MA LEVEL

401 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
401.1 What is Literature?
401.3 Foundations of Western Literature

403 LITERATURES AND HISTORY
403.15 A Critical Survey of British and American Literature

405* WRITING
405.7 English in Journalism
505.8 Writing for Academic Purposes

420 LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
420.1 Languages and Linguistics 1
420.2 Linguistics for Literature
420.3 Linguistics for Literature - 2

425* CRITICISM AND THEORY
425.1 Critical Approaches to Literature
425.2 Introduction to Literary Theory

430 LITERATURES AND ART
403.2 Humanities and Arts

435 LITERATURES AND QUEST
435.1 Literature of Spiritual Quest

440 LITERATURE AS EXPLORATION
440.1 Environmental Composition
440.2 Mapping Literature

450 FICTION
450.8 The Modern Novel
450.9 18th and 19th Century Novels

455* ENGLISH PROSE
455.1 Discourse in Disciplines

470* WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS
470.1 History of Ideas

475 PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSES
475.6 Essays in Literature and Philosophy

480 CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
480.4 The Self and the Other Cultural Encounters: Texts and Contexts

500 POETRY
500.8 Introduction to Poetry: Poetry as verbal Artifice
500.9 A Survey of Major British and American Poems
500.10 Appreciating English Poetry

505 DRAMA
505.9 Drama as Stage Play
505.10 Drama: A Survey Course
505.11 Drama From the Beginning to the 19th Century
505.12 20th Century Drama

510* REGIONAL STUDIES
510.1 Native American Studies
510.4 Nepalese Studies
510.8 20th Century European and American Novels

515* READING, WRITING, AND THINKING FOR THE PROFESSIONS
515.1 Technical Writing
515.2 Translation: Theory and Practice
525 INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR THESIS
525.1Independent/Group Project

545 DISABILITY STUDIES
545.2 The Disabled Body

550* GLOBALIZATION AND IMMIGRATION STUDIES
550.2 Theories and Literatures of Globalization
550. 3 Issues on Globalization

570* INTERDISCIPLINARY CULTURAL PRACTICES
570.3 Literatures and Environment
570.4 Communicating Across Cultures

590 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

595 THESIS (6 credits)

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M. PHIL. LEVEL

600 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN RECENT TRENDS IN LITERATURE, COMMUNICATION AND RESEARCH
600.7 Introduction to Literature and Society

610 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN TEACHING LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
610.5 Reading, Writing, Thinking, Teaching

625 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN RECENT TRENDS IN CRITICISM AND THEORY
625.1 Recent Trends in Criticism and Theory
625.2 Post-Colonial Theory

630 INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR M. PHIL. THESIS (3 credits)

640 ETHNIC IDENTITIES: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
640.1 Race and Identity Studies

647 INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH*
647.1 Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

655 TOPICS ON POPULAR CULTURE
655.1 Theory and Practice of Pop Culture

680 PRACTICAL COMPOSITION
680.1 Media Practices and Communicative Contexts

685 SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
685.1 Comprehending, responding, and relating to Nature

690 M. PHIL. THESIS (9 CREDITS)

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401 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (3 cr)

401.1 What is Literature?
The course aims to introduce the beginning student to contemporary methods and problems in the study of literature and culture. The texts include readings from classical literature, modernist literature, and postmodernism. It also includes readings in the basic foundational texts of modern philosophy, most notably Freud and Marx. It judiciously introduces students to the study of contemporary mass culture and media, and finally involves an exposure to a selection of the most important and difficult texts of contemporary theory from Barthes to Foucault.

Unit 1. Western Canonical Classics
Homer: "Book 22: The Death of Hector" In The Iliad.
Sophocles: Antigone
Dante: "Canto IV." In The Inferno
William Shakespeare: The Tempest
Donald G. Marshall: “Literary Interpretations”

Unit 2. Fundamental Texts of Modern Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche: From The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
Martin Heidegger: "The Nature of Language”
Karl Marx: “The German Ideology” and “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy”
Sigmund Freud: Chapter II, "The Method of Dream" in The Interpretation of Dreams.
Simone de Beauvoir: "Introduction: Woman as Other" in The Second Sex:
Levi Strauss: “The Structural Study of Myth”
Roland Barthes: “The Death of the Author”
Theodor Adorno: “Cultural Criticism and Society”
Walter Benjamin: “Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Jacques Derrida: “That Dangerous Supplement." in Of grammatology
Michael Foucault: “What is an Author?” “Truth and Power,” “Power and Strategies” and “The Eye of Power.”

Unit 3. Modern Texts
W.B.Yeats: "When You are Old," "No Second Troy," " Solomon and the Witch," " The Second Coming," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to
Byzantium," "The Tower," "Among School Children," "Crazy Jane Talks with the
Bishop," The Circus Animals Desertion"
T.S.Eliot. “Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land.”
“Wallace Stevens: "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Emperor of the Ice Cream"
Robert Frost. “Death of the Hired Man,” “Apple-Picking,” “Home Burial,” “Two Look at Two,” “West Running Brook”

Unit 4. Postmodern Texts
Alice Walker. The Color Purple
David Hwang. M Butterfly
Leslie Marmon Silko. Ceremony

Films:
Forest Gump
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty

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401.3 Foundations of Western Literature

Course Description and Objectives: The course examines in detail texts that have shaped the Western literary tradition. It is designed to provide an understanding of both the works and of central issues around which the Western literary tradition has organized itself: the relation of literature to political power, the status of the writer, the social function of literature, relations between the sexes, the relation of poetry to religion, and the nature of literature itself.

Unit 1
Homer, The Iliad
Plato, Phaedrus

Unit 2
Aeschylus, Agamemnon.
Aristotle, Poetics

Unit 3
Virgil The Aeneid
Dante The Inferno

Unit 4
Selections from The Bible (King James A.V.):
Genesis, Chapters 1-4
Deuteronomy, Chapters 5-6, 32
The Book of Job
Matthew, Chapter 5
Mark, Chapters 14-16
Luke, Chapters 10-24
Psalms, Nos. 8, 23, 63, 72, 86, 98, 137
Acts of Apostles, Chapters 24-27.

Prescribed Texts:
Homer. The Iliad.
Plato. Phaedrus.
Aristotle. Poetics.
Aeschylus. Agamemenon.
Virgil. The Aeneid.
Dante. The Inferno.
The Bible. (King James A.V.)

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403. LITERATURE AND HISTORY (3 cr)

403.15 A Critical Survey of British and American Literature

Course Description and Objectives:
This course is designed to help students to make a critical and chronological survey of British and American literature. It aims to approach literary history as a continuous narrative, to discuss, interpret and explain the works of British and American authors as literary texts, to make students familiar with literary movements and schools of thought, and to help students understand the social, political, cultural, and aesthetic influences of a particular age on the writings of a particular author.

British
Unit 1
Old English Literature
Medieval Literature
Literature of the Renaissance and Reformation
Literature of Revolution and Restoration
Eighteenth-Century Literature

Unit 2
Romantic Literature
Victorian Literature
Modernism
Post-War and Post-Modern Literature

American
Unit 3
The Literature of British America
From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province

Unit 4
Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: From Local Color to Realism and
Naturalism
Modernism in the American Grain

Prescribed Texts:
Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. 2nd Edition. Rpt. India: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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*405. WRITING (3 cr)

405.7 English in Journalism
This course comprises four units. They are Media Analysis Techniques, Media Issues, Journalism Lab-work, and Internship Program. The first and second units contain a selection of texts on media analysis and issues in media. The third unit focuses on journalism lab-work which will ultimately lead to the production of IACER newsletter/journal and publication of news stories and features in a newspaper or magazine. The unit mainly comprises activities such as news-writing, layout and page designing, feature writing and editing. The fourth unit comprises a three to four week internship program in a newspaper or magazine.

Unit 1: Media Analysis
The following essays have been prescribed for this unit:
i) Techniques of Interpretation
ii) Marxist Analysis
iii) Psycho-analytical Criticism
iv) Sociological Analysis
v) Murderers in the Orient Express
vi) Seven Points on the Game of Football
vii) The Maiden with the Snake: Interpretations of a Print Advertisement

Unit 2: Media Issues
The following texts have been prescribed for this unit:
Peter Golding: “New Technologies and Old Problems: Evaluating and Regulating
Media Performance in the Information Age”
Karen Siunne: “Is Broadcasting Policy Becoming Redundant”
Jan Van Cuilenberg: “Diversity Revisited: Towards a Critical Rational model of Media Diversity”
Cees J Hamlink: “World Communication: Conflicting Aspirations for the Twenty-first Century”
Jan Weiten: “Reality Television and Social Responsibility Theory”
Karle Nordenstreng: “Professional Ethics: Between Fortress Journalism and Cosmopolitan Democracy”
George Gerber: “Stories of Violence and the Public Interest”
Andrew Mc Luhan: “Sports Reporting: Race, Difference and Identity”
Marshall Mc Luhan: “The Medium is the Message”
Clifford Adelman: “Media and the Generations”

Unit 3. Lab-work
The following activities have been prescribed for this unit

i) Reporting
ii) News-Editing
iii) Sub-Editing
iv) Feature Writing
v) Picture Editing
vi) Story Construction
vii) Writing the Intro
viii) Avoiding Confusion
ix) News is
x) Interviewing
xi) The News Conference
xii) Meetings
xiii) Speeches
xiv) Observation and Descriptions

Unit 4.
This unit comprises the internship program for students at newspaper publications or broadcasting organizations

Prescribed Textbooks:
i) Course Packets will be available for Unit II
ii) Berger, Arthur Asa. Media Analysis Techniques. 2nd Ed. London: Sage, 1998.
iii) Barton, Frank. The Newsroom (Communication Manual). Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,
iv) Cardownie, John. News Agency Journalism (Communication Manual). Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
405.8 Writing for Academic Purposes* (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
This course deals with writing in social contexts and encourages creativity and originality in writing. The main objective of this course is to enable students to respond to, interpret & evaluate the meaning of their reading; use sources effectively and develop independent thought and voice in their own writing; understand & assess social situations and then shape writing as an effective response within that context.

UNIT 1
Writing
A. Writing: situation, problem, and strategy
i) Reacting to Reading: Annotations and Journals
ii) Paraphrasing
iii) Summarizing

UNIT 2
Responding to Reading
A. Developing responses to reading: Essays
i) Argument
ii) Writing an Essay Comparing Reading and Experience

B. Recognizing the many voices in a text
i) The Voice of Authority and Our Voice
ii) Multiple voices in Your Own Writing
iii) Writing an Essay Analysing Voices

C. Analysing the Author’s Purpose & Technique
i) Writing an Essay Analysing Purpose & Technique

D. Evaluating the Book as a Whole
i) Books as Tools
ii) Writing a Book Review

UNIT 3
Writing using Reading
A. Comparing and Synthesizing Sources
i) Writing and Synthesis of Sources
ii) Writing an Essay of Evaluative Comparison

B. Writing the Research Paper
i) Finding a Direction
ii) Finding Needed Information
iii) Formalizing the Topic
iv) Completing the Research
v) Outlining the Argument
vi) Creating the Full Statement: Drafting
vii) Revision and Final Form

C. A Guide to Reference and Documentation
i) Methods of Reference
ii) Documentation: What and How
iii) Modern Language Association (MLA) Bibliographic Form

UNIT 4
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
A. Reading and Writing about Past Events: The Humanities and Historical Sciences
i) Writing an Essay about the Past
ii) Interpreting & Analysis
iii) Reading an Interpretation
iv) Writing an Interpretation

B. Reading and Writing about Events as they happen: Observation in Social and Natural Sciences
i) Collecting Data as Events Unfold
ii) Reading Studies of Events as they Happen
iii) Writing Studies of Events as they Happen

C. Reading and Writing about Theory

Submission:
i) Paraphrase
ii) Summary
iii) Response to Reading
iv) Essay (Comparative)
v) Essay (Argumentative)
vi) Essay Analyzing the author’s Purpose and Technique
vii) Book Review

Final portfolio should contain:
Paraphrase 1
Summary 1
Essays 2
Book Review 1
Response to Reading 1

Prescribed Text:
Bazerman, Charles. The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1995 (5th edition).

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420. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (3 CR)

420.1 Language and Linguistics 1

This course will make students familiar with different aspects of language and linguistics, including historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, pragmatics and semantics. The course will offer a general background of the development of linguistic thought, which will be accompanied by a number of classic papers on linguistics. The study of historical linguistics and socio-linguistics is expected to enable students into carrying out independent research work in their own native context of language. In addition, this course will orient students towards developing linguistic perspectives to look at different disciplines /genres of academic pursuit. Analysis of different forms of discourse, both literary and otherwise, will be another focus of this course.

Students will be required to undertake an assignment in the last week of every month of the term. The concerned Faculty Members will provide the students with details regarding this.

Unit 1. Linguistic Background
Charles Barber: “The Origin of Language”
Edward Finegan: “Linguistics”
Peter Woolfson: “Language, Thought and Culture”
Ferdinand de Saussure: Synchronic Linguistics; Concrete Entities of Language; Linguistic Value; Syntagmatic and Associative Relations and the Mechanism of Language.
Roman Jakobson: "Linguistics and Poetics"
Noam Chomsky: “Language and the Mind”, "The Formal Nature of Language"
Benjamin L. Whorf: "Linguistic Relativity"

Unit 2. Pragmatics
J. L. Austin: “Speech Acts”
H. P. Grice: "Logic and Conversation" and “Meaning”
Thomas Creswell: “The Trouble with Usage”
G. Leech: “Politeness Principle”
D. Crystal and D. Davy: Stylistic Analysis

Unit 3. Semantics
Gottlob Frege: "Sense and Reference"
Laurence and Margolis: "Concepts and Cognitive Science"
Hilary Putnam: “The Meaning of Meaning”

Unit 4. Socio-linguistics
C.A. Ferguson and J.D. Gumperz: “Variety, Dialect and Language”
Dennis Baron: “Language, Culture and Society”
Dialects and literary texts
Languages of Nepal: past and future
Politics of language: linguistic controversies in Nepal's socio-political context
Issues of language, identity, culture and national unity.

