IASE Syllabus BA English Literature Distance Learning

                               IASE Syllabus B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

1^st year

PAPER – I

ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA

BAG 101

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

UNIT – I (LITERARY HISTORY)

The origin of language; Indo-European family of languages; Characteristic features of Old English; Elizabethan Period; Neo-Classical period. 

UNIT – II (BASIC ELEMENTS OF POETRY)

Prosody — Rhythm; Meter; Rhyme—hard rhyme, soft rhyme, internal rhyme; Alliteration; Assonance; Diction – Demonstration and Drilling.

Forms — Lyric, Ode, Haiku, Tanka, Jintishi, Ghazal, Rubai etc.

Genres —

1. Narrative Poetry

2. Epic Poetry

3. Dramatic Poetry

4. Satirical Poetry

5. Lyric Poetry

6. Prose Poetry

UNIT – III (READING ENGLISH POETRY)

Poems from The Poet’s Pen ed. P.E. and Homai P. Dustoor (OUP)

For detailed study]

Wordsworth : The Affliction of Margaret

Edumund Spenser : Ice and Fire.

William shakespear : To be or Not to be.

When to the Sessions

Death, Be Not Proud

Goe and Catch a Falling Star

John Donne : The Retreat

Andrew Marvell : Thoughts in a Garden

John Milton : When the Assault was Intended

Lucifer in Hell

John Dryden : Shadwell

Allexander’s Feast

Alexander Pope : From ‘An Essay on Criticism’

John Keats : Grecian Urn

UNIT — IV (DRAMA & THEATRE)

Drama as a performing art - Drama as a tool for social criticism –

Theatre – Introduction to theatres such as Absurd, Epic, Street,

Cruelty, Anger, Feminist, Ritualistic, and Poor.

Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragi-Comedy, Farce and Melodrama,

Masque, One-Act-Play, Dramatic Monologue.

Setting – Plot – Character - Structure – Style - Theme – Audience – Dialogue.

UNIT – V (READING DRAMA) 

William Shakespeare : Twelfth Night (For detailed study)

Recommended Books :

1. Wood, F.T., An Outline History of English Language.

2. Wren, C.L., The English Language.

3. Baugh, A.C., A History of English Language.

Macmillan, India.

4. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Mac Millan)

5. W.H. Hudson : an Outline History of English Literature

PAPER – II

PROSE AND FICTION

BAG 102

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

Essays and short stories prescribed in Unit III and IV are from Essays, Short stories and One Act Plays ed. R.K. Kaushik and S.C. Bhatia (OUP)

UNIT – I (PROSE FORMS)

Fiction/Short Story/Tales; Autobiography/Biography; Newspaper/Journal; Articles; Philosophical/Scientific Essays; Travelogues; Speech.

UNIT – II (Reading Prose)

M. Chalapathi Rau : Nehru, the Democrat.

E.V.Lucas : Bores

George Bernard Shaw : Freedom

J.B.S. Haldane : What I Require from Life

J.B.Priestley : Student Mobs

Richard Livingstone : The Essential of Education

Aldous Huxley : Non-violence

UNIT – III (Reading Fiction)

Anonymous : The Three Dancing Goats

Karel Capek : The Fortune – Teller

Anton Chekhov : Grief

Katherine Mansfield : The Doll’s House

Leo Tolstoy : How Much Land does a Man Need?

Arthur Conan Doyle : The Adventure of the Blue charbuncle

UNIT — IV

Aspects of Novel; Forms of Novel writing.

UNIT – V

Novel (By R.K. Narayan) : The Guide

2^nd year

B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

Scheme : Two papers (Min. Pass Marks : 72) Max. Marks : 200

Paper – I : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100

Paper – II : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100

PAPER – I

ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA

BAG 201

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

UNIT - I ( History of Literature)

From Renaissance to the second World war; Pre-Romantic Period; Romantic Period (Chief Characteristics of the period, Treatment of Nature in the Poetry of Major Romantic Poets, Major Novelists of this period.); The growth of English poetry in the eighteenth century.

UNIT – II (Important Terms)

Tragedy, Irony, Soliloquy, Blank Verse, Comic Relief, Elegy, Meter, Plot, Catharsis.

Unit — III

Aspects of Poetry; Basic principles of poetry writing.

UNIT – IV (Reading Poetry)

From String of Gold (Pt.II)ed. Dr. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)

James Thomson : Winter, Autumn

Thomas Gray : An Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard

William Collins : Ode to Evening

William Cowper : On Receipt of my Mother’s Picture

Light Shining out of Darkness

William Blake : To Summer, London

William Wordsworth : The World is too much with us Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge Three years she grew The Solitary Reaper

S.T.Coleridge : Christabel Pt.I

G.G.Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods The Isles of Greece

P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind Ode to a Skylark

John Keats : Bright Star On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Ode to Autumn

UNIT – V (Reading Drama)

William Skakespeare : Macbeth 

Recommended Books :

            3. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Mac Millan)

            4. W.H. Hudson : An Outline History of English Literature

PAPER – II

PROSE AND FICTION

BAG 202

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

Essays and short stories prescribed in Unit III and IV are from Essays, Short stories and One Act Plays ed. R.K. Kaushik and S.C. Bhatia (OUP)

UNIT - I

Four passages for explanation with reference to the context from texts prescribed in Unit – III and IV. 

UNIT - II

Aspects of fiction; types of Fiction. 

UNIT – III (For detailed Study)

Francis Bacon : Of Studies

Joseph Addison : Periodical Essays

Richard Steele : The Spectator Club

Oliver Goldsmith : National Prejudices

Charles Lamb : A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People

William Hazlitt : On Going a Journey

Robert L. Stevenson : El Dorado

UNIT – IV (For detailed study)

Guy De Maupassant : The Umbrella

W. Somerset Maugham : The Luncheon

William Faulkner : A Rose for Emily

Mulk Raj Ananad : The Barber’s trade Union

R.K.Narayan : The Axe

UNIT – V (For non-detailed study)

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield 

B.A. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

3^rd year

Scheme : Two papers (Min. Pass Marks : 72) Max. Marks : 200

Paper – I : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100

Paper – II : Duration 3 Hours Max. Marks : 100

PAPER – I

ENGLISH POETRY AND DRAMA

BAG 301

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

UNIT – I (Literary History)

VICTORIAN PERIOD — Chief Characteristics of the period, Major Novelists of this period; MODERN PERIOD — Major Thematic and Technical Features of the Literature of this period, Stream of Consciousness Technique, Poetic Drama.

UNIT – II (Important Terms)

Dramatic Monologue, Paradox, Antithesis, Symbol, Problem Play, Essay, Novel, Free Verse, Short Story.

UNIT — III

Features of Drama; Forms of Drama. 

UNIT – IV (READING POETRY)  

From Strings of Gold (Part III) ed. Dr. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)

Alfred Lord Tennyson : The Lotus Eaters

Break, Break, Break

Robert Browning : My Last Duchess

Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach

G.M.Hopkins : The Sea and the Skylark

W.B.Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole

Robert Frost : Birches

Rupert Brooke : The Soldier

T.S.Eliot : Preludes

W.H. Auden : In Memory of W.B.Yeats

Dylan Thomas : Fern Hill

UNIT – V (READING DRAMA)

Henrik Ibsen : The Doll’s House

G.B.Shaw : The Apple Cart

Recommended Books :

1. W.H.Hudson : An Outline History of English Literature

2. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literature Terms (Macmillan)

PAPER – II

PROSE AND FICTION

BAG 302

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

Note : Candidates will be required to answer five questions in all, one from each unit. However there will be internal choice as part of unitization scheme. All question will be carry equal marks.

2. Essay and short stories prescribe are from the following books :

(i) Susanta K. Sinha (ed) : English Essayist

(ii) Shiv K. Kumar (ed) : Short stories of Yesterday and Today (OUP)

UNIT - I Four passages for explanation with reference to the context from texts prescribed in Unit III and IV.

