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 Rank Holders of  Furkating College in TDC Final Examination of Dibrugarh University

Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

B.A. (ENGLIH)

• Students should be familiar with representative literary and cultural texts within a significant number of historical, geographical, and cultural
• Students should be able to apply critical and theoretical approaches to the reading and analysis of literary and cultural texts in multiple
• Students should be able to identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values, and themes that appear in literary and cultural texts and understand the way these ideas, values, and themes inform and impact culture and society, both now and in the
• Students should be able to write analytically in a variety of formats, including essays, research papers, reflective writing, and critical reviews of secondary
• Students should be able to ethically gather, understand, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of written and electronic
• Students should be able to understand the process of communicating and interpreting human experiences through literary representation using historical contexts and disciplinary
• Students should be able to use English effectively in formal and informal situations.
• Students should be able to attempt creative writings
• Students should be able to develop verbal and non-verbal skills of communication
• Students should be able to make a career in different sectors

Course Outcomes (Cos)

• BA English (Core)

Semester I

CO 1:  INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Objective: To acquaint the students with the rich cultural heritage of ancient Indian

Literature.

Outcome: After completing this course, the learners shall be in a position to

understand and appreciate the rich Indian classical literary tradition,

including its distinctive aesthetic philosophies.

CO 2: EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

Objective: To acquaint learners with the great heritage of European classical

literature,

Outcome: After the completion of the course, the learners shall be in a position to

understand the source of Western literary paradigm.

Semester II

CO 3: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Objective: To introduce the learners to Indian Writing in English from the colonial to

the postcolonial period. To make them understand the diversity of Indian

culture and tradition discussing various issues such as identity politics,

gendered differences, home, dislocation, language etc.

Outcome: After the culmination of this course, the learners shall be in a better

position to appreciate the diversity of customs and traditions in India,

would be  able to map the intellectual trajectory from the pre-to post –

independence period, and get the feel of the advancement that Indian writers

in English are making, for  which they are receiving plaudits, both at home

as well as abroad.

CO 4: BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14^th TO 17^th CENTURIES

Objective: To acquaint the learners with British poetry and drama from Chaucer to

Shakespeare in order to give them an impression of the spirit of the

Renaissance, thereby placing the Elizabethan period in a proper perspective.

Outcome: After completing this course, the learners would be in a position to

determine the influence of the European Renaissance on the works of the

Elizabethan authors, including Shakespeare.

Semester III

CO 5: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Objective: To introduce the learners to American literature, highlighting issues like

the reality or illusion of the Great American Dream, the transcendentalist

movement, the history of slavery in the South, the great economic

depression etc.in the context of American history and literature.

Outcome: After completion of this course the learners would get a feel of American

literature and they will be able to understand the poetics and politics of a

literature characterised both by liberal and reactionary ideals.

CO 6: POPULAR LITERATURE

Objective: To acquaint the learners with popular literature, such as crime thriller,

graphic fiction, children’s literature and so forth.

Outcome: After the completion of this course, it is believed that learners would be in a

position to appreciate the presence of a creative space and process that has

the potential to affect readers to a degree that high-brow literature cannot

achieve due to its propensity to target only a niche audience.

CO 7: BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17^th AND 18^th CENTURIES

Objective: To acquaint the learners with the experience of a whole gamut of feelings

that define a period and contradistinguishing it from another.

Outcome: After the completion of this course, learners will be in a position to

understand the ways in which English drama and poetry began to

emphasize on the importance of adhering to classical norms and forms.

Semester IV

CO 8: BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CENTURY

Objective: To acquaint the learners with the fundamental philosophical shift that

ushered in, in the wake of the culture of positivism that set in during this

period.

Outcome: After the completion of this course, learners will be in a position to

understand the spirit of the age, as well as the literature embodying this spirit..

CO 9: BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Objective: To acquaint the learners with the spirit of the age.

Outcome: After completion of this course the learners would be in a position to know

and appreciate the values of a literature characterised by emotion, passion,

love towards nature, exerting of imagination and so forth in order to create a

thing of beauty, which would be a joy forever.

CO 10: BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CENTURY  

Objective: To provide the learners a fascinating opportunity to immerse into the

fraught historical context determined by contradictory, oppositional drives

and processes.

Outcome: After completion of this course the learners will be in a position to

understand the philosophical shift that came about due to the crises of faith

pertaining to the culture of positivism that manifested its full presence during

the Victorian period. It is also hoped that they would be able to understand

concepts like utilitarianism, surplus value, Victorian prudishness, survival of

the fittest etc., and will be able to analyse it along these lines.

