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Four course completed candidates |
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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. |
|
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
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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 |
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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 |
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01 |
Plato |
07 |
02 |
Aristotle |
17 |
II. Roman Critics |
||
03 |
Horace |
32 |
04 |
Quintilian |
39 |
05 |
Longinus |
44 |
III. Latin Critics |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |