| Department of English

B.A. (Research) in English

Program Structure

The English Major consists of 24 four-credit courses and 1 twelve-credit Supervised Research Paper (UGSRP), to be completed in four years. A sample path through the B.A. (Research) in English program is shown below.
Semester 1
The Language Game of Literature 4
Logic and The Scientific Method (C) 4
Academic Writing (C) 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 2
Understanding Modernity (C) 4
Fantasy and Science Fiction 4
Drama: Tropes and Adaptations (C) 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 3
Getting Verse (C) 4
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (C) 4
Linguistic Approaches to Literature 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 4
Introduction to Translation Studies 4
Modernist Literature 4
South Asian Literature (C) 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 5
The Fundamentals of Creative Writing 4
Mapping Language Change 4
Introduction to Critical Theory 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 6
Landmarks in the Novel Form (C) 4
Introduction to Postcoloniality 4
Popular Fiction 4
CCC 3
UWE 4
Semester 7
Contemporary Forms of Fiction 4
Feminist Theory: Unlocking the Literary 4
Literary Culture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism 4
UG Supervised Research Paper 4
Semester 8
Crafting Short Fiction 4
World Folk Literature 4
Vernacular Literary Practices 4
UG Supervised Research Paper 8