English

This course offers a comparative perspective on important trends in modern india. Through highly participatory pedagogic methods, the students are encouraged to share their special interest in examining specific themes, techniques of theatre representation, acting and writing. Definitions : the origin and function of drama. The connection between drama, leterature, theatre, cinema and performing arts. Historical overview of various trends in the West : Naturalism in the plays of Chekhov, lbsen strindberg.

Students will learn to think about the following topics in terms of both musical representation (notation, terms for musical analysis) and the physical parameters involved (acoustic signal descriptions): · Pitch and rhythm · Instruments and their timbres · Transcription · Tuning systems and their musical/mathematical bases

Learning notational representation of pitch/rhythm/tempo/dynamics/instrumentation Identifying keys (major/minor), modes, ragas, intervals and chords Becoming familiar with technical terms required for musical analysis Identifying some basic forms of Western and Indian music Developing aural and verbal skill sets required for conducting stylistic analysis

The course aims to do the following:
1. Situate language in the intersection of various disciplines to show how an understanding of the nature of human language is arrived at through a cross- disciplinary mode of inquiry and to also show how a study of language drives understanding and inquiry within other disciplines as well.
2. Provide a trajectory of methods and ideas in the development of Linguistics (across traditions) with particular reference to
a. The general phenomenon of language

This course seeks to understand the changing meanings of culture and the emergence of cultural studies in general and in India in particular. The possibilities and limitations of the colonial discourse, postcolonial studies and the radical discourse on culture will be mapped. Issues related to doing engaged cultural studies and cultural methodologies would be discussed. Sociology/Anthropology of Culture: the challenges to the classical approaches.

This course deals with the interface areas between the cognitive sciences of Linguistics and Psychology and Neuroscience. Issues to be discussed include Speech perception, Sentence perception and processing, Language production, First language acquisition, Biological foundations of language, aphasiology, evolutionary perspectives on language, Mental lexicon, Lab techniques for analysis, Corpus analysis and Modularity.

This advanced course on issues in syntax and semantics shall address issues such as Minimalism and economy of representation, Feature-checking (case, agreement, morphology-syntax interface), Locality-constraints, Phrase structure, Movement operations, Logical form (syntax-semantics interface), Compositionality, Variables and variable binding, Quantification and Ellipsis and Binding.

This course will develop and build on the student?s knowledge of basic phonology and morphology and will adress topics such as Principles of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, Distinctive feature theory, Segmental phonological analysis, Phonological rule-writing and cyclicity, Autosegmental and metrical and prosodic theories, Feature geometry, Prosodic morphology, Lexical phonology, Morphological processes, Distributive morphology and the Structure of the lexicon.

Types of Literary Research: Theoretical Research, Textual Research, Historical Research, Interpretative Research, Interdisciplinary Research. Methods of Literary Research: Presentation, References, Footnotes, Indexing, Bibliography.