1. The Department of English
2. USP- Scaling New Heights Together

Student Profile

1. Consistently good results; several first classes every year
2. 2004: Gulnar Mistry, First rank holder, University level
3. 2005: Pallavi Mogre, Second rank holder, University level
4. 2006: Saloni Bhatia, Second rank holder, University level
5. Two students of the Dept. awarded Ph.D.s: Shobha Ghosh in 2004 and Kamal Jadhav in 2006

Learning Resources

1. Well-stocked library, constantly updated
2. Departmental library: about 125 books, English Room, for TYBA students
3. Access to audio-visual room and other technological facilities

Modern Teaching Methods

1. Interactive teaching: regular, lively; student presentations on topics that are taught
2. Student Seminars: annual event; broad-ranging topics
3. Films: connected with the texts; complement our teaching
4. Theatre and film workshops: by well-known theatre personalities, film-maker
5. Guest lectures: poets, writers and scholars; speakers from Advertising, Journalism and Law; social activists  
6. Special Mention:

We were selected to host an interaction with the internationally known playwright Eve Ensler.
We invited five other colleges to participate in this session which dealt with her life mission of eradicating violence against women and girls.

Noteworthy Publications:

1. TAF journal Different Strokes: contributions by Dr Jadhav, Dr Khandeparkar, Ms Sharma;
2. BSECS (British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, Oxford): contributions by Ms Sharma
3. Various Indian journals: contributions by Ms Sharma
4. Literary journal Hindi: Translation of Hindi short stories by Ms Sharma.
5. Ms Sharma’s papers presented at the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, Oxford, 2007 were published in the proceedings.
6. Parnassus a literary festival: paper by Dr Jadhav
7. TAF seminars: contributions by Dr Jadhav, Dr Khandeparkar, Ms Sharma

Goals Realized

1. Two National Conferences: 2005, 2006
2. Honours programme since 2006
3. Department’s journal since 2007

Future Plans

1. A Postgraduate Centre: application sent, response awaited
2. More frequent interactions and exchange programmes with neighbouring colleges

English Honours Programme: 12 credits
Academic Excellence: 1 credit for over-all , 60% + 60% in English
Attendance: 1 credit for 75*% across 3 years
Student Seminars: 1 credit for 3* papers
Assignments: 3 credits for 8* excellent ones
Book reviews: 1 credit for 6* reviews                       
Extra-curricular Activities: 1 credit for 45* hours
Social Service: 1 credit for 90* hours

*minimum

Faculty Profile – Dept of English Senior College

• Dr Kamal Jadhav,  M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Reader), Head of the Department
• Dr Prachi Khandeparkar, M.A., Ph.D., (Lecturer, Sr. Scale)
• Ms June Dias, M.A., S.E.T., (Lecturer)
• Ms Seema Sharma. M. A., M.Phil., (Lecturer, Selection Grade)
• Ms Jasmeet Ranghar. M.A. (Part-time lecturer)
• Ms. Sonali Pattnaik M.A, M Phil, NET (Lecturer)

English Department Syllabus and Teaching and Examination Structure

The first two papers of the English syllabus, Papers I and II are designed around genres, given that is a rudimentary and a fundamental approach to the study of literature which makes these introductory papers accessible and lays the ground for a more critical leap towards thematic and theoretical studies. Papers III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX are structured around critical approaches and areas of enquiry or through the examination of literatures of a historical period. Papers such as ‘Post-colonial Literature’ and ‘Popular Culture’ are particularly reflective of the incorporation of recent surges and shifts globally in the area of literary studies that seek to interrogate historical locations of writing, critical theory and engagement with world literature, with a view towards moving away from traditional, colonial approaches to the subject. Of even greater importance is the emphasis on literatures of one’s one; engagement with Indian writing, both contemporary and pre-modern.

Examination method for all papers is the semester exam system, divided into first semester exams held in October and second semester exams held in March-April. Some papers require assignments or projects for submission the details of which are mentioned in the required sections.

FYBA

Paper I Reading Fiction and Drama

Objective: The First Year paper focuses on the Short Story and the Novel and Drama. The short stories include the works of both Indian and European writers once again, such as Anton Chekov, Guy de Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore and Premchand. The selections in the paper seek to represent texts from different cultures and avoid a eurocentric approach to literature. The aim is to teach the texts through close-reading of character, plot, narrative structure and also place them within socio-political contexts for an engagement with the themes and issues in the texts. Comparative readings of the stories are encouraged.

Method of Teaching: Lectures and classroom discussions

Term I: Short Story and Novel

Term II: Drama; Pygmalion and Ghasiram Kotwal

SYBA

Paper IIEnglish : Paper II : Reading Poetry

Objective: To introduce the students to various forms of poetry, make them aware of the others forms and train them in some basic scansion of a poem

Teaching Methodology: Lectures and group discussion

Term1:
Lyric:
Dramatic monologue
Ode
Conceptual Study of the epic and pastoral poetry
Concepts of stress, rhyme schemes etc

Term 2:
Satire
Sonnets
Elegy
Conceptual study of the ballad, narrative poetry, epistolary poetry, experimental and modern free verse
Scansion of poems

Paper III Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in Translation

Objective:This paper examines Indian poetry , drama and fiction in the context of developments in political and social consciousness from the anti colonial struggle to the present. It traces the influence of the nationalist movement , dalit movement, partition and modernist and post modernist thought on Indian writing.

