Syllabus for
Bachelor of Arts (Theatre Studies, English, Psychology)
Academic Year  (2023)

Course Description

This course is taught in the second year for students from different streams, namely BA, BSc

and BCom. If the first year syllabus is an attempt by the Department of English, Christ

University to recognize and bring together the polyphonic Indian voices in English and Indian

regional literatures in translation for the Additional English students of the first year, the

second year syllabus intends to take that project a little further and open up the engagement

of the students to texts from across the world. The syllabus - selection of texts will

concentrate on readings from South Asian, Latin American, Australian, Canadian, and Afro-

American. It will voice subaltern concerns of identity, gender, race, ethnicity and problems of

belongingness experienced by humanity all over the globe.

The syllabus will extend the concerns of nation and nationality and marginalization,

discussed within the Indian context to a more inclusive and wider global platform. We have

consciously kept out ‘mainstream’ writers and concentrated on the voices of the subalterns

from across the world. There is an implicit recognition in this project that though the aspects

of marginalization and the problems facing subalterns are present across cultures and

nations, the experiences, expressions and reflections are specific to each race and culture.

The course will address these nuances and specificities and enable our students to become

more aware and sensitive to life and reality around them. This will equip the students, who

are global citizens, to understand not just the Indian scenario, but also situate themselves

within the wider global contexts and understand the spaces they will move into and negotiate

in their future.

There is a prescribed text book Blends: Voices from Margins for the second year students,

compiled by the Department of English, Christ University and intended for private circulation.

Course Objectives

The course objectives are

 to enable students to look at different cultures through Literature

 to help students develop an understanding of subaltern realities and identity politics

 to inculcate literary sensibility/taste among students across disciplines

 to improve language skills –speaking, reading, writing and listening

 to equip the students with tools for developing lateral thinking

 to equip students with critical reading and thinking habits

 to reiterate the study skills and communication skills they developed in the previous

year and extend it.

TetsukoKuroyanagi: Tottochan: The Little Girl at the Window12

Liliana Heker : “The Stolen Party

 Higuchi Ichiyo: “Separate Ways”

 Harukki Murakami "Birthday Girl"

 Luisa Valenzuela: “I’m your Horse in the Night”

Poetry 12 Hrs

 Silvio Curbelo: “Summer Storm”

 Nancy Morejon: “Black Woman”

 Ruben Dario: “To Roosevelt”

 Mina Asadi: “A Ring to me is a Bondage”

Essay 9Hrs

 Amy Tan: “Mother Tongue

 Linda Hogan: “Waking Up the Rake”

 Isabelle Allande: “Open Veins of Latin America”

Children's Literature -  Kimberley Reynolds (CUP)

CIA 1: A written test for 20 marks. It can be an Open Book test, a classroom assignment, an

objective or descriptive test pertaining to the texts and ideas discussed in class.

CIA2: Mid-semester written exam for 50 works

CIA 3: This is to be a creative test/ project in small groups by students. They may do

Collages, tableaus, skits, talk shows, documentaries, Quizzes, presentations, debates,

charts or any other creative test for 20 marks. This test should allow the students to explore

their creativity and engage with the real world around them and marks can be allotted to

students depending on how much they are able to link the ideas and discussions in the texts

to the world around them.

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam: 2 hrs

Section A: 4x5= 20

Section B: 2x15=30

Total 50

End Semester Exam: 3 hrs

Section A: 4 x 5 = 20

Section B: 2 x 15= 30

Total 50

An introduction to the craft of creative writing, this paper offers an engagement with literary conventions as well as the writing techniques and tools essential to effective composition and editing.

1)Narrativising Time: calibrating time through alternate modes of expression.

Instructions: Write a paragraph that captures the passage of time. Do not use conventional markers and instruments that mark the passage of time like calendars, watches, clocks.

Tip: Observe objects and their relation with time. Describe the changes you notice.

2) Writing about Space:

Instructions: Using your bodily experience, in a few lines describe being caged, then describe being alone in a vast open desert like space. Avoid conventional words that describe space like measurements or volumes.

Tip: Observe and describe the effect spatiality has on you in terms of feelings and perceptions.

3) Ekphrasis: Describing a work of visual art:

Choose a famous work of art and narrativise it.

Tip: avoid historical, biographical or compositional facts. Study the work and imagine the moments or situations that preceded what is depicted.

4)Pecha Kucha (Sequencing):

Instructions: using 20 slides with a six second transition per slide, narrativise the story that will lead to the LAST slide being the painting chosen by you for the previous exercise.

Tip: keep slides minimal. Avoid heavy text or images. Use a visual colour palette and design mode that aligns, complements or contrasts with your last slide (the painting). Choose a font, background colour and images to suit your narrative tone. Be sensitive to cultural moorings and milieu.

5) Perspectives/ Point of View

Instructions: Choose a popular legend or fairy tale or nursery rhyme. Retell it from the point of view of a minor character or object. Example: retell Cinderella from the point of view of the slipper or the coach man.

Tip: the plot must remain the same but the perspective will define the tone and telling thereof.

6) Analogy

Instructions: Write a brief analogy: 2-5 lines only. You may use a metaphor, simile, conceit, anecdote etc.

Tip: Try to find culture specific and contextual examples. feel free to draw from your own cultural and linguistic experiences. Provide adequate translation and context. Write in English only.

7)Artistic Manifesto

Instructions: write a page describing your emerging idea of artistic writing from your experiences with the writing exercises you have hitherto done.

Tip:  You may feel the need to align your style and voice within a tradition. Describe and appraise that tradition and locate yourself within it.

8 a) Material Memory:

Instructions: Find any household artefact or family heirloom of emotional value and trace its significance within your family.

Tip: trace its ownership, try to find to the source, have a conversation with someone who has a story about it, happy or otherwise. Observe the artefact and the response it evokes in the narrator. Try to supplement your writing with a photo or illustration.

8 b) Cultural expression:

Instructions: In conversation with your family, identify a favourite proverb, insult, threat, joke that has been repeated over the years. What does it mean? What is its intention? How do some of its elements capture the sense of region and community. For example, the donkey is often vilified as a beast of stubbornness and stupidity in Tamil folklore. It is also an affectionate term of rebuke by elders and is inoffensive yet stinging. It is a character often central to proverb and folktale alike as well as good natured insults.

9) Ballad: Story poems with clear conventions

Instructions: write a ballad using the conventions discussed in class.

10) Haiku:

Instructions: Write a sequence of haiku reflecting a season.

Tip: The haiku must have a seasonal marker (kigo), cutting word (kiregi) and adhere to the conventions of Imagism, avoiding primary speech cohesion.

11) Proposal for ESE Portfolio:

Instruction: Defend your choice of form. Mention why you are choosing it and what literary significance it enjoys.

12) Review of Literature:

Instructions: Select upto 5 pieces of writing by well known authors who are renowned for their contribution to that form. Write a brief review of their work, its impact on your imagination and how you intend to align yourself in their tradition.

13) Final Submission

Instructions: Draft your Final Submission. Have a friend review it. Edit and experiment with presentation.

14) Conceptualise the design and layout of your final submission. Write a paragraph on your design concept. Even if you choose to submit an unadorned manuscript, validate this decision.

Bradley, Margaret. Ed, More Poetry Please! JM Dent & Sons,Great Britain,1988.

