PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOME (PSO)

(1) Students will learn about the Indian Classical Literature and the European Classical Literature.

(2) Students will learn about Indian Writing in English; and British Poetry and Drama 14th to17th Century

(3) Students will learn about AmericanLiterature; Popular Literature; and British Poetry and Drama 17th and18th Century

(4) Students will learn about British Literature: 18th Century; British Romantic Literature; and British Literature: 19th Century

(5) Students will get acquainted with English drama from Marlowe to Beckett encompassing the cultural context of their production and reception; Major critical texts from the Classical period as well as from the Renaissance and the Neo-classical period; Major philosophical texts from the early modern period to the 20^th century to contextualize the philosophical terms and frames; Seminal IWE texts in order to understand the complexities of Indian life.

(6) Students will also get familiarized with major critical texts from Romantic period to the 20^th century that initiate the contextualization of critical terms and analysis of literary texts; Seminal American texts that would help to understand the complexities of American culture; Postcolonial novels to understand the complex negotiation between the colonizer and colonized; Some basic concepts associated with language

SL. NO.

COURSE/PAPER CODE

COURSE OUTCOMES

1.

C – 1

After completing this course, the learner will be in a position to understand and appreciate the rich Indian classical literary tradition including its distinctive aesthetic philosophies. It would provide them with the conceptual resources to make a comparative assessment between the Indian and the Western classical tradition, thereby enabling their knowledge and understanding of the two great ancient literary traditions.

2.

C – 2

After the completion of the course, the learners shall be in a position to understand the source of Western literary paradigm–a formation that was responsible for constituting the great tradition of the western canon, and one which governs our critical or comparative touchstone on ‘what good literature ought to be’.

3.

C – 3

The outcome of this course is to introduce learners to Indian writing in English from the colonial to the post- colonial period. Issues, such as, identity politics, gendered differences, home, dislocation, language among others, shall be understood with the intention to understand the diversity of Indian culture and tradition across spatiality.

4.

C – 4

This course will apprise the students with British poetry and drama from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The text prescribed relate to the age of Chaucer, pre-Elizabethan and Elizabethan periods. Shakespeare figure predominantly in the Course, with a tragedy, comedy and two sonnets prescribed. Marlowe’s play encapsulates the spirit of the Renaissance, thereby placing the Elizabethan period in proper perspective.

5.

C – 5

The outcome of the course is to get a feel of American literature; understand the poetics and politics of a literature characterized both by liberal and reactionary ideals.

6.

C – 6

The students will learn about the presence of a creative space and process that has the potential to affect readers to a degree that high-brow literature cannot achieve due to its propensity to target only a niche audience.

7.

C – 7

Learners will be in a position to understand the ways in which English drama and poetry began to emphasize the importance of adhering to classical norms and forms.

8.

C – 8

Learners will be in a position to understand the spirit of the age, as well as the literature embodying this spirit

9.

C – 9

Learners would be in a position to know and appreciate the values of a literature characterized by emotion, passion, love towards nature, exerting of imagination and so forth in order to create ‘a thing of beauty’, which would be ‘a joy forever’.

10.

C – 10

The learners will be in a position to understand the philosophical shift that came about due to the crises of faith pertaining to the culture of positivism that manifested its full presence during the Victorian period; They would be able to understand concepts like utilitarianism, surplus value, Victorian prudishness, survival of the fittest etc.

11.

C - 11

The course is structured with the gynotext addresses the thought ,anxieties, fears ,desires, emotions of the second sex .The texts attempt to sensitize the gender related issues are included in the course. The students would be sensitized to gender-related issues, and would be able to see things from the perspective of the Other.

12.

C -12

The course is designed in order to give the students a fair idea of the early twentieth century British literature. The students will get acquainted with concepts like stream-of-consciousness, Oedipus complex, avantgarde, gyre, interior monologue, among many others.

13.

C - 13

The course is made with the modern drama particularly the plays of Henrik Ibsen, the German playwright Brecht and French play writer Samuel Becket by placing the epochal events of the period as the backdrop of the course offer the plays to read and study. The students will be in a comfortable space to know Modern drama with its entire attendant problematic.

14.

C - 14

The course introduces Post Colonial literary text focusing on the issues on Language ,identity ,point of view ,displacement, physical and mental

colonization, decolonization, nationalism, fundamentalism, globalization, and Diaspora, colonial legacy ,gender and sexuality. The students will be acquainted with both the texts and the contexts of postcolonialism.

15.

DSE - 2

The course is framed with Diaspora literature . The Diasporic writings of Salman Rushdie, AmitavGhosh

,Vikram Seth , JhumpaLahiri ,RohintonMistri , V.S Naipul , are included in the course. The learners will be in a position to understand the complexity of living as hyphenated identities in a space which is different from that of ‘home’. They will be in a better position to understand the postcolonial condition of identities caught between the quest for a better life abroad and the acknowledgement of the futility surrounding such a rootless mobility.

16.

DSE - 3

The course presents an overview of major trends in literary criticism from Romantic period to Present. The students will be in a position to understand the texts in terms of the contexts, which could be purely aesthetic, historical, textual or political. They will be able to read texts by adopting the ideologies of the different reading processes.

17.

DSE - 5

The course is made with the modern drama particularly the plays of Henrik Ibsen, the German playwright Brecht and French play writer, Samuel Becket, by placing the epochal events of the period as the backdrop of the course offer the plays to read and study. The students will be in a comfortable space to know Modern drama with its entire attendant problematic.

18.

DSE - 7

The course is framed with the texts those are manifested in the backdrop of partition saturated with the most horrific event of the twentieth century subcontinents history. The text prescribed in the course associated with the historical accounts along with the imaginative literature in order to understand emotional impact of these events on people’s lives.

The students will be able to comprehend the magnitude of the tragedy of partition and realize how the trauma associated with it impinges on the victim’s daily lives and activities even in the present.

19.

AECC – 1

This course enlightens the students with the theory, fundamentals and tools of communication and to develop in them vital communication skills which should be integral to personal, social and professional interactions. The present course hopes to address the issues of effective communication in the backdrop of the rapid globalization and increasing recognition of social and cultural pluralities through interactive mode of teaching learning process and by focusing on various dimensions of communication skills, such as, personal communication, social interactions and communications in professional situations such as interviews, group discussions and office environments, important reading skills as well as writing skills such as report writing, note making, etc.

20.

AECC – 2

This course provides the students a fascinating insight into the worldviews of eminent political thinkers, cultural theorists and literary exponents of the West and the East. The two genres – nonfiction (prose extracts) and fiction (short stories) – are incorporated in the course to underscore the adherence to narrative or descriptive logic which is common to both. The first section intends to acquaint learners with the personal, political and philosophical insights of eminent personalities like M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, G. B. Shaw, M. C. Jeffreys and

G.L. Dickinson as expressed in their memorable prose extracts; the second section comprises a curated list of classic and contemporary short stories by great practitioners of the craft like Leo Tolstoy, R. K. Narayan,

O. Henry, S. H. Manto and Temsula Ao.

21.

GE – 1

By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate and apply knowledge of basic essay structure, including introduction, body and conclusion; employ the various stages of the writing process, including pre-writing, writing and re- writing; employ descriptive, narrative and expository modes; demonstrate ability to write for an academic audience; write concise sentences, etc.

22.

GE - 2

Students will able to grow the skill in media communication; They will be able to opt for a career in journalism, television or digital media by continuing