The aim of this course is to groom the students linguistically in such a manner that they can read& understand different texts written in English (academic or non academic) by applying strategies of reading. A particular care has been taken to gratify the esthetic needs of the learners. The Basic aim of this course is to develop critical reading & thinking among students. This course also aims to train students to meet the demands of other subjects written in the English Language which needs to be dealt with at optimal level of efficiency. In this course students will be introduced to fiction as far as short stories & novels are concerned. However instead of introducing full length texts of novels the readers would be required to read selected extracts from novels mentioned in the reading list below. It will prepare them for the reading of full length texts of novels with an understanding of the element of the novel such as plot, characters, vision etc.