Fry, Stephen , The Ode less Travelled , Random House , UK

Lowenstein Tom, ed Classic Haiku: The Great Japanese Poetry from Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki and their followers, Duncan Baird Publishers, London

Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave's Golden Treasury with Additional Poems, Oxford University Press, London, 1908

Reid, Ian, The Critical Idiom: The Short Story, Methuen& Co. London

Stepp, Carl Sessions. Writing as Craft and Magic, Oxford University Press, New York,2007

Thayil, Jeet, ed,60 Indian Poets, Penguin Random House , India ,2008

Students will be graded for compliance with assignment instructions.

The End Semester Assessment will be a portfolio submission (50 marks).

There is no CIA or Mid Semester examination.

• To introduce the students to the socio-political, religious and cultural aspects of America through literary texts
• To enable students to  read texts as products of  historical, political and cultural context
• To provide insights into different styles of writing over different centuries
• To encourage clear understanding of different genres and prosody/forms/literary devices.
• To enable learners to give their perspective on the texts prescribed
• To brainstorm learners to use their knowledge of History, Psychology, Sociology, etc to read literary works

Description: This unit will introduce American History and literature. An outline of important events would be briefed.

• The Navajo Creation Story
• John Smith- The New Land
• Anne Bradstreet – In Honour of that Highness

Description: This unit will move further into specific texts relevant to the century and sensitize learners in that direction. 

• Doctor Richard Shuckburgh- Yankee Doodle (popular version)
• Benjamin Franklin- Rules by which a Great Empire...
• Sarah Wentworth Morton- Stanzas to a Husband Recently United

Description: This unit will provide a variety in terms of different kinds of literature that the particular century has produced and provide contexts as and when required

• James Lowell- Stanzas on Freedom
• Washington Irving- Rip Van Winkle
• Emerson- I Become a Transparent Eyeball/Brahma
• Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown
• Martin Luther King- I have a Dream (speech)
• Longfellow- My Lost youth
• Douglas- What the Black Man Wants
• Whitman- A noiseless Patient Spider
• Dickinson- I years had been from Home
• Harriet Beecher Stowe- Excerpts- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kate Chopin- Lilacs

Description: This unit will provide a variety in terms of different kinds of literature that the particular century has produced and provide contexts as and when required.

• Hemingway- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Frost- Meeting and Passing
• Ezra Pound- An Immorality
• Langston Hughes- Daybreak in Alabama
• Fitzgerald- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Cummings- Even a Pencil has Fear to
• Ginsberg- Howl or A Supermarket in California
• Eugene O Neill- The Emperor Jones or Hairy Ape

Description: This unit will introduce war and the effect of it on the minds of American writers and the society. It will also take the learners through different styles of writing.

• Alice Walker- The Color Purple
• Sylvia Plath- Gold Mouths Cry
• William Burroughs- Naked Lunch
• James Thurber- A Couple of Hamburgers

Text compiled for internal circulation

1. Abel, Darrel. American Literature, Volume 1: Colonial and Early National Writing, (ed)
2. Abel, Darrel. American Literature, Volume 2: Literature of the Atlantic Culture, (ed) Abel, Darrel.
3. Recent American Literature to 1930, (ed) Heiney and Downs Lenthiel H, Volume 3; Barron’s Educational Series
4. Recent American Literature After 1930, (ed) Heiney and Downs, Lenthiel H. Volume 4; Barron’s Educational Series
5. Literary History of The United States:  (ed) Spiller, Thorp, Johnson, Canby, Ludwig, Third Edition: Revised; Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
6. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1, Second Edition; (ed) Lauter, Yarborough et al, Heath
7. The Harper American Literature, Compact Edition; (ed) McQuade, Atwan et al, Harper and Row

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 End Semester Exam

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

French as second language for the Arts, Science and Commerce UG program

To perform a tribute: artist, work, you are going to…..

Towards a working life

France Seen by...

Mediamania

Act 1, 2 & 3

2.      Gonnet, Georges. Molière- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .Paris : Hachette, 1971

2.      French websites like Bonjour de France, FluentU French, Learn French Lab, Point du FLE etc.

Course Description:

The detailed text book “Shambook” is a Khanda Kavya written by Jagdeesh Gupta. To improve the creative writing skills, Nibandh, Kahani and Kavitha lekhan are included.Bharathiya chitrakala is also a part of the syllabus to improve the knowledge aboutIndian paintings.

Course Objectives:

Students are exposed to different forms of poetry especially, Khanda Kavya. It will help them to understand the contemporary socio-political issues.By learning about the tradition of Indian painting and legendary painters of India , students get to know about the richness and culture  of the Indian paintings. Creative writing sharpens their thinking, analytical  and writing skills 

Khanda Kavya “Shambook” [Poetry] By:Jagdeesh Gupta. Pub: Raj Pal & Sons

Level of knowledge:Analitical    

Nibandh lekhan, Katha lekhan, Kavitha lekhan.

Level of knowledge:Conceptual

Utbhav, vikas aur pramukh shailiyam

pramukh kalakar-1.M F Hussain 2.Ravindranath Tagore 3.Raja Ravi Varma 4.Jamini Roy.

Level of knowledge: Conceptual

1. Khanda Kavya”Shambook[Poetry] ByJagdeesh Gupta.Pub: Raj Pal & Sons

2. Essentials of Screen writing: The art, craft and business of film and television writing

By: Walter Richard.

3. Writing and Script: A very short introduction

By: Robinson, Andrew.

4 .Creative writing By John Singleton

5. Adhunik  Hindi Nibandh By Bhuvaneshwarichandran Saksena.

CIA-2(Mid sem examination)

CIA-3(wikipedia article creation)

End semester examination

Course Description: Language Kannada is offered to students of third Semester BA/B.Sc as Second language for fifty marks. Students of this semester will study an anthology of Modern Kannada Poetry and an Autobiography of Laxman Gaikwad. This course prepares the students to understand the new era. At the dawn of the twentieth century, B.M. Srikantiah, regarded as the “Father of modern Kannada Literature”, called for a new era of writing original works in modern Kannada while moving away from archaic Kannada forms. Students will study modern Kannada poetry from B.M.Sri to Dalit poet Dr. Siddalingiah. An anthology of modern poetry is selected to understand the beauty of modern Kannada poets through their writings. Uchalya is an autobiographical novel that carries the memories of Laxman Gaikwad right from his childhood till he became an adult. Laxman Gaikwad took birth in a criminal tribe of India belonging to Orissa/ Maharastra. The original text is translated to Kannada by Chandrakantha Pokale.

Course Objectives:

Understand and appreciate poetry as a literary art form.

Analyse the various elements of Poetry, such as diction, tone, form, genre, imagery, symbolism, theme, etc.

Appreciates to  learn the elements of autobiography.

1. Kariheggadeya Magalu- B.M.Sri

2. Hunnime Ratri- Kuvempu

3. Anna Yagna-Bendre

4.Mankuthimmana Kagga-D.V.G

5.Ikkala- K.S. Narasimha Swamy

6. Kannad padgol- G.P.Rajarathnam

7.Hanathe hachchuttene- G.S.S

8.Adugemane Hudugi-Vaidehi

9. Nehru Nivruttaraguvudilla- Adgaru

10. Nanna Janagalu.-Siddalingaiah

Text: Uchalya

Author:Lakshman Gayekwad

Translation: Chandrakantha Pokle

1 Dialogue Writing

2 Essay writing

3 short story building

2. Kannada Sahitya Charithre- Volumes 1-4, Editor: G. S. Shivarudrappa, Prasaranga, Bangalore Univeristy.

3. Hosagannada Kavitheya Mele English Kavyada Prabhava- S. Ananthanarayana

4. Hosagannadada Arunodaya- Srinivasa  Havanuru

2. Kannada Sahitya Sameekshe- G. S. Shivarudrappa

3. Bhavageethe- Dr. S. Prabhushankara

4. My Experiments with Truth- M.K. Gandhi

5. Ouru Keri- Siddalingaiah

Course Description

This course is offered to the third semester undergraduate students of psychology. This course will help the student to understand behaviour in a social and cultural context. It also seeks to bridge the gap between psychology and theatre by discussing the performative aspects of the self in a social context. It highlights human behaviour by exploring the relationship between aesthetics, arts, creativity, and psychology. The course also addresses the psychology of diversity and principles of social influence which enable one to understand the interface between psychology, culture and society.

Course Objectives and Learning Outcome

After the completion of this course students will be able:

To understand the sociocultural foundations of behaviour.

To appreciate the relationship between the self and the role of emotion in performance.

To comprehend the interface between psychology, culture and society.

To sensitize on the importance of the principles of persuasion and group processes in theatre.

Level of knowledge:

Knowledge of the courses studied at the higher secondary level in any discipline.

History- Origin and Development of Modern Social Psychology; Social psychology in India.

Theories of social psychology - Motivational, Learning, Cognitive, Decision-making, Interdependence, Socio-cultural, Evolutionary, and Mid-range theories.

Approaches to Culture: Symbolic, activity and individualistic; Etics and Emics; Methods of understanding culture.

Interface between psychology, culture, and society; Contemporary trends in the Indian context.

The Self concept – Beginnings, Formation, Self- schemas and Multicultural perspective

Self-presentation – Types of self presentation, Self presentation strategies, False modesty, Self-handicapping, Impression management, Self –monitoring, Goffman’s Dramaturgical model.

         Self-esteem - Development and Consequences

Perceiving persons- Attribution theories; Attributional errors & biases, Integration, Confirmation bias

What is diversity, Types of diversity – Gender, race, disability, religion, social class, sexual orientation, physical appearance; Making sense of diversity; Cognitive processes in diversity

Sociocultural perspectives of emotions, Context dependent emotion regulation,  Indian perspective on emotion (Rasa Theory ), Body language and  culture, Cultural variations in expressions of emotions. 

Persuasion: Paths to persuasion, Elements of persuasion – Communicator, message content, audience and channel of communication.

Nature and types of groups; Group performance – Types of tasks , Brainstorming ;  Group decision making – Biases in information, Group polarization , Group think ; Social facilitation & Social loafing

Group dynamics and performance 

Kassin, Saul M; Fein, Steven; Markus, Hazel; Brehm, Sharon S. (2008). Social Psychology. Houghton Miffin (Boston)

Matsumato, David; Juang, Linda. (2004). Culture and psychology. Thomson (Australia).

Taylor, Peplau & Sears. (2006). Social psychology. Pearson Education.

Davidson.D.(1985). Adolescent in search of her identity. Journal of Analytical Psychology.Vol.30 (4), p339-346.

Lynn, S.J. & Payne, D.G. (1997). Memory as the theatre of the Past: The psychology of False Memories. Current directions in psychological science (Wiley-Blackwell). Vol. 6 (3) p55-55.

Pataki, S.P., & Mackenzie, S.A (2012). Modeling Social Activism and Teaching about Violence against Women Through theatre education. Psychology of women quarterly. Vol. 36(4). P 500-503.

Rosenberg.,T. (2013). Harnessing Positive Peer Pressure to Create Atruism. Social research.

Rutten, E.A.,Biesta, G.J.J., Dekovic, M., Stams, G.J.J.M, Schuengel, C.,  & Verweel,P (2010). Using forum theatre in organised youth soccer to positively influence antisocial and prosocial behaviour: a pilot study. Journal of moral education. Mar2010, Vol. 39(1) p65-78.

Sonn, C.C., Quayle, A,F.,Belanji.B.,Baker, A.M.(2015). Responding to racialization through arts practice: The case of participatory theatre. Journal of community psychology. Vol 43(2), p 244- 259. Vol. 80 (2) p 491-510.

CIA II - Mid Semester Examination - 25 marks

CIA III - Activity based assignment - 10 marks

Attendance - 5 marks

End Semester Examination - 50 marks

Total Marks - 100

The goal of personal growth classes is to educate the whole person in mind and body, thereby preparing to be professionally competent individuals who understand the need for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and are mindful about their personal and social actions.  Emotional Intelligence and Personality assessments is chosen for personal growth lab because it increases students’ awareness and understanding about their own emotions. The course flows a psychoeducation model of curriculum traction using assessments and class activities.

Pre-assessment; The self-concept and self-esteem- Facilitating self-awareness through reflective exercises, Implementation of mindfulness skills, self-awareness questionnaires/inventories; Understanding and expressing emotions; Managing difficult emotions; Applying emotional intelligence; Understanding the role of culture, values and beliefs in understanding the self through assessments and reflection; Writing self-assessment and reflection papers, Ethical issues  Managing interpersonal conflicts; Self-disclosure in close relationships, values development and self-care

Illness- wellness continuum; components of wellness (WHO); The Bop-psycho-social model of health to understand Stress, mechanisms to deal with stress; Lifestyles-sleep, body image-and its impact on health and wellbeing; healthy relationships; Health compromising behaviors, Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse; Assessments and Writing self-assessment and reflections

http://www.cnbc.ca/uploads/File/strengthen/personal_growth_plan.pdf

Adler, R. B., & Proctor II, R.F. (2012). Looking out/Looking in (14th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning

Nevid, J. S., & Rathus, S. A. (2015). Psychology and the challenges of life (13th ed.). John Wiley & Sons.

Edlin, G., & Golanty, E. (2007). Health and wellness (9th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Hoeger, W.K.& Hoeger, S.A. (2015). Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness. (13th Ed.) Cengage Learning. 

• CIA 1: Individual Assignment (20 marks) +Class participation & Supervisor Feedback (5 marks)- 25 Marks

• CIA 2: Individual assignment   (20 marks) +Class participation & Supervisor Feedback (5 marks)- 25 Marks

• CIA 3: Department-Level Examination -50 Marks 

Sundara Kanda is the only chapter of the Ramayana in which the hero is not Rama, but rather Hanuman. The work depicts the adventures of Hanuman and his selflessness, strength, and devotion to Rama are emphasized in the text. Bhoja only wrote 5 kāṇdas (up to the Sundarakāṇda), and there is a story about this: that he was inspired to write this work the night before a battle, that as he finished the Sundarakāṇda it was time to go, and that he announced that the Yuddhakāṇda would be enacted in the battlefield against the invader, but sadly he never returned. Others have composed a Yuddhakāṇda to complete the work.

The main objective of the students is to understand the champu Kavyas based on the sam.  

The Origin and development of the Champu.

Origin and developmetn of Champu kavyas

Five Important Champus

Level of knowledge: Basic/conceptual/ Analytical

Shlokas 1 -60 Hnumantha¨s voyage to Lanka and searching for Seetha Description of city Lanka , Characters of Champu Kavya 

Prayogas and Krudantha

Translation of Given passage from English to Sanskrit 

Writing composition in sanskrit on the given topic in Sanskrit

Sundarakanda from Bhaja´s Champu Ramayana 

Chitrakalayaa: ugagamam vikaasam ca

origin and development of painting through Vedas and Puranas

Reference Books:-

1)      Sundarakanda from “Champuramayana of Bhoja  

2)      Sanskrit Grammar by M.R. Kale.

3)       History of Sanskrit literature by Dr.M.S. Shivakumaraswamy.

4)       History of Sanskrit literature by Krishnamachari.

CIA 2 mid semester examination

CIA 3 Wikipedia assignment

Araillakiyam, bakthi illakiyam, ikala illakiyamn the major allakiyams.The influence myths and puranas are delineated through the good deeds for a better lifestyle.The  Cultural Studies part will have an overview of Indian painting both traditional and modern with special reference to mythology and literature

India 2020- Abdul Kalam

1. Thirukural

2. Avvai kural

1. Thiru vasagam

2. Kambar andhadhi

Naatu pura padalgal

India 2020- Dr. Abdul Kalam

1. Common topic: Oviyam

2. Visual text : nattupuviyal

Sollu illakanam

Thirukkural-Bhoombugar pathipagam- puliyur kesigan urai, Chennai- 08

Kammbarin Ainthu noolgal- Vanathi pathupagam- Dr. R. Rajagopalachariyar,  Chennai- 18

Nathu pura illakiyam- Ki Va jaganathan- malai aruvi- Monarch achagam- chennai

India 2020- APJ Abdul kalam- puthaiyuram aandugaluku aga oru thoali nooku,  New century book house, chennai

Thirukkural-Bhoombugar pathipagam- puliyur kesigan urai, Chennai- 08

Kammbarin Ainthu noolgal- Vanathi pathupagam- Dr. R. Rajagopalachariyar,  Chennai- 18

Nathu pura illakiyam- Ki Va jaganathan- malai aruvi- Monarch achagam- chennai

India 2020- APJ Abdul kalam- puthaiyuram aandugaluku aga oru thoali nooku,  New century book house, chennai

Tamizhar nattup padagal - N Vanamamalai, New century book house, Chennai

EXAMINATION AND ASSIGNMENTS: There is a continuous evaluation both at the formal and informal levels. The language skills and the ability to evaluate a text will be assessed

This paper will have a total of 50 marks shared equally by End Semester Exam (ESE) and Continuous Internal Assessment (CIA) While the ESE is based on theory the CIA will assess the students' critical thinking, leadership qualities, language skills and creativity

• To demonstrate an understanding of all aspects of theatrical production including acting, directing, design, technical, and publicity.
• To participate in and attend theatre productions.

Research - Script - Audition - Cast

Play Reading - Rehearsals - Performance

Discussion - Presentations - Feedback

l  Develop Scripting skills.

l  An understanding of International scripting formats.

Ten Minute Plays, One-Act Plays, Full-Length Plays, Script structures, and writing exercises. 

Act, Scene, Three Act Structure, writing: worlds, characters, conflicts, consequence,  events, dialogue; Chekhov’s gun, creating suspense, parallelism, in medias res, MacGuffin. 

Elements- Title Page, Cast Page, Act/Scene Heading, Character Name, Dialogue, Stage Directions, Transition, Submission rules.

Practicum: Developing concept/idea into a 10-minute play script.

Wired for Story – Lisa Cron

The Elements of Playwriting – Louis Catron

• This course aims at giving In-depth practical knowledge of Technical Theatre.
• Demonstrate the practical aspects of Technical Theatre.

• Scenic Designer’s Objectives-Elements of Scenic Design-Process of Scenic design
• Practical: Design, Sketching, Drawing, 2D/3D model making

• Costume Designer’s Objectives-Elements of Costume Design-Process of Costume design.
• Make up-History with practical components: Character/Special effects /Prosthetics.
• Practical: Design, Selections, Patterns, and Stitching

• Stage light history with Theatre-Objective of stage Lighting-Elements of stage lighting -Process of Stage lighting with Practical Components: Rigging, Rendering, Focusing.
•  Sound design objectives -Elements of Sound design- Process of Sound Design with Practical Components: Audio, Sound mixing, and recording. 

Michael Holt. Costume and Make-up, New York: Phaidon Press, 2012.

Shelly, Steven Louis. Lighting: Focal Press, c 1999.

The Department of Theatre Studies, Christ University, insists on students doing an internship for the duration of 120 hours. The objective of this compulsory curricular activity is to support students to initiate contact with the industry, provide a professional platform to apply what they have been taught in class, and bolster their confidence in practicing theatre. The students are expected to furnish details of the workplace they are interning in, send in weekly reports to the faculty mentor, and get an internship completion certificate and a feedback report from the reporting head of the workplace in a sealed and stamped envelope. Both the certificate and the feedback should be printed on the institution's letterhead.

At the end of the required period of internship, the candidates will submit a report in not less than 1500 words. The report should be submitted within the first 10 days of the reopening of the university for the III semester.

Apart from a photocopy of the letter from the organization stating the successful completing of the internship, the report shall have the following parts.

 Introduction to the place of internship

Reasons for the choice of the place and kind of internship

Nature of internship

Objectives of the internship

Tasks undertaken

Learning outcome

This course is taught in the second year for students from different streams, namely BA, BSc and B Com. If the first year syllabus is an attempt by the Department of English, Christ University to recognize and bring together the polyphonic Indian voices in English and Indian regional literatures in translation for the Additional English students of the first year, the second year syllabus intends to take that project a little further and open up the engagement of the students to texts from across the world. The syllabus - selection of texts will concentrate on readings from South Asian, Latin American, Australian, Canadian, and Afro-American. It will voice subaltern concerns of identity, gender, race, ethnicity and problems of belongingness experienced by humanity all over the globe.

The syllabus will extend the concerns of nation and nationality and marginalization, discussed within the Indian context to a more inclusive and wider global platform. We have consciously kept out ‘mainstream’ writers and concentrated on the voices of the subalterns from across the world. There is an implicit recognition in this project that though the aspects of marginalization and the problems facing subalterns are present across cultures and nations, the experiences, expressions and reflections are specific to each race and culture. The course will address these nuances and specificities and enable our students to become more aware and sensitive to life and reality around them. This will equip the students, who are global citizens, to understand not just the Indian scenario, but also situate themselves within the wider global contexts and understand the spaces they will move into and negotiate in their future.

There is a prescribed text book Blends: Voices from Margins for the second year students, compiled by the Department of English, Christ University and intended for private circulation. 

The course objectives are

·         to introduce the students to look at different cultures through Literature

·         to help students develop an understanding of subaltern realities and identity politics

·         to inculcate literary sensibility/taste among students across disciplines

·         to improve language skills –speaking, reading, writing and listening

·         to equip the students with tools for developing lateral thinking

·         to equip students with critical reading and thinking habits

·         to enable them to grasp and appreciate the variety and abundance of subaltern writing, of which this compilation is just a glimpse 

·         to actively engage with the world as a cultural and social space (to be facilitated through proactive CIAs which help students to interact and engage with the realities they face everyday and have come across in these texts)

·         to learn and appreciate India and its place in the world through association of ideas in the texts and the external contexts

·         to reiterate the study skills and communication skills they developed in the previous year and extend it.  

Unit 1: Novella

·         Viktor Frankl: “Man’s Search for Meaning”(Excerpts)                                       

Short Story                                                                                                    

·         Anton Chekov: “The Avenger”

·         Chinua Achebe: “Marriage is a Private Affair”

·         Nadine Gordimer: “Train from Rhodesia”

·         Wakako Yamuchai: “And the Soul Shall Dance”

Poetry                                                                                                             12 hrs

·         Octavio Paz: “As One Listens to the Rain”

·         Jamaica Kincaid: “Girl”

·         Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”    

·         Joseph Brodsky: “Freedom”

·         Alice Walker: Excerpts from “In Search of My Mother’s Gardens”

·         Hannah Arendt: “Men in Dark Times”

Dalai Lama Nobel Acceptance Speech

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"

Diary of Anne Frank

Famous Nobel Lectures

CIA2: Mid-semester written exam for 50 works

CIA 3: This is to be a creative test/ project in small groups by students. They may do Collages, tableaus, skits, talk shows, documentaries, Quizzes, presentations, debates, charts or any other creative test for 20 marks. This test should allow the students to explore their creativity and engage with the real world around them and marks can be allotted to students depending on how much they are able to link the ideas and discussions in the texts to the world around them.

Performing artists often need fine writing to either publicise or promote or clarify diverse aspects of their work to specific publics, on a variety of platforms. From persuading an interested audience to watch a performance to furthering the standards of interpreting a performance, writing can be deftly employed to serve a variety of purposes. Good writing has the potential to promote artistic sensitivity and establish the link between art, society and culture. This course aims to lay a foundation for the students of performing arts to refine their writing skills, and aid in the process of crafting written content for different media platforms.

●      Grammar:

○      Mechanics of Writing: Mastering punctuations, Choosing prepositions, Knowing when to employ intensifiers and qualifiers, Using precise adverbs and adjectives, Avoiding tautology, Using action words, Replacing repetitive words, Writing in other words, Employing present tense, Varying sentence lengths, Varying sentence structures, Using parallel constructions

●      Understanding Writing:

○      Writing in contrast to other forms of human expression

■      Writing as a slow, reflective, cerebral process

○      Understanding Context: Temporal | Geographical | Socio-Political

○      Understanding audience: Tastes | Values | Levels of intelligibility and | needs

○      Understanding Purpose: Personal Objectives | Organisational Objectives | Social Objectives | Desired Impact

●      Expository | Descriptive | Narrative | Argumentative

●      What is NEWS?

●      News worthiness: Currency | Impact  | Timeliness | Prominence | Proximity | Controversy | Oddity | Consequence | Human Interest | Extremity

●      News Angles : What to focus on; whom to include, narrative structure

●      Writing press releases, reporting events

●      Situating and interpreting

Cultural Context | Creator’s contribution | Oeuvre | Genre | Conflicts | Characters | Background (cast, finance, setting, sound, lighting, editing, background music [in case of a play]) | sensory impact | finer aspects of performance

●      Writing for Flyers, Posters, Brochures, Promotional content for Campaigns : - Packing vital pieces of information, Deciding prominence and order, Strategising audience-engagement aspects

●      Writing a longform piece:  Gathering Information, Logical Sequencing, Narrative Ordering, Sustaining reader-interest

●      Writing for microblogging  sites - Twitter and Instagram: Understanding trends, using second-person pronouns, evoking emotional response, brevity, using hashtags and multimedia content

Brooks, Brian S., et al. Working with Words a Handbook for Media Writers and Editors. Bedford/St. Martins, 2020.

Casagrande, June. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: a Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences. Langara College, 2018.

Marshall, Carrie. Writing for Social Media. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2018.

Stovall, James Glen. Writing for the Mass Media. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2009.

Tanner, Stephen J., et al. Feature Writing. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Truss, L. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Profile, 2003.

1. II Week: 20-mark grammar test
2. IV Week: 100-150 word examples of Expository, Descriptive, Narrative, and Argumentative writing
3. VI Week: Writing a press release
4. VIII Week: An opinion piece on a theatre or musical performance (needs to focus on any two of these aspects) : Creator’s Contribution | Genre | Conflicts | Characters | Background (cast, finance, setting, sound, lighting, editing, music) | sensory impact | finer aspects of the performance
5. X Week: Creating brochure content for a mega performance event
6. XII Week: Writing a longform piece on any one of these 1. a trend in theatre/musical performances 2. an artist’s performance oeuvre 3. overall review of a performance 4. cultural significance of the performance
7. XIV Week: Two Instagram posts, one Facebook post and two tweets.

This course aims to introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in theorising literary texts and expose them to the applicability of these theoretical frameworks. It will enable students to critically perceive and engage with the production of meanings, significations and negotiations. This paper  will act as a bridge to Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Indian Literatures; Postcolonial Studies; Ecological Studies and other studies that will be introduced in the final year and English Honours.

I.1 What is Literature?

I.2 What is Literary Criticism; Literary/Critical Theory?

1.3 Literary Criticism/Theory: Key Ideas: Plato to Leavis 

(An Overview of the development of theory)

II. 1. Structuralism

1. What is Structuralism?
2. The Project of the Structuralists.
3. Key Ideas/Theorists: Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss

II. 2 Poststructuralism

1. What is Poststructuralism?
2. The Project of the Poststructuralists
3. Key Ideas/Theorist: Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida

III. 1 Psychoanalysis:

1. What is Psychoanalysis?
2. The Project of Psychoanalysis and its working in Literature.
3. Key Ideas/Theorists: Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan

III. 2 Feminism:

1. What is Feminism?
2. Pre-poststructuralist’ Feminist Literary Theory
3. Poststructuralist Feminist Theory      
4. Key Ideas/Theorists: Virginia Woolf, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva

IV. 1 Ideology and Discourse:

1. What is Ideology?
2. Key Ideas/Theorists: Karl Marx; Louis Althusser; and Antonio Gramsci
3. What is Discourse and it implications?
4. Key Ideas/Theorists:Michel Foucault; New Historicism; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams and Cultural Materialism

IV. 2 Race and Postcolonialism: Nations, Nationalisms and Identity

1. What is Postcolonialism?
2. The Project of Postcolonialism
3. Key Ideas/Theorists: Franz Fanon; Homi K Bhabha; Partha Chatterjee

V. 1 Postmodernism: Knowledge and Glocalization

a. What is Modernism and Postmodernism?

b. Key Ideas/Theorists: Jean Baudrillard; Jean-François Lyotard; Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

V.2 Ecocriticism: Green Studies and Sustainability

a. What is Ecocriticism?

b. Key Ideas/Theorists: Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm

V. 3 Narratology: Telling and Retelling Stories

a. What is Narratology ?

b. Key Ideas/Theorists: Gerard Gennette and Vladimir Propp

1. Peter Barry: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory.

1. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8^th ed. New York: Wardworth, 2005.
2. Ahmand, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Rpt. New Delhi: OUP, 2006.
3. Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, literature, deconstruction. London/New York: Routledge, 2001. Print.
4. Devy, G.N., ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Rpt. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007. Print.
5. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
6. ---. The Function of Criticism. London: Verso, 2005. Print.
7. Gurrin, Wilfred L, et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 5^th ed.New York: OUP, 2005. Print.
8. Habib, M.A.R., ed. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Print.
9. John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Print.
10. John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
11. Kapoor, Kapil. Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1998. Print.
12. Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum, 2006
13. Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York:Norton, 2001. Print.
14. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. 4^th ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2001. Print.
15. Rivkin, Julie, Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Rev ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Print.
16. Rooney, Ellen ed. Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. Print.
17. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

Total 100

French as a second language in the UG program. The method Génération A2 consists of a student's book and an activity book, both included in the digital manual. It consists of 6 units preceded by an initial section of 'Welcome'. Continuing from where A1 left, it aims to enhance learning skills further. The structure of each unit marks a real learning journey into different aspects of the French language and culture.

