This course aims to familiarize students with principles of teaching and learning in reading and writing. It intends to provide a comprehensive guide with tools and knowledge for pre-service teachers to teach reading and writing while meeting diverse learning needs of students. It also contributes in students’ understanding through critical analysis of materials, approaches and assessment in the domains of reading and writing.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3216
Course Name:
Teaching Reading and Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 3217
Course Name:
Teaching Listening and Speaking
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students to teach the English Essential Skills: Listening and Speaking techniques in order to aid in students’ comprehension. For the course, students are exposed to updated theories and materials for teaching, listening and speaking, perhaps aided with authentic English audio files in the form of conversations, radio broadcasts and other aural sources of information.
Course Code: ENG 3218
Course Name:
Stylistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Stylistics is considered an applied field of linguistics that explains techniques of literary analysis. The aim of this course is to study the literary works, the techniques of linguistics and literature and the relationship between linguistics and literature. It will study in-depth methods and techniques used by writers in their writings to create particular effects with language.
Course Code: ENG 3304
Course Name:
South Asian Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Students will be introduced to great works of South Asian Literature in English, which is one of the most vibrant of the new literatures. Fiction, poetry and prose from the Twentieth Century onwards will be covered.
Course Code: ENG 3390
Course Name:
Introduction to Translation Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to different approaches to translation in order to help them develop an understanding of the links between theory and practice. The wider cultural, ethical and professional contexts of translation will be taken into account.
Course Code: ENG 4101
Course Name:
Research Methodology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The Research Methodology course is designed to allow students to gain a sufficient amount of “explicit” (conscious) knowledge on research. Students will learn how to begin research, explore ideas, search for secondary sources, assess these sources, write annotated bibliographies, compile a literature review, document sources, write an abstract, and prepare a research proposal. The final product of this course is a research proposal that will be used to begin the dissertation in the final semester.
Course Code: ENG 4102
Course Name:
Introduction to Creative Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is for advanced learners interested to learn the art of creative writing. The course will explore the elements of fiction, poetry, Creative Nonfiction and Drama. Students will be taught how to write creatively through drills designed to sensitize them to particular challenges of each craft.
Course Code: ENG 4103
Course Name:
Digital Humanities
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to a wide variety of digital tools, theory and practice of using computational methods in digital humanities. The resources will not be limited to text, but will incorporate sound, images and videos.
Course Code: ENG 4104
Course Name:
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to the field of Cultural Studies, helping them develop an understanding of the approach as an analytical tool. Given that culture is a social process, this course will enable students to use a Cultural Studies lens to examine and engage critically with the meaningful yet often neglected relationship between culture and signifying practices.
Course Code: ENG 4105
Course Name:
Ecocriticism
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will explore the connections of environmental issues to culture, society and how it has altered/invented literary traditions. The focus will be to note how the environmental questions emerge in culture, literature and literary studies and investigate the human relationships with larger, non-human contexts.