Course OutlineCourse Title: Literary Theory and PracticeCourse Code: ENG-609Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course Contents1. Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory✔ Defining Literary Criticism, Theory, and Literature✔ What is a text?✔ Who is a critic, and what is literary criticism?✔ What is literary theory?✔ How to read and interpret texts✔ The purpose of …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Modern NovelCourse Code: ENG-607Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsCore Texts✔ Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (1899-1902)✔ E. M. Forster – A Passage to India (1924)✔ Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse (1927)✔ William Golding – Lord of the Flies (1954)Recommended BooksAllen, Walter. The English Novel (1954). Baker, R. …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Modern PoetryCourse Code: ENG-605Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course Contents / Core TextsT. S. EliotThe Hollow Men The Waste Land The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockEzra PoundIn a Station of the Metro A Girl An ImmortalityW. B. YeatsAmong School Children The Second Coming Easter 1916W. H. AudenSeptember 1st, 1939 …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Drama III: Modern DramaCourse Code: ENG-603Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsCore Plays & PlaywrightsHenrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House (1879) George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman (1905) Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot (1953) Bertolt Brecht – Life of Galileo (1943)Note:Compulsory Playwrights: Ibsen, Shaw, and Beckett. Elective Playwright: …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Research Methods and Term Paper WritingCourse Code: ENG-601Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsIntroduction to ResearchThe Wh-Questions of Research (What? Why? Who? Where? How?) Research Process OverviewResearch MethodsQualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Research Types of Qualitative and Quantitative ResearchThinking Like a ResearcherUnderstanding Concepts, Constructs, Variables, and DefinitionsProblems and HypothesesDefining the …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Introduction to StylisticsCourse Code: ENG-512Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsIntroductionWhat is Stylistics?Historical Evolution of StylisticsThe Nature of Stylistics The Goals of StylisticsThe Concept of Style and StylisticsMeaning of Stylistics and Its Approaches Style as:Choice The Man Deviation Conformity Period or Time SituationTypes of Stylistics IFeatures of Linguistic StylisticsLexical Repetition …

Course OutlineCourse Title: Grammar and SyntaxCourse Code: ENG-510Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsWord Classes Phrases and Types Clauses and Types Sentence AnalysisSubjects, Predicates, Complement, Adjunct Modals and Modality Voices Narration SyntaxDifferent Approaches Towards Syntax:i) Traditionalii) Structuraliii) Phrase Structureiv) Transformational Generativev) Systemic Functional Systemic Functional Analysis Introduction to Government and Binding Theory Minimalism …

Course Title: Creative NonfictionCourse Code: ENG-508Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course Contents📌 Core Texts & AnthologiesThe Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present – Edited by Phillip Lopate The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction – Edited by Williford & Martone The Literary Journalists – Edited …

Course Title: Discourse StudiesCourse Code: ENG-506Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course ContentsSection 1: Beginning with Discourse Analysis📌 Introduction to DiscourseWhat is Discourse? Features of Discourse Text and Discourse Types of Discourse: Written, Spoken, Media, Political, etc.📌 Discourse AnalysisWhat is Discourse Analysis? A Short History of Discourse Analysis Major Contributors📌 Grammatical Analysis of DiscourseCohesion …

Course Title: Romantic and Victorian PoetryCourse Code: ENG-504Credit Hours: 3(3-0)Course Content📖 The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Vol. 2A, 2B)Romantic Poets🔹 William BlakeA Poison Tree The Tyger🔹 William WordsworthThe World is Too Much with Us We Are Seven🔹 S.T. ColeridgeDejection: An Ode Christabel Kubla Khan🔹 John KeatsLa Belle Dame Sans …