 UNIT - II Trends of prose writing in India; Status of fiction writing in India.

 

UNIT – III (For detailed Study) E.V.Lucas : The Town Week

G.K. Chesterton : On the Pleasures of No Longer Being Very Young

A.G. Gardiner : On Superstitions

Hillarie Belloc : In Praise of Ignorance

Aldous Huxley : Selected Snobberies

J.B.Priestely : On Getting off a sleep

UNIT – IV (For detailed study) Joyee Cary : Growning Up.

Nathaniel Hawthrone : Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

O’Henry : The Gift of the Magi

Raja Rao : A Client

Manohar Malgaonkar : Upper Division Love.

UNIT – V (For non-detailed study)Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge

Khushwant Singh : Train to Pakistan

Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things

Distance Education IASE Syllabus BA Political Science

This articles gives you the complete information and details of the IASE Syllabus for Distance Education Course in BA Political Science. Now you can do BA Political Science by Distance Learning through the Deemed University IASE in Rajasthan.

Distance Education IASE Syllabus BA Political Science

BACHELOR OF ARTS

(POLITICAL SCIENCE)

FIRST YEAR

SCHEME :

Two Papers Max. Marks – 200 Min. Pass Marks - 72

Paper – I Duration 3 Hours 100 Marks

Paper – II Duration 3 Hours 100 Marks

PAPER – I

FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

BAG 109

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

UNIT – I (Introduction)

Nature and Scope; Traditional and Contemporary Perspective of Political Science; Inter-disciplinary Approach to the study of Political science; Relation of Political Science with other Social Sciences (Economics, History, Geography and Psychology).

UNIT – II (Approaches and Concepts)

Behaviouralism; System approach; Functional approach — Power, Authority, Legitimacy; Political System; Political Development; Political Modernization.

UNIT – III (Democracy and Dictatorship)

Introduction; Political Parties and Pressure groups; Theories of representation; Rule of Law and Constitutionalism.

UNIT – IV (Government)

Organs of Government and their functions (with reference to recent trends)

UNIT – V (Political obligation and Theories of State Action)

Idealism; Individualism; Evolutionary socialism — Fabianism and democratic socialism; Marxism; Fascism; Gandhism.

Recommended Books :

            1. A. Ashirvadam : Principles of Political Science

            2. J.S.Bakes & R.B. Jain : Political Science in Transition

            3. R.C.Vermani : Political Theory

            4. J.C. Johari : Principles of Political Science

            5. H.J. Laski : Grammar of Politics

            6. L.S.Rathore : In defense of Political theory

            7. Tripti Jain : Fundamentals in Political Science

            8. A. Appadorai : substance of Politics

            9. R.G. Gettell : Introduction to Political Science

PAPER – II

REPRESENTATIVE INDIAN POLITICAL THINKERS

BAG 110

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

UNIT – I (Ancient Political thinkers)

Manu- Varnadharma and Dandaneeti; Kautilya- theory of kingship, a moral state craft, mandal theory; Shukra.

UNIT – II (Reformist Thinkers)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy; Swami Dayanand Saraswati; Swami Vivekanand.

UNIT — III (Modern Thinkers)

Gopal Krishan Gokale; Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi- Ahimsa, satyagrah, Swaraj, Village democracy, trusteeship.

UNIT — IV (Radical Thinkers)

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh; Savarkar.

UNIT – V (Contemporary)

Jawaharlal Nehru- democratic socialism; Bhim Rao Ambedkar- Annihilation of caste; M.N.Roy- Radical humanism, Jai Prakash Narain- theory of total revolution. 