Teaching Methodology: Lectures and classroom discussions

Term I:
Novel- Mahasweta Devi's Rudali
Poetry- Selection from Arun Kolalkar's Jejuri

Term II:
Poetry- Includes writers like Kamla Das, Dom Moraes, Ezekiel, Jussawalla etc
Drama- Girish Karnad's The Fire and The Rain

TYBA

Paper IV British Literature from 1550 – 1750

Objective: This paper is taught at the Third (Final) Year to English Major students.

The genres covered are Drama, Poetry and Prose. The 3 periods covered are: Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration.

Texts are selected based on important movements that took place in the two centuries covered, and the writings of distinguished writers/poets/playwrights of the period,to give the student a comprehensive knowledge of the importance of the age, and its contribution to the History of English Literature.

Teaching Methodology: Includes lecture method, debate and discussion; the classes are highly interactive. Classroom presentations by students on completion of a topic and written assignments are encouraged.

Terms I and II:

Drama:
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Wycherley The Country Wife

Selected verse from the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration periods.

Elizabethan Period:  Spenser
The Shepherd’s Calendar
March Eclogue, December Eclogue.
Shakespeare   The Sonnets Nos. 2, 26, 116, 141

Jacobean Period: Donne
The Flea, The Anniversarie
This is my Playe’s Last Scene
A Hymne to God the Father
Herbert: Mortification, Love

Restoration Period:
Milton Lycidas, On His Blindness
Pope The Rape of the Lock  (lines 1-148)
Dryden Absalom and Achitophel (lines 150-302)

Background Study of the 3 periods

The Elizabethan Age – (1550 – 1600)

1. 1. The Renaissance – the beginnings – its effect on the literature and culture of the age with special focus on Humanism.
   2. The Reformation
2. A survey of the poetry, drama and prose of the period and the literary movements With which the following are associated.
   1. Drama – The University Wits
   2. Poetry – The Epic (Spenser) the Pastoral, the Sonnet Sequence
   3. Prose – Sidney, Lyly and Greene.

The Jacobean and Caroline Age (1601 – 1650)

The temper of the age: the shift from the Elizabethan sensibility, and the impact of the shift on the literature of the period.
A survey of the poetry, drama and prose of the period, including the literary movements with which the following are associated.
Drama - Ben Jonson, John Webster, Cyril Tourneur
Poetry – Metaphysical and Puritan poetry
Prose -    Bacon, Bunyan, Sir Thomas Browne.

The Restoration Age (1660 onwards)

The re- establishment of the monarchy after the fall of the Protectorate: the first appearance of women on the English stage: The Comedy of Manners. A survey of the poetry, drama and prose of the period, including the literary Movements with which the following are associated:
Drama – Wycherley, Congreve, Dryden, Etherage
Poetry – Neo-classical poetry – Dryden, Pope
Prose – Rise of the Periodical Essay – Addison’s Tatler, Steele's Spectator

Paper V English Language and Literary Criticism

Objective: To explore the origins, structures and variation of the English language and the critical approaches that guide its study

Teaching Methodology: Lectures, Group Discussion, Class Presentation, Verbal and linguistic exercises and Exercises in Application of theory and analysis of passages.

Term I and II: History of English language

Structure of English language
Theory of Literature
Nature and function of Criticism
Critical Approaches to Literature

Paper VI Popular Culture\

Objective: This paper seeks to expand the boundaries of the discipline of English literature further, and includes Culture Studies in the lit.

Teaching Methodology: Lectures and classroom discussions. Since an examination of different media is involved we encourage presentations and screening films for critique and analysis.

Term I: The concept of popular culture, the scope of the topic and various theoretical schools such as Marxism, Feminism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism.

Term II: We examine and interrogate various popular cultural genres such as fantasy, comic strip, romance, detective fiction, films, advertisements are analysed apart from the impact of globalisation on popular culture. This paper is wide-ranging in terms of its theoretical anchoring and the variety of cultural texts it covers.

Testing: At the end of the second term students are expected to submit a project on any popular genre or text and are expected to apply their theoretical knowledge to those texts. The project is marked on 20 and these marks are included in the final graduation results.

Paper VIII Literature in English  (1750 – 1900)

Objective: This paper aims at exploring the complex and varied social, political and aesthetic thought that spans the long 18th century to what is commonly known as 'the Victorian age'. It is attempts a balance and comparative study of the various genres of the time, various aesthetic groups and movements as well as relating the shifting currents of thought to the development of literature in this vast period.

Teaching Methodology: Lectures, classroom discussion, class presentations and reliance on reading around and beyond the prescribed texts.

Term I

Background
Romantic Age Impact of the French Revolution and American Revolution, The Romantic concept of Imagination, Classicism vs Romanticism, the novel, poetry, prose in the Romantic Age.

