B.A. (Hons) English Syllabus

Semester II

  • COURSE CODE
    COURSE NAME
    CREDITS
  • JBAE-201

    Poetry:

    UNIT-I

    Thomas Gray – Elegy (1-8 Stanzas)

    Alexander Pope – Rape of The Lock

    UNIT-II

    Wordsworth – Daffodils, The world is too much with us.

    Coleridge – Kubla Khan, The Rhyme of Ancient Mariner (1-4 Stanzas)

    UNIT-III

    Alfred Tennyson – Ulysses

    Robert Browning – The Last Ride Together (1-6 Stanzas)
    04
  • JBAP-201

    Basic Psychological Processes:

    UNIT-I

    Memory and Forgetting: Concept of memory, stages of memory, information processing approach, sensory, short term and long term memory. Methods of measuring memory. Forgetting: Nature, causes and various theories of forgetting, Decay and interference theory.

    UNIT-II

    Motivation and Emotion: Nature, meaning and indicators of motivation, Motivational cycle, Biogenic and Sociogenic motives. Emotion: Nature and types of emotion, Development of emotional patterns and control of emotions. Theories of emotion: James Lange, Cannon Bard, Schachter and Singer. Physiological correlates of emotion. Culture and emotion.

    UNIT-III

    Thinking: Nature and types of thinking. Realistic and autistic thinking. Imagery, prototypes, language and thought. Intelligence: Nature, definition and concept of IQ, Genetic and environmental factors on intelligence. Theories of intelligence: Spearman, Thurstone, Thorndike and Guilford. Personality: Concept of personality. Trait and type approaches of personality. Biological, social and cultural determinants of personality.

    Books:

    • 1. Atkinson and Hilgard (2002). Introduction to psychology. New York: Thomson wadsworth
    • 2. Baron, R.A. (1995). Psychology: The Essential Science. New York: Allyn and Bacon.
    • 3. Feldman,R.S. (2006). Understanding Psychology. India: Tata Mcgraw Hill.
    • 4. Lefton, L.A. (1985). Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
    • 5. Morgan C.T. King R.A. Weiz J.R. Schopler, J. (2002). Introduction to psychology. Tata Mcgraw Hill.
    • 6. Singh,A.K. (2002) Uchchatar Samanya Manovigyan. New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas.
    • 7. Zimbardo, P.G and Weber, A.L. (1997). Psychology. New York: Harper Collins Collge Publishers
    02
  • JBAP-251

    Psychology Practical:

    • 1) Measurement of Intelligence (verbal and non verbal tests).
    • 2) Comparison of recall and recognition as a method of measuring retention.
    • 3) Emotion Maturity/Competence.
    • 4) Measurement of STM/LTM.
    02
  • JBAS-201

    Sociology of India:

    UNIT-I

    Introduction: The Rise of Sociology in India.

    UNIT-II

    India as a Plural Society

    UNIT-III

    Social institution in India: Caste, Tribe, Class, Village, Urban and Gender.

    UNIT-IV

    Indian Society: Issues and Problems Poverty, Problems of Religious, ethnic and regional, minorities, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, women. Understanding Social Movement, Naxalism.

    Books:

    • 1. Berreman, G. D., 1991, "The Brahmanical View of Caste" in Dipankar Gupta (ed.), Social Stratification. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.84-92.
    • 2. Desai, A.R. (1969), Rural Sociology in India, Bombay Popular Prakashan
    • 3. Dube, S.C.(1955), Indian Village, London Rutledge and Kegan Paul.
    • 4. Gail Omvedt, Dalits and Democratic Revolution, Sage, New Delhi
    • 5. Gupta, Dipankar ed.(1991) Social Stratification. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.195-212
    • 6. Haimendorf, C. Von Furor, 1967, "The Position of the Tribal Population of India", in Phillip
    • 7. M. N Srinivas (1962 ) caste in modern India Asia Pub. House,
    • 8. Madan, T. N., 1997, Modern Myths, Locked Minds: Secularism and Fundamentalism in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.1-38
    • 9. Mason, India and Ceylon: Unity and Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, Ch. 9.
    • 10. Sharma, K.L. (1997), Rural Society in India, Jaipur : Rawat Publication.
    • 11. Srinivas, M.N., 1969, "The Caste System in India", in A. Beteille (ed.) Social Inequality: Selected Readings. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, pp.265-272
    • 12. Srinivas, M.N. 1987, the Dominant Caste and Other Essays. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.20-59.
    • 13. Singh Yogendra (1973) Modernization of Indian Tradition, Delhi: Thomson Press.
    04
  • Total Credits
     
    12