References:

            1. R.S. Sharma : Political Ideas in Ancient India

            2. Chandradev Prasad : Political Ideas

            3. A.R.Desai : Social Background of Indian Nationalism

            4. Appadorai : Indian Political Thinking

            5. M.A. Buch : Rise & Growth of Indian Liberalism

            6. L.P.Sinha : Left in Indian Politics

            7. K.P.Karunakaran : Continuity and Change in Indian Politics

            8. c. Bharill : Social and Political Ideas of B.R.Ambedkar

            9. V.P.Verma : Indian Political Thought Vol. I & II

            10. D.B. Mathur : Gokhale : A Political Biography

            11. Virendra Grover : Bal Gangadhar Tilak

12. N.C.bandyopadhyaya : Hindu Politics

SECOND YEAR

SCHEME :

Two Papers Max. Marks – 200 Min. Pass Marks - 72

Paper – I Duration 3 Hours 100 Marks

Paper – II Duration 3 Hours 100 Marks

PAPER – I

SELECT POLITICAL SYSTEM

BAG 209

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

(Students will be expected to study the salient aspect of the political system of the following countries with analytical and comparative perspective.)

UNIT - I  (Government of the U.K)

Salient features of the British Constitution the King and Crown; Reasons for the survival of Monarchy in Britain; The British Cabinet; The Prime Minister the doctrine of Prime Ministerial Government; The British Parliament; The speaker- Powers and functions and comparison with the American Speaker; The committee system; The process of Law making; The Rule of Law; Major Political Parties in Britain.

Unit - II (Government of the U.S.A.)

Main characteristics of the U.S. Constitutional System; American Federalism; The President; The American Congress; The Speaker – his powers and functions; The American Committee System; Legislative Process in the Congress; The Supreme Court – composition and powers – Judicial Review; American Party System – Major Political Parties; Increasing rule of Pressure groups in U.S.A.

UNIT – III ( Political System of Switzerland)

Salient Features of the Swiss Constitution; Federal Assembly and Federal Council; direct Democracy.

UNIT – IV ( Government of France)

Salient Features of Constitution of the fifth Republic of France; Fundamental Rights; French Executive; The President; Prime Minister and the council of Minister; the French Parliament; The Judiciary; Party system; Bureaucracy and Administrative law.

UNIT – V (The Government and People’s Republic of China) 

The Chinese Revolution; Important features of the present constitution of China State Structure; The National People’s Congress - its composition and powers; The State Council – its composition and powers; The Judiciary; The Communist Part of China – its organization – its role in the Government; Deng Xiaping and Huchin Tav – Liberalisation Policies of China; Market Socialism of China; China’s attempts to become a Industrial Giant in Asia.

Recommended Books :

            1. Maurice Durverger : Political Party : their Organisation and activity in the Modern State

            2. Machkentosh : Cabinet Government

            3. V. Bhagwan : World Constitutions

            4. J.C. Johari : Comparative Governments

            5. R.C.Agarwal : World Constitution

            6. Charles A. Beared : American Government and Politics

            7. Ramsay Muir : How Britain is Governed

            8. Wheare – K.C. : Federal Constitution

            9. Barringto, Moore : Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

            10. Banerjee S. : The Chinese Government and Politics

            11. S.E. Finer : Theory & Practice of Modern Government

            12. Dorothy Pickles : The Fifth French Republic

PAPER – II

INDIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

BAG 210

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

UNIT – I (Introduction)

Evolution of Constitution — Nationalist movement and philosophical foundations; A comparative perspective of Indian constitution with the Constitutions of UK, USA and Switzerland.

UNIT – II (Nature of The Constitution)

Main Features of the Indian Constitution: Parliamentary Democracy, Secularism, Socialism and Federalism; Fundamental Rights and Duties; Directive Principles of State Policy.

UNIT – III (Union Government)

President; Prime Minister and Council of Ministers; Parliament; Supreme Court and Judicial Review; Emergency Provisions.

UNIT – IV (State Government, Election and Political Parties)

Chief Minister; Office of the Governor; Working of parliamentary system in India-Role of leadership coalition government; political parties; Election Commission;  Electoral politics; Electoral reforms in India.

UNIT – V (Major Issues of Concern)

Major problems facing Indian political system — Regionalism, communalism, National Integration; Politics of reservation; Role of caste in Indian Politics; Special status of certain states and its implication.