420.2 Linguistics for Literature

Course Description and Objectives:
The course will examine some of the core aspects of linguistics and see how linguistic insights can be employed to enrich the study of literature. Students will be familiar with the background of language and linguistics including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse analysis. Such linguistic studies in turn will offer students various perspectives for the interpretation and analysis of a literary text.

Unit 1
a. Background of Language, Linguistics and Literary Analysis
What is Language? Symbols, System, Language Universals, Creativity,
Ambiguity
b. The Task of the Linguist
Competence and Performance, Underlying and Surface Structure
c. Applications to Literature
Applying Linguistics, Literature as a Type of Discourse, Cohesion, The Idea of the Grammar of a Text

Unit 2
a. Phonology (Sounds as System)
b. Phonology and Literature
c. Morphemes
d. The Lexicon
e. The Whorfian Hypothesis
f. Morphemes, the Lexicon and Style

Unit 3
a. Syntax
The Base, Transformations, The Recursive Property of Language, Syntax and Literature
b. Semantics
Role Relations, Selectional Restrictions, Contradiction, Anomaly, and Tautology, Role Structures and Literary Analysis
c. Speech Act Theory
Analyzing Discourse, Analyzing Fictional Discourse

Unit 4
a. Pragmatics and Written Discourse
Point of View in Narrating Fiction, Narrative Tense
b. Free Indirect Style
c. Sociolinguistics
d. Language Acquisition
e. English as a World Language

Prescribed Text
Traugott, E.C. & M. L. Pratt. Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

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420.3 Linguistics for Literature - 2 (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
The course will examine some of the core aspects of linguistics and see how linguistic insights can be employed to enrich the study of literature. Students will be familiar with the background of language and linguistics including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse analysis. Such linguistic studies in turn will offer students various perspectives for the interpretation and analysis of a literary text.

Unit 1
a. Background of Language, Linguistics and Literary Analysis
What is Language? Symbols, System, Language Universals, Creativity,
Ambiguity
b. The Task of the Linguist
Competence and Performance, Underlying and Surface Structure
c. Applications to Literature
Applying Linguistics, Literature as a Type of Discourse, Cohesion, The Idea of the Grammar of a Text

Unit 2
a. Phonology (Sounds as System)
b. Phonology and Literature
c. Morphemes
d. The Lexicon
e. The Whorfian Hypothesis
f. Morphemes, the Lexicon and Style

Unit 3
A. Semiotics
Definition, Traditions, Methodologies, Relation to Linguistics, Why study Semiotics?
B. Challenging the Literal
Rhetorical Tropes, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Irony, Denotation and connotation, Myth
C. Syntax
The Base, Transformations, The Recursive Property of Language, Syntax and Literature
D. Semantics
Role Relations, Selectional Restrictions, Contradiction, Anomaly, and Tautology, Role Structures and Literary Analysis

Unit 4.
Speech Act Theory
Analyzing Discourse, Analyzing Fictional Discourse
a. Pragmatics and Written Discourse
Point of View in Narrating Fiction, Narrative Tense
b. Free Indirect Style
Sociolinguistics
Varieties of English (Social Varieties, Standard English)
English in Contact
Bilingual Situations (digglosia, code Switching)
Language Acquisition
Prescribed Text
Traugott, E.C. & M. L. Pratt. Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
Chandler, Daniel. Semiotics: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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425. CRITICISM AND THEORY (3 CR)

425.1 Critical Approaches to Literature

Course Description and Objectives: This course will orient the students towards various critical schools and approaches including traditional criticism, formalism, psychoanalysis, mythological and archetypal criticism, feminist criticism, cultural studies, Marxist criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, and reader response criticism. The students will learn how to apply these critical approaches to read particular literary texts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress,” Blake’s “Sick Rose,” Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.”

Unit 1
Traditional and Formalist Approaches:

1. The Pre-critical response
2. Nature and Scope of Traditional Approaches
3. The Traditional Approaches in Practice
4. Introduction to the Formalist Approach
5. History of Formalist criticism
6. Key concepts and terms of formalist approach
7. The Formalist Approach in Practice
8. Limitations of the formalistic approach

Unit 2
Psychological and Mythical Approaches

1. Aims and principles of psychological approaches
2. The psychological approach in practice
3. Limitations of psychological approach
4. Definitions and examples of archetypes
5. Myth criticism in practice
6. Limitations of myth criticism

Unit 3
Feminist and Cultural Studies Approaches
Definitions and major themes in Feminist criticism: Feminist approaches: gender studies, marxist feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, minority feminist criticism
The future of feminist literary studies
Feminist criticism in practice
What is cultural studies?
Three ways to study culture
Cultural Studies in practice

Unit 4
Additional Approaches

1. Aristotelian criticism
2. Genre criticism
3. Genetic criticism
4. History of ideas
5. Rhetoric, Linguistics and Stylistics
6. Marxism
7. Structuralism and Post-structuralism
8. Phenomenological criticism
9. Dialogics
10. Reader Response Criticism

Prescribed Texts:
Blake, William. “Sick Rose”
Guerin, Wilfred, ed. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 4th ed. New York: OUP, 1999.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel “Young Goodman Brown”
Marvell, Andrew. “To His Coy Mistress”
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn.

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425.2 Introduction to Literary Theory (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
The course aims to orient the students in the discipline of literary theory. The major approaches to literature and culture in general, the critical movements of the 20th century and their literary practices, and the sophistication in critical reading behavior are the major focuses of the course.

Unit one: Basic concepts (1)
1. Hans Bertens. "Reading for meaning: practical criticism and new criticism"
2. - - -. " Reading for form I: formalism and early structuralism, 1914 -1960
3. - - -. " Reading for form II: French structuralism, 1950 -1975
4. - - -. "Political Reading": the 1970s and 1980s
5. - - -. "The Poststructuralist Revolution": Derrida, deconstruction, and postmodernism"

Unit two: Basic concepts (II)
6. Hans Bertens. "Poststructuralism continued: Foucault, Lacan, and French Feminism"
7. - - -. "Literature and Culture: the new historicism and cultural materialism"
8. - - -. "Postcolonial criticism and theory"
9. - - -. "Sexuality, literature, and culture"

Unit three: Theoretical Essays (1)
10. Ferdinand de Saussure. "The object of study"
11. Roman Jacobson. "Linguistics and Poetics" and "the Metaphoric and metonymic poles"
12. Jacques Lancan. "The insistence of the letter in the unconscious"
13. Jacques Derrida. "Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences"
14. Mikhail Bakhtin. " From the prehistory of novelistic discourse"
15. Roland Barthes. "The Death of the Author"
17. Wolfgang Iser. "The Reading process: a phenomenological approach"

Unit Four: Theoretical essays (1I)
18. Edward Said. "Crisis [in Orientalism]"
19. Elaine Showalter. "Feminist criticism in the Wilderness"
20. Terry Eagleton. "Capitalism, modernism and postmodernism"
21. Jean Baudrillard. "Simulacra and Simulations"
22. Luce Irigaray. "The bodily encounter with the mother"
23. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick."The best in the Closet"
24. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Feminism and Critical Theory"
25. Stephen Greenblatt. "The circulation of social energy"

Prescribed Texts:
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001
Lodge, David & Nigel Wood. eds. Modern Criticism and Theory: A reader. 2nd ed. Delhi: Pearson, 2003.

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430. LITERATURE AND ART (3 cr)

430.2 Humanities and Arts.
This course is an exploratory approach to the humanities that focuses on the special role of the arts. We will study the interrelationship between various forms of art and examine the similarities and differences between the role of the literary artists and that of the other humanists, and methods of writing and researching about the arts.

Unit 1. Arts in the Humanities
David Martin and Lee A Jacobus : “Introduction to humanities”; “What is a work of art?;” “Being a critic of the arts”
J. D. McClatchy (ed): "Arts and Ideas"
Robert S Nelson: “Someone Looking reading and writing”

Unit 2: Concepts and Issues
Robert S Nelson: “Word and Image;” “Narrative;” “Context;” “Meaning/ Interpretation” ,
Anne Sheppard "Expression"
Robert S Nelson: “Art History;” “Modernism” “Primitive;” “Value;” “Postmodernism and postcolonialism”
Anne Sheppard: "Art and morals”

Unit 3. Art forms (1)
Martin and Jacobus: “Painting;” “Sculpture;” “Architecture,” The Humanities through the Arts
“The Poet as a painter;” “Painters as writers” “The relation between poetry and painting,” Poets and Painters
C. Day Lewis: “How a poem is made”
Archibald MacLeish: “Ars poetica”
Henry Moore: “Notes on Sculpture”
Gio Ponti: “The architect, the artist”

Unit 4. Art Forms (2)
Martin and Jacobus: “Literature;” “Drama;” “Dance” “Music”
Shaw: “The Problem play – A symposium”
Martin and Jacobus: “Film;” “Photography;” “Almost-Art” “The Humanities: Their Interrelationships”
Ingmar Bergman: “Film has nothing to do with literature”.

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435 LITERATURE OF QUEST

435.1 Literatures of Spiritual Quest
The course will examine spiritual quest as an alternative mode of being that is at odds with the mainstream twentieth century capitalist culture. The course will examine the issues of work and leisure, environment and health and individual and society in relation to the theme of spiritual quest.

Unit 1. Poetic of Representation
Black Elk Speaks
Tagore: Gitanjali

Unit 2. Fictional Representation
Hilton: Lost Horizon
Maugham: The Razor's Edge

Unit 3. Quest and Travel
Peter Mattheissen: The Snow Leopard
Tolkien: Lord of the Rings

Unit 4. Non-fictional representation
Yogananda: An Autobiography of a Yogi
Gandhi: Autobiography or The Story of My Experiment with Truth

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440 LITERATURE AS EXPLORATION

440.1 Evironmental Composition

WEEK 1: LITERATURE, SOCIETY, PLANET

Day 1 Course introduction. Why study literature in order to learn about the relation between nature and culture?

Day 2 : Interpretive reading: scholarship and imagination.
Reading: Gary Snyder, from " The Etiquette of Freedom" and " Song of the Taste"
Assignment: Essay # 1 (diagnostic, in class): What are the societal implications of Pattiann Rogers's "Knot"?

Day 3: Why take an environmental approach to writing? Why now?
Reading: "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" and U.S. Bishops, "Renewing the Earth"

WEEK 2: OUR ANIMAL SELVES

Day 4: Animal appetites, animal needs.
Reading: Mary Oliver, "The Honey Tree," and Pattiann Rogers, "Knot."

Day 5: The story of our animal selves.
Reading: Kent Nelson, "Irregular Flight," and Jack London, " To Build a Fire."

Day 6: Analyzing the human animal.
Reading: Annie Dillard, " Living like Weasels, " Terry Tempest Williams, "The Erotic Landscape," and Tom Wolfe, "O Rotten Gotham."
Assignment: Essay #2 (2-3 typed page, due Friday of Week 3): Analyze the author's use of self-characterization and physical/geographical setting throughout one of the essays that were assigned for today's class. How does the author associate or distance himself of herself from the characteristics emphasized in the essay? What is the role of setting in this process? How does self- representation contribute to the larger massage of the text?

WEEK 3: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

Day 7: A social context for analyzing encounters.
Reading: " Just Like Us?" and Maxine Hong Kingston's " A City Person Encountering Nature."

Day 8: Problematic encounters.
Reading: John Updike," The Crow in the Woods,"
Rita Dove, " Crab-Boil,"
Barry Lopez," Apologia, " and
Ursula K. Le Guin, " The Creatures on My Mind."

Day 9: Transcendent encounters.
Reading: Denise Levertov, "Come into Animal Presence,"
James Wright, "A Blessing,"
Pat Murphy, "In the Abode of the Snows."
Due: Essay #2.

WEEK 4: HUNTING AND FISHING

Day 10: Consuming animals.
Reading: Paul Shepard, from "Fellow Creatures,"
Wintu tribe, "The Willingness of a Deer to Die," and
Susan Griffin, "The Hunt. "Assignment:
Essay #3 (due Monday of Week 5): Imitative exercise, stretching the limits of personal style.
Closely imitate the precise sentence patterns of one paragraph from each of the prose works
read this weak. Select substantial paragraph to imitate.

Day 11: Hunting: a range of perspectives.
Reading: James Dickey, "A Dog sleeping on My Feet,"
Wintu Tribe, "The Willingness of a Deer to Die,"
Richard K. Nelson, "The Gifts,"
Joyce Carol Oates, "The Buck".

Day 12: Broader social implications.
Reading: Aldo Leopold, "Thinking like a Mountain,"
Susan Griffin, "the Hunt,"
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish."

WEEK 5: IMPRINT OF THE LAND

Day 13: Ancestral imprints.
Reading: Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Bell Hooks, "Touching the earth."
Due: Essay # 3. Assignment:
Essay # 4 (3 typed pages, due Monday of Week 6): Analyze and explain the use and apparent purpose of one specific stylistic device in Pam Houston, "A Blizzard Under blue Sky" or Alberto Rios, "The Secret Lion." Select a device that seems particularly important to the underlying goals of the story. Possible devices to analyze: Characterization, setting, structure, paradox, symbolism.

Day 14: Places of Power.
Reading: Lucille Clifton, "Sonora desert Poem,"
John Muir, " A Wind-Storm in the Forests,"
Jack Kerouac, "Alone on a Mountaintop,"
Simon Ortiz, "Forever."

Day 15: Complicated impressions. Also, brief workshops to discuss progress in Essay # 4.
Reading: Barbara Kingsolver, "The Memory Place,"
Jerry Mander , "The walling of awareness,"
Villa Nueva, "Haciendo apenas la recoleccion."

WEEK 6: VISIONS OF HOME

Day 16: Bioregionalism.
Reading: Jim dodge, "Living by life: Some Bioregional Theory and Practice,"
Leonard Charles et al., "Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz"
Wendell Berry, "Stay Home,"
Carol Polsgrove, "On a scrap of Land in Henry County."
Due: Essay # 4. Assignment:
Essay #5 (Essay plans due Friday of this week, Final Version due Friday of Week7): Compare the use of a single stylistic device as a way of communicating an idea about place in any two of the following stories:
Raymond Carver, "What's in Alaska?"
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, "Rock Garden,"
Beth Brant, "This Place,"
Dan O'Brien, "Eminent Domain."
You might begin by detecting a thematic connection between the two stories--perhaps a similar attitude toward place on the part of the central characters in each story but the goal of this essay will, as always, go beyond mere summary of the work's content. Ideally, you will be able to show how the writers can express different ideas about similar topics by using a particular device (Symbolism, characterization, metaphor, setting, etc) in different ways.

