Alt. English Syllabus

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

COURSES OF STUDY FOR ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

                                                            

Number of Papers: 4

Number of Semesters: 4

Full Marks: 200

B.A. Part - I: 100 Marks

B.A. Part - II: 100 Marks

Alternative English for B.A. / B.Com. / B.Sc.

semester	paper	Full Marks	Pass Marks		Duration
I, II, III & IV	MIL Hindi	100	33		3 Hrs.
	MIL NH
	MB / A.E.	50	15	33	1½ Hrs.	3 Hrs.
	NH	50	15		1½ Hrs

Part - I

Semester – I

Paper-1 (15 lectures)

Full marks: 50              Time: 1½ Hrs.               Pass Marks: 15

Instructions to Paper Setter

Two questions out of a choice of four from the prescribed poems:  15 x 2   = 30
One short essay out of a choice of three topics:                                             = 20

Poems prescribed:
Sonnet 60 — Shakespeare, The Retreat — Henry Vaughan, A Winter Scene — James Thomson, To Spring ¾ William Blake, I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Hill — John Keats, In Memoriam — Tennyson, Anthem for Doomed Youth ¾ Owen, Report on Experience —Edmund Blunden

Book Prescribed: Rhapsodies (Macmillan)

Part - I

Semester – II

Paper-2 (15 lectures)

Full marks: 50              Time: 1½ Hrs.               Pass Marks: 15

Instructions to Paper Setter

Two questions out of a choice of four from the prescribed novel:                 15  x 2 = 30
One short essay out of a choice of three topics:                                                                     = 20

Novel Prescribed: The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan

Part - II

Semester – III

Paper-3 (15 lectures)

Full marks: 50              Time: 1½ Hrs.               Pass Marks: 15

Instructions to Paper Setter

Two questions out of a choice of four from the prescribed short stories:                  15  x 2 = 30

Expansion of a given idea out of three sets:                                                               = 20

Pieces prescribed: Mr. Know All, The Dream, The Castaway, The Tiger’s Claw

Text Prescribed: Selected Short Stories. Ed. D. Thakur (Macmillan)

Part - II

Semester – IV

Paper-4 (15 lectures)

Full marks: 50              Time: 1½ Hrs.               Pass Marks: 15

Instructions to Paper Setter

Two questions out of a choice of four from the prescribed poems:               15 x 2 = 30
Commenting on two passages out of four taken from the prescribed poems 10 x 2 = 20

Poems prescribed: On His Blindness — John Milton, The Garden — Andrew Marvell, Upon Westminster Bridge — Wordsworth, On the Grasshopper and Cricket — John Keats, Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth — Arthur Hugh Clough, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death — W.B. Yeats, Joy and Pleasure — W.H. Davies. Everyone Sang — Siegfried Sassoon

Text Prescribed: Rhapsodies (Macmillan)