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Course Detail

Course Name Insights into Life through English Literature
Course Code 23ENG232
Program B.Sc. (Hons) Food Science and Nutrition (4 Year)
Credits 2
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit I

Poems

  1. W. H. Auden: Refugee Blues; 2. A. K. Ramanujan: Obituary; 3. William Blake: The LittleBlack Boy; 4. Gieve

Patel: Grandparents at a Family Get–together.

Unit II

ShortStories

  1. Chinua Achebe: Marriage is a Private Affair; 2. Ruskin Bond: The Thief; 3. Isai Tobolsky: Not Just Oranges; 4. K A Abbas: The Refugee
Unit III

Prose

  1. A G Gardiner: On The Philosophy of Hats; Robert Lynd: Mispronunciation

Practicals:

Role plays: The Proposal, Chekov / Remember Ceaser, Gordon Daviot / Final Solutions, Mahesh Dattani, Book reviews, Movie reviews.

Objectives and Outcomes

OBJECTIVES:

To expose the students to different genres of Literature; to hone reading skills; to provide deeper critical and literary insights; to enhance creative thinking; to promote aesthetic sense.

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern

Assessment

Internal

End Semester

Periodical 1 (P1)

15

 

Periodical 2 (P2)

15

 

*Continuous Assessment (CA)

20

 

End Semester

 

50

*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Projects, and Reports.

Text Books / References

SUGGESTED READING:

The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway / Any one of the novels of R.K. Narayan, etc.

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