Day 17: Rootedness versus rootlessness.
Reading: Pat Mora, "Curandera,"
Scott Russell Sanders, "Buckeye,"
John Daniel, "A word in Favor of Rootlessness,"
Ellen Meloy, "The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas."

Day 18: Preserving home.
Reading: Rick Bass, "On willow Creek,"
William Kittredge," Second Chance at Paradise."

WEEK 7: POLITICS OF PALCE

Day 19:Threats to property.
Reading: Dan O'Brien, "Eminent Domain," and
Margaret L. Knox, "The world According to Cushman."

Day 20: Threats to identity.
Reading: Wendy Rose. "Long Division: A Tribal History,"
Benjamin Alire Saenz, "Exile. El Paso, Texas," and
E.C. White, "Black Women and the Wilderness."

Day 21:Threats to nature.
Reading: Edward Abbey, "Eco-Defense," and
Terry Tempest Williams, "The Clan of One–Breasted Women."
Due: Essay #5

WEEK 8: GETTING AND SPENDING

Day 22: Watch Robert Redford's film version of John Nichols's 1974 Novel, The Milagro Beanfield War.

Day 23: Finish Watching Film.

Day 24: Assignment:
Essay #6 (in class): Having taken substantial notes while watching the film, write an analytical "review" of the film in which you explain how Redford's cinematographic technique contributes (or fails to contribute) to the apparent message of the film. Try to explain how Redford's selection and presentation of characters, settings, relationships, camera angles, images, and realistic/stylized situations affect the achievement of the film. What seem to be the work's principal messages about community organization and the struggle over land and natural resources in contemporary America? Since this paper is, in part, a "review" of the film, try to evaluate it in addition to analyzing and explaining it.

WEEK 9: MORE ON GEETING AND SPENDING

Day 25: Reading and Writing in context: The case of Consumption.
Reading: W. Wordsworth, "The World is Too Much With Us"
A Ginsberg, "A supermarket in California,"
A.T.Durning, "The Conundrum of Consumption,"
D. Meadows, "Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the land,"
Assignment: Essay #7 (3-4 typed pages, due first day of week 10): Select a pair of texts--a literary work and a cultural document – and explain how the literary piece uses particular stylistic devices to explore the issues raised in the cultural text. Develop an argument that either supports the combination of literary and cultural documents or suggests that literature should be read by itself, independently of cultural evidence. Use a pairing from one of the chapters in Part 3 of the anthology.

Day 26: The virtues and pitfalls of "connectedness,"
Reading: B Traven, "Assembly line"
Martin W. Lewis, "On Human Connectedness with Nature."

Day 27: Doing the "right" work in the "right" way.
Reading: Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Work We Hate and Dreams We Love,"
T. Roszak, "Take This Job and Shove It,"
D. Meadows, "Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land," and
W Berry, "A Good Scythe,"

WEEK 10: LAND USE

Day 28: The consequences of development.
Reading: M Piercy, "Sand Roads: the Development,"
R. Frost, "A Brook in the City," and
W.S. Merwin, "Rain at Night."
Assignment: Essay # 8 (5-7 typed pages, due Monday of week 13): Select a specific environmental topic pertaining to the region where you live; orient the reader to the topic and provide an interpretive analysis (an "argument"). You can choose to address a social, economic, religious, political, or scientific issue, or you can choose to focus on a particular style or piece in some essential way to the region's environment. Use at least five secondary sources (books, magazine or newspaper articles, scholarly studies, government documents, interview transcripts, or other sources of information relevant to the topic). If you are writing on a particular writer or literary text, try to find five or more critical/scholarly responses in addition to the primary text(s). All sources, primary or secondary should be documented according to the MLA Format.

Day 29: Overcoming stereotypes: land use and the question of character.
Reading: W. Kaufman, "Confessions of a Developer,"
Louise Erdrich, "Line of Credit."
S.A. Russell, "The physics of Beauty,"

Day 30: Different backgrounds, different views.
Reading: S. Birgham, "A woman's Land,"
W. Stegner, "Wilderness Letter,"
L Owens, "The American Indian Wilderness."
Spend fifteen minutes in small groups discussing topics for Essay # 8

WEEK 11. LOCAL/REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

Day 31: What's going on here?
Reading: Students should recommend three or four readings from any chapter in the anthology that seem to bear on issues currently important in the place where the Institute is located.

Day 32: Small-group workshops to discuss progress on research papers. Each Student should bring one or two introductory pages, plus a preliminary list of sources. The introductory pages should indicate the argument that will be developed in the rest of the paper.

Day 33: Local texts. Each student brings in a journalistic article or a literary text that pertains to something going on in the local environment. There materials could include texts being used in student's research papers. Depending on the size of the class, students present the materials to the entire class or to small groups (about 10 per group).

WEEK 12: DOOMSAYING AND DOWNPLAYING

Day 34: The language of warning.
Reading. "World Scientists Warning to humanity,"
B. McKibben, "Not So Fast,"
R. Carson, "Of Man & the Stream of time."

Day 35: Waving off the crisis.
Reading: R Samuelson, "The end is not at Hand," and
J. Simon, "Are People an Environmental Pollution?

Day 36: The literature of environmental crisis.
Reading: Mary Austin, "The Last Antelope,"
R Jeffers, "Passenger Pigeons."

WEEK 13: TOWARD CLOSURE

Day 37: Students present final Projects.

Day 38: Students present final projects.

Day 39: Optimism, caution, sustainability.
Reading: J. Bruchac, "The circle is the way to see."
Due Essay #8

WEEK 14: DEAD WEEK

Course recap and preparation for exams.

WEEK 15: EXAMS WEEK

Exam: Essay #9: Analyze two literary works, C.K. Williams's "Tar" and R Anaya's "Devil Deer," comparing how the two represent the direness and/or hopefulness of our contemporary environmental quandary. Using techniques of textual analysis developed in the course prepare an argument that evaluates the rhetorical effectiveness of each work.

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440.2 Mapping Literature

Locating literature, mapping and tracing how and why writers come up with works of imaginations grounded on the realities of the places and people, of cities, towns, and countryside. The course focuses on writers and their works in relation to the spatial network to which they belonged. Malcolm Bradbury's book The Atlas of Literature informs us about writers in relation to the places they lived, grew up and wrote. The course thus demands our cultural literacy and general knowledge to set forth in the artistic exploration and adventure. Along with mapping the places and people of the western literary world, the students should also be able to read their literary works as well. The course is designed to encourage them to be familiar with the writers and their texts in relation to the context they belong to.

Unit 1: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, The Age of Reason
A two-page paper from Dante's Divine Comedy by selecting an extract from Canto I. The paper focus on the textual mode of interpretation instead of giving general interpretation of the work

The students will be asked to prepare for an oral presentation on the literary modes of medieval France and Spain

A further assignment would be reading from Thomas More's Utopia and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia

Writing a three-page paper on the critical history of America including an extensive bibliography on American literary history

The final assignment would be preparing ten questions each for the chapters on Chaucer and Cervantes

Unit 2: The Romantics, The Age of Industrialism and Empire
Write a three-page paper on European romanticism by focusing on the places referred to in the section "The Romantics." Find out passages from the works of the writers mentioned in the section. This paper needs extensive library work with the help of the teacher assigned to the course.

Write a three-page paper on the St Petersburg, Paris, London, and Massachusetts. The students should write a descriptive essay on the places in relation to the natural landscapes and urban centres that are frequently mentioned in Part Four. The student can take help from other history books on art and literature.

An oral presentation on the concept of European Imperialism would be the final assignment for this unit.

Unit 3: The Age of Realism, The Modern World
Write a five-page paper connecting the issues and events with the places referred to in the Parts:Age of Realism and The Modern World. For instance, focus on the relationship of slavery, Faulkner and the American South; Bohemian spirit, art movements and Paris; revolutionary zeal and Ireland; wars, depression and Germany, Spain and American urban life. The Students need to do further research on such connections.

Unit 4: Post-War to the Present
Write a three-page survey paper on the post-war literary activities of Europe.
Write a seven page final paper on the people, places and features of non-western English writing. The focus should be on how the study of English literature moves beyond the Age oof Europe, western art and canon, and colonialism. Mention the major countries and cities, new literary locations in the light of Englishness and globalization.

Prescribed Texts
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Atlas of Literature.

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450. FICTION (3 CR)

450.8 The Modern Novel (3 cr)
Course description: The students will read a n umber of major fictional texts of Europe, Asia, Americas, and Africa applying such critical approaches as Marxism, Gender Studies, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, Formalism, Reader Response criticism, and minority and post-colonial studies.

Unit 1:
Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
Unit 2:
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain
Unit 3:
Chinua Achebe, Things Falls Apart
Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things
Unit 4:
Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Parijat, Blue Mimosa

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450.9 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Novels (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
This course will examine certain major 18th and 19th century texts of British, continental and American fiction by interrogating those novels from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Unit 1: Horatio Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Richardson, Pamela

Unit 2: Gustav Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

Unit 3: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Unit 4: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

*455. ENGLISH PROSE (3 CR)

455.1 Discourse in Disciplines (3 Credits)
Course description: We will study how multiple discourses of literature, philosophy, history, and politics come together to construct certain discourse communities. This course will seek to introduce the students to the wide range and variety of English prose, leading to a critical awareness of the textuality of writing which they can apply to their own writings.

Unit 1: Background and History
a. Rhetoric
b. Readings

Unit 2: Arts and Philosophy
a. Discourse Communities in the Arts
b. Discourse Communities in Philosophy

Unit 3: Social Sciences and Natural Science
a. Discourse Communities in the Social Sciences
b. Discourse Communities in Science

Unit 4: Students’ Writing

Text:
Schmidt, Gary D. and William J. Vande Kopple. Communities of Discourse: The
Rhetoric of Disciplines. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993.

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*470. WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS (3CR)

470.1 History of Ideas
Course description: We will study how the Western ‘World View’ has undergone transformations through the Greek to the Modern Age. Some of the questions that will be explained during the course: what forms of interrelations exists between key Western philosophies and their texts to the historical circumstances? Are there certain clusters of ideas that are linked across the historical times and places of Western civilization? What form of correlations might exist between the ‘history of ideas’ and the history of Western literature and culture?

Unit 1:
a. The Greek World View
b. The Transformation of the Classical Era

Unit 2:
a. The Christian World View
b. The Transformation of the Medieval Era

Unit 3:
a. The Modern World View

Unit 4:
a. The Transformation of the Modern Era
b. Epilogue

Texts:
Tarnas, Richard. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that
Shaped Our World View. New York: Ballantine Books. 1991.

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475. PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSES (3 CR)

475.6 Essays in Literature and Philosophy
Course description: This course will examine certain major texts in English literature and Western philosophy to study not only the interrelationships that emerge, but also to analyze how philosophical and literary writings use different styles of expression and rhetorical devices as they represent their subject matter.

Unit 1:
Plato “Ion.”
Longinus “On the Sublime.”
Dante Alighieri from “Letter to Can Grande Della Scala.”
Sir Francis Bacon from “The Advancement of Learning.”
Joseph Addison “On the Pleasures of Imagination.”
Samuel Johnson “On Fiction.”
Sir Joshua Reynolds “Discourses on Art.”

Unit 2:
Mary Wollstonecraft “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” Chapter VI.
William Blake “The Ancient Britons.”
Friedrich Schiller “Thirteenth Letter.”
Freidrich Wilhelm Von Schelling from “On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature.”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt from “On the Episode from the Mahabharat.”
John Keats from “Letter to Benjamin Bailey,” and “Letter to George and Thomas Keats.”
Thomas Love Peacock “The Four Ages of Poetry.”
Percy Bysshe Shelly “A Defense of Poetry.”

Unit 3:
Thomas Carlyle “Symbols.”
John Stuart Mill “What is Poetry.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Poet.”
Edgar Allan Poe “The Poetic Principle.”
Mathew Arnold “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.”
Karl Marx from “The German Ideology,” and from “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche from “The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music,” and “Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense.”
Walter Pater “Studies in the History of the Renaissance.”
Anatole France “The Adventures of the Soul.”
Oscar Wilde “The Decay of Lying.”
Stephane Mallarme “Mystery in Literarue.”

Unit 4:
Leo Tolstoy “What is Art,” from Chapter IV.
Sigmund Freud “Creative Writers and Daydreaming.”
T. S. Eliot “Tradition and Individual Talent.”
Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own.”
Kenneth Burke “Literature and Equipment of Living.”
Jean-Paul Sartre “Why Write.”
Simon De Beauvoir “Myth and Reality” Chapter XI.
Philip Wheelwright from “The Burning Fountain.”
Martin Heidegger “The Nature of Language.”

Text:
Adams, Hazard (ed.) Critical Theory Since Plato. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992.

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480. CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS (3CR)
480.4 The Self and the Other Cultural Encounters: Texts and Contexts.
Course description: What happens when different peoples, cultures, religions, languages and world views come into contact with each other? What forms of desires, fears and anxieties are produced within the space of cultural encounter? What forms of erotic fantasies and cultural fears are generated as people from different parts of the globe encounter each other. We will study various cultural texts including novels, letters, travel writings and films to study the ways in which various mythologies, beliefs and worldviews shape one another. Also, we will examine how the religions, ritual practices and economies of the non western societies are affected as modern technologies and commodities enter the pre-modern cultural spaces. Frequent writing, revision and class discussion.
Unit 1:
Lady Mary Montagu: Turkish Embassy Letters
Aphra Behn: Oroonoko
Rider Haggard: She
Kipling: “The Gate of hundred sorrows”
Film: Dances with the Wolves

Unit 2:
Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Marquesas” from In the South Seas
Lawrence, D.H: “The Hopi snake dance”
Torgovnick, Marianna: “Something stood still in my soul”
Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar
Film: Out of Africa Or Seven Pillars of Wisdom Or A Passage to India

Unit 3:
Louis Aldrich: Tracks
Salih: Season of Migration to the North
Chitra Divakaruni: “A Perfect Life;” “A Maid servant’s story”
Selections from Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Film: Mississippi Masala

Unit 4:
Said: “Introduction” from Orientalism
Mary Louise Pratt: “Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone”
May Joseph: “Introduction: New Hybrid Identities and performance”
Toby Miller: “Culture and global economy”

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500. POETRY (3 CR)

500.8 Introduction to Poetry: Poetry as Verbal Artifice

Course Description and Objectives:
This course will be chiefly concerned with how poets go about their business of communicating thought and feeling through verbal medium. Instead of asking, "What does this poem mean?" the questions that the students will be encouraged to think all the time are these:
1. What do I notice about this poem?
2. What is odd, quirky, and peculiar about it?
3. What new words do I see or what familiar words in new situations do I notice?
4. Why is it the way it is, and not some other way?