Semester V

CO 11: WOMEN’S WRITING

Objective: To introduce learners to women’s writing, and in doing so attempting to

underline the manner in which power operates to silence women from

articulating their views. Apart from that, the course would also try to

situate women’s writing in a space that transcends or upends the male

writing tradition through various (subversive) ways.

Outcome: The learners after completing this course, would be sensitised to gender-

related issues, and would be able to see things from the perspective of the Other.

CO 12: BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY  

Objective: To chart the philosophical trajectories like symbolism, existentialism,

cubism, Dadaism, expressionism, nihilism etc. through early twentieth-

century texts, particularly novels and poetry.

Outcome: It is believed that the learners would benefit from this course in terms of

getting acquainted with concepts like stream-of-consciousness, Oedipus

complex, avant garde, gyre, interior monologue, among many others.

Semester VI

CO 13: MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA

Objective: To read some of the select modern plays of Europe by placing the epochal

events of the period as the backdrop.

Outcome: It is hoped that the learners after completing this course will be in a

comfortable space to know Modern drama with its entire attendant

problematic.

CO 14: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Objective:  This course introduces postcolonial literature to the learners focusing mainly on

such issues as language, identity, point of view, displacement, physical and mental

colonisation, Decolonisation, nationalism, fundamentalism, globalisation and

diaspora, colonial legacy, gender and sexuality, regionalism, ethnicity, genocide,

race, and so forth, and it will be discussed how such issues are expressed in the

literary texts.

Outcome: The learners on culmination of the course are expected to be acquainted with both

the texts and the contexts of the given period.

• BA English (Generic Elective)

Semester I

CO 1: ACADEMIC WRITING AND COMPOSITION

Objective: To prepare students for work in high level English courses in which research

writing is a requirement. It introduces basic research writing skills including:

conducting research, note taking, paraphrase, summary, direct quotation,

positioning, and MLA or APA style citation.

Outcome: By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate and apply knowledge

of basic essay structure, including introduction, body and conclusion; employ the

various stages of the writing process, including pre-writing, writing and re-writing;

employ descriptive, narrative and expository modes; demonstrate ability to write

for an academic audience; write concise sentences, etc.

Semester II

CO 2: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Objective: To introduce learners to media and communication skills. In this digital-visual

landscape, it is necessary to be equipped with knowledge and technical expertise

of new media. This course will enable learners with skills pertaining to mass

communication in all its manifestations.

Outcome: It is expected that this course will act as a beginner’s guide to media

communication. It will enable them to opt for a career in journalism, television or

digital media by continuing their study in this field in more rigorous terms in their

Postgraduate level.

Semester III

CO 3: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Objective: To familiarise students with the structure, morphology, phonology, syntax,

semantics of a particular linguistic system, which is, English. The learners will get

to know about the deep structure of the system and study it in a synchronic mode.

Outcome: The learners will get familiarised with the science of the study of the English

language. This will enable them to unravel the morphology, phonological

dynamics of the language, thereby making them motivated in researching on a

scientific study of language.

Semester IV

CO 4: CONTEMPORARY INDIA: WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT

Objective: This course will familiarise learners with gender issues related to its construction,

legislation, resistance and marginalisation in the pan-Indian context. The objective

of this course is to sensitise learners to the multiple forms of subjugation that

patriarch subjects women. It will also attempt to suggest strategies to resist or

subvert such strategic silencing by means of an alternative discourse –feminism –a

means to empower what Simone de Beauvoir ironically termed as the “second sex”.

Outcome: The learners will get acquainted with gender issues, including the politics of how it

is constructed, reinforced and sustained. They will get apprised of women’s

resistance against patriarchy through women’s movements, and well as understand

the silence of twice marginalised sections, like Dalit women and tribal groups.

• BA English (Discipline Specific Elective)

Semester V

CO 1: MODERN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Objective: This course aims to acquaint learners with the works of Indian writers working on

regional literature from the north to the south, from the west to the east.

Outcome: After completing this course, it is expected that learners will be in a position to

appreciate the literature of India as it exists in various regional languages. They

would be able to understand the political, social and economic factors affecting

people across regions and cultures.

CO 2: LITERATURE OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA

Objective: To introduce the learners to literature of the Indian diaspora keeping in view the

issues that haunt the writers who have settled abroad, despite being Indians in

terms of roots and emotional make-up.

Outcome: After completing this course, it is expected that learners will be in a position to

understand the complexity of living as hyphenated identities in a space which is

different from that of “home”. They will be in a better position to understand the

postcolonial condition of identities caught between the quest for a better life abroad

and the acknowledgement of the futility surrounding such a rootless mobility.

