditioning, distribution and consumption of discourses, such as television, advertising, minority literatures, and popular literature.

Contents:

1. Theories and Ideas:

• Culture: definition; politics of culture
• Cultural Studies: definition; aim; scope; methodology
• Schools: British, American, Australian, Indian.
• Popular Culture: definitions; forms: language, literature, comics, press, radio, television, cyberculture, cellular phone, art, music, film, sports, food, fashion, shopping, advertising, leisure, etc.

2. Critical Works:

• Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
• Roland Barthes: Mythologies (selection)
• Jean Baudrillard: The Precession of Simulacra
• Stuart Hall: The Spectacle of the ‘Other’
• Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism and Consumer Society
• Laura Mulvey: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
• Dick Hebdige: The Function of Subculture
• Judith Butler: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
• Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation) Bell Hooks: Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
• Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto
• Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Unnatural Break
• Richard Dyer: Stereotyping

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• CLO 1: Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others.
• CLO 2: Exploring cultural diversity and socio-cultural changes at the local, national, and global levels.
• CLO 3: Develop a critical approach to the study of culture as well as the relations between culture, power, and history.
• CLO 4: Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society.

Learning Materials:

References:

1. Peter Brooker. 1999. A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory. London: Arnold.
2. Simon During. 2005. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
3. John Fiske. 1989. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
4. Stuart Hall (ed.). 1997. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
5. Philip Smith. 2001. Cultural Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
6. Featherstone, Simon. Postcolonial Cultures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005.
7. Grossberg, Lawrence. Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. New Delhi: Orient Black Swan Private Limited, 2012.
8. Parker, Michael and Roger Starkey, ed. Postcolonial Literature: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcot. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1995.
9. Smith, Phillip. Cultural Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2001.
10. Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage Publications, 2003.
11. Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 2001.
12. Edgar, Andrew and Peter Sedgwick. Cultural Studies: The Key Concepts. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2008.
13. Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 1998.
14. Gelder, Ken and Sarah Thorton, eds. The Subculture Reader. London: Routledge, 1997.
15. Ashplant, T.G. and Gerry Smyth, ed. Explorations in Cultural History. London: Pluto Press, 2001.
16. Hawkes, David. Ideology. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. Hall, Donald E. Subjectivity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007.
17. Mills, Sara. Discourse. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. Coupe, Laurence. Myth. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007.
18. Dasgupta, Subrata. The Bengal Renaissance. Ranikhat: Permanent Black, 2010.
19. Hartmann, Betsy and James Boyce. A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village. Dhaka: University Press Limited. 1990.
20. Sen, Krishna and Sudeshna Chakravarti, ed. Narrating the (Trans)nation: The Dialectics of Culture and Identity. Kolkata: Das Gupta & Co. Pvt. ltd, 2008.
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Course Code: ENG-0232-4249
Course Title: Teaching Practicum
Course Type: Theory
Prerequisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42

Rationale of the Course:

This course provides the students with the opportunity to undertake a systematic program of classroom observation, reflection and teaching practice in an English language teaching institution. During the practicum, students firstly work with their peers, undertaking a series of preparation readings and tasks. Student then work with a qualified Mentor Teacher, initially observing and reflecting upon lessons, then teaching lessons and reflecting upon those classroom experiences. Students will also compile a comprehensive portfolio of their practicum experience.

Contents:

● Teacher Learning; Teaching Contexts
● Working with your Mentor Teacher
● Observing English Language Lessons and Observation Tasks
● Planning Lessons
● Exploring your own teaching
● Creating the right classroom environment
● Practice Teaching
● Practicum Portfolio

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO1: apply the principles of reflective teaching practice.
• CLO2: reflect upon their observations of language lessons taught by others and identify the main elements that enabled and inhibited successful teaching/learning to be achieved.
• CLO3: plan effective language learning activities that support lesson aims and objectives.
• CLO4: create motivating and engaging materials to support language learning activities.
• CLO5 : reflect upon language lessons they have taught and identify the main elements that enabled and inhibited successful teaching/learning to be achieved.

Learning Materials:

Text Books:

1. J.C., & Farrell, T.S.C. (2011). Practice Teaching: a reflective approach. New York. Cambridge University Press
2. Gebhard, J. (1999) Language Teaching Awareness, New York: Cambridge University Press
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Course Code: ENG 0232-4250
Course Title: Research Methodology
Course Type: Theory
Pre-requisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42

Rationale of the Course:

This course focuses on general principles of research and the use of research methods in language studies. It covers the whole process of research from choosing a topic, searching the related literature on the topic, and formulating research questions, to collecting and analyzing data and writing up research reports. The exploration of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research methodologies develops students' research literacy to understand research reports and to design research projects. Research ethics and writing research proposals are two other topics that are discussed in this course.

