English Subjects List 2026: Check Semester-wise Subjects & Syllabus

Indian Classical Literature

The subject includes readings of the classical literature of prominent Indian writers, including Kalidasa and Vyasa

European Classical Literature

Students learn about classical European writings from famous literature writers

Indian Writing in English

This subject has short stories and novels about Indian stories written in English. Some of the authors included are R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, and Kamala Das

British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries

Learning about drama and poems written by British writers from the 14th to 17th Century. The writers included are Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare

American Literature

Studying about American literature by Tennessee Williams, Toni Morrison, Edgar Allan Poe and other writers

Popular Literature

Readings of famous literature include Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Funny Boy

British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

Poems and dramas written by acclaimed writers such as John Milton, John Webster, Aphra Behn during the 17th and 18th centuries

British Literature: 18th Century

Popular British literature such as The Way of the World, Gulliver's Travels, and London.

British Romantic Literature

Learning about British romance novels and stories, including The Lamb, The Tyger, and Tintern Abbey

British Literature: 19th Century

Famous British literature from acclaimed writers including Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, and Charles Dickens: Hard Times

Women’s Writing

Literary pieces from famous women writers and renowned stories such as Emily Dickinson's 'I cannot live with you', Sylvia Plath's Daddy', and Mahasweta Devi's 'Draupadi'.

British Literature: The Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century British literature, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, 'No Second Troy', 'Sailing to Byzantium'

Modern Indian Writing in English Translation

Premchand's The Shroud', Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin, Ismat Chugtai's 'The Quilt', Rabindranath Tagore's Light, Oh Where is the Light?'

Literature of the Indian Diaspora

M. G. Vassanji: The Book of Secrets, Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance, Meera Syal: Anita and Me, Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake

British Literature: Post World War II

This elective subject includes famous British literatures, including 'Church Going' and Ted Hughes' Hawk Roosting'

Nineteenth-Century European Realism

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Honore de Balzac's Old Goriot, tr. MA Crawford, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

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Core

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Elective

Indian Classical Literature

European Classical Literature

Hindi/Sanskrit/MIL/Philosophy in Lieu

Comic Book and Graphic Novels

Readings of Indian classical literature

Learning about renowned works of European literature through classics

Readings of prominent literature in other languages through their English translations

Learning about acclaimed comic writers and their famous comic books and novels.

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Core

Core

Elective

Indian Writing in English

British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries

Environmental Studies

Women, Power and Politics

The subject emphasises the great writers of India and their literary works of global significance.

Students learn about the British poetry and drama written between the 14th and 17th century

Significant literary works about environmental occurrences, causes, and effects

Readings of famous literature written by women and about women, their relationship with power, and the politics involved in the process.

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Core

Core

Core

Elective

American Literature

Popular Literature

British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Century

Creative Writing

Knowledge of acclaimed literary works of American literature by famous novelists and writers

The most popular and well-known works of English literature are studied in this subject

Readings and analysis of British poetry and drama between the 17th and 18th century

Creative writing, media writing, and writing for publication.

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Core

Core

Core

British Literature: 18th Century

British Romantic Literature

British Literature: 19th Century

Learning of the British literature of 18th century

Readings and analysis of famous British romantic novels and short stories

Knowing about the fine British literature and its areas of emphasis during the 19th century

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Core

Core

Core

Elective

Women’s Writing

British Literature: The Early 20th Century

Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Science and Detective Fiction

Popular works of literature by women writers

Learning about the early 20th-Century British literature

Knowledge of well-known literary works of famous Indian authors

A specific study about the Science and detective fiction related literature

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Core

Core

Core

Elective

Modern European Drama

Postcolonial Literature

Partition Literature

Literature and Cinema

Famous European literature of the 21st century and its analysis

Literary works about the after-effects of colonisation and the world after freedom

Popular works of literature about partition, the events involved, and its effects

Readings of the original literature that forms the basis of famous films and the process of filmmaking

Linguistics

Phonetics

Phonology

Morphology

Introductory Transformational Generative Syntax

Aspects of Linguistic Behaviour

Applied Linguistics

Semantics

Historical Linguistics

Linguistics course deals with the way of speaking the English language, verbal and non-verbal communication, language structure and language system speech and writing, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation langue and parole, phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics, simple and complex words, root, stem, word, free and bound morphemes, prefixes,

suffixes and infixes.

Literature

English Literature

From Chaucer To Milton

Indian Women Novelists

17th, 18th, and 19th Century

English Literature

Indian Writing In English

Modern English – Structure And Usage

Literary Criticism

Novels of Indian Diaspora

Myth and Drama

European Classics In Translation

The course includes analysis and evaluation of literary texts, literature of the world and gaining insight into diverse cultures, writing and oration skills.

Communication Studies

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

World Literature

Film Studies: Perspectives

Bhakti Poetry

Indian Literature in English and Translation

Literary Criticism and Theory

The specialisation of Communication Studies includes features of language and linguistics, language communication ways, literary criticism, Indian and world literature, film and media studies, and social communication through the English language.

Cultural Studies

Technical Writing

Mass Communication and Journalistic Writing

Indian Literatures in English and Translation

Audio Visual Studies

Speech and Accent

Postcolonial Literature

Cultural Studies: Fields, Issues, and Methods

Children’s Literature

Gender Studies

Cultural Studies with English course offers a blend of subjects regarding language and culture. The topics range across early and mediaeval literature, technical writing and translation, written and oral communication, impact of culture on literature, and age-specific literature.

Indian Classical Literature

Kalidasa

Abhijnana Shakuntalam

British Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

Gordden, Malcom, and Michael Lapidge

Colonial Indian Writing

Women’s Education and the Unity of India

Sarojini Naidu

Introduction To Literature

Jane Eyre

Beloved

Charlotte Bronte

Toni Morrison

Indian Writing in English

A Horse and Two Goats

Inscrutable Americans

R. K. Narayan

Anurag Amthur

Contemporary Indian Literatures

Gandhi and Nehru -The Uses of English

Sunil Khilnani