References:

1. Glend, Alen : Fundamental Rights in India

2. Kodesia : The Problem of National Integration

3. Kothari, Rajni : (Ed.) Party System and Election Studies

4. Kothari, Rajni : Politics in India

5. Morris Jones : W.H. The government and Politics in India.

6. Palmer N.D. : The Indian Political System

7. Alexandrawicz, : Constitutional Government in India  Charles Henry

8. a. Granville : The Indian Constitution Vornerstone of a Nation

9. A. Granville : Problem of National Integration

10. Desai, A.R. (Ed.) : Peasant Struggle

11. Singhvi, L.M. : Union-State relation in India.

12. Weiner, Mynor : State Politics in India

13. Johari J.C. : Indian Political System (English & Hindi)

14. Pylee, M.V. : Constitutional Government in India.

15. Ray, A. : Tension Areas in Indian Federal System.

16. Smith, D.S. : Indian as a Secular State

THIRD YEAR

SCHEME :

Two papers Min. Pass Marks – 72 Max. Marks 200

Paper – I Duration 3 Hours Max.Marks : 100

Paper – II Duration 3 Hours Max.Marks : 100

General Instruction:

Each paper will contain ten questions having two questions from each unit. Candidates are required to attempt five questions in all, selecting atleast one question from each unit.

PAPER – I

Representative Western Political Thinkers

BAG 309

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. : 36

UNIT – I (Greek Political Thinkers) 

Plato’s Republic — Ideal State, Education and Communism, Justice; Aristotle’s Politics — Classification of Governments, The Best Practicable State, Causes of Revolution.

UNIT – II (Medieval Political Thinkers)

St. Thomas Aquinas — Church, State and Law; Machiavelli — State Sovereignty, Power Politics, Separation of Ethics and Politics.

UNIT – III (Modern Political Thinkers — I)

Thomas Hobbes — State of Nature, Social Contract, of Sovereignty of the Leviathan; John Locke — Sate of Nature, Social Contract, Natural Rights, The Idea of Limited Government;

UNIT – IV (Modern Political Thinkers — II)

J.J. Rousseau — State of Nature, Social Contract, General Will.

UNIT – V (Contemporary Political Thinkers)

Bentham — Utilitarianism, Political and Legal Reforms; J.S. Mill — On Liberty, Representative Government, Women’s Rights; Karl Marx — Dialectical Materialism, Class Struggle, Proletarian Revolution, Historical Materialism.

Recommended Books :

            1. W. Dunning : A History of Pol. Theories

            2. J.P.Suda : History Pol. Thought Vol. I & II

            3. R.P.Sharma : Western Pol. Thought

            4. R.K.Mishra : Plato and Aristotle

            4. M.B.Foster : Masters of Pol. Thought Vol. I

            5. W.T.Jones : Masters of Pol. Thought Vol. II

PAPER – II

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1945

BAG 310

Max. Marks: 100 Duration : 3 hrs. Min. Marks. :36

General Instruction:

Each paper will contain ten questions having two questions from each unit. Candidates are required to attempt five questions in all, selecting atleast one question from each unit.

UNIT – I (United Nations)

The League of Nations and its foundation; Working and a critical evaluation.

UNIT – II (Cold War)

Factors and forces of cold war; Decolonisation and the emergence of new states in Asia and Africa; Non alignment — Meaning, and its impact on World Politics.

UNIT – III (Foreign Policies of Some Important Countries)

USA, China, Russia, Pakistan and Japan.

UNIT – IV (India’s foreign policy)

Main features; Relations specially with neighbouring countries and Israel.

UNIT – V (Miscellaneous) 

Arab-Israel relations; Disarmament; New Economic and Political trends in Europe; South-South dialogue; North South dialogue and the New Internal Economic Order; South Asian Association of Regional/Cooperation (SAARC); Emerging trends in International Politics.

Books Recommended-

1. F.S.Northedge (ed.): Foreign Policies of the Powers

2. V.P. Dutt: India’s Foreign Policy

            3. Anam Jaitely : International Politics : Trends and Issues.

            4. Mahendra Kumar : International Politics.

            5. Friedman : Introduction to World Politics.

6. R.A. Scalapino (ed.): Foreign Policy of Modern Japan.