Course Title: Expanding Horizons in English Full marks: 100 Course No. : 422 ...
Course Title: Expanding Horizons in English Full marks: 100
Course No. : 422 Pass
marks: 35
Nature of the course: Theory Periods
per week: 6
Level: B. Ed. Time
per period: 45 minutes
Year: Second Total
periods: 150
1. Course Description
This course is designed with a
view to enhance the students’ horizons of knowledge through the reading of
interdisciplinary texts in English. The course includes broader themes of
Interdisciplinary texts. The topics include authentic English writings in order
to broaden the students' worldview and present glimpse of different
socio-cultural realities expressed through the English language which can be
utilised in teaching English. The course is divided into twelve units each
dealing with diverse field of studies such as humanities, society and culture,
human rights and freedom, education and language teaching, globalisation and
postmodernism, music and art, writers at work, reconciliation and peace, travel
and adventure, poetry and short stories, science and technology, and nature,
ecology and environment.
2.
General Objectives
The objectives of this course are as follows:
- To
acquaint the students with various issues related to humanities.
- To
expose students to the socio-cultural realities by means of English
writings.
- To
familiarise students with the issues of human rights and freedom.
- To
acquaint the students with the texts in education and language teaching.
- To
introduce the students with the concepts of globalisation and
postmodernism.
- To
encourage the students to the masterpieces writing in the English.
- To
enhance students’ reading skills in the themes of reconciliation and
peace.
- To
help the students interact with the texts related to travel and adventure.
- To
acquaint the students with various issues related to music, art and
writers at work.
- To
expose the students to the readings of poetry and short stories.
- To
enhance the students’ interpretative and analytical faculty expressed
through English writings selected from science and technology.
- To
enhance the students’ language and language teaching proficiency by
increasing their vocabulary repertoire and by exposing them to the texts
of nature, ecology and environment.
3. Specific Objectives and Contents
|
Specific objectives |
Contents |
|
Read,
comprehend and review the texts from humanities |
Unit
I: Humanities (16)
1.1
Myths 1.2
The Bhagavadgita 1.3
The Necessity of Religion 1.4
The Two Poles of Contemporary Political Life 1.5
Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third
World 1.6
Intimate Alienation: Immigrants'
Fiction and Translation 1.7
Themes of Existentialism 1.8
My Early Life |
|
Read and analyse texts from societyand
culture |
Unit
II: Society and Culture (9) 2.1
Cultural Pluralism versus Culture
in Singular 2.2
New Social Movements 2.3
Mould your Own Destiny 2.4
Levis 2.5
Who is Ethnic 2.6
Sherpas and their dangerous Job
on Mount Everest 2.7 Numafung |
|
Present different world views in terms of
the texts from human rights and freedom. |
Unit III: Human Rights and Freedom (8) 3.1 Humanism
3.2 Anatomy of Fascism 3.3 The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 3.4 Human Rights and Democracy 3.5 Women Rights are Human Rights 3.6 Eye of the Tiger 3.7 Teachers |
|
Infer
ideas from the texts in education and language teaching. |
Unit IV: Education and
Language Teaching (10) 4.1 Be Ready to Learn 4.2 Alternative Schooling System 4.3 Finishing
School 4.4 ESL in Africa and Asia 4.5 Ideology in the Classroom 4.6 The Sources of English Vocabulary 4.7. Convergence or Divergence...... 4.8 Worldwide Words |
|
Acquire
information on globalisation and postmodernism |
Unit V: Globalisation
and Postmodernism
