a. This course creates awareness among students of the rich and diverse cultural heritage of ancient India.
b. Students become familiar with the major literary works of ancient Indian writers like Kalidasa, Sudraka.
c. The classical sensibilities of Srimanta Sankardeva in the context of Assamese literature and culture are also learnt by the students.
d. The learners will be motivated to make comparative analysis of Indian literature and European literature.

a. Students will be acquainted with the great heritage of European Classical literature starting from Homer‟s epic “The Iliad” to the satires of Horace.
b. Students will come to know the fact that English literature is heavily indebted to the classical works of Greece and Rome.
c. Besides learning the wider concepts of European History through literature, students will be acquainted with the Greek and Latin classics.

1. The learners will be well equipped with the skills of reading, writing, comprehension and communication.
2. The course also enables the learners to develop their presentation skills using electronic media necessary for modern day business.

1. The learners shall be able to understand and appreciate the value of the two sub-genres, prose and short stories.
2. The learners shall be able to understand cultural practices of two different spatiality- the West and the East.

a. Students come to know how the Indian culture, tradition, social values and Indian history are reflected in literature written in English by Indian writers.
b. The independent status in the realm of world literature in the Pre Independence
English and Post Independence era is understood by the students.
c. Students get introduced to Indian writing in English from the colonial to the post colonial period and thus get acquainted with issues such as identity politics, gendered differences, home, dislocation, language among others etc.

a. Students get to learn British poetry and drama from Chaucer to Shakespeare.
b. The learners are acquainted with different texts and thus are related to the age of Chaucer, Pre-Elizabethan and Elizabethan periods.
c. The learners perceive the ideas like tragedy, comedy, sonnet etc. from this paper.

a. Students understand the reality of illusion of the great American Dream, the transcendentalist movement, the history of slavery in the south, the great economic depression etc.
b. Students are acquainted with the history of American literature.
c. Students learn some aspects of American English, Usage, Diction, they gain an understanding how society, culture and politics affect literature.

a. Students become able to differentiate between canonical and the popular literature.
b. Students get acquainted with popular literature, such as crime thriller, graphic fiction, children‟s literature and so forth.

a. Learners of this course develop ideas on English literature of the 17th and the 18th century, the epoch-making political events such as Puritan Interregnum and the Restoration.
b. Students get acquainted with the thought processes of poets like Milton and Pope, dramatists like Webster and Behn, the neo-classicists like Alexander Pope and so forth.

a. By the end of the course, students develop ideas on different aspects of the 18th century literature, the new modes of creative expression, particular prose narratives of the writers like Swift and Sterne and many others.
b. Students would gain knowledge on the literary tools like irony and satire used to depict the ills prevailing in the society.
c. Students acquire knowledge on gender issues, besides having some ideas on the “Age of Enlightenment‟, when „reason‟ became the locus.
d. They also become acquainted with the new philosophical shift in the wake of the culture of positivism that set in during this period.

a. Students would learn the concept and significant of nature in Romantic Poetry.
b. They will understand how to distinguish between reason and imagination and the predominance of imagination in romantic literature.
c. Students will get some glimpse of the Gothic novel as dominant genre of ther Romantic literature.
d. They would learn many things about the highly imaginative, rhetorical, emotive, visionary, metaphysical, epical, sensuous aspects of the works especially poetry.

a. Students would understand the prevailing controversy between science and religion in Victorian era.
b. Students would have a clear comprehension of the ground breaking theories propounded by Darwin, Marx and Freud, which impacted the thought processes of the people.
c. They will become aware of the massive creative abilities of the Victorian Writers.

a. Students, by the end of the course, would learn how women were dominated by the society, and, were denied agency to air their views publicly or in writing.
b. They would learn gender equality and women‟s rights and more importantly the revolutionary changes occurred due to women empowerment.
c. The learners would also learn the manner in which power operates to silence women from articulating their views.

a. Students will develop new ideas on symbolism, existentialism, cubism, Dadaism, expressionism, and nihilism.
b. The new philosophical shifts of the modern British literature will be acquainted with by the students through the prescribed early twentieth century texts particularly novels and poetry.
c. The learners will develop some ideas how the early 20th century British literature experimented on the level of both form and content.

a. Students will be acquainted with the translated works of Indian writing across regions and learn the significance of the contributions of authors in various regional languages.
b. Students will understand and appreciate the best regional literature in their English translations.
c. They would be able to understand the political, social and economic factors affecting people across regions and cultures.

a. After completing this course, it is expected that learners will be in a position to understand the complexity of living as hyphenated identities in a space which is different from that of „home‟.
b. The students will be in a better position to understand the post-colonial condition of identities caught between the quest for a better life abroad and the acknowledgement of the futility surrounding such a roofless mobility.

a. It is expected that criticism would enable the learners to understand, appreciate and critique literary texts by including the values of what good or bad literature tends to be.
b. It is also expected that learners will be in a position to understand the texts in terms of the contexts which would be purely aesthetic, historical, textual or political. They will be able to read texts by adopting the ideologies of the different reading processes.

By the end of the course, the student will be able to identify and analyze a variety of major works of world literature; compare and contrast writing styles and generic forms from different periods and cultures; identify major themes of representative poetic and fictional works and trace the influence of one literature upon another.

a. Students‟ after completion of the course, would understand the new concept of Absurd drama and its development.
b. They will also be familiarized with the realist drama of Henrik Ibsen, Epic Theatre of Bertolt Brecht and the Avant Garde Drama of Eugege Ionesco which became an important vehicle for representing the political, social, individual, economic conditions of the post-war Europe.

a. Students will gain knowledge on the terms and concepts of the post-colonial literature such as language, identity, point of view, displacement, physical and mental colonialism, decolonization, nationalism, fundamentalism, globalization and diaspara, colonial legacy, gender and sexuality, regionalism, ethnicity, genocide, race and so forth.
b. Students will acquaint themselves with the reputed writers of post colonial literature and learn to analyze such texts by using the issues and theories.

a. By the end of this course, the learners shall be in a position to know some of the significant texts of discourses revolving around class, power, language, race, identity and so forth.
b. They will be able to relate their reading of literature through such theories, which would in turn facilitate their interpretive strategies.

a. The learners are expected to understand the elements involved in adapting texts to film. They will demonstrate analytical skills in visual literacy and reading filmic texts.
b. Students will demonstrate a familiarity with ways of discussing and evaluating films as reflections of cultures and source texts.

After the culmination of this course, the learners will be in a position to comprehend the magnitude to the tragedy of partition and realize how the trauma associated with it impinges on the victim‟s daily lives and activities even in the present. The historical fact transmuted by imagination tends to prove the validity of literature in representing the truth of the human condition. This is what the course will attempt to highlight.

a. The learners would be in a position to understand the cultural dynamics of narratives written by travelers. They will be able to appreciate the difference in representation from the category of gender, religion and race.
b. They learners will realize that travel narratives are always already ideological in import, and hence they can only be regarded as representations, rather than truth.