This course aims at offering students clear and useful suggestions for strengthening their speaking and writing skills by emphasizing on writing different types of expository essays. It encourages students to develop ideas in paragraphs and essays through compare-and-contrast method, and through producing sentences showing causal relationships.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 103
Course Name:
Fundamentals of English – II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 103
Course Name:
Fundamentals of English II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims at offering students clear and useful suggestions for strengthening their speaking and writing skills by emphasizing on writing different types of expository essays. It encourages students to develop ideas in paragraphs and essays through compare-and-contrast method, and through producing sentences showing causal relationships.
Course Code: ENG 104
Course Name:
Introduction to Literary Terms and Forms
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course intends to teach students figures of speech by samples from fiction, drama and poetry. Say, for example, the students would be told that when Hamlet says that he “will speak daggers” to his mother “but use none,” here ‘daggers’ is the metaphor for strong words.
Course Code: ENG 105
Course Name:
Introduction to Linguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Teaches Primary Concepts of Linguistics; Theories of Second Language Acquisition; Research Methodology; Syntax and Morphology; Discourse Analysis.
Course Code: ENG 106
Course Name:
Introduction to Literary Genres
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will give ideas and definitions of the following literary genres, short stories and novels, dramas, fables, poetry and epic, historical and science fiction, biographies and autobiographies, folktales, myths and legends, mysteries, factual news writing, fictional and non-fictional interviews.
Course Code: ENG 107
Course Name:
Survey of British Literature I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is chronological in nature, and necessarily highly selective. The course should not be taken as a substitute course for a more comprehensive one on a given area. For example, though in the survey course the Romantic period is included, but it is not a replacement for the course with the title either “Romantic Poetry” or “Romantic Prose.” The survey course 1 highlights writers and texts from the earlier periods of English literary history.:
1. The Old English Period (c. 800-1100)
2. The Middle English Period (c. 1100-1485)
3. The Sixteenth Century (c. 1485-1603)
4. The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
Course Code: ENG 108
Course Name:
Composition
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims at teaching students writing skills at the beginning level.
Course Code: ENG 109
Course Name:
Phonetics and Phonology
Prerequisite:
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will give students theoretical as well as descriptive knowledge about phonetics. This course also aims to make the students capable of listening, articulating and transcribing the sounds given in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) chart.
Course Code: ENG 110
Course Name:
Introduction to Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces the students to the delight of English poetry through a diverse selection of poems from different ages of English Literature. It is designed mainly to give students the elementary skills to start writing critical appreciation on poetry.
Course Code: ENG 1101
Course Name:
Introduction to Literary Genres
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to the study of significant works of literature in selected genres. Emphasis is on close reading, understanding the literary terms associated with literary works, and developing critical thinking.