NAME OF THE PAPER

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OUTCOME

Indian Classical Literature

ENG-HC-1016

1

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major Indian classical texts in translation.

• CO2: Identify and analyze key literary genres such as epic, drama, and poetry.

• CO3: Apply concepts like Rasa and Alankara to literary interpretation.

• CO4: Interpret themes of Dharma, morality, and heroism in cultural context.

• CO5: Critically analyze and compare classical texts across traditions.

• CO6: Evaluate the role of translation in shaping literary understanding

European Classical Literature

ENG-HC-1026

1

• By the end of this course, students will be able to:  

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major classical European texts such as The Odyssey, Oedipus the King, Pot of Gold, and Metamorphoses.

• CO2: Identify and analyze key genres including epic, tragedy, comedy, and satire.

• CO3: Understand and apply classical literary concepts such as mimesis and catharsis.

• CO4: Interpret texts within their historical and cultural contexts, including Greek and Roman societies.

• CO5: Critically evaluate themes, structures, and literary techniques in classical works.

• CO6: Develop comparative perspectives between classical European and other literary traditions.

Indian Writing in English

ENG-HC-2016

2

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major authors such as H. L. V. Derozio, Kamala Das, R. K. Narayan, and Anita Desai.

• CO2: Understand the historical development of Indian Writing in English in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

• CO3: Analyze themes such as nationalism, identity, gender, and modernity in Indian English literature.

• CO4: Critically evaluate literary forms—poetry, fiction, and drama—used by Indian writers.

• CO5: Develop the ability to interpret texts within their cultural, social, and political contexts.

British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries 

ENG-HC-2026

2

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and John Donne.

• CO2: Understand key literary movements including the Renaissance and Elizabethan Age.

• CO3:Analyze major forms such as poetry and drama in early British literature.
• CO4: Interpret themes like religion, love, power, and humanism in historical context.

• CO5: Critically evaluate texts in relation to social, political, and cultural developments.

• CO6: Develop close reading and analytical skills in early modern literature.

History of English Literature and Forms

ENG-HC-3016

3

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate knowledge of the chronological development of English literature across major periods.

• CO2: Identify and analyze key literary forms such as poetry, drama, fiction, and prose.
• CO3: Understand the historical, social, and cultural contexts shaping literary production.

• CO4: Recognize major authors and movements as representative of literary trends.

• CO5:Analyze texts in relation to genre development and literary conventions.

• CO6: Develop a broad critical perspective on global and postcolonial extensions of English literature.

American Literature

ENG-HC-3026

3

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major American writers such as Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, and Tennessee Williams.

• CO2: Understand the development of American literature in its social and cultural contexts.

• CO3:Analyze major literary forms including poetry, fiction, and drama.

• CO4: Interpret themes such as the American Dream, identity, race, and individualism.

• CO5: Critically evaluate texts in relation to historical and cultural change.

• CO6: Develop analytical and interpretative skills in reading American literature.

British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

ENG-HC-3036

3

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major writers such as John Milton, Aphra Behn, and Alexander Pope.

• CO2: Understand key literary movements from the Puritan to the Restoration and Neoclassical periods.

• CO3:Analyze major literary forms including epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, and satire.

• CO4: Interpret texts in relation to historical contexts such as religion, politics, and the scientific revolution.

• CO5: Critically evaluate themes like power, morality, gender, and social change.

• CO6: Develop skills in close reading and critical analysis of poetic and dramatic texts.

British Literature: The 18th Century

ENG-HC-4016

4

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major 18th-century British writers such as Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Johnson.

• CO2: Understand key literary movements like the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism.

• CO3: Analyze major literary forms including the novel, poetry, drama, and periodical essays.

• CO4: Interpret themes such as reason, satire, social order, and urban–rural life.

• CO5: Critically evaluate texts within their historical and cultural contexts.
• CO6: Develop skills in close reading and critical analysis of 18th-century literature.

British Romantic Literature

ENG-HC-4026

4

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major Romantic writers such as William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and John Keats.

• CO2: Understand key ideas of Romanticism including imagination, nature, and emotion.

• CO3:Analyze poetic forms and the Romantic lyric tradition.

• CO4: Interpret themes such as revolution, individualism, and the Gothic.

• CO5: Critically evaluate Romantic texts in historical and philosophical contexts.

• CO6: Develop close reading and analytical skills in poetry and fiction.

British Literature: The 19th Century

ENG-HC-4036

4

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Brontë.

