The Post-Graduate Degree programme (MA English) is a 2-year (4 semester) programme that familiarizes the student with the history of language and literature and focuses on prose, poetry, drama and fiction. There is a good focus on Indian English Literature and touches on North East Indian English Literature, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism, African, American, European and Post-Colonial Literature and English Language Teaching. Choice-Based Credit System is followed. Students who complete this course are expected to be prepared for employment as teachers, editors, translators, and corporate language trainers. It will also be a foundation for creative literary adventure.
Number of Seats
- 40 seats are available for the programme
Eligibility Criteria
- Graduation in any stream with 50% of the aggregate from a UGC Recognized University.
- Provisional Admission: Applicants who have not yet obtained their Bachelor’s Degree also may apply for admission. Such candidates would be offered provisional admission until they furnish evidence of fulfilling the eligibility criterion stated in (1) above within 3 months of the commencement of the programme.
Location
Tapesia Campus
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COURSE STRUCTURE
| Semester I |
| Chaucer to Elizabethan Period – Poetry, Drama & Romance |
| Literary and Social History - Chaucer to Elizabethan Period |
| Shakespearean Drama 1 – Comedy and History Plays |
| Rhetoric and Prosody |
| Elective I (One Course to be chosen) |
| T.S. Eliot |
| Thomas Hardy |
| Elective II (One Course to be chosen) |
| Media in Northeast India |
| Leadership and Social Responsibility |
| Introduction to Indian society, polity and economics |
| English Language Teaching |
| Seminar and Presentation I |
| Semester II |
| Restoration to Romantic Period – Poetry and Drama |
| Literary Criticism – Plato to F.R. Leavis |
| Shakespearean Drama 2 – Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy |
| Approaches to Language and Literary Research |
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Elective Group I (One Course to be chosen)
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| Classics in Translation |
| Indian Women Writers |
| Elective Group II (One Course to be chosen) |
| Society and Social Problems |
| Peace Education and Conflict Management |
| Introduction to Social Psychology |
| North-East Indian English Literature |
| Seminar and Presentation II |
| Semester III |
| Victorian to Post-Modern Period – Poetry, Drama & Fiction |
| Post-Colonial Literature – Poetry, Drama & Fiction |
| American literature – Poetry, Drama & Fiction |
| Literary and Critical Theory |
| Gender and Literature |
Specialisation I: Linguistics Stylistics
- Linguistics Stylistics –I
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Specialisation II: Contemporary European Literature
- Contemporary European Literature – I
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Specialisation III: African Literature
- Colonial and Post Colonial African Literature - I
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| Project Phase I |
| Semester IV |
| Indian Writing in English – Poetry, Drama & Fiction |
| South-Asian Literature |
Specialisation I: Linguistics Stylistics
- Linguistics Stylistics - II
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Specialisation II: Contemporary European Literature
- Contemporary European Literature - II
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Specialisation III: African Literature
- Colonial and Post Colonial African Literature - II
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| Project Phase II - Dissertation |
Programme Outcome
Programme Outcome of MA English
