The course covers the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing students to explore the extraordinary cultural and social changes occurring in Nineteenth-century England. This is the brilliant age of Dickens, the Brontës, Tennyson and Browning, Oscar Wilde, the Pre-Raphaelites among many others.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3101
Course Name:
Victorian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 3102
Course Name:
Psycholinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between language and the processes of the brain and mind. Hence, by the end of the course the learners will be able to comprehend, and explore different areas of Psycholinguistics; i.e. the theoretical fields that discuss on the philosophical approach along with the emergent, psychological, Behaviourist, cognitive, neuroscience, network, evolutionary, and Linguistic approaches as well as the applied frameworks such as language dissolution, speech perception, and therapy, intelligence, and the studies of acquisition of Sign Language.
Course Code: ENG 3103
Course Name:
Ancient Greek Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to enlighten students about the ancient cultures and different critical concepts that also changed through time. Students will study a selection of poetry, plays and critical reading to trace how the concept of literature evolved through time.
Course Code: ENG 3104
Course Name:
Modern British Drama
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an intensive study of the British Drama of the last hundred years. The plays included show the evolution of the stylistic conventions of the British play, from the genteel drawing-room comedies of the late 19th century to the radical political theater of the last decade.
Course Code: ENG 3108
Course Name:
Cinema and Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an exploration of the productive traffic between the written word and the cinematic image. The comparative reading of film and literature, in their cultural, historical, technological and aesthetic contexts will help examine how the two have continued to modify one another during the past century.
Course Code: ENG 3201
Course Name:
American Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will survey American literature from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. After the Civil War, American society went through radical changes. Industrial culture took over the previous agrarian one.
Course Code: ENG 3201
Course Name:
American Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will survey American literature from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. After the Civil War, American society went through radical changes. Industrial culture took over the previous agrarian one.
Course Code: ENG 3202
Course Name:
Modernism in Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will enable students to understand the various cognates of high-modernism, asking: What is modernity? What makes modern literature distinguishable? What modes of cultural transactions made high-modernism possible? Our central focus will be on modern fictions, both long and short, and on modernist poetry. Focusing on form and content, this course will try to impart basic understanding of the thematic and structural peculiarities of the modernist tradition. We will read the works of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, and a selection of poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and H. D.
Course Code: ENG 3203
Course Name:
Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will explore the traditional theories associated with language learning and how they have affected the evolution of language teaching. Particular attention will be paid to learner characteristics (attitude, aptitude, and motivation), cognitive and metacognitive strategies, interlanguage theory, the monitor model, acculturation, and accommodation. All theories will be learned in the context of application to teaching pedagogy.
Course Code: ENG 3204
Course Name:
Critical Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to examine the ways in which we read, and are read. As students of literature and culture, we have to engage with texts from multiple points of view. Our reading demands a scrutiny of the texts and their contexts. The aim of this course is to introduce you to some important strategies developed mostly in the twentieth century that changed our understanding of reading.