English Spl

The PUBDET English Literature syllabus for B.A. is based on the 11th and 12th class curriculum of various boards. Here's a possible breakdown:

• Poetry and Drama: Analysis of poems and plays from different eras, focusing on themes, literary devices, and authorial intent.
• Prose: Reading and interpretation of various prose forms like essays, short stories, and novels. Understanding narrative techniques, character development, and social commentary.
• Language Skills: Developing strong vocabulary, grammar foundation, and writing skills through essays, summaries, and creative writing exercises.

The syllabus also includes specific prescribed texts or offer a wider range of choices across genres and periods.

• Revise basic grammar rules like subject-verb agreement, tenses, articles, prepositions, and punctuation.
• Enhance your vocabulary by learning new words daily.
• Read newspapers, articles, magazines, and novels regularly. This improves your reading speed, comprehension skills, and exposure to different writing styles.

• Solve past years' English section questions to understand the exam format, question types, and the level of difficulty.
• Practice identifying assumptions, inferences, conclusions, and logical fallacies in arguments.
• Practice rearranging jumbled sentences or paragraphs to form a coherent passage and identifying the odd sentence that doesn't fit the context.
• Sharpen your skills in identifying and correcting grammatical errors and awkward sentence structures in given passages.

Some common elective subjects of BA English degree include World Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies.BA course comprises a combination of compulsory and elective subjects depending upon the specialisation you have chosen. Generally, students need to study 5 compulsory subjects in BA along with some elective subjects though it can vary as per the university and program.Some of these electives are Modern Indian Writing In English Translation, Literary Theory, Partition Literature, Literary Criticism, Contemporary India: Women And Empowerment, Autobiography, Environment Study, And Communicative English.