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English Major, Semester 3
University of Kalyani B.A. English NEP 2020 syllabus, effective July 2023. This Major paper has six credits and 60 end-semester marks.
MAJ301 · English Essay and Short Story
- Unit I, fiction: selected short prose by Kylaash Chunder Dutta, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine Mansfield, Evelyn Waugh and D. H. Lawrence. Texts include "The Tell-Tale Heart," "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "Bliss."
- Unit II, non-fiction: selected essays and speeches by Francis Bacon, Samuel Pepys, Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, John Henry Newman, Rammohun Roy, William Hazlitt, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and E. M. Forster.
- Unit III, history of English prose: the syllabus names readings on Bacon; Pepys and Evelyn; Dennis, Addison and Steele; Johnson; Romantic essayists; Conan Doyle, Stoker and Stevenson; and twentieth-century political prose.
The syllabus also lists MIN301 Essay and Prose Fiction and SEC301 English Language Teaching. Your registered combination determines which papers apply.