Although the course will cover a range of poems--from Renaissance England to
contemporary American--it will not really be a historical "survey." Instead, it will focus on poetic techniques, patterns, habits, and genres, and it will do so with special concern for the three areas--"Figurative Language," "Music and Sound," and "Tone of Voice"--which, taken together, can be said to define what poetry is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of literary utterance. However, each lecture will deal to some degree, with all of the areas, veering among them to produce the fullest reading of the work at hand.

Unit 1
a. What to Look and Listen for in Poems:
Ammons, A. R. "Beautiful Woman"
Herrick, Robert. "Upon Julia's Clothes"
b. Memory and Composition:
Wordsworth, William. "The Solitary Reaper"
Wordsworth, William. "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
c. Poets Looking at the World:
William, Carlos Williams. "The Red Wheelbarrow"
William, Carlos Williams. "This Is Just to Say"
William, Carlos Williams. ""Poem"
Herrick, Robert. "The Argument of His Book"
Clare, John. "Gypsies"
Yeats, William Butler. "The Lake Isle of Innifree"
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "The Buck in the Snow"
d. Picturing Nature:
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. "The Kraken"
Hardy, Thomas. "The Breaking of Nations"
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Pied Beauty"
e. Metaphor and Metonymy I:
Burns, Robert. "A Red, Red Rose"
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To a Skylark"
Dickinson, Emily. "There's a certain slant of light" (258)
Shakespeare, William. "Poor Soul" (sonnet 146)
Frost, Robert. "Design"
Blake, William. "The Sick Rose"
Jarrell, Randall. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
f. Metaphor and Metonymy II:
Lowell, Robert. "Skunk Hour"
Keats, John. "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Unit 2
a. Poetic Tone:
Stevens, Wallace. "The House Was Quiet and the World was Calm"
Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays"
Herbert, George. "Love" (III)
Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty"
Jonson, Ben. "On My First Son"
Wordsworth, William. "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
b. The Uses of Sentiment:
Browns, Elizabeth Barrett. "How do I love thee?" (Sonnet 43)
Rossetti, Christina. "When I am dead, my dearest" (song)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. "The Woodspurge"
Robinson, Elvin Arlington. "Richard Cory"
Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night"
Hardy, Thomas. "The Convergence of the Twain"
Auden, W. H. "Musee des Beaux Arts"
c. The Uses of Irony:
Parker, Dorothy. "Unfortunate Coincidence"
Parker Dorothy. "Resume"
Blake, William. "Holy Thursday"
Blake, William. "The Little Black Boy"
Lawrence, D. H. "The English Are So Nice"
Reed, Henry. "Naming of Parts"
Gary, Thomas. " Ode: On the Death of a Favorite Cat"
d. Poetic Forms and Meter:
Roethke, Theodora. "My Papa's Waltz"
Milton, John. "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
e. Sound Effects:
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Evangeline"
Browning, Robert. "A Toccata of Galuppi's"
Dickinson, Emily. "They hut Me Up in Prose-" (613)
Hopkins, Gerald Manley. "Gods Granduer"
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. "How Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White"
Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach"
f. Three Twentieth-Century Villanelles:
Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Roethke, Theodore. "The Waking"
Bishop, Elizabeth. "One Art"

Unit 3
a. Free Verse:
Smart, Christopher. "Jubilate Agno"
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself"
Whitman, Walt. "The Dalliance of Engles"
Whitman, Walt. "To a Locomotive in Winter"
Cummings, e. e. "in Just-"
Ginsberg, Alan. "Howl"
Clampitt, Amy. "The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews"
Wright, James. "A Blessing"
Macleish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica"
b. The English Sonnet I:
Wyatt, Sir Thomas. "The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbur"
Earl of Surrey. "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought"
Sidney, Sir Philip. "Astrophil and Stella"
Shakespeare, William. "When I do count the clock" (sonnet 12)
Shakespeare, William. "That Time of Year" (sonnet 73)
c. The English Sonnet II:
Donne, John. "Death, be not Proud" (Holy Sonnet 10)
Donne, John. "Batter My Heart" (Holy sonnet 14)
Milton, John. "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
Milton, John. "When I Consider How my Light is Spent"
Wordsworth, William. "Composed upon Westminister Bridge"
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias"
d. The Enduring Sonnet:
Yeats, William Butler. "Leda and the Swan"
Frost, Robert. "The Oven Bird"
Frost, Robert. "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"
Frost, Robert. "The Silken Tent"
e. Poets Thinking:
Donne, John. "The Cannonization"
Marvell, Andrew. "The Garden"
Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism"
f. The Greater Romantic Lyric:
Wordsworth, William. "Tintern Abbey"
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Frost At Midnight"

Unit 4
a. Poets Thinking- Some 20th Century Versions:
Jeffers, Robinson. "Shine, Perishing Republic"
Stevens, Wallace. "The Snow Man"
Yeats, william Butler. "Among School Children"
Haas, Robert. "Meditation at Lagunitas"
b. Portrayals of Heroism:
Anonymous Ballad. "Sir Patrick Spens"
Peele, George. "His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned"
Dryden, John. ""To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"
Byron, Lord George. "Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"
Tennyson, Alfred George. "Ulysses"
c. Heroism--Some 20th Century Versions:
Yeats, William Butler. "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
Yeats, William Butler. "Easter 1916"
Lowell, Robert. "For The Union Dead"
Bishop Elizabeth. "The Fish"
Rich, Adrienne. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Rich, Adrienne. "Diving into the Wreck"
d. Poets Talking to (and for Works of Arts):
Keats, John, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
e. Echoes in Poems:
Wordsworth, William. "The Boy of Winander” (from the Prelude).
Frost, Robert. "The Most of it"
Bishop, Elizabeth. "The Moose"
f. Farewell and Falling Leaves:
Virgil, Aeneid (Book VI, excerpt)
Dante. Inferno (Canto III, excerpt)
Milton, John. Paradise Lost (Book I, ll. 295-313)
Shelley, Percey Bysshe. "Ode to the West Wind"
Pound, Ezra. "In the Station of the Metro"
Nemerov, Howard. "For Robert Frost, in the Autumn, in Vermont"
Ammons, A. R. "Beautiful Woman"

Prescribed Text:
Ferguson, Margaret et al., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Poetry. 4th Edition.
New York: Norton, 1996.

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500.9 A Survey of Major British and American Poems

This course makes a chronological survey of a wide range of poems written by British and American poets. Attention will be paid to the general and specific ways in which a poem is shaped by, and in turn shapes, the literary, political, economic, religious, and artistic events and issues of its time.

Course objectives:
The main objective of this course is to help the students
• see the role of poet and poem in relation to history, politics and culture
• see the poet's purpose and method of poetic expression
• examine the significance of the poem in contemporary times
• see how language, themes, and poetic devices play a large role in directing a poems meaning.

Unit Division

I From Chaucer to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
II From Percy Bysshe Shelley to W.B.Yeats
III From Robert Frost to Gwendolyn Brooks
IV From Robert Lowell to Louise Erdrich

Unit 1
Geoffrey Chaucer, From The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue (first 2 stanzas)
Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion", "Shepherd's Calendar"
William Shakespeare: Sonnets 55and 65
John Donne, "The Canonization," " Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy"
John Milton, From Samson Agonistes, "The Invocation" from Paradise Lost Book I
John Dryden, A Song of St Cecilia's Day
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
William Blake, From Songs of Innocence: "The Lamb", "The Divine Image"
From Songs of Experience, "A Divine Image," "The Sick Rose", "The Tyger"
William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"

Unit II
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," "Ode to the West Wind"
William Cullen Bryant, "To a Water Fowl"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow Storm"
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on Melancholy,' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Break, Break, Break," "Tears, Idle Tears," "The Eagle"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Walt Whitman, Song to Myself 1, 6, 11, 24, 52
Emily Dickinson, "There's a certain Slant of Light," "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain," "I Heard a Fly Buzz," "Because I could not Stop for Death"
Gerard Manly Hopkins, "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty"
W. B. Yeats, "When You are Old," "The Second Coming," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Among School Children," "Leda and the Swan," "The Circus Animals' Desertion"

Unit III
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Road Not Taken," " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-cream," "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Queen Ann's Lace," "This is Just to Say"
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Rupert Brook, "The Soldier"
Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
E.E. Cummings, "In Just," "Anyone lived in a pretty how town"
Langston Hughes, "Dream Variations," "Harlem"
W. H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In Praise of Limestone"
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish," "The Armadillo," "The Moose"
Dylon Thomas, "The Hunchback in the Park," "Fern Hill," "Do Not Go Gentle in That Good Night"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell," "The Bean Eaters"

Unit IV
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
Ted Hughes, "The Though-Fox," "Pike"
Denise Levertov, "The Dead Butterfly"
Anne Sexton, "The Truth the Dead Know," "And One for My Dame"
Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law," "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "Diving into the Wreck"
Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song," "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus"
Seamus Heaney, "Punishment," "A Ship of Death"
Robert Pinsky, "The Street"
Rita Dove, Parsley, "The Bistro Styx"
Louise Erdrich, "The Butcher's Wife," "I was Sleeping where the Black Oaks Move"

Prescribed Book:
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edition. N.Y. W.W. Norton, 1996
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500.10 Appreciating English Poetry Cr. 3

Course Description:
This course tries to help students look at a poem closely. It offers a wider and more accurate vocabulary with which to express what poems say. It will prepare students to interpret and judge poems in multiple ways. It will help them to understand poems by imaginatively extending and probing possibilities that lie within their self.

Objectives:
To continue an innocent immersion and comprehension of a poem
To make them raise inductive questions about a poem
To make them examine the material and the method used and draw relations
To make them understand the poetic process through experience
To establish an ongoing conversation between self and literature

UNIT DIVISION:
Unit I. Elements
Unit II: Understanding the text
Unit III: Structure
Unit IV: Exploring contexts

UNIT ONE: ELEMENTS:
1 Emily Dickinson: "Baffled for Just a Day or Two" (Miller 10)
2. William Wordsworth: "A Slumber did My Spirit Seal" (Miller 15)

Speaker and Tone, Setting, Subject and Theme

Speaker and Tone:
3. Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover" (Miller26)
Setting
4. Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could not Stop for Death" (Miller 32)
Subject and Theme
5. Abraham Cowley: "Drinking" (Miller 35)

Saying and Suggesting

The Poet's I
6. William Carlos Williams: "The Red Wheel Barrow" (Kennedy 13)
Denotation and Connotation
7. Robert Frost: "Design" (Miller 47)
Allusion
8 Wilfred Owen: "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" (Miller 58)

Figures of Speech

Metaphor and Metonymy
9. John Donne: "Death. Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee" (Miller 75)
10. William Blake: (To See a World in a Grain of Sand) (Kennedy 83)
Simile
11. Langston Hughes: "Dream Deferred" (Kennedy 87)
Symbols
12. William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (Miller 96)

UNIT TWO: UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
Figures of Speech II

Allegory
13. Edgar Lee Masters: "Carl Hamblin" (Miller 101)

Imagery
14. Ezra Pound: "In a Station of the Metro" (Kennedy 67)
Irony
15 Robert Creeley: "Oh No" (Kennedy 24)

Saying and Singing

Language
16. Ted Hughes: "The Dove –Breeder" (Miller 73)
Singing
17. Paul Simon: "Richard Cory" (Kennedy 105)
Ballads
18 Anonymous: "Bonny Barbara Allan "(Kennedy 107)
19 Anonymous: "Frankie and Johnny" (Kennedy 117)
Sound As Meaning

Sound
20. Gerald Manley Hopkins: "Pied Beauty" (Kennedy 129)
Alliteration and Assonance
21. Lord Alfred Tennyson: "The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls" (Kennedy 113)
22 A.E. Houseman: "Eight O'clock" (Kennedy 132)
Rhyme
23. Willaim Shakespeare: "Singh No More Ladies, Sigh No More" (Miller 113)

UNIT THREE: STRUCTURE

Stresses and Pauses

Rhythm
24. Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool (Kennedy 147)
Meter
25. Walt Whitman: Beat! Beat! Drums! (Kennedy 159)
Stanzas
26. Dylan Thomas: Don Not Go Gentle into the Night (Kennedy 159)

Structure

Structure
27. Robert Frost: "Out, Out—" (Miller 137)
28. Denise Levertov: Sunday Afternoon (Miller 150)
29. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music, When Soft Voices Die (Miller 153)

Genre

Narrative Poetry
30. John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Miller 164)
Dramatic Poetry
31. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess (Miller 173)
Lyric and Didactic Poetry
32. Alexander Pope: Ode on Solitude (Miller184)

Words and Their Order

The Right Word
33 e.e. cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town (Kennedy 48)
Speech and Poetic Diction
34. Richard Eberhart: The Fury of Aerial Bombardment (Kennedy 45)

Tone and Attitude
35 Siegfried Sassoon: "Does It Matter?" (Miller 213)
36 Seamus Heaney: Mother of the Groom (Miller 220)

UNIT FOUR: EXPLORING CONTEXTS

Poetry on Biography and Psychology

Poetry and Biography
37 Sylvia Plath: Daddy (Miller 259)
Poetry and Psychology
38 Marianne Moore: Silence (Miller 360)

Poetry on History and Society

Poetry and History
39 Galway Kinnell: For the Lost Generation (Miller 272)
Poetry and Society
40 Mari Evans: I am a Black Woman (Miller 287)

Poetry on Philosophy and Religion

Poetry and Philosophy
41 Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things (Miller 308)
Poetry and Religion
42 T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi (Miller 333)

Poetry on Mythology and Myth
43 Edgar Allen Poe: "To Helen" (Miller 382)
44 Louise Bogan: Medusa (Miller 375)
45 Hilda Doolittle: Helen (Miller 383)

Prescribed Text:
Kennedy, X.J. An Introduction to Poetry. Third Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974
Miller, Ruth and Robert A. Greenberg. Poetry: an Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981

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505. DRAMA (3 CR)

505.9 Drama as Stage Play

Course Description and Objectives:
This course attempts to provide students with comprehensive knowledge of drama and theate
from its origin to contemporary times. Apart from the literary value of drama, the course focuses
mainly on stagecraft and its development through the ages and the performative
conditions through the ages, including considerations of stage architecture, costumes,
lighting, use of masks, etc. On completion of the course students will be able to
understand, evaluate and criticize plays both as text and in terms of their performance, and
approach drama text as a stage play.