CO 3:  LITERARY CRITICISM

Objective: To present an overview of major trends in literary criticism from the Romantic

period to the present and to introduce to the recent trends in criticism, particularly

feminist criticism.

Outcome: It is hoped that the learners will be in a position to understand the texts in terms of

the contexts, which could be purely aesthetic, historical, textual or political. They

will be able to read texts by adopting the ideologies of the different reading

processes.

CO 4:  WORLD LITERATURES

Objective: To enable the learners to know about the form and content of texts those are part

of different spatialities.

Outcome: By the end of the course, the student will be able to identify and analyse a variety

of major works of world literature; compare and contrast writing styles and generic

forms from different periods and cultures; identify major themes of representative

poetic and fictional works, and trace the influence of one literature upon another.

Semester VI

CO 5:  LITERARY THEORY

Objective: To acquaint learners with four relevant discourses or

theories. These are Marxism, Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Postcolonial

Studies.

Outcome: By the end of this course, the learners shall be in a position to know some of the

significant texts of discourses revolving around class, gender, power, language,

race, identity and so forth. They will be able to relate their reading of literature

through such theories, which would in turn facilitate their interpretive strategies.

CO 6:  LITERATURE AND CINEMA

Objective: This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature,

studying works linked across the two media by genre, topic, and style. It aims to

sharpen appreciation of major works of cinema and of literary narrative.

Outcome: The learners are expected to understand the elements involved in adapting texts to

film. They will demonstrate analytical skills in visual literacy and reading filmic

texts. Students will demonstrate a familiarity with ways of discussing and

evaluating films as reflections of cultures and source texts.

CO 7:  PARTITION LITERATURE

Objective: The Partition was perhaps the most horrific event of the twentieth-century

subcontinent’s history. So, the objective of this course is to read literature that

captures the sense of the times. There will also be film screenings since cinema also

helps capture both the horror and the repercussions of these events.

Outcome: After the culmination of this course, the learners will be in a position to

comprehend the magnitude of the tragedy of partition and realise how the trauma

associated with it impinges on the victim’s daily lives and activities even in the

present. The historical fact transmuted by imagination tends to prove the validity of

literature in representing the truth of the human condition.

CO 8:  TRAVEL WRITING

Objective: To read travellers’ accounts of places from the past to the present encompassing

writings of eminent travel writers from the medieval period to the present. The

course will attempt to underscore the problematic associated with the genre, such

as, the claims to authenticity of the narrativised events, the role of imagination, the

ethnocentric gaze, the element of wonder, and so forth.

Outcome: The learners would be in a position to understand the cultural dynamics of

narratives written by travellers. They will be able to appreciate the difference in

representation from the category of gender, religion and race. They will realise that

travel narratives are always already ideological in import, and hence they can only

be regarded as representations , rather than truth.

• BA English (Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course)

Semester I

CO 1: ENGLISH COMMUNICATION

Objective: To introduce students to the theory, fundamentals and tools of

communication and to develop in them vital communication skills which

should be integral to personal, social and professional interactions.

Outcome: It is hoped that after studying this course, students will find a difference in

their personal and professional interactions.

CO 2: ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

Objective: To introduce students to select literary works of different genres and to enhance

their skill of the English language.

Outcome: It is hoped that after studying this course, students will be able to develop a taste

for English literature.

• BA English (Skill Enhancement Course)

Semester III

CO 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT)

Objective: To acquaint the learners with the methodologies of teaching English in classroom

situation and to acquaint them with the tools and strategies of ELT.

Outcome: The learners will be in a position to acquire skills pertaining to teaching English.

CO 2: SOFT SKILLS

Objective: This course provides the soft skills required mainly for professional achievements,

and in the process, many of the personal requirements of an individual can be

compiled with.

Outcome: it is expected that after completion of this course the learners will acquire soft

skills such as communication skills, work ethic, positive attitude, emotional

intelligence and other personal attributes crucial for success in business or career.

Semester IV

CO 3: CREATIVE WRITING

Objective: To acquaint the learners with the craft and technicalities of creative writing.

Outcome: It is hoped that this course would be beneficial for the learners to develop their skills in creative writing.

CO 4: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Objective: To give students a comprehensive view of communication, its scope and

importance in business, and the role of communication in establishing a favourable

outside the firm environment, as well as an effective internal communications

program.

Outcome: Students will learn how to enhance their business communication with technically

based media. This course will make them conversant with the basic forms, formats

and techniques of business writing so that they will be thoroughly prepared to take

part in real-world business fields. This course will also give them the latest

research information on language in general and the writing process specifically so

that they will become a highly confident and skilled writer. This course will

provide discussion of all relevant communicational theories so that they can apply

this knowledge to a myriad of different communicational tasks and genres.