BS-IV (REG)

Session:2018-22

Credit hours:03

Class timings: Wednesday and Friday: 9:30-11:00 a.m. 

Course objectives and learning outcomes

To enable the students to read the academic text critically and develop basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in order to communicate effectively in English language. Students will be introduced with a variety of literature to read for description, argument building and comparison and contrast. They will be able to acquire the linguistic competence necessarily required in various life situations.

After the successful completion of the course, the students are expected to read, write and communicate effectively, analyse and synthesize academic material in writing and present an argument through written or oral medium. 

Contents

1. Interviews
2. Memorandum Writing
3. Comprehension & Precis Writing
4. Job-Letter & C.V. Writing
5. Report Writing

Poetry

1. Departure and Arrival (T.S.Eliot)
2. The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
3. Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Emily Dickinson)
4. Say This Cithy Has Ten Million Souls (W.H.Auden)
5. The Daisy (Francis Thompson)
6. Woman Work (Maya Angelou)

     Short Stories

1. The Fly (Katherine Mansfield)
2. Araby (James Joyce)
3. The Tell-Tale Heart (E.A.Poe)

Essays

1. The Last Sermon of the Holy Prophet S.A.W.
2. Work (Bertrand Russell)
3. Three Days to See (Helen Keller)

        Novel                    The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

Assessment Criteria

Mids:30 marks

Sessionals: 20 marks (Project, class participation and quiz)

Finals: 50 marks