Unit 1
Origins of the Theatre:
Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece
The Roman Theatre
East and West: Crosscurrents of a Thousand Years
Sanskrit Drama
Chinese Drama
Western European Drama in the Late Middle Ages
Unit 2
Theatre from the Middle Ages to 18th Century:
Unit 3
Theatre and drama in Europe during the 19th Century:
Opera, Picturing and Acting
Theatre and Democracy
Romanticism: Theatre as Escape

Unit 4
Modern Theatre and Drama:
Rise of production as art
Machine-age developments: Moving pictures, Radio, Television
Theatre of the Absurd
Contemporary Drama
Theatre since 1970
South Asian Theatre

Prescribed Texts:
Brown, John Russel. The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Cheney, Sheldon. The Theatre: Three Thousand Years of Drama, Acting and Stagecraft.
David McKay,1972.
Brecht. Mother Courage and Her Children.
Fugard. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead.
Kalidasa. Shakuntala. (Cantos 1-3).
Moliere. Tartuffe.
Shakespeare. Hamlet
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
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505.10 Drama: A Survey Course

Course description: This is a survey course that comprisesd representative plays of major epochs in the history of drama. The course is divided into four units. The first unit, Greek to Medieval age, has two plays—Oedipus and Everyman. The second unit covers the period between Renaissance and the 18th century. It has three plays: King Lear, Tempest and Tartuffe. The third unit offers representative plays of the 19th and 20th centuries. The plays are Ghosts, The Doctor's Dilemma and Waiting for Godot. The fourth unit comprises of representative plays of the late 20th century drama. The plays are: M. Butterfly, Conduct of Life and Angels in America.

Course Objectives: The objectives of the course are the following:
• to enable the students understand the major epochs in the history of drama through ages.
• to provide students with comprehensive knowledge of the major movements in drama.

Unit 1: Greek to Medieval Period
Sophocles, Oediopus
Aristophanes, Frogs
Anonymous, Everyman

Unit 2: Shakespeare to 18th century
Shakespeare: King Lear
Tempest
Moliere, Tartuffe

Unit 3: 19th century to mid 20th century
Ibsen, Ghosts
Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Unit 4: Late 2oth Century
Hwang, M. Butterfly
Forme, Conduct of Life
Cushner: Angels in America

Recommended Reading: The Heath Anthology of Drama

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505.11 Drama from Beginning to the 19th Century (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
This is a comprehensive course in drama from the beginning to the 18th century. Apart from the prescribed plays, the course also offers by way of background, social, biographical and critical introductions as well as brief performance histories of the plays.
The course is divided into four units. They are: I) Introduction to Drama, ii) Greek to Medieval Drama iii) Renaissance Drama and IV) Seventeenth to 19th Century Drama.

Objectives: On completion of the course students will be able to:
- understand, evaluate and criticize plays.
- will be able to write about major figures in the development of drama in terms of their cultural context and stage history.
Unit I: Introduction: Thinking about Drama

Unit II: Greek to Medieval Drama
Origins of Greek Drama
Genres of Greek Drama
The Great Age of Greek Drama
Agamemnon, Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Lysistrata Aristophanes
Roman Drama
Medieval Drama

Unit III Renaissance Drama
Italian Drama
Elizabethan Drama
Spanish Drama
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, Shakespeare

Unit IV Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Drama
Restoration: Rebirth of Drama
Theatre on the Continent: Neoclassicism
Theatre in England: Restoration Comedy of Manners
Way of the World, William Congreve
Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie, August Strindberg
Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekov
Prescribed textbook: Jacobus A Lee: The Bedford Introduction to Drama (Fourth Edition). Bedford St.Martin’s Boston, 2001

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505.12 20th Century Drama (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
This is a comprehensive course in drama that reinforces the previous course, that is, 505.11. The course comprises of plays from the early 20th century to the contemporary times. Apart from the prescribed plays, the course also offers by way of background, social, biographical and critical introductions as well as brief performance histories of the plays.
The course is divided into four units. They are: I) Early 20th Century, ii) Mid 20th Century, iii) Contemporary Drama, and IV) Writing about Drama.
Objectives:
On completion of the course students will be able to:
-understand, evaluate and criticize plays.
-write reviews of plays
-will be able to write about major figures in the development of drama in terms - of their cultural context and stage history.
Unit I: Early 20th Century Drama
The Heritage of Realism
Realism and Myth
Myth and Culture
Poetic Realism
Social Realism
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello
The House of Bernarda Alba, Fredrico Garcia Lorca
Unit II Mid 20th Century
Realism and Expressionism
Antirealism
Epic Theatre
Absurdist Drama
The Lesson, Eugene Ionesco
Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Unit III Contemporary Drama
Experimentation
Theatre of Cruelty
Environmental Theatre
Poor Theatre
Theatre of Images
Gay and Lesbian Theatre and Other New Ensembles
Experiments with Theatre Space
Experimentation within the Tradition
Betrayal, Harold Pinter
True West, Sam Shepherd
Fences, August Wilson
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Tony Kushner
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh
How I Learned to Drive Paula Vogel
Unit IV Writing about Drama
Why Write about Drama?
Conventions in Writing Criticism about Drama
Approaches to Criticism
From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on Rising of the Moon
How to Write a Review?

Prescribed Textbook: Jacobus A Lee: The Bedford Introduction to Drama (Fourth Edition), Bedford, St. Martin’s Boston, 2001

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*510. REGIONAL STUDIES (3CR)

510.1 NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

This course intends to introduce the readers to a distinctive4 literature that has often been omitted from classrooms and course books. The traditional and the contemporary writings, with their rich cultural and often tragic historical contexts, have their roots in thousands of years of oral stories, ceremonies, and songs. Beginning with what non-natives have to say about Native American cultures and their literary traditions, the course offers the readers a wide variety of traditional and modern stories, poems, essays, and fiction by native authors from many tribes.

Unit 1 History and Criticism on native American Literature

Anthony Pagden: "The image of the barbarian"
Stephen Greenblat: "Marvelous Possessions"
Richard Slotkin: "The Significance of the Frontier Myth in American History"
-- "Cannibals and Christians"
-- "Regeneration through Violence: History as an Indian War 1675-1`820"
Alden Vaughan & Edward Clark: "Cups of Common Calamity: Puritan Captivity Narratives as Literature and History"
Margot Astrov: "The Power of the Word"
Andrew Wiget: "Oral Narrative"
-- "Oratory and Oral Poetry"
Hertha Wong: " Native American Self-narration and Autobiography Theory"
David Murray: "Autobiography and Autjorship"
Arnold Krupat: "Native American Literature and Canon"
-- "Local, National, and Cosmopolitan Literature"
Charles Eastman: "The Soul of an Indian

Unit 2 Traditional Stories

Turtle (Earth Grasper) [ An Iroquois story]
Crayfish (Earth Diver)
Navajo Emergence Myth
The Hopis and the Famine [Zuni]
The Girl Who Married the Bear [Tagish/Sioux Story]
Stone Boy: Persistent Hero [Lakota/Sioux Story]
Gitskux and His Older Brother [Clackamas Chinook story]
The Man Who Married the Moon [Isleta Pueblo]
Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden [Tewa]
How the People Got Arrowheads [Shasta]
Coyote and Wasichu [Brule Sioux]

Unit 3 Traditional Poetry

A Prayer of the Night Chant [Navajo]
A Sequence of Songs of the Ghost Dance Religion [Plains Indians]
A Speech of the Dead [Fox]
Song Sung Over a Dying Person [Chippewa]
Prayer to the Sun {Blackfoot]
From the Rite of Vigil [Osage]
The Song of the Maize [Osage]
Song of a Man Who Received a Vision [Teton Sioux]
Two Songs of Encouragement [Teton Sioux]
Rain Song [Pima}
Song to Pull Down the Clouds {Papago]
Two Rain Songs [Papago]
Songs of Maturation (Sung during the Girls' Puberty Rites) [Chiricahua]
That Mountain Far Away [Tewa]
Song of the Departing Spirit [Santo Domingo]
Song of the Spirit [Luiseno]
Love Song [Nootka]
Ulivfak's Song of the Caribou [Caribou Eskimo]
A Maya Prophecy [Yucatan]
War God's Horse Song 1 & 2 [Navajo]
Three Mide Songs and Picture Songs [Ojibwa]
The Broken Vase [Quechua]
Magic Words and More More Magic Words [Eskimo]
Lean Wolf's Complaint [Hidasta]
Songs and Song Pictures [Chippewa]

Unit 4 Autobiographical and Oratorical Writings

Samson Occom: A Short Narrative of My Life
William Apess: The Experiences of Five Christian Indian of the Pequot Tribe
J. B. Patterson (ed): Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kai-kiak, or Black Hawk
Thomas B. Marquis (ed): Wooden Leg, A Warrior Who Fought Custer
John G. Naihardt (ed): The Great Vision
Zitkala Sa: Impressions of an Indian Childhood
The School Days of an Indian Girl
An Indian Teacher among Indians (Masterpieces of Indian Literatures)
Paul Radin (ed): The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
Ruth Underhill (ed): Autobiography of a Papago Woman
Gerald Vizenor: Crows Written on the Poplars: Autocritical Autobiographies
Linda Hogan: The Two Lives
Chief Seatle's Speech
Chief Joseph's speech
Seneca Chief Red Jacket's Speech
Red Cloud's Speech to the Secretary of the Interior
Sharitarish "We Are Not Starving Yet"
Tecumseh: "We Must Be United"
Corn Tassel: "Let Us Examine the Facts"

Unit 5 Contemporary Writings
Section 1:
N. Scott Momaday:
The Way to Rainy Mountain
"Carriers of the Dream Wheel"
"Earth and I Gave You Turquoise"
"December 29, 1890"
Vision Beyond Time and Place
Leslie Marmon Silko:
Ceremony
"Indian Song: Survival"
Lullaby
Yellow Women and a Beauty of Spirit
The Storyteller
Paula Gunn Allen:
Grand Mother of the Sun: Ritual Gynocracy in Native America
Where I Come From Is Like This
We Are the Land
Simon Ortiz:
"For Our Brothers: Blue Jay, Gold Finch, Flicker, Squrrel"
"A Story of How a Wall Stands"
James Welch:
Winter in the Blood

Section 2
Sherman Alexie: "13/16"
Luci Tapahonso: "1864"
Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine
Fleur
"The Strange People"
Anna Lee Walters: The Warriors
Joy Harjo: "Deer dancer"
"The Woman Hanging from the 13th Floor
"Eagle Poem"
"Transformations"
"Skeleton of Winter"
Linda Hogan: Power
"The Truth Is"
"Blessings"
Wendy Rose: "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
"The Endangered Roots of a Person"
Vine Deloria: Indian Today, the Real and the Unreal

Recommended readings:

Deloria, Vine Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988
Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortiz (ed). American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Panthean Books
Greenblat, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991
Krupat, Arnold. The Voice of the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 19989.
Murray, David. Forked Tongue: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991
Nabokov, Peter (ed). Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Prersent 1491-1992. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Pagden, Anthony. The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
-- Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. New England: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
Trout, Lawana (ed). Native American Literature: An Anthology. Illinois: NTC Publishing Group, 1999.
Vaughan, Alden and Edward Clark (ed): Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of captivity and Redemption 1676-1724. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Wiget, Andrew. Native American Literature. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985.

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510.4. Nepalese Studies

The cultural nuances of a nation, its identities, histories, arts and literature, its creative and critical perspectives can be seen through double readings. On the one hand, there are others who see us, and on the other, there are people who read their own culture. Thus both "the others" and "we" determine what a nation is in its totality. The course in Nepali studies is developed taking into consideration the visions and insight of both readers who make opinions about the country. Nepal can be understood as a text as thou as well as we. The seeing travelers can produce texts that may contradict what and how we see us, and at the same time, can produce insights for making conceptual, factual and value-ridden categories about us. We too make ourselves known to the others who may be seeing us through ideological mindsets. Nepal has been an open text to many others, and we too have made opinions about us, and in this context of double seeing, this course can produce interdisciplinary perspectives about the culture that we know and continuously trying to know.

Unit 1. The Travelers and we
Fa Hsein's account of Nepal. Extracts
Hsuan Tsang account of Nepal. Extracts
Kawaguchi, Ekai's account of Nepal. Extracts
Coburn, Broughton. Selections from Nepali Ama: Life and Lessons of a Nepali Woman
and Ama in America.

Unit 2. Literature
Devkota, Laxmi Prasad. Shakuntala: "To the Reader" and "Canto one"
Paudyal, Lekhnath.
Katuwal, Haribhatta. "This Life, What is this Life"
Hutt, Michael, James. "Introduction" and "Nepali Poetry"

Unit 3. Culture and Religion

McDermott, Rachel Fell. "Western Kali"
Maxwell, TS. "Sexuality and Eroticism"
Shrestha, Gopal. "Visible and invisible Aspects of the Devi Dances in Sankhu, Nepal"
Bista, Dor Bahadur. "The Caste System in Nepal" and "Values and Personality Factors"
Quigley, Declan. "Caste and Kinship: Isogamy"

Unit 4. Society and Politics

Whelpton. John. "King and State in Pre-Rana Nepal"
Rana, Janga Bahadur. "Letters"
Baral, Lok Raj. "Political Culture and Political Process in Nepal"
Hofton, Martin, William Raeper & John Whelpton. "The Janandolan and Afterwards"
and "Democracy in a Multicultural Society"
Adams Vincanne. extracts from Doctors for Democracy

Students have to write two eight to ten page research papers based on the issues covered in the above four units.

