Section 1: The Augustan Age
Pope, Dryden, Thomas Gray, Addison & Steele, Swift, Goldsmith, William Congreve, John Bunyan, Henry Fielding, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson
Section 2: Chaucer to the Elizabethan Age:
A. Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
b. Paradise Lost: John Milton Books 4 & 9,
c. Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queen
Section 3: American Literature:
Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost.
Section 4: World Literature:
Rabindranath Tagore, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Sashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, SashiDespande JhumpaLahiri,
Section 5: The Romantic Age to the Twentieth Century:
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence. James Joyce, W.B. Yeats
Section 6: English Language Teaching:
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) –Types of ESP: English for Academic Purposes, English for Occupational Purposes, English for Science and Technology, and Business English, Major approaches and methods in language teaching – Theories of learning: Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism.
Section 7: Language:
Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in use.
Section 8: Indian writing in English:
R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, kiran Desai, Sarojini Naidu Sri Aurobindo, Ruskin Bond Toru Dutt and Kamala Das
Section 9: Phonetics:
Vowels, consonants, Diphthongs, consonant cluster and syllable structure
Section 10: Teaching the four language skills:
Listening, speaking, Reading and writing skills.