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 Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 4103
Course Name:
Digital Humanities
Credit Hours:
3.00
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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.
Course Code: ENG 4106
Course Name:
Contemporary Literatures in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The growth and development of English as the literary language of choice. It also discusses muti-culturalism. Most of these writers are from Africa and Asia and can also be classified as translingual writers.
Course Code: ENG 4107
Course Name:
Syllabus Design and Materials Development
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores the issues related to development, implementation and evaluation of language programs. It is designed on the assumption that “a sound educational program should be based on an analysis of learners’ needs.” This course addresses curriculum and syllabus at national level and looks at different syllabus types (e.g. structural, notional-functional, communicative and task-based) and the ways in which these can be instantiated in published and teacher-designed materials. This course also examines critically the theoretical orientations which underpin language teaching materials designed for a range of contexts, and explores the processes of material analysis, evaluation, adaptation and production.
Course Code: ENG 4108
Course Name:
Critical Literacy and Technology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers students the opportunity to develop a lens, frame or perspective to critically view technological influence in language teaching and learning. It also aims to equip students with demonstrable knowledge and skills for ongoing meaning making within an evolving digital and global landscape. Moreover, students will also learn about the role of leadership to align technology strategy in a particular teaching-learning community.
Course Code: ENG 4109
Course Name:
Teaching Language through Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to help learners discover ways to stimulate creative imagination, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of language learning based on different literary texts.
Course Code: ENG 4110
Course Name:
Historical Linguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Historical linguistics is the study of how and why languages change over time. The objective of this course is to introduce the concepts and methodologies of historical linguistics. This course provides an introduction to the principles and techniques of the field of historical linguistics. Students will learn about the processes of change within phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Moreover, students will gain an understanding of how linguists describe and attempt to explicate language change. Students will learn the techniques of reconstruction, data collection, and data analysis in this course.
Course Code: ENG 4111
Course Name:
Eastern Classics in Translation
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will introduce students to the Sanskrit epics. Students familiar with Western epics such as The Iliad and The Odyssey will find interesting similarities between these epics and the ones written in ancient India. . The students will also be introduced to classical Indian drama and Indian aesthetics. In addition, they will study a selection of stories from the Arabic Thousand and One Nights and the Persian Shahnama. These literary works have had a far-reaching impact on the literary culture of both the East and the West.
Course Code: ENG 4112
Course Name:
Postmodernism in Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will discuss different features of and positions within the cultural phenomenon known as postmodernity. Aspects of the postmodern in fields as far apart as architecture, music, politics and television will be considered, but the course especially focuses on postmodern trends within literature. In particular, the link between modernism and postmodernism will be explored.