References
Adams Vincanne. "Introduction" and "Science, fetishism, truth and privilege" from Doctors for Democracy
Baral, Lok Raj. "Political Culture and Political Process in Nepal" from Perspective, Continuity and Change.
Khatry, Prem K. et al. eds. Contribution to Nepalese Studies. Kirtipur: CNAS, 23:1 Jan 1996
Coburn, Broughton . Nepali Ama: Life and Lessons of a Nepali Woman and Ama in America
Devakota, Laxmi Prasad. Shakuntala
Dor Bd Bista. Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization and People of Nepal
Hawley, John Stratton & Dona Marie Wulff. eds. Devi: Goddesses of India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1996
Hofton, Martin, William Raeper & John Whelpton. People, Politics and Ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal.
Hutt, Michael, James. Himalyan Voices: An Introduction to Nepali Literature.
Kawaguchi, Ekai. Seven Years in Tibet. Madras Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909.
London, Percival. Nepal. vol. 1 New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1993.
Maxwell, TS. "Sexuality and Eroticism" from The Gods of Asia: Image, Text, and Meaning.
McDermott, Rachel Fell. "The Western Kali" in John Stratton Hawley & Dona Marie Wulff. eds. Devi: Goddesses of India.
Quigley, Declan. The Interpretation of Caste. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
Shrestha, Gopal. "Visible and invisible Aspects of the Devi Dances in Sankhu, Nepal" in Prem K. Khatry, et al. eds. Contribution to Nepalese Studies. Kirtipur: CNAS, 23:1 Jan 1996
Subedi, Abhi. Ekai Kawaguchi: The Trespassing Insider Kathmandu: Mandala, 1999.
Whelpton. John. Kings, Soldiers and Priests: N

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510.8 The 20th Century European and American Novels*(3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
This course will study representative texts of 20th century British and American modernism and post modernism. In addition to this, it will also examine certain major late 20th century novels to study how the issues of novelistic form are interlinked with those of gender and race.

Unit 1: Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Unit 2: Post-Modern Fiction
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Thomas Pynchon, Crying of the Lot 49

Unit 3: Late 20th Century Fiction (1)
V.S. Naipaul, Half a Life
John Fowels, French Lieutenant's Women
Unit 4: Late 20th Century Fiction (2)
Ben Okri, Famished Road
Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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*515: READING, WRITING, AND THINKING FOR THE PROFESSIONS (3 CR)

515.1 Technical Writing

Course description and Objectives: The course on Technical Writing is designed to enhance students’ professional and technical writing capabilities through writing activities. Emphasis will be given on components ranging from language mechanics to writing texts of various natures, from short memos and paragraphs to proposals.

Unit 1
Defining Technical Writing:
Introduction
Producing the Product
Objectives in Technical Writing
Audience Recognition and Involvement
Handbook:
Grammar
Punctuation
Mechanics
Spelling

Unit 2
Correspondence:
Memos
Letters
Job Search
Visual Appeal:
Document Design
Graphics

Unit 3
Electronic Communication:
Email, Online Help, and Web Sites
Technical Applications:
Technical Description
Instructions and User’s Manual
Unit 4.
Report Strategies:
Research
Summary
Reports
Proposals
Oral Presentations

Prescribed Text.
Gerson, Sharon J. and Steven M. Gerson. Technical Writing: Process and Product. 3rd Edition. India: Pearson Education Asia, 2000.

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515.2 Translation: Theory and Practice (1)* (3 Credits)

Translation: This course has been divided into two sections:
I. Translation and Theories of Translation: various concepts about translation and applications of different theories on translation (particularly of literary works or passages).
II Translation: By the end of the term students will produce 30 to 40 pages of translation.

Unit 1: The theory and the craft of translation
Unit 2: Translation as Discovery
Unit 3: Translation and various theories
Unit 4: Practical work of translation (at least 50 pages of literary work—Nepali into English)

Details:
Unit 1: Prescribed essays:
1. "The Theory and the Craft of Translation", Peter Newmark
2. "Translating the 'Third World' Cultures", Anuradha Dingwaney
3. "Toward a Theoretical Practice of Cross-Cultural Translation", Carol Maier
4. "Embargoed Literature", Edward Said
5. "Translation as Manipulation: The Power of Images", Sengupta
6. "Translation, Cultural Transgression and Tribute, and Leaden Feet", Mary N. Layoun
7. "'this is the oppressor's language/ yet I need it to talk to you': Language, a place of struggle", bell hooks
8. "Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching", Anuradha Dibgwaney and Carol Maier.

Unit 2: The following essays from Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee:

Translation as New Writing
Translation as Testimony
Translation as Perjury
Translation as Patriotism
Translation as Discovery

Unit 3: Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context, Tejaswini Niranjana, Hyderabad, India, 1992
Unit 4: Practical Work (Translation of literary texts). The student will be required to produce, by the end of the term, the translation of at least 50 pages of literary work/s from Nepali into English).
Texts:
1. For Unit 1: IACER Course Packet.
2. Translation as Discovery by Sujit Mukherjee:
3. Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context, Tejaswini Niranjana, Hyderabad, India, 1992

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525. INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR THESIS (3 CR)

525.1 Independent/Group Project

545. DISABILITY STUDIES (3CR)

545.2 The Disabled Body

Course Description and Objectives:
This course will study the constructions of disability from historical and political perspectives and examine how the disabled writers express themselves through the texts of non-fiction, poetry and fiction. Linking the issues surrounding disability with broader social and cultural concerns the course will culminate with an exploration of local institutions, practices and publications. The major objectives of this course will be to sensitize the students to the phenomenon of human disability and look at its form within and without.

Unit 1: Historical and political perspectives:
Martha Edwards: “Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece”
Margaret A Winzer: “Disability and society before the eighteenth century”
Lennard J. Davis: “Constructing normalcy”
Harlan Lane: “Constructions of deafness”
Erving Goffman: “Selections from Stigma”
Lerita M. Coleman: “Stigma: an enigma demystified”
Susan Sotang: “AIDS and its metaphors”
Unit 2: Disability and Writing: Non-Fiction
John Hockenberry: “Walking with the Kurds”
Nancy Mairs: “Carnal acts”
Ved Mehta: “Bells”
Mark O’ Brien: “The unification of Stephen Hawking”
Margaret Robison: “Renascence”
Barbara Rosenblum: “Living in an unstable body”
Joan Tollifson: “Imperfection is a beautiful thing: On disability and meditation”
Unit 3: Disability and Writing: Poetry and Fiction:
Elizabeth Clark: “Learning to speak”
Marilyn Hacker: “Cancer winter”
Edwards Nobles: “Heart ear”
Adrienne Rich: From “Contradictions: tracking poems”
Stanley Elkin: From “Her sense of timing”
Anne Finger: “Helen and Frida”
Kenny Fries: “Beauty and variations”
Raymond Luczak: “Ten reasons why Michael and Geoff never got it on”
Jean Stewart: “The interview”
Katinka Neuhof: “Blue baby”
Unit 4: Disability, Culture, Society
Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine: “Nurturance, sexuality and women with disabilities”
H. Dirksen Bauman and Jennifer Drake: “Silence is not without voice”
David Hevey: “The Enfreakment of photography”
Nicholas Mirzoeff: “Blindness and art”
Rosemary Garland Thomson: “Feminist theory, the body and the disabled figure”

Field trips: Collection and presentation of materials relating to disability in Nepal

Prescribed texts:
Davis, Lennard J., ed. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997
Fries, Kenny ed. Staring Back: The Disability Experience from Inside out. New York:
Plume, 1997.

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*550 GLOBALIZATION AND IMMIGRATION STUDIES (3 CR)

550.2 Theories and Literatures of Globalization
The course will examine the themes, locations and representations of globalization. The aim of the course will be to examine the phenomenon of globalization from a variety of theoretical perspectives and to see how its processes are embodied in specific texts and contexts.

Unit One: Theories and Issues of Globalization
Wallerstein: Historical capitalization and capitalist civilization
Appadurai: "Disjuncture and Difference"; "Patriotism and its futures"
"The production of locality" From Modernity at Large
Anthony Mcgraw: "A Global society?"
Barrie Axford: The Global system
Jan Nederveen Pieterse: "Globalization as Hybridization"
Kanafani: Men under the sun

Unit Two: Global/ Local
Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake: "Introduction: Tracking the Global/ Local"
Arif Dirlik: "The Global and the Local" Mike Featherstone: "Localism, Globalism and cultural identity"
Dana Polan: "Globalism's localisms"
Karen Kelsky: "Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial sex in Japan's International age"
Masao Miyoshi: "A Borderless world? From colonialism to transnationalism and the decline of the nation state"
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines

Unit Three: Globalization, culture, Immigraion
Ella Shohat and Robert Stam: "From the Imperial family to the Transntional imaginary: Media spectatorship in the Age of Globalization."
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto: "Real Virtuality"
Ackbar Abbas: "Introduction: Culture in a space of disappearance"
Selections from Pico Iyer's Video Night in Kathmandu

Unit Four: Globalization and Nepal
Student Presentations

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550.3 Theories of Globalization* (3 Credits)

Course Description and Objectives:
The course will examine the themes, locations and representations of globalization. The aim of the course will be to examine the phenomenon of globalization from a variety of theoretical perspectives and to see how its processes are embodied in specific texts and contexts.

Unit 1 Debating Globalization
1. Introduction
2. Serge Halimi: "When Market Journalism Invades the World"
3. Benjamin Barber: "Jihad vs. Mc World"
Unit 2 Explaining Globalization
4.E.J. Hobsbawm: "The World Unified"
5.Immanual Wallerstein: "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System"
6.Leslie Sklair: "Sociology of the Global System"
7.Saskia Sassen: "Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Foundation of New Claims"
8.Jan Nederveen Pieterse: "Globalization as Hybridization"
Unit 3 Experiencing Globalization
9.Pico Iyer: Bali: "On Prospero's Isle/the Philippines: Born in the USA"
10. David Harvey: "Time- space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force"
Unit 4 Economic Globalization
11. William Greider: "Wawasan 2020"
12. Miguel Korzeniewicz: "Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry"
13. Ted C. Fishman:"The Joys of Global Investment"
14. Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath: "Gender and Poverty: An Analysis for Action"
15. Matthew J. Slaughter and Phillip Swagel: "Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?"
16.Gary Burtles et al.: "Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade"
17.Amnesty International: "AI on Human Rights and Labor Rights"
Unit 5 Political Globalization I: The Demise of the Nation- State?
18.Cionnie L. Mc Neely: "The Determination of Statehood"
19.Kenichi Ohmae: "The End of the Nation State"
20. World Trade Organization:"Seven Common Misunderstandings about the WTO"
Unit 6 Political Globalization II: Reorganizing the World
21.Larry Diamond: "The Globalization of Democracy"
22.Nitza Berkovitch:"The emergence and Transformation of the International Women's Movement"
23.John Boli and George M. Thomas: "World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization"
24.Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury: "The UN's Roles in International Society Since 1945"
Unit 7 Cultural Globalization I: The Role of Media
25.Sean MacBride and Colleen Roach: "The New International Information Order"
26. Lewis A. Friedland: "Covering the World"
Unit 8 Cultural Globalization II: Constructing Identities
27. Arjuna Appadurai: "Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Cultural Economy"
28. Ulf Hannerz: "Scenarios for Peripheral Culture"
29. Frank J. Lechner: "Global Fundamentalism"
Unit 9 Changing World Society: Environmentalism and the Globalization of the Social Problems
30.WCED. : "From One Earth to One World"
31.Paul Wapner: "Green peace and Political Globalism"
32.Margeret E. Keck and Karthryn Sikkink: " Environmental Advocacy Networks"

Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli, ed. The Globalization: Reader.Maldan, Massachusetts:Blackwell Publishers,2000.

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*570. INTERDISCIPLINARY CULTURAL PRACTICES (3 CR)

570.3 Literature and Environment

This course will make a philosophical and sociological inquiry about the concept of 'environmental world view.' Raising the issues of environmental politics and ethics from past to the present, the course will culminate into depiction of environment in literary works of art. The course will mainly focus on the place of 'the earth and the environment' in philosophical, sociological, literary, political and ethical discussions. It will explore questions as – what is human's place on earth and the earth's position in the cosmos? What is anthropocentricism and biocentrism? How has environmental history shaped the arts—literature in particular? What have been the conceptions of 'place, environment, and nature' from age to age, and how has literature responded to environmental crisis?

