English

History of Literature, taking English as an example, may be taken up for study in order to understand how the history of English Literature is related to canon-formation. Standard texts on this subject, observe trajectories of tracing the evolution of British literary history. This course will interrogate the trajectory, in ways ranging from accommodating more women authors in the literary history, to re-imagining the conventional subdivision of the writers of each age as major and minor.

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Some of the main features of the human language faculty make it unique in the biologicalworld and in the study of cognition. Language is universally found no matter how primitive a people or their society, it is easily and effortlessly acquired by children though not by adults trying to learn a second or third language, it is endlessly creative and productive and such production and comprehension appear automatic and effortless.

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.

Salient topics of this course are as follows : The novel : birth of a genre in the eighteenth century; literary ancestors of the novel; evolution of the form; its coming of age in the nineteenth century; status of the novel as an artform; potential for experimentation; self - consciousness and metafiction; the novel in the age of modernism and postmodernism.

Students will learn to think critically about: 1) the relationship between music and society 2) organology (the classification of musical instruments) 3) pitch and rhythm 4) tuning systems 5) forms (Indian and Western/vocal, instrumental, and dramatic) 6) styles (associated with different historical periods, and pertaining to the aesthetics of composition and of performance) 7) timbre 8) basic concepts of harmony and orchestration. One of the topics that this course will investigate is whether music is a universal language from a semiotic point of view (i.e.

This course introduces students to the mediated ecology of digital screen cultures. From photography to vlogging, cinema to fan cultures, streaming to social media, piracy to intellectual property, this course will look at the cinematic and media flows as an infrastructure, a form, an industry, a cultural and public imaginary and an aesthetic configuration. Using various case studies, the course intends to introduce students to Key concepts and discourses of digital screen cultures The ways in which the digital affects form and narrative, audience and genre.

This course will focus on the reading, interpretation, and evaluation of select literary texts from the canon and outside, including literatures from predominantly the anglophone world but also in translation to English. The reading may be selected302240across genres, locations, and periods, and may be contextually situated302240in theoretical frames like302240gender and postcolonial studies.

This course intends to introduce students to dialogues between practices across and within visual arts, performance, film and media. It will include brief introductions to the world of visual and performing arts, film and media practices to open different lines of investigations, thoughtful conversations and diverse