Course Objectives

·       To develop linguistic competencies and sharpen oral and written communicative skills further

·       To enhance awareness of different aspects of francophone civilization.

·       To enrich the learner’s vocabulary

·       To enable learners to engage in and discuss simple topics with ease

Lesson 1: Let’s do the housework!

Lexicon – Lodging, the house, rooms

Grammar – The progressive present tense , possessive pronouns, negative form

Speech act – Protesting and reacting

 Lesson 2: About lodging

Lexicon – Furniture and equipment, household tasks

Grammar – Some adjectives and indefinite pronouns, verbs ‘to read, to break up

                   and to complain’

Speech act – Expressing interest and indifference

Molière’ s L’Avare – Français facile -Act III Sc 8 onwards

Lesson 1: All in form!

Lexicon – The human body: exterior / interior, sickness and medicines

Grammar – Simple past tense and imperfect, recent past, expression of duration

Speech act – Narrating in the past tense

Lesson 2: Accidents and catastrophes

Lexicon – Accidents, natural catastrophes

Grammar – Adjectives and indefinite pronouns: nothing, no one, verbs ‘to say,  to run, to die’

Speech act – Expressing fear and reassuring

Molière’ s L’Avare – Français facile -Act IV

Lesson 1: Studying abroad, Happy journey

Lexicon – The educational system, formalities to go abroad

Grammar – Demonstrative pronouns, simple future tense, situating in time

Speech act – Expressing one’s opinion,

 Lesson 2: The weather

Lexicon – The weather

Grammar –Me too, not me, impersonal verbs, verbs ‘ to believe, to follow and to rain’

Speech act – Speaking about the weather, speaking about the future

Molière’ s  L’Avare – Français facile -Act V

2.     Molière, L’Avare – Français facile

Course Description:

The detailed text-book "Ashad ka ek din” is a drama by Mohan Rakeshi, one of the eminent writers of modern Hindi Literature. Hindi journalismis is one of the major unit of this semester. Phrases, idioms, technical and scientific terminology are included in this semester to improve the literary skills.

Course Objectives:

Through the prescribed play and the theatre performance, students can go through the process of experiential learning. Study of Mass media enables them to get practical training. Phrases, idioms, technical and scientific terminology sharpen the language skills of the students.  

Madhavi (Play) ByBhishma Sahni. Rajpal and Sons, New Delhi - 110006 

Level of knowledge: Analitical

•  Report writing,
• Media Interview                                                                    
•  Hindi Journalism 
• Electronic media and Hindi,
• Print media                                    

Level of knowledge: Conceptual

1. 50 Nos. Phrases and Idioms for writing the meaning and sentence formation.  

2. 100 Nos. (Hindi equivalent)

Level of knowledge: Basic

1. "Ashad ka ek din ” is a drama by Bhisma Sahni. Rajpal and Sons, New Delhi - 110006

2. Hindi PatrakaritakaIthihas:By Jagadeesh Prasad Chaturvedi

3. HindiPatrakaritaSwaroopEvamSandarbh:                          By Vinod Godare

4. Media Interview:                     By Philip Bell,Theovanleeuwen.

CIA-2(Mid sem exam)

CIA-3((Wikipedia-Article creation)

End sem exam

The course introduces the rich Kannada language and helps students to read and write the Regional language effectively. The prescribed text ‘Kalagnani Kanaka’ (Kanaka, the visionary) is all about 15^th century poet, saint and philosopher of the Haridasa Bhakti tradition. “Kanaka’s writings touch on all aspects of truth and social reality’ said K.R. Nagaraj, literary critic and the author of the Kalagnani Kanaka play. “Kanaka’s poetry is dense with rhyme, rhythm, meter and rich descriptions. He upholds social justice while addressing the issues of the time-caste and class differentiation and gender oppression, for example. Contrary to popular belief, he never confined himself to any one philosophical tradition- Advaita, Dwaita or Vishistadwaitha” ‘Kannadada Moovattu Kathegalu’ is another prescribed text. Through this text the students are exposed to the writings of Koradkal Sreenivasa Rao, K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, G. P. Basavaraj and others. Short stories help students in harnessing creative writing skills.

Act- 1

Act- 2 

Act- 3 

Act- 4 

Act- 5

Act- 6

1.      Dhaniyara Sathyanarayana-Koradkal Sreenivasa Rao

2.      Thabarana Kate- K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi

3.      Gowthami Helida Kathe- Masti Venkatesha Iyengar

4.      Raja mattu Hakki- G. P. Basavaraj

Essay Writing/ Letter Writing/ Dialogue writing 

2.      Kannada Rangabhoomi; L.S. Shesshagiri Rao

3.      Kannada Sanna Kathegala Olavu- Giradi Govinda Raju

4.      Tabarana Kathe- Kannada Screen play by Girish Kasaravalli

2.      Kannada Rangabhoomi; L.S. Shesshagiri Rao

3.      Kannada Sanna Kathegala Olavu- Giradi Govinda Raju

4.      Tabarana Kathe- Kannada Screen play by Girish Kasaravalli

CiA-2 Mid Semester Exams- 50 marks

CIA-3 Wikipedia Article writing- 20 marks

End Semester Exams- 50 marks

This course has been conceptualized in order to provide a general introduction to various developmental concepts across the different stages of the lifespan, with the nature versus nurture debate as a concurrent theme. The course is described through three perspectives: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. Emphasis will be on the major transitions from fetal development through death in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains. Research methods in developmental psychology are addressed explicitly and are also addressed alongside each major research study and theory discussed. This course includes discussion on the influences of cultural issues and technological advancements. This course addresses classic developmental theories and research as well as provides an overview of current developmental topics across the lifespan.

Importance of Life-span Development; Historical Perspective; Characteristics of Life-span Development; Nature of Development; Overview of Theories of Development: Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Information processing, Behavioural, Socio-Cognitive, Ethological and Ecological theories; Major Issues and Debates in Developmental Psychology; Studying Development - Sequential, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal approaches.          

Stages of prenatal development; Teratogens and prenatal environment; Birth, newborn appearance, reflexes, assessment and states; Physical and motor development - in childhood: cephalocaudal and proximodistal pattern, gross and fine motor skills and handedness; Puberty and adolescent changes: Meaning of  puberty, biological changes, sexual maturation, growth spurt, primary and secondary sexual characteristics; Adult development and Ageing - Biological; Assessments in studying development.

Stages of Cognitive Development - Piaget's Theory: Milestones and Mechanisms; Vygotsky’s Theory; Language development; Observations & Experiment Methods in studying development.

Emotions; Temperament; Development of self-concept; Play; Aggression and altruism; Moral Development: Kohlberg’s theory; Development of identity: Erikson and Marcia’s views; Gender differences and gender role standards; Use of field experiments to study development.

Development of Attachment: Bowlby’s theory; Adolescent relationships: Family, peers, adult society, adult life; Vocational adjustment; Foundations of intimate relationships: friendship, love, and sexuality; Marriage: Marital adjustment and conditions influencing it; Parenthood and parenting styles: adjustment to parenthood; Coping with Mid-life crisis, changes in relationship; Ageing and theories of ageing; Coping with death, stages and patterns of grieving; Cultural differences: Indian philosophy- four stages of a life and expectations; Use of questionnaires and interviews to study development; Ethical considerations in developmental research.