Unit 1. Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives
E. Gadon, "The Ice Age: The Earth as Mother"
L. Nelson, "Reading the Bhagavad-Gita from an Ecological Perspective"
L. Reid, from The Sociology of Nature
R. Carson, from Silent spring
Lynn White Jr, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecolological Crisis"
J.E. Lovelock, from Gaia Hypothesis
Val Plum Wood, "Nature, Self and Gender"
John H. Aimes, "The Creative Spirit in Art and Literature"
William Rueckert, "Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism"

Unit 2: Nature in Literature (1)
"The Forest Journey" from The Epic of Gligamesh.
S.T.Coleridge, from Anima poetae
Crevocoeur, from "Sketches of 18th Century America"
R. Emerson, from Nature
C. Darwin, from Voice of HMS Beagle
H. Thoreau, "Walking"
John Muir, "The Windstorm in the Forest"
Rene Dubos, from The Wooing of Earth.
N.S.Momaday, "A First America Views His Land"

Unit 3: Nature in Literature (2)
W. Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey"
P. Shelley, "Mont Blanc"
J. ts, "To Autumn," "To a Fallen Elm"
G. Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"
W. Whitman, " QA Song of the Rolling Earth"
R. Frost, "A Brook in the City"
W. Stevens, "Snow man"
Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Philip Larkin, "Going Going"

Unit 4: Political and Ethical Perspectives
Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic"
Neol Perria, Forever Virgin, the American View of America"
W. Kempton, "Environmental Values"
Paul W. Taylor, "The Ethics for Respect of Nature"
Robert Bullard. "Environmentalism and Social Justice"
Edward O Wilson, "The Environmental Ethic"
David J. Kalupahna, "Toward a Middle Path of Survival"
Lawrence Buell, "New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities"

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570.4* Communicating Across Cultures (3 Credits)
Course Background
People of different cultures not only speak different languages but they speak and use languages in different ways. These differences can reflect different cultural values and may lead to serious and profound misunderstanding if they are not aware of these differences while interacting with the people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in a cross-cultural setting. It is therefore important that people have an understanding of how people of different cultures use language.
Objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of how languages are used in a variety of cultures. By providing background knowledge on language, culture and identity, the course focuses on the speech styles and discourse conventions of different language communities and the cultural values reflected in those speech styles and discourse patterns.
1. Language, Culture and Identity
Language, Attitudes and Behaviours
Cross-cultural pragmatics
Contrastive discourse analysis
2. Talking Across Cultures
Speech acts and speech styles across cultures
• English and European languages
• English and Asian languages
3. Writing Across Cultures
Cultural thought patterns and discourse conventions
Discourse across cultures
4. Cultural Meanings in World Englishes
Transfer of L1 pragmatic norms and cultural conventions in to English
Which language, which culture, whose communicative competence?
Recommended readings

Language Culture and Identity
Edwards, John. "Language, Attitudes and Behaviour". Language, Society and Identity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 139-158.
Weirzbicka, Anna. "Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts". Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 1991. 25-65.
Riley, Philip. "'Well, Don't Blame Me': On the Interpretation of Pragmatic Errors." Contrastive Pragmatics. Ed. Wieslaw Oleyksy. Amsterdam: Jonh Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989. 231-249.
Fitzgerald, Helen. "Misunderstandings in Cross-Cultural communication: The Influence of Different Value Systems as Reflected in Spoken Discourse." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 19.1:1996. 21-37.
Fong, M. The Crossroads of Language and Culture.” Intercultural Communication. Eds. L.A. Samovar and R. E. Porter, London: Wadsworh Publishing Company, 2000. 211-216.

Talking Across Cultures
Brown, R. and M. Ford, "Address in American English." Language in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology, Ed. Dell Hymes. New York: Harper and Row, 1964. 234-244.
Goddard, D. "Same Setting, Different Norms: Phone Call Beginnings in France and the United States, Language in Society 6 (1977): 209-219.
Scollon R. and SBK Scollon. “Topic Confusion in Asian-English Discourse.” World Englishes 10.2 (1991): 112-125.
Doi, Tako, "Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure." Japanese Language and Culture: Selected Readings, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1974.
Lo Castro, V. "Aizuchi: A Japanese Conversational Routine." Discourse Across Cultures Ed. Larry Smith. NY: Prentice Hall 1987. 101-113.
Sridhar, Kmal K., "The Pragmatics of South Asian English." South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users, Ed. Robert Baumgardner, Delhi: OUP, 1996. 141-157.
Turin, Mark, "Call Me Uncle: An Outsider's Experience of Nepali Kinship." Contributions to Nepalese Studies 28.2 (2001): 277-283.
Nash, Walter, "Speak Like a Native." Stand 18.1 (1977): 12-19.
Parkinson, Joy, "English Language Problems of Overseas Doctors Working in the UK." English Language Teaching Journal 34.2 (1980): 51-156.
Writing Across Cultures
Kaplan, Robert B., "Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-Cultural Education." Landmark Essays on ESL Writing, Eds. Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda, 2001. 11-26.
Connor, Ulla, "Historical Evolution of Contrastive Rhetoric: From Kaplan's 1966 Study to diversification in languages, genres and authors." Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects Second Language Writing. Cambridge: CUP, 1996. 28-55.
Connor, Ulla and Janice Lauer, Cross-Cultural Variation in Persuasive Student Writing." Writing Across Languages and Cultures: Issues in Contrastive Rhetoric, Ed. Alan C. Purves. London: Sage Publications, 1988.138-159.
Kirkpatrick, Andy, "Chinese Rhetoric: Methods of Argument." Multilingua 14.3 (1995).
Tyler, A, "Discourse, Structure and Specification of Relationship: A Cross Linguistic Analysis." Tex 12 (1992): 1-18.
Friedlander, Alexander, "Composing in English: Effects of a First Language on Writing in English as a Second Language." Second Language Writing: Research Insights for the Classroom, Ed. Barbara Kroll. Cambridge: CUP, 1997. 109-125.

Cultural Meaning in World Englishes
Kirkpatrick, Andy, "Which Language, Which Culture? Regional Englishes in Contemporary Asia." Asian Englishes, 1.2 (1998): 75-85.
Kachru, Yamuna, "Cultural Meanings in World Englishes: Speech Acts and Rhetorical Styles". Languages and Cultures in Multilinual Societies, Ed. Makhan Lal Tickoo, 1995. 176-194.
Li, David, "Incorporating L1 Pragmatic Norms and Cultural Values in L2: Developing EIL English Language Curriculum for EIL for the Asia Pacific Region." Asian Englishes, 1.1 (1998): 31-50.
Kachru, Braj B., "Meaning in Deviation: Toward Understanding Non-Native English Texts." The Other Tongue: English Across Cultures, Ed. Braj B. Kachru. Urbana: University of Illionois Press, 1992. 301-326.
Bhatia, V. K., "Nativization of Job Applications in South Asian English." South Asian English: Structure, Use and Users, Ed. Robert Baumgardner, Delhi: OUP, 1996. 158-173.

590 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH (3 CREDITS)

595 THESIS (6 CREDITS)

M. Phil. in English

600. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN RECENT TRENDS IN LITERATURE, COMMUNICATION, AND RESEARCH (3 CR)

600.7 Introduction to Literature and Society: The Case of Modernism

Course Description and Objectives:
A preliminary introduction to modernism and a discussion of a few major modern writers in their social contexts, and social responsiveness as seen through the prisms of their art.

Unit 1: Modernism:
Paul Valery. “Remarks on Poetry.”
Gerard Genette. “Order in Narrative.”
Roberts Scholes. “Towards a Semiotics of Literature.”
Georg Lukacs. “The Ideology of Modernism.”
Raymond Williams. “Modernism and the Metropolis.”

Unit 2: Poetry
W. B. Yeats. “The Second Coming,” “A Prayer for my Daughter,”
“Sailing to Byzantium,” “Leda and the Swan” “Among School Children,” “Politics.”
T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land
Robert Frost. “Home Burial,” “West Running Brook,”
“Death of the Hired Man.”
Wallace Stevens. “Sunday Morning,” “Pater Quince at the Clavier,” “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Emperor of Ice-cream.”

Unit 3: Fiction:
Kafka. “The Metamorphosis.”
`Faulkner. “Barn Burning,” “A Rose for Emily.”
Joyce. “Araby,” “The Dead.”

Unit 4: Drama:
Pinter. The Dumb Waiter
Beckett. Krapp’s Last Tape
Miller. Death of a Salesman

Prescribed Texts:
Course Packet

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610. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN TEACHING LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (3 cr)

610.5 Reading, Writing, Thinking, Teaching
This course will provide theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching language and literature. The student will learn interdisciplinary mode of thinking in relationship to reading, writing and teaching. This course attempts to improve the methods and approaches providing useful guidance to the students.

Unit 1. Story of English (1)

Unit 2. Story of English (2)

Unit 3. Films and Fiction
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
D. H.Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Apocalypse Now
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Unit 4. Theory and Practice of Reading and Writing
Odell, Lee: “Discourse Theory: Implication for Research in Composing”
Britton, James: “The Composing Processes and the Function of Writing”
Young, Richard E: “Paradigms and Problems: Needed Research in Rhetorical Invention”
Barritt, Loren S and Barry M. Kroll: “Some Implications of Cognitive-Developmental Psychology for Research in Composing”
Emig, Janet: Hand, Eye, Brain: Some “Basics” in the Writing Process”
Murray, Donald M: “Internal Revision: A Process of Discovery”
Grabe, William: Discourse Analysis and Reading Instruction”
Kramsch, Claire: “Rhetorical Models of Understanding”
Knott, Deborah: “Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing”

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625. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN RECENT TRENDS IN CRITICISM
AND THEORY 1 (3 cr)

625.1 Recent Trends in Criticism and Theory (1)
This seminar will begin by orienting the students to the intellectual and historical roots and contexts of contemporary literary theories. Beginning the course with such theories as phenomenological criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, Marxist theory, feminist theory, psychological criticism and formalism we will move on to discuss certain current developments in criticism as performance theory; studies of postmodernism and post-colonialism; Studies of sexuality and cross-dressing; and interdisciplinary modes of study that relate literature with such fields as sociology, anthropology and environment

Unit 1. Roots and Contexts, Major Theoretical Texts (1)
Jonathan Culler: “Literary Theory”
Ferdinand de Saussure. "The Nature of Linguistic Sign"
Gerard Genette. "Structuralism and Literary Criticism"
Roland Barthes. "The Death of the Author"
Jacques Derrida. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences"
Michel Faucault. "Truth and Power" Theory since Plato. pp 1135-1145.
Jacques Lacan. "The Mirror Stage"
Edward Said. “Introduction” from Orientalism
Homi Bhaba: “Interrogating Identity” From The Location of Culture,
E. Showalter. "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness"
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattri. from "Anti-Oedupus: Capitalism and Psychoanlysis”
Hayden White. "The Historical Text as Literary Artifacts"

Unit 2. Roots and Contexts, Major Theoretical Texts (2)
Joseph Natoli. "Tracing a Beginning through Past Theory Voices"
Daniel Stemple. "History and Postmodern Literary Theory"
Eva Corredor. "Socio-critical and Marxist Theory"
Irene Harvey. "The Well-springs of Deconstruction"
Temma F Berg. "Psychologies of Reading"
A.C. Goodoon. "Structuralism and Critical History in the moment of Bakhtin"
Caroline J. Allen. "Feminist Criticism and Postmodernism"
Gregory Colomb. "The Semiotic Study of Literary Theory"
Robert Scholes: “Canonicity and Textuality”
Louis Montrose. "New Historicisms"
Gerald Graff and Bruce Robbins. "Cultural Criticism"
David Bathrick: “Cultural Studies”

Unit 3. Recent Developments (1): Modernism, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism
Jean-Francois Lyotard: “Introduction” from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Jurgen Habermas. "Modernity versus Postmodernity"
Andreas Huyssen. "Mapping the Postmodern"
Frederic Jameson. from "Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
Homi Bhaba. "Postcolonial Criticism"
Cary Nelson, Treichler and Grossberg: “Cultural studies: An introduction”
Fiske: “Cultural Studies and the culture of everyday life”
Stuart Hall: “Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies”
Glover and Kaplan: “Guns in the house of culture? Crime fiction and the politics of the popular”
Stallybrass: “Shakespeare, the individual and the text
Lata Mani: “Cultural theory, colonial texts: reading eyewitness accounts of widow burning”

Unit 4. Recent Developments (2): Feminism and Studies of Sexuality, Performance Theory
Naomi Schor: “Feminist and Gender Studies”
Eva Kosofsky Segdwick. from Epistemology of the Closet
Marzori Garber. "Introduction: Vice Verca"
. . ._ "Erotic Education"
. . ._ "Introduction: Clothes Make the Man"
. . . _ "Dress Codes, or the Theatricality of Difference"
. . . _ "Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender"
Greselda Pollock. "Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity"
Craig Ownes. "The Discourse of Others"
David Savran. "Queer Masculinities"
Judith Butler: “Introduction” and “The Lesbian phallus”
Richard Schechner. "Drama, Script, theater, and performance"
. . . _ "Toward a poetics of performance"
Peggy Phelan. "Introduction: The Ends of Performance"
Della Pollock. "Performing Writing"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. "Teaching 'Experimental Critical Writing'"

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625.2 Postcolonial Theory

The course will examine some of the key theoretical terms and issues in the field including agency and resistance, ideology and discourse, and subalternity and representation. After interrogating how heterogeneous postcolonial identities are performed at various global/ local spaces the course will conclude by studying some of the major texts of postcolonial fiction.

Unit 1: Theoretical Issues
Franz Fanon: "Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness."
Edward Said: ""Discrepant Experiences."
Homi Bhabha: "Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism."
Gayatri Spivak: "The Burden of English."
Robert Young: "Colonialism and the Desiring Machine."
Stephen Slemon: Post-colonial Critical Theories

Unit 2: Locations: Indian, African, Carribean
Ranajit Guha: "The Prose of Counter-Insurgency."
Partha Chatterjee: "The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question"
Rajeshwori Sunder Rajan: "Representing Sati, Continuities and Discontinuities"
R. Radhakrishnan: "Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity."
Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness."
Kwame Anthony Appiah: "African Identities."
Neil Lazarus: "Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of the Times: Afropop and the Paradoxes of Imperialism."
Stuart Hall: "Negotiating Carribean Identities."

Unit 3: Fictional Representations
Gandhi: The Story of My Experience with Truth.
Armah: Beautyful Ones are not yet Born

Unit 4: Student Presentations

References:
Ed. Gregory Castle, Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Massachusettes: Blackwell, 2001

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630. INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR M. PHIL. THESIS (3 CR)

The students will work with the members of the research committee in the field/area of their individual interests. This may also be a preparation for the M. Phil thesis, which they will write, in the next semester.
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640. ETHNIC IDENTITIES: RACE, CLASS, GENDER (3 CR)

640.1: Race and Identity Studies
This course deals with the issues of Identity in relation to the voices of the margin representing Race, Class and Gender. It discusses Native American, African American, Asia American and Hispanic American texts that highlight the issues of immigration, the quest for self and identity in the context of globalization as a major unifying cultural and economic force.

