DDEDU - B.COM SYLLABUS: ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH



Dibrugarh University
Syllabus for B.COM Programme
Under Directorate of Distance Education
1st Year
Course No: B.COM. 102: ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Total Marks: 90
Objectives: Students opting for this paper are expected to have some command over the English language. Their skills in writing and literary appreciation would be tested and they would be encouraged to develop individual idioms.

Block I: (Modern Drama)                                                                                                              20
Unit – 1: Shaw as a modern dramatist.
Unit – 2: Arms and the Man, G.G. Shaw

Block II: (Poetry 1)                                                                                                                           20
Unit – 1: Shakespeare, “You, too, Brutus”, “Winter”
Unit – 2: Cowper, “The Polar Field”
Unit – 3: Wordsworth, “The Green Linnet”

Block III: (Poetry 2)                                                                                                                         20
Unit – 1: Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”
Unit – 2: Durrell, “Sarajevo”
Unit – 3: Eliot, “To the Indians who dies in Africa”

Block IV: (Poetry 3)                                                                                                                         15
Unit – 1: Seth From Golden Gate (“Cats and Scholars”)
Unit – 2: Ramanujan, “Invisible Bodies”
Unit – 3: Heaney, “The Plantation”

Block V: (Essay)                                                                                                                                15
Unit – 1: What is an Essay?
Unit – 2: Essay and its types.

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