Victorian Age Impact of Industrialisation and Carlyle’s response, the Reform  Acts, and the process of democratization, Scientific thought; The age of Faith and doubt; the novel, poetry, prose and drama in the Victorian age. Utilitarianism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Oxford Movement.

Romantic Poetry 
Burns : A Red Red Rose, John Anderson my Jo
Blake: Lamb, Tyger
Wordsworth: To a Skylark, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Coleridge: Kubla Khan
Shelley: Ozymandias, Love’s Philosophy
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, On Looking into Chapman's Homer
Byron : All for Love, She Walks in Beauty

Victorian Poetry 
Tennyson : Tears, Idle tears, O’Swallow, Swallow, Flying South, Crossing the Bar
Browning: Prospice, The Patriot
Elizabeth Barret Browning: How Do I Love Thee?
Matthew Arnold : To Marguerite Poems
DG Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel
Christina Rossetti: Sleeping At Last
Hopkins: Spring, I Wake and Feel
Emily Bronte: Remembrance

Novel Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native

Term II

Non-fictional Prose
Charles lamb: Dream Children
William Hazlitt: The Indian Jugglers
John Ruskin: Work
Thomas Carlyle: The Hero as a Poet, Dante, Shakespeare.

Paper VIII 20th Century Literature in English

Objective: This paper examines 20th century literature in English in its socio-political context. Students are introduced to philosophical and psychological developments which influenced  the literature of  this age. It also traces the rise of new literature in English with special reference to Indian writing in English.

Teaching Methodology: Lectures, classroom discussions, presentations.

Terms I and II

The paper includes the following sections-   
Poetry-Includes poets like T.S Eliot , Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, Emily Dickenson , Nissim Ezekiel
Novel-Amitav Ghosh's The shadow  line
Short stories- Includes writers like O Henry , Poe and Shashi Deshpande
Drama- Brecht's Mother Courage
Non Fictional Prose - Includes writers like kapil Kapoor , K.B Powar and Amartya Sen

Paper IX Postcolonial Literatures

Objectives: This paper delves into the complex cultural politics of colonisation. Apart from introducing seminal critical works such as Orientalism,Culture and Imperialism, Black Skin White Masks, etc, the paper offers an exposure to African, Canadian  and Indian postcolonial literatures that explore and challenge colonial paradigms of thought.

Term I
African, Australian and Canadian Literature

Term II
South Asian Literature

Teaching Methodology and Testing:  Beyond lectures and classroom discussions, this paper requires extensive reading in postcolonial theory and in literature and requires a project submission as in paper VI.

 

English Communication Skills

FYBA

Objective: To equip students who already have basic abilities in reading and writing with the higher level skills of:

1. Close, critical reading of informative, discursive and literary texts
2. Effective presentation in writing(concise statement, use of appropriate organizational and rhetorical patterns and style)
3. Efficient oral communication
4. Provide theoretical/ practical introduction to the basics of e-communication

Teaching Methodology:

• Reading
• Writing
• Restatement of texts
• Oral Communication
• Analysis of technical data

Testing :

• Oral Tests
• Written Tests
• Terminal examinations

Term 1:

• Reading Comprehension ( Levels 1, 2)
• Note making
• Stress Marking, Phonology
• Dialogue writing
• Essay writing
• Analysis of technical data
• Reading Comprehension (Levels 1,2)
• Note making
• Diary writing
• Book and film reviews
• Letters
• Speeches

Women's Studies

This is an Applied Component offered by the English Department at the SYBA level.

Objective: To explore the nuances of various issues that impact the lives of women.
Teaching Methodology: Theory, Case Studies, Laws
Testing: Terminal Examinations

Term1

• Introduction to Women Studies
• The history of Women’s Movement(India)
• Women and the media
• Women and Advertising
• Literature and Women
• Women and Work

Term 2

• Women and Law
• Sexuality and Feminism
• History of Women’s Movement (The West)
• Schools of Feminism

Advertising

This is an Applied Component offered by The English Department at the SYBA level.

Objective: The objective of this paper is to highlight the impact of advertising on the socio-economic growth of the nation and to acquaint the students with the conceptual and practical aspects of the subject.

Teaching Methodology: Classroom lectures are complemented by guests lectures and by conducting seminars and workshops by professionals in advertising.

Testing: Terminal Examinations

Term I

• Introduction to advertising
• Economic and social aspects of advertising
• Self regulation laws in advertising
• Role of research in advertising

Term II

• Media planning for advertising
• Media trends and emergence of new media options
• Creativity in advertising
• Construction of effective advertisement
• The structure and functions of advertising agency

Journalism

This paper is an Applied Component offered by the English Department at the SYBA level

Objective: This paper introduces the students to the priciples of journalism and world of reporting, editing and journalistic writing.

Teaching Methodology: Apart from classrooms lectures reputed journalists are invited to conduct workshops to make the course more interactive and more effective.

Testing: Terminal examinations

Term I

• Principles of journalism
• Brief history of journalism in India
• Organisation structure of newspaper

Term II

• Reporting
• Editing
• Journalistic writing including editorials, reports and features