Unit 1. Theorizing Identity, Globalization, Immigration
Roman Jakobson: “Introduction,” “The Political History of Whiteness”
Rajchman: “Introduction: The Question of Identity”
Joan Scott: “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity”
Cornel West: “A matter of life and death;” “The New cultural politics of difference”
Chantal Mouffe: “Democratic politics and the question of identity”
Homi Bhabha: “Freedom’s basis is indeterminate”
Balibar: “Culture and Identity”
Henry Louis GateS, Jr: “’Ethnic and Minority’ Studies”
Radhakrishnan: “Ethnic identity and poststructuralist difference”
Fredric Jameson: “On Cultural Studies”
Arjun Appadurai: “Disjuncture and Difference in global cultural economy;” “Patriotism and its futures”
Paula Gunn Allen: “’Border’ Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color”

Unit 2. Native American Narratives, African American Identities in Question.
Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
Ronald Takaki: Stranger from a different shore

Unit 3. Cultural identities in Asian American texts, Hispanic identities
Lahiri, Jhumpa : Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond
Theresa Cha: Dictee
Cisneros: House on Mango Street

Unit 4. Films
The Joy Luck Club
Mississippi Masala
Dances with the Wolves
Like Water Like Chocolate

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647. INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
AND RESEARCH (3 CR)

647.1 Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

Course Description and Objectives:
This course focuses on the nature of education in the Humanities that has been taking interdisciplinary pedagogic shape. The seminar looks at the nature of education as a discourse of humanities in general and engages in a debate about discursive modes, practices, and borders in the present mode of education.

Unit 1: Linguistics:
Ferdinand de Saussure: “Language, a Well-defined object”
Roman Jakobson: “Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning”
Noam Chomsky: “Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Mind” in Language and Mind
Benjamin Lee Whorf: “Linguistic Relativity”
J. L. Austin: “Speech Acts Theory”

Unit 2: Cultural Anthropology:
Levi-Strauss: “Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology”
Roland Barthes: “The World Of Wrestling,” “Steak and Chips” in Mythologies
Jacques Lacan: “The Mirror Stage”
Louis Althusser: “Ideological State Apparatuses”

Unit 3: Sociology and History:
Karl Marx: “Idealism and Materialism” in German Ideology and Capital
Mark Weber: “The Spirit of Capitalism” in The Protestant Ethic and Capitalist Civilization
Czeslaw Miloz: “On Hope”
Walter Benjamin: “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

Unit 4: Research Methodology:
Research Methods
Research Designs
Student Research and Presentations

Prescribed Books:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: MLA, 2000.
Widenborner, Stephen and Domenick Caruso. Writing Research Papers: A Guide to Process. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Course Packet

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655.1 Theory and Practice of Popular Culture
Course Description: Cultural Studies focuses on First World cultural forms and they relate to global systems of production and consumption. Culture provides a site for confronting and unraveling the intertwined relationships among race, class, and gender in the context of the overarching question of commodification. This course will examine a sampling of popular culture forms and practices from a theoretical and ethnographic point of view. Students will read and discuss critical essays pertaining to the following areas:
--subcultures primarily organized around music consumption, like pop music and MTV.
--looking at architecture and use of space as a medium for promoting consumption, like
shopping malls to amusement parks
--the informal system of pedagogy found in children’s commercial culture, like toy cultures, soap operas and romance—is romance escape or a tool for coping?, like women’s popular fiction.
--intellectual and society: their relationship is significant as it defines the context out of which theory is produced and implies the question of social change.

Unit 1. Culture, Civilization, Culturalism
John Storey. “Introduction” from Part One
Matthew Arnold. “Culture and Anarchy”
F.R Leavis. “Civilization and Minority Culture”
John Storey. “Introduction” from Part Two
Raymond Williams. “The Analysis of Culture”
Michael F. Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure. “Reading and Writing about American
Popular Culture”

Unit 2. Theories
John Storey. “Introduction” from Part Three
Sigmund Freud. “The Dream Work”
Roland Barthes. “Myth Today”
Will Wright. “The Structure of Myth & The Structure of the Western Film”
Michael Foucault. “Method”
John Storey. “Introduction” from Part Four
Karl Marx. “Base and Superstructure”
Antonio Gramsci. “Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State”
Mikhail Bakhtin. “Carnival and Carnivalesque”
John Storey. “Introduction” from Part Five
Janice Radway. “Reading Reading the Romance
Jacqueline Bobo. “The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers”
Christine Geraghty. “Soap Opera and Utopia”

Unit 3. Contemporary Cultural Texts
“Advertising”
“Television”

Unit 4. Culture and Entertainment
“Popular Music”
“Movies”
“Leisure”

Texts:
Petracca, Michael F. &Madeleine Sorapure. Common Culture: Reading & Writing about
America. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995
Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Athens: University of
Georgia, 1998.

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680. PRACTICAL COMPOSITION (3 CR)

680.1 Media Practices and Communicative Contexts
Course Description: We will interrogate a number of interrelated concepts including ‘Communication Theory,’ ‘Codes,’ ‘Signification,’ Semiotics,’ ‘Structuralism,’ and ‘Ideology’ to study contemporary media practices and communicative contexts.

Unit 1.
John Fiske. “Introduction: What is Communication”:
“Communication Theory”
“Other Models”
“Communication, Meaning, and Signs”
“Codes”
“Signification”

Unit 2.
John Fiske. “Semiotic Methods and Applications”
“Structuralist Theory and Applications”
“Empirical Method”
“Ideology and Meanings”
“Conclusion”

Unit 3.
Richard Dimbleby and Graeme Burton: “What is Communication?”
---. “Interpersonal Communication”
---. “Communication in groups”

Unit 4.
Richard Dimbleby and Graeme Burton: “Communication in Organizations”
---. “Mass Communication”
---. “Communication and media skills”

Texts:
Dimbleby, Richard & Graeme Burton. More than Words: An Introduction to Communication. London: Routledge, 1996
Fiske, John. Introduction to Communication Studies. London, Routeledge, 1990.

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685. SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (3 CR)

685.1 Comprehending, Responding, and Relating to Nature (3 cr)
Course Description: What is Nature and what is our place in it? This course will examine these questions as expressed in religion, philosophy, science, and literature and arts from ancient times to the present. This course will be structured around three themes: the comprehension of Nature, the human response to Nature, and the human relationship to Nature. The first theme—the comprehension of Nature—will be examined in religious speculation, philosophical analysis, and scientific investigation. The other two themes will be interwoven with this theme; the human response to Nature as exemplified in the arts and literature, and the human relationships to Nature will be seen in the formulations and debates overt the existential and ethical issues embodied in this theme.

Unit 1: The Comprehension of Nature
Religion: Vedas:
Hymn to Earth
The Mighty Earth
Knowing the Earth (from Bhumimantra)
The Elements (Mahabhutani)
The Story of Demetries from Greek Myths
Thanksgiving Address (Native American)

Philosophy:
Eliot Deutsch. “A Metaphysical Grounding for Natural Reverence: East/West.”
Arthur Schopenhauer. “The Will in Nature.”
Immanuel Kant. “Imaginative Faculty and Function of Art.”
William Blake. “The Eternal World of Vision.”
W.B. Yeats. “Symbol as Revelation.”

Science:
Charles Dickens. “The Struggle for Existence and Natural Selection.”
Werner Heisenberg. “Non-Objective Science and Uncertainty.”

Unit 2: The Human Response to Nature
Literature:
Walt Whitman. “A Song of Rolling Earth.”
William Wordsworth. “Tintern Abbey.”
Ralph Emerson. from “Nature.” (Finch)
Henry David Thoreau. from “Walden.” (Finch)
John Ruskin. from “Modern Painters.”
John Muir. “A Windstorm in the Forest.”
N. Scott Momaday. from “A Way to Rainy Mountain.”
Kalidas. “Ritusamhar.”
Rainer Maria Rilke. “Penetration of Things: Nature, Man, and Art.”
Leslie Marmon Silko. “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination”

Arts:
J.M.W. Turner. “Steamboat in Snowstorm.”
John Constable. “Wivenhoe Park.”
Umberto Bocioni. “Street Noises Invade the House.”
Salvador Dali. “Persistence of Memory.”

Unit 3: The Human Relationship to Nature
Existence:
Arthur Lovelock. “Gaia Hypothesis”
Kenneth K. Inada. “Environmental Problematics.”
David E. Fisher. “The Nature of Nature.”
A.N. Whitehead. “Nature as Organism.”
D.H. Lawrance. “Death of Pan.”

Ethics/Faith:
Oscar Wilde. “The Priority of Art.”
Pablo Picasso. “Art as Individual Idea.”
Andre Gide. “Natural Joy.”
Paul W. Taylor. From “The Ethics of Respect for Nature.”
William Rueckert. “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Eco-Criticism.”
On Human Connectedness and Nature.
John Benson “Environments and Environmental Ethics.”
Richard and Val Routley. “Environmental Ethics in Practice.”
Sacred Space: The Relationship between Human and Land.
Graham Parkes. “Human/Nature in Nietzsche and Taoism.”
Lynn White, Jr. form “The Historical roots of our Ecological Crisis.”
Harold J Morowitz. “Biology as Cosmological Science.”
F T Marinetti. “The Joy of Mechanical Force.”
John Dewey. “Thought as a Natural Event.”

Unit 4.
Students’ Writing

Texts:
Benson, John. Environmental Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames, eds. Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. New York: State U of New york P, 1989.
Ellmann, Richard and Charles Feidelson. Jr. The Modern Tradition. New York. OUP, 1965.
Finch, Robert and John Elder, eds. The Norton Book of Nature Writing. N.Y.: Norton and Company, 1990.
Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm, eds. The Ecocriticism Reader. London: University of Georgia, 1995.
Goldfarb, Theodore D. Environmental Studies. New York: McGraw Hill, 2000.
Guirard, Felix. ed. New Laroosse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Paris: Hamlyn, 1993
Panniker. Matramanjari :Vedic Experience
Shore, William H, ed. The Nature of Nature. New York: Harcourt, 1994.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Norton and Company, 1973.

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*690 M. PHIL. THESIS (9 CR)

Students will be required to complete their M. Phil. dissertation by working closely with their adviser and other members of the research committee.

Compulsory Courses:

*405 Writing:
405.1 Poetry Workshop
405.2 Fiction Workshop
405.3 Memoir and Personal Essay
405.4 Business Writing
405.5 Professional Writing: Administration
405.6 Professional Writing: Computer Related Industries
405.7 English in Journalism
405.8 Writing in the Genres
*425 Criticism and Theory
425.1 Critical Approaches to Literature
425.2 Introduction to Literary Theory
*455 English Prose
455.1 Discourse in Discipline
*470 Western Intellectual Traditions
470.1 History of Ideas
470.2 Founders of Discursivity: Freud and Marx
470.3 Discourse and Difference: Foucault and Derrida
470.4 Marxism and Society
470.5 The Intellectual as Writer: Jean Paul Sartre, Vaclav Havel, Raymond Williams
*510 Regional Studies
510.1 Native American Studies
510.2 South Asian Studies
510.3 Tibetan Studies
510.4 Nepalese Studies
510.5 Introduction to Non-Western Literature
510.6 Pan-Asian Studies
510.7 The Impact of Internet on East Asian Literatures and Cultures
*515 Reading, Writing and Thinking for the Professions
515.1 Technical Writing
*550 Globalization and Immigration Studies
550.1 Globalization, Immigration, and Postcolonial Identity
550.2 Theories and Literatures of Globalization
550.3 Post-colonial and Globalization Studies
550.4 Alien Entrances: Nineteenth Century Asian Immigrants to Britain
550.5 Asians in America
550.6 History and the South Asian Diaspora
550.7 Translocations: Cultures, Nations, Globe
*570 Interdisciplinary Cultural Practices
570.1 Literature and Law
570.2 Literature and Medicine
570.3 Literature and Environment
570.4 Sociology, Literature and Theory
570.5 Literature and Censorship
570.6 Literature and Human Rights
570.7 Literature and Science
570.8 Psychological Approaches to Literature

M. Phil
*647 Interdisciplinary Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences, and Research
*690 M.Phil. Thesis

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IACER

Courses offered in the spring semester 2003:

MA Level
Semester 1
401.3 Foundations of Western Literature
403.15 A Critical Survey of British and American Literature
405.7* English in Journalism
420.2 Linguistics for Literature
425.1* Critical Approaches to Literature

Semester 2
450.8 The Modern Novel
455.1* Discourse in Disciplines
470.1* History of Ideas
475.6 Essays in Literature and Philosophy
480.4 The Self and other Cultural Encounters: Texts and Contexts

Semester 3
440.1 Environmental Composition
501.1 Native American Studies
505.1 Drama: A Survey Course
515.1* Technical Writing
525.1 Independent Studies

Semester 4
403.15 A Critical Survey of British and American Literature
420.2 Linguistics for Literature
440.1 Environmental Composition
595 Thesis (6 credits)

M. Phil. Level

Semester 1 (Spring 2003)

600.7 Introduction to Literature and society: The Case of Modernism
625.1 Recent Trends in Literary Theory (1)
640.1 Race and Identity Studies
*647.1 Interdisciplinary Studies

Semester 2 (Fall 2003)

630 Independent Study
655.1 Theory and Practice of Pop Culture
680.1 Media Practices and Communicative Contexts
685.1 Comprehending, Responding and Relating to Nature

Semester 3
Writing (non-credit)
690 Thesis Writing (9 credits)

Fall Semester 2003
First Semester:
401.3 Foundations of Western Literature
403.15 A Critical Survey of British and American Literature
405.8 Writing for Academic Purposes*
420.3 Linguistics for Literature
425.2 Introduction to Literary Theory*
Second Semester:
450.9 The 18th and 19th Century Novels
455.1 Discourse in Disciplines*
470.2 History of Ideas*
500.10 Poetry I
505.11 Drama from the Beginning to 18th Century
Third Semester:
440.1 Environmental Composition
500.9 Poetry: A Survey of Major British and American Poems
505.12 The 19th and 20th Century Drama
510.8 The 20th Century European and American Novels*
515.2 Translation: Theory and Practice*
Fourth Semester:
500.9 Poetry: A Survey of Major British and American Poems
545 The Disabled Body
550.2 Theories and Literatures of Globalization*
590 Thesis*

M.Phil. (Fall Semester 2003)
Nature
Pop Culture
Postcolonial Discourse

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