Contents:

1. Research methods
2. Types of research
3. Formulating a hypothesis
4. Research question
5. Literature review
6. Ethnography / Observation
7. Content analysis
8. Discourse analysis
9. Visual analysis

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO1: Identify a research topic or area of interest.
• CLO2: Critically review and evaluate literature (published articles) related to the topic of your research
• CLO3: Describe the basic underlying principles of three research approaches (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods).
• CLO4: Know the research methods related to each research paradigm and approach.
• CLO5: Design, implement and report the results of a small-scale study.

Learning Materials:

Text Books:

1. Riazi, M. (2018). Research Methods in Language Studies: An interactive text. Top Hat
2. Paltridge, B., & Phakiti, A. (eds.) (2015). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. NY: Bloomsbury Publications
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Course Code: 0232-4251
Course Title: Postmodern Literature
Course Type: Theory
Pre-requisite: N/A
Credits: 3
Class Hours: 42

Rationale of the Course:

This course samples trend-setting contemporary poems, fiction and music some of which were bestsellers and have achieved the „cult‟ status. Spanning three continents, this course offers an exciting entry into postmodernism and cyber-punk and attends to the questions of racism, multiculturalism, gender, and the politics of the media. After the completion of the course, the students will be able to understand and critique postmodernism, inquire the distinctions between „high‟ and „popular‟ art, and research on contemporary literature.

Contents:

1. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. A S Byatt Possession - Tom Stoppard Arcadia
3. William Gibson - Neuromancer
4. Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
5. Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
6. Arundhoti Roy - The God of Small Things

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

After completing this course, students would be able to:

• CLO 1: Understand the postmodernism and popular Culture.
• CLO 2: Comprehend the primary concepts and identify the social and cultural problem in postmodern era.
• CLO 3: Understand and critique postmodernism, inquire the distinctions between “high‟ and “popular” art, and research on contemporary literature.
• CLO 4: Appreciate and analyze the sensibility of the Postmodern period: common man, equality, freedom, sense of community and fraternity.

Learning Materials:

References:

1. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. 1981. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
2. Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
3. Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron and Andrew Levy (Eds.). Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
4. Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. 1988. London and NY: Routledge, 2004.
5. The Politics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. 1989. London and NY: Routledge, 2002.
6. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: DUP, 1991.
7. Lyotard, Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. 1979. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Manchester: MUP, 1984.
8. McCaffery, Larry (Ed.). Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction. Duke University Press, 1994.
9. McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. London: Routledge, 1987.
10. Nicol, Bran. The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction. Cambridge: CUP, 2009.
11. Storey, John (ed.) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. 2nd ed. Essex: Longman, 1998.
12. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, (2nd edition) Essex: Longman, 1998.Kottak, Conrad Phillip. “Culture.” Mirror For Humanity: A Concise
13. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. New York: Overture Books, 1996, pp.21-36.
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Course Code: ENG 0232-4254
Course Title: Thesis
Course Type: Research
Pre-requisite: ENG 0232-4253
Credits: 6
Class Hours: 84

In collaboration with a supervisor, students will draft a dissertation on any subject related to their chosen field of study. Students must provide a persuasive presentation to a panel of judges at the end of the semester.

This course is intended for Bachelor level students to create a thesis project and to see it through to the first draft. In this semester, students will work with their thesis committee to make any necessary revisions to the thesis proposal and produce the first draft of the thesis. Students will work one-on-one with their thesis advisor and the thesis coordinator to identify times that they will meet and create a plan for communication throughout the process of completing the Bachelor Thesis.

A) Dissertation Proposal:

The proposal should explain the purpose of the study or inquiry, including the following sections:

1. Introduction
2. Review of Relevant Literature/ Research
3. Methods
4. Conclusion

Dissertation proposals should be roughly 2,000 words, excluding references. Guidelines for specific requirements of each section of the proposal will be assigned by the thesis advisor. The thesis committee will review the proposal and submit requests for revisions to the candidate as necessary.

B) Dissertation Proposal Formatting -

1. Length:
Double-spaced typed pages, size 12 Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins on all sides. Thesis proposals should be approximately 2,000 words, before references.
2. Citations:
All proposals must use APA formatting. If you have any questions, consult the APA manual.
3. Grammar/Spelling/Punctuation:
Be sure to proofread your proposal and strive to avoid any grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.

C) Dissertation Draft -

The dissertation should be organized into something like the following structure (though consult with your advisor for more specific guidance):

1. Introduction
2. Review of Relevant Research
3. Methods
4. Findings (Results/Analysis)
5. Discussion (e.g., Interpretation, Connection to Existing Research, Implications, Limitations of the Study)
6. Conclusion

D) Appendix [only if required by the project]