• CO2: Understand the development of the novel and Victorian poetry.

• CO3:Analyze themes such as class, gender, morality, and social change.

• CO4: Interpret texts in relation to Victorian society and ideology.
• CO5: Evaluate different literary forms including novel, short story, and poetry.

• CO6: Develop critical and analytical reading skills.

British Literature: The 20th Century

ENG-HC-5016

5

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major writers such as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Joseph Conrad.

• CO2: Understand key features of Modernism and Postmodernism.

• CO3:Analyze experimental literary forms such as stream of consciousness and symbolism.

• CO4: Interpret themes like alienation, identity, and cultural change.

• CO5: Evaluate the impact of historical events on literary production.

• CO6: Develop advanced critical and interpretative skills.

Women’s Writing

ENG-HC-5026

5

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia Plath, and Alice Walker.

• CO2: Understand key themes such as gender, identity, sexuality, and feminism in women’s writing.

• CO3:Analyze different literary genres used by women writers, including poetry, fiction, and autobiography.

• CO4: Interpret texts within their socio-cultural contexts, including issues of race, caste, and class.

• CO5: Critically evaluate women-centric narratives and narrative strategies.

• CO6: Develop feminist critical perspectives and analytical skills.

Literature of the Indian Diaspora

ENG-HE-5036

5

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, and Meera Syal.

• CO2: Understand key concepts such as diaspora, migration, exile, and transnationalism.

• CO3:Analyze themes of identity, nostalgia, alienation, and cultural hybridity.

• CO4: Interpret texts within global and postcolonial contexts.

• CO5: Critically evaluate representations of

displacement and belonging.

• CO6: Develop analytical skills to engage with diasporic literature and theory.

Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

ENG-HE-5056

5

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major critics such as William Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot, and Jacques Derrida.

• CO2: Understand key schools of literary criticism and theory, including formalism, Marxism, feminism, and poststructuralism.

• CO3:Analyze texts using different critical approaches and theoretical frameworks.

• CO4: Interpret concepts such as language, power, ideology, and representation.

• CO5: Critically evaluate the evolution of literary criticism from Romantic to contemporary theory.

• CO6: Develop skills in reading, interpreting, and applying theoretical perspectives to literary texts.

Modern European Drama

ENG-HC-6016

6

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate an understanding of the historical, cultural, and social contexts that shaped modern European drama.
• CO2:Analyze the thematic concerns and stylistic innovations in the works of Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Beckett.
• : Identify and evaluate avant-garde movements and dramatic techniques that emerged during modernism and their influence on global theatre.
• CO4: Critically engage with issues of realism, symbolism, absurdism, and epic theatre as represented in the selected texts.
• CO5: Develop interpretative skills by examining how modern drama challenged conventional theatrical practices and audience expectations.
• CO6: Compare and contrast different playwrights’ approaches to social critique, character development, and stagecraft.
• CO7: Apply theoretical and analytical frameworks to both the written text and its performance dimensions.
• CO8: Enhance academic writing and oral presentation skills through critical discussion, tutorial engagement, and internal assessment tasks.

Postcolonial Literatures

ENG-HC-6026

6

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of colonialism and its legacies in postcolonial societies.
• CO2: Critically analyze novels, short stories, and poems from diverse regions to identify shared and distinct postcolonial experiences.
• CO3: Examine how postcolonial writers negotiate issues of identity, nationhood, race, class, and cultural hybridity.
• CO4: Explore literary strategies such as magical realism, resistance narratives, and re-writing of history in postcolonial texts.
• CO5: Assess the role of language, translation, and indigenous traditions in shaping postcolonial literary expression.
• CO6: Compare and contrast regional differences in postcolonial literatures while recognizing common themes of displacement, resistance, and cultural assertion.
• CO7: Develop interpretative skills to connect postcolonial texts with broader theoretical debates in postcolonial studies.
• CO8: Strengthen academic writing, critical discussion, and presentation skills through engagement with primary texts and tutorial activities.

Partition Literature

ENG-HE-6036

6

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• CO1: Demonstrate familiarity with major Partition writers such as Saadat Hasan Manto, Amitav Ghosh, and Intizar Husain.

• CO2: Understand the historical context of Partition and its literary representations.

• CO3:Analyze themes such as violence, displacement, trauma, and identity.

• CO4: Interpret narratives of gender, memory, and exile in Partition texts.

• CO5: Critically evaluate different genres and perspectives on Partition.

• CO6: Develop sensitivity to human experiences shaped by conflict and migration.