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Six course completed candidates

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Five course completed candidates

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Four course completed candidates

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Three course completed candidates

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Two course completed candidates

14,000

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One course completed candidates

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Additional Fee Concession for Previous Akshiraa Achievers

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2) Top Ten State Rank Holders – Rs. 5000

3) Already Appointed Candidates – Rs. 3000

 

Materials Overview

Paper – 1

Unit I – Teaching Aptitude

S. No

Title

P. No

1.

Teaching

4

2.

Learner’s Characteristics

14

3.

Factors Affecting Teaching

29

4.

Methods of Teaching in Institutions of Higher Learning

35

5.

Teaching Support System

56

6.

Evaluation Systems

69

Unit IV – Communication

S. No

Title

P. No

01.

Communication: Meaning, Types and Characteristics of Communication

3

02.

Effective Communication: Verbal and Non-Verbal, Inter-Cultural and Group Communications, Classroom Communication

20

03.

Barriers to Effective Communication

34

04.

Mass-Media and Society

42

 

Unit V – Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

S. No

Title

P. No

01.

Types of Reasoning

4

02.

Number Series

6

03.

Letter Series

8

04.

Analogy

10

05.

Coding and Decoding

13

06.

Blood Relationship

16

07.

Fraction

21

08.

Time and Distance

23

09.

Ratio, Proportion and Percentage

25

10.

Profit, Loss and Discounting

27

11.

Interest

30

12.

Average

33

 

Unit VIII – Information and Communication Technology

S. No

Title

P. No

01.

ICT – Introduction

35

02.

Basics of Computer

37

03.

Networking

75

04.

Internet and Intranet

81

05.

E-mail

93

06.

Audio and Video Conferencing

98

07.

Digital Initiatives in Higher Education

100

08.

ICT and Governance

118

09.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

123

10.

Computer Terminology

132

 
Unit IX – People, Development and Environment

S. No

Title

P. No

1.

Development and Environment: Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goal

82

2.

Human and Environment Interaction: Anthropogenic Activities and their Impacts on Environment

88

3.

Environmental Issues: Pollution, Waste, Climate Change

93

4.

Impacts of Pollutants on Human Health

124

5.

Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests

128

6.

Natural Hazards and Disasters: Mitigation Strategies

140

7.

Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International Agreements and Efforts – Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance

150

Unit X – Higher Education System

S. No

Title

P. No

01.

Institutions of Higher Learning and Education in Ancient India

47

02.

Evolution of Higher Learning and Research in Post-Independence India

62

03.

Oriental, Conventional and Non-Conventional Learning Programmes in India

85

04.

Professional, Technical and Skill Based Education

103

05.

Value Education and Environmental Education

122

06.

Policies, Governance, and Administration

130

Paper – 2

Unit I – BRITISH LITERATURE – I

S.No

Title

P. No

Poetry

01

The Age of Chaucer (1340 – 1400)

1.1  Geoffrey Chaucer

1.2  William Langland

 

14

26

02

     The Age of Revival (1400 – 1550)

2.1 Thomas More

      2.2 Thomas Wyatt

      2.3 Henry Howard

 

29

37

39

03

Elizabethan Age (1558–1603)

Poets:

 

3.1 Edmund Spenser

3.2 Philip Sidney

3.3 Shakespeare

 

Dramatists:

3.4 Christopher Marlowe

3.5 Thomas Kyd

3.6 William Shakespeare

 

Essayist:

3.7 Francis Bacon

   

 

 

    41

52

58

 

 

74

85

89

 

 

109

04

Jacobean & Caroline Age (1603–1625 & 1625–1649)

Poets:

4.1 John Donne

4.2 Henry Vaughan

4.3 George Herbert

4.4 Andrew Marvell

 

Dramatists:

4.5 Ben Jonson

4.6 John Webster

 

 

116

125

127

129

 

133

138

05

Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum (1649-1660)

5.1 John Milton

5.2 John Bunyan

 

 

145

155

06

     Restoration Age (1660-1700)

6.1 John Dryden

6.2 William Congreve

6.3 William Wycherley

 

 

166

178

189

 

07

The Augustan Age (1700-1745)

 

Poets:

7.1 Alexander Pope

7.2 Jonathan Swift

7.3 Joseph Addison

7.4 Richard Steele

 

Novelist:

7.5 Daniel Defoe

 

 

  194

  206

  217

  221

 

  230

08

The Age of Sensibility or Age of Johnson (1745–1785)

Poets:

8.1 Dr. Johnson

8.2 Thomas Gray

8.3 Oliver Goldsmith

8.4 William Blake

 

Novelists:

8.5 Samuel Richardson

8.6 Henry Fielding

 

 

241

249

255

266

 

280

285

Unit III – AMERICAN LITERATURE  (Part – 1)

S. No

Title

P. No

01.

Historical and Political Time-line of America

03

02.

Literary periods of American Literature

08

03.

Early Writers of American Literature – Part 1

14

04.

Early Writers of American Literature – Part 2

20

05.

Fredrick Douglass

25

06.

Herman Melville – Moby-Dick

27

07.

James Cooper – Leather Stockings Tales

32

08.

Edgar Allen Poe – Poems

35

09.

Edgar Allen Poe – Philosophy of Composition

50

10.

Mark Twain – Adventures of Tom Sawyer

53

11.

Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

61

12.

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

67

13.

Emerson – American Scholar

76

14.

Emerson – Self-Reliance

90

15.

Thoreau – Walden

99

16.

Walt Whitman – When Lilac Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

115

17.

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The House of the Seven Gables

128

18.

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter

133

 

Unit  III – AMERICAN LITERATURE (Part – 2)

S. No

Title

P. No

19.

Henry James – The Lesson of the Master

3

20.

Louisa May Alcott

13

21.

Charlotte Gilman Perkins – Yellow Wallpaper

20

22.

Hart Crane – To Brooklyn Bridge

24

23.

William Faulkner – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

32

24.

William Faulkner – Sound and the Fury

37

25.

Hemingway – The Old man and the Sea

42

26.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

55

27.

Susan Glaspell – Trifles

61

28.

Tennessee Williams – Glass Menagerie

71

29.

Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman

82

30.

Gertrude Stein

93

31.

Eugene O Neill – The Great God Brown

96

32.

Eugene O Neill – The Hairy Ape

111

33.

Robert Frost – Poems

121

34.

Toni Morrison – Beloved

136

35.

Ezra Pound

140

36.

E. E. Cummings – The Cambridge Ladies

144

37.

John Steinbeck

149

38.

Edward Albee – Who’s Afride of Virginia Woolf

154

39.

Edward Albee – The American Dream

165

40.

Harper Lee – To Kill a Mocking Bird

179

41.

Saul Bellow

185

42.

Robert Lowell

188

43.

Theoder Draiser

191

44.

Sylvia Plath – Poems

195

45.

Emily Dickinson – Poems

203

Unit V – Language and Linguistics

 

S.No
Title
P.No
Language

01.

The Origin of Language

3

02.

The Place of English in the Indo-European family

9

03.

The Characteristics of the Germanic Language

18

04.

Old English

21

05.

Middle English

25

06.

Modern English

29

07.

Standard English

32

08.

The Growth of Vocabulary

34

09.

The Change of Meaning

41

Linguistics

10.

Introduction to Linguistics

10.1. Definition, Nature and Scope of Linguistics

10.2. Linguistic Terms

10.3. Glossary of Linguistic Terms

49

11.

Phonology

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Speech Organs

11.3. Sounds in English

11.4. Transcriptions

11.5. Syllable, Stress, Intonation

82

12.

Morphology

12.1. Morpheme

12.2. Affixes

12.3. Word Formation

12.4. Morphophonemics

106

13.

Syntax

13.1. Word, Phrase, Clause

13.2. Structural Linguistics

13.3. Immediate Constituent Analysis

13.4. Transformational Generative Grammar

122

14.

Semantics

14.1. Meaning

14.2. Terms and Concepts in Semantics

14.3. Theories of Semantics

141

15.

Pragmatics

158

VII – LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
S. No
Title
P. No

I. Greek Critics

01

Plato

07

02

Aristotle

17

II. Roman Critics

03

Horace

32

04

Quintilian

39

05

Longinus

44

III. Latin Critics

06

Dante

50

07

Mimetic Theory

57

08

Pragmatic Theories

58

IV. Medieval Criticism

09

Philip Sidney

61

V. Neo-Classical Literary Criticism

10

John Dryden

65

11

Samuel Johnson

73

VI. Romanticism

12

William Wordsworth

79

13

S.T. Coleridge

91

14

P.B. Shelley

101

VII. Victorian Literary Criticism

15

Matthew Arnold

107

VIII. Literary Criticism in the Twentieth Century

16

T.S. Eliot

112

17

I.A. Richards

118

18

William Empson

136

19

Lionel Trilling

144

20

Wayne C. Booth

151

21

Cleanth Brooks

163

22

Allen Tate

170

IX. Literary Approaches

23

Moralistic Approach

177

24

Psychological Approach

178

25

Archetypal Approach

180

26

Sociological Approach

195

27

Formalistic Approach

196

X. Literary Theory and Criticism

28

Feminist Criticism

198

29

Marxist Criticism

210

30

New Criticism

214

31

Structuralism

218

32

Reader – Response Criticism

222

33

Deconstruction

227

34

New Historicism

231

35

Eco Criticism

233

36

Post-Colonial Criticism

235

37

Literary Terms

237

38

Notable Quotes

246

39

Key Texts in Literary Criticism and Theory

250

40

Literary Movements

258

41

Literary Forms

270

 

Unit VIII – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

S. No

Title

P. No

1

Outline History of Indian Writing in English

3

POETRY

2

Rabindranath Tagore

15

3

Sri Aurobindo

26

4

Toru Dutt

30

5

Sarojini Naidu

34

6

A.K. Ramanujan

40

7

R. Parthasarathy

47

8

Kamala Das

52

9

Nissim Ezekiel

59

10

Vikram Seth

66

PROSE

11

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

68

PLAY

12

Girish Karnad

73

13

Vijay Tendulkar

80

14

Gurcharan Das

85

15

Mahesh Dattani

89

16

Badal Sircar

93

NOVEL

17

Mulk Raj Anand

100

18

Raja Rao

110

19

R.K.Narayan

115

20

Kamala Markandaya

124

21

Shashi Deshpande

128

22

Anita Desai

134

23

Arundhati Roy

142

24

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

147

25

Chetan Bhagat

152