The coursework aims to provide undergraduate psychology students with the knowledge and hands-on practice of experimental psychology and statistics. The course imparts training in classic as well as contemporary experiments in the field of Psychology. Students will conduct experiments in the field of Psychology from the domains of learning and cognition. In the process, they will be provided with an understanding of central concepts in the field such as designing an experiment, variables, hypothesis etc. This course is planned to provide a framework for the development of assessment practices. Attention will be given to issues of identifying and selecting test instruments, conducting the assessment process in an ethical and considerate manner, interpreting norm-referenced and criterion-referenced test scores and writing APA style reports. The course introduces students to computer-assisted experiments. The course would help students to evaluate, modify and develop psychological experiments. Statistical techniques covered will include descriptive statistics including the concept of normality, measures of central tendency and dispersion, and pie charts and graphs, as well as the use of a common statistical program (SPSS) to analyze data. Laboratory periods stress the techniques of data analysis using computers.

Ethical issues in research (APA)- consent, confidentiality, Standards of reporting, Plagiarism, Ethical issues in report writing for tests and experiments, style of writing (scientific, unbiased, objective)

This module will draw a sketch of the movement of Experimental Psychology in the disciplinary history, highlight and discuss some distinctive features of conducting experiments in human subjects including use of theories, establishing a hypothesis and designing experiments. The module also critically looks at the ethicality and contemporary understanding of this method. The student would conduct a minimum of four experiments including at least two computer-assisted experiments. Computer-assisted include but not limited to PEBL, E-Prime, Z-tree.

Topics: Perception, Illusion, Dexterity, Attention, Reaction time 

Suggested Experiments and tools for Demonstration/ to conduct: Size weight Illusion, Finger and tweezer Dexterity, Depth Perception, tachistoscope, Reaction time apparatus, colour blindness, Muller-lyer, Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test (MRMT), Stroop test, division of attention,

The relevance of Statistics in Psychological Research; Descriptive Statistics; Variables and Constants; Scales of Measurement, Normality, Presentation of data: Graphs (Bar diagram, Pie chart) Group and Ungrouped data: Mean, Median, Mode. Introduction to Statistical packages; Data analysis (SPSS/ Word); Parametric and non-parametric tests- correlation and t-test

Cohen, R. J. & Swerdlik, M. E. (2013). Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement (Eighth Edition). McGraw-Hill.

Gravetter, F.J. &Wallnau, L.B. (2009).Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (9th Ed.). Cengage Learning.

Martin, D. W. (2008). Doing psychology experiments. Thomson-Wadsworth.

• CIA 1: Lab Reports (20 marks) + Class participation & Supervisor Feedback (5 marks) =25 Marks 
• CIA 2: Lab Reports (20 marks) + Class participation & Supervisor Feedback (5 marks) =25 Marks 
• CIA 3: Department Level Examination- 50 Marks

Avimarakam by Bhasa is the drama  prescribed as a text and approved in the B.O.S.  It is sociological drama which explains about the society.  . This drama is an imaginary composition of Bhasa . The concept and drama skills expresses the beauty of the style of the author Bhasa.  He creates the characters and the incidents are naturally created. Grammar will also be studied.

Avimarakam of Balagovindaha  Jha Origin and development of Nataka to understand the different theories and original nature of Sanskrit dramas. Avimarakam  by Balagovind jha  provides an insight to sociological life .Basic grammer only rules are given for usage in composition. Language component will help for proper usage of Sanskrit language.

             Level of knowledge: Basic/conceptual/ Analytical

Avimaraka meeting kurangi and Avimaraka engtering into the mansion of  Kurangi

Karaka prakaranam 

Vykarana vishesha 

Translation of given passage from English to Sanskrit

Writing an article in Sanskrit on the given topics

Avimarakam  by Balagovind jha 

Books for Reference: -

1.      “Avimarakam” by Balagovinda Jha

2.      Basanatakachakram  of choukamba edition.

3.      Sanskrit dramas by a.B.Keith

4.      Sanskrit grammar by M.R.Kale.

CIA 2 Mid semester examinations

CIA 3 Wikipedia assignments

A new concept, cultural studies, will take the students beyond prescribed syllabus to include music, theatre, painting, and films out of which the art form of music is taken up for the first semester.  Aram poetry- Ara nericharam specifies life discipline and standards, which would pave a successful life for the students. 

Bhakthi ilakiya- them bhavani, cheerapuranam, thirumandiram is inclined towards ritual practices. Kaapiyam with its historical values provides an understanding about life in a mature way.

seevaga sindhamani.

Thirumular Thirumandhiram

These topics coherently plays a significant role in inclination towards spiritual aspects of life. It puts for the religious beliefs and entitles each one to understand the rituals and practices.

Aranericharam- Munai padaiyaar

The text acustoms the core values and ethics with the ideological guidelines and ways of living.

Thembavani

Seera puranam

Thiru mular, thiru mandhiram

The text elicits the importance of rituals and beliefs. 

Nadagam

1. Irakam yenge- C N Anna Dhorai

2. Theervu - Indhra partha sarathi

3. Soothradharam- Puvi Arasu

4. Karumbum Kalliyum- Komal saminadhan

5. Palaavku thookigal - Dr. A. Ramasamy

6. Pei ottam- Dr. K A Guna Sekaran

Vetrumai orupugal

Tamizhil pudhirgalum, pazhamozhigalum

1. Neethi book, Manikkavasakar pathippakam, paarimunai, Chennai -08 

2. Tamil paa thirattu - prasaranga pub. Bangalore university, Bangalore 

3. Kappiya noolkal-manikkavasakar pathippakam, Chennai -08 

4. Madagascar kalanchiyam - van a thing pathippakam

2. Mozhi varalaru - Dr. My. Varatharajan - kazhaka pub. Chennai- 01 

3. Aranerichaaram-Munaipatiyaar 

4. Kazhaka pub. Thirunelveli, thenninthiya saivachiththantha noorpathippu kazhaka, Ltd., Chennai 01 

5. Thirumoor thirumandiram-Thiruvaavatuthurai aathinam, Thiruvaavatuthurai Nadagam, Education in karnataka Bangalore 01. 

6. Madras university , etaikkala illakkiyam, Chennai -01 

7. Thamizh pazhamozhikal, janaral pub. Mylappur, Chennai -04 

8. Thamizhil puthirkal our aayivu-Aaru. Ramanadan, Manikkavasakar niilakam, Chennai -01

EXAMINATION AND ASSIGNMENTS: There is a continuous evaluation both at the formal and informal levels. The language skills and the ability to evaluate a text will be assessed

This paper will have a total of 50 marks shared equally by End Semester Exam (ESE) and Continuous Internal Assessment (CIA) While the ESE is based on theory the CIA will assess the students' critical thinking, leadership qualities, language skills and creativity

l  Analyze and interpret texts from the viewpoint of theatre production.

l  Plan, research, and present individual and group projects.

l  Understand basic production processes and how they have evolved over time.

l  Trace historical developments in acting style, playwriting, and theatrical technology.

The industrial revolution and its impact on theatre, Spectacle and Melodrama, the American contribution to melodrama, Ibsen, GB Shaw, A. Chekhov, Vaudeville, Moscow Art Theatre and realism.

Avant-Garde Theatre: Expressionist drama, Surrealism, Symbolism, Theatre of Cruelty, Theatre of the Absurd, Poor Theatre, Minimalism.

American realism: Eugene O’ Neil, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, Theatre and Early Cinema.

Magical Realism, Metatheatre, Immersive Theatre, Postmodernism, Adaptation, Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, Solo Performance, Diverse Voices, Developments in Movement, Technology, and Theatre, Contemporary Dramaturgy, New Play Development.

1.The Importance of Being Earnest

2.The Seagull

3.A Streetcar Named Desire

4.Machinal

5.Mother Courage and Her Children

6.Death of a Salesman

7.Waiting for Godot

8.Rhinoceros

9.The Piano Lesson

10.Rabbit Hole

11.The Mountaintop

12.Until the Flood

13.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the nighttime

14.Everybody 

15.West Side Story

16.Sweeney Todd

17.The Lion King

18.Mamma Mia

19.Hamilton

2.Brockett, G, Oscar.History of Theatre

3.Jones, David Richard. Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook. 

4.Zarrilli, Phillip, B.Theatre Histories: An Introduction.New York: Rutledge, Taylor&Francis, 2010.Print.

5.Brandt, George W. Modern Theories of Drama: A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre 1850-1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.

6.Chambers, Colin. The Continuum Companion to Twentieth-Century Theatre. London: Continuum, 2002. Print.

7.Dillon, Janette. Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print.

8.Elam, Keir. Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. 2007. Print.

9.Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel. Who`s Who in Contemporary World Theatre. 2002. Print. 

10.Postlewait, Thomas. Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Print.

11.Powell, Kerry. Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print.

12.Shepherd, Simon. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Print.

Mid Semester Examination: Written centralized exam.

CIA 3: A group research-based performance.

End Semester Examination: Written centralized exam.

The actor's choice is something a lot of people hear about but rarely do we see actors bringing in their own styles to their rehearsal process. With this course, we aim to provide actors with a rehearsal ethic and a unique process of their own. This may be one that they have invented or one that they create by picking and choosing different elements from completely different styles.

A psychological portrait of a character, finding the right voice pattern, body language, psychophysical gesture, and ability to identify the correct character’s objectives. 

A clear understanding of the idea of ‘listening and being present on a stage, applying improvisation in rehearsals, cause a believable emotion in co-actors through ‘the method of physical actions’, working with impulses, immediate reactions, and the concept ‘pinch and ouch’. 

  Play production practices – Students apply the received knowledge in practice by working with their classmates’ directors to present a play for the end-semester examination. 

2.Brecht, B Brecht on Theatre;

3.Meisner, S On Acting;

4.Stanislavski, K An Actor prepares;

5.Stanislavski, K Building a Character;

6.Stanislavski, K Creating a role;

·        To understand how to creatively and practically interpret a script

·           To able to articulate the vision to the actors, technical and design crews

Selection of the Script, Play Analysis, Play reading, plotting and blocking.

Composition, movements in relation to rhythm and tempo, conventional stage forms, and understanding of the physicalization possibilities of a given play or dramatic pieces.

Play production practices – Students apply the received knowledge in practice by working and directing their classmates to present a play for the end-semester examination. 

Carra, Lawrence and Dean, Alexander. Fundamentals of Play Directing.USA: Waveland Press, 2009.Print.

Francis Hodge & Michael McLain. Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style 

Morrison, Hugh. Directing in the Theatre.UK: A&C Black Publishing Ltd, 1984.Print

Evans and Roose, James. Experimental Theatre from Stanislavsky to Peter Brook.New York: Rout ledge, 1984.Print.

Objectives:

·         To introduce students to few key terms of colonialism and postcolonialism

·         To enable close reading of texts in their socio/political/cultural contexts, specifically colonisation

·         To make students use critical vocabulary of the critical framework while discussing and writing

Terms chosen will introduce the key issues of colonialism and postcolonial literatures as a foundation to the rest of the paper. The reference text is Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, will offer focus to the discussions.

·         Centre/margin

·         Colonialism/imperialism

·         Decolonisation

·         Mimicry/hybridity

·         Post-colonialism/postcolonialism 

Savage/civilised

The poems chosen are response to colonisation from America, Srilanka, England, Canada  and Caribbean. The selection aims at introducing the resistance to colonisation articulated by indigenous community, Anglo-French community and the migrant slaves.

·         A Lament for Confederation - Chief Dan George 

·         I Lost My Talk - Rita Joe

·         The Dodo – Hilaire Belloc

·         Buffalo Dusk – Carl Sandburg

·       Zong - Nourbese Philip

·       The Sea is History – Derek Walcott

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Novel is one of the major genres borrowed from the West and appropriated to narrate the nation. This module aims to introduce the form and the process in the Indian context.   

The team will discuss and select from the following texts. 

·       The Coming be the Christ Child -  Bessie Head

·       Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? – Nadine Gordimer

·       My Son, the Fanatic – Hanif Kureishi

·       Doris Lessing - Grass is Singing

·       Michael Oondatje - Running in the family

·       Naipaul - House for Mr Biswas or Miguel Street

·       Jamaica Kincaid - Lucy or A Small Place 

Postcolonial short story is one genre that has articulated thoughts of resistance very effectively. This module introduces conventional short story, autobiographical narrative – one of the major forms of fiction to students.

·         The Coming be the Christ Child -  Bessie Head

·         Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? – Nadine Gordimer

·         My Son, the Fanatic – Hanif Kureishi

Adam, Ian. "Oracy and Literacy: A Postcolonial Dilemma?" The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31.1 (1996): 97-109.

Ashcroft, William D., Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.

_____. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998.

_____. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Brydon, Diana. "The Myths That Write Us: Decolonising the Mind." Commonwealth 10.1 (1987): 1-14.

_____. "Re-writing The Tempest." World Literature Written in English. 23.1 (1984): 75-88.

Brydon, Diana, and Helen Tiffin, eds. Decolonising Fictions. Sydney, Austral.: Dangaroo P, 1993.

Chambers, Lain, and Lidia Curti, eds. The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons. London: Routledge, 1996.

Said, Edward. Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Basic Books, 1975

_____. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

_____. Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature. Derry, Ireland: Field Day, 1988.

_____. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

_____. "Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors." Critical Inquiry 15.2 (1989): 205-25

_____. Representations of the Intellectual. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

_____. The World, the Text, and the Critic. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.

Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia UP, 1989

1. A class test based on the text
2. A movie review
3. A book review           

For CIA III, the students can be asked

1. To prepare group presentations on topics relevant to postcolonial literature
2. To put up an exhibition/display of the literature/paintings/other art productions of the formerly colonized countries.

These are a few ideas, however, during the course of teaching, there could be other suggestions, and CIA’s could be slightly modified.

Mid Semester Exam Question Paper Pattern (50 Marks)

End Semester Exam Question Paper Pattern (100 Marks)

This paper introduces students to key themes and concerns in Indian Literatures. This is a survey course that serves as an introduction to main issues and concepts in Indian Literatures. The paper is a mix of traditional as well as contemporary literatures written both in English as well as other regional languages translated into English.

Objectives

• To understand the complexities of cultural, economic, political and social forces and their impact on the production of literatures in India of different classes and backgrounds
• To understand the religious, caste, gender, colonial, national constructs in India through its literatures and thereby develop sensitivity and add to the core value of love for fellow beings
• To become aware of methods interpreting literary texts in the contemporary context  

Students will be comprehend the complexities of cultural, economic, political and social forces and their impact on the production of literatures in India of different classes and backgrounds

This module will introduce students to the category of Indian Literatures, its survey of different aspects of the body of writing as well as a critical understanding of the knowledge systems indigenous to India. 

This module surveys select poetry from contemporary India. It surveys cities, people and ideas like faith and non-violence located within the Indian context.