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Syllabus of
English (BDP)
B.A. (Hons.)
Course Code : EEG
NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
1, Woodburn Park, Kolkata-700 020
Tel. : [phone]
TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree
Programme (BDP) in English
1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course
(a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits
(b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits
(c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits
(d) English (FEG) 4 Credits
24 Credits
2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG)
Paper 1 : Reading Poetry 8 Credits
Paper 2 : Reading Narrative 8 Credits
Paper 3 : The Renaissance 8 Credits
Paper 4 : The Enlightenment 8 Credits
Paper 5 : Romantic and Post-Romantic literature 8 Credits
Paper 6 : Literature in the Modern World 8 Credits
Paper 7 : Philology, Phonetics, Rhetoric & Prosody and unseen 8 Credits
Paper 8 : Essay and unseen 8 Credits
64 Credits
3. Application Oriented Course (Any one)
(a) Basic Accounting (AOC-01)
(b) Food Processing (AOC-02) 8 Credits
(c) Household Chemistry (AOC-03)
4. Environmental Studies 4 Credits
1Total Credits for the Course = (24 + 64 + 8 + 4) = 100 Credits or 1250 marks.
Evaluation System :
Internal (Home) assessment : 30%
Term-end Examinations : 70%
Syllabus of
English (BDP)
B.A. (Hons.)
Course Code : EEG
NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
1, Woodburn Park, Kolkata-700 020
Tel. : [phone]
TeleFax : 033-2283 5082Course Structure For The Bachelor’s Degree
Programme (BDP) in English
1. Compulsory Subjects : Foundation Course
(a) Humanities and Social Science (FHS) 8 Credits
(b) Science and Technology (FST) 8 Credits
(c) Bengali (FBG) 4 Credits
(d) English (FEG) 4 Credits
24 Credits
2. Elective Subjects : Honours Course (EEG)
Paper 1 : Reading Poetry 8 Credits
Paper 2 : Reading Narrative 8 Credits
Paper 3 : The Renaissance 8 Credits
Paper 4 : The Enlightenment 8 Credits
Paper 5 : Romantic and Post-Romantic literature 8 Credits
Paper 6 : Literature in the Modern World 8 Credits
Paper 7 : Philology, Phonetics, Rhetoric & Prosody and unseen 8 Credits
Paper 8 : Essay and unseen 8 Credits
64 Credits
3. Application Oriented Course (Any one)
(a) Basic Accounting (AOC-01)
(b) Food Processing (AOC-02) 8 Credits
(c) Household Chemistry (AOC-03)
4. Environmental Studies 4 Credits
1Total Credits for the Course = (24 + 64 + 8 + 4) = 100 Credits or 1250 marks.
Evaluation System :
Internal (Home) assessment : 30%
Term-end Examinations : 70%
Paper I : Reading Poetry
A. The language of Poetry, Poetry in Colony and Commonwealth, Poetry in
Contemporary Culture.
B. Poetry of the Renaissance and Englightenment
C. Romantic Poetry and its legacy, Poetry and Modernity
D. Poetry and Contemporary Theory
● Feminist Methods of Reading Poetry
● Colonialism, Imperialism and Poetry.
Peper–2 : Reading Narrative
A. Introduction to the Novel/Short story/Essay, 18th Century Novel/Periodicals,
19th & 20th Century Novel/Essay, Theory.
B. Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice.
Charles Dickens : Great Expectation.
C. Thomas Hardy : Mayor of Casterbridge
E. M. Forster : A passage to India.
D. (i) Short stories :
Katherine Mansfield : The Fly
Sommerset Maugham : The Lotus Eater
Joseph Conrad : The Lagoon.
(ii) Essay :
Robert Lynd : Sessaide
A. C. Benson : Art of the Essayist
● Charles Lamb : Dream Children-A Reverie.
(iii) Summary & substance writing

Paper–6 : Literature in the Modern World
A. Moedernism and Europe : Social, Historical, Economical Background (up to
World War II) Post-war Europe : Social, Historical, Economical Background,
Modernism and Literature in English, British Literature from 1945 to the present,
B. Poetry-W. B. Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’ and ‘An acre of Grass’
T. S. Eliot : ‘Preludes’ and ‘Mariana’ ; W. H. Auden : ‘On this Island’ ;
L. Macneice : ‘Snow’; Philip Larkin : ‘Church going’ ;
S. Heaney : ‘Digging’ : Sylvia Plath : ‘Daddy’ & ‘Lady Lazarus’
C. Drama-G. B. Shaw : The Dark Lady of the sonnets ; J. M. Synge : Riders to the sea ;
B. Brecht : Mother Courage ; David Edgar : Destiny.
D. Fiction-Virginia Wolf : To the Lighthouse,
Graham Greene : A Gun of Sale,
Earnest Hemingway : The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber,
R. K. Narayan : Malgudi Days.
Paper–7 : Philology, Phonetics, Rhetoric & Prosody and unseen
A. Philology–40 marks
B. Phonetics–10 marks (Organ of speech, vowel, consonant, phonetic transcription)
C. Rhetoric & Prosody-20 marks (Locating figures of speech–10, Scanning a passage–10) D. Unseen–30 marks (Substance–20, Critical Comment–10)
Paper–8 : Essay and unseen
A. Comprehension–30 marks (Prose passage)
B. Essay–40 marks
C. Unseen Prose–30 marks (Substance–20, Critical Comment–10)