(6) 5.1 What is Postmodernism? 5.2 The Postmodern Mind 5.3 Basket
of dreams casket of dreams: deaths of Nepali migrants overseas |
|
Obtain
ideas of genre of interviews |
Unit VI: Writers at Work (5) 6.1
Interview with Robert Frost 6.2
Interview with Mo Yan 6.3
Interview with OrhanPamuk |
|
Read
and analyse the text on reconciliation
and peace |
Unit
VIIReconciliation and Peace (5) 7.1 Om 7.2 Peace Education 7.3 Strike Against War 7.4 On love |
|
Read
and interpret the texts on travel and adventure |
Unit VIII: Travel and Adventure (5)
8.1. When Every Minute Would Matter Into Thin Air 8.2 Death Valley 8.3 Kenya on Horseback 8.4 Three Months in Austria |
|
Explain the
various issues related to music and art. |
Unit
IX Music and Art (8) 9.1
Leonardo da Vinci 9.2
Destitute but Free
9.3
Music and its Divine
Influence 9.4
A Day in the Kalakhetra of Assam 9.5
Ambar Gurung Odyssey 9.6 On Appreciation of Indian Classical
Music
|
|
To readandunderstand poetries and short stories and answer the questions asked from them. |
Unit X: Poetry and Short
Story (20) 10.1
The boy who lived 10.2 Do
you speak English 10.3 Hope
and comfort 10.4 Poetry
is dead. Does anybody really care? 10.5 Why
is Rumi the best-selling poet in the US 10.6 The
Archipelago 10.7 Half
a day 10.8 Introduction to Gitanjali 10.9 Poem
1 When I Stop and Pray 10.10 Poem
2 The Common Man 10.11 Poem 3
Scars 10.12 Poem
4 Pompous Pokhara 10.13 Poem
5 I
wannabe yours 10.14 Poem 6 Rain |
|
Read and compare the language of liberal
arts with that of science and technology |
Unit XI: Science and
Technology (5) 11.1 Our Picture of the Universe 11.2 Computer: The Next Stage 11.3 Nanotechnology |
|
Read and assess the environment |
Unit XII: Nature,
Ecology and Environment
(3) 12.1 Ecological Imperialism 12.2 Earth's Green
Mantle |
4.
Instructional Techniques
The instructional techniques for this
course are divided into two groups. First group consists of general
instructional techniques applicable to most of the units. The second group
consists of specific instructional techniques applicable to specific units.
4.1. General Instructional Techniques
· Lecture
· Discussion
· Self study
· Book talk
4.2. Specific Instructional Techniques
Unit III-V: Presentation
Unit VIII: Project work: Individual or Group work.
5. Evaluation Scheme and Time Allotment
The course is for one academic year and it carries 100 marks. The time allotment for each unit is as follows:
|
Unit |
Time |
|
Unit I: Humanities |
16% |
|
Unit II: Society and culture |
9% |
|
Unit III: Human Rights and Freedom |
8% |
|
Unit IV: Education and Language Teaching |
10% |
|
Unit V: Globalisation and Postmodernism |
6% |
|
Unit VI: Writers at work |
5% |
|
Unit VII: Reconciliation and Peace |
5% |
|
Unit VIII: Travel and Advanture |
5% |
|
Unit IX: Music and Art |
8% |
|
Unit X: Poetry and Short Story |
20% |
|
Unit XI: Science and Technology |
5% |
|
Unit XII: Nature, Ecology and Environment |
3% |
6. Evaluation
There will be a written examination of 100 marks which will be conducted by the Office of the Controller of Examination. The types and number of test items to be asked in the annual examination are as follows:
|
Types of questions |
Total questions to be asked |
Number of questions to
be answered and marks alloted |
Total marks |
|
Group A: Multiple choice items |
20 questions |
20 x 1 marks |
20 |
|
Group B: Short answer questions |
8 with 3 alternative questions |
8 x 7 marks |
56 |
|
Group C: Long answer questions |
2 with 1 alternative question |
2 x 12 marks |
24 |
7.
Prescribed Book
Awasthi, J. R., et al. (Eds.)
(2016).Reading for the New Horizons. Kathmandu: (For all units).
8. Reference Book
Morley, D. (2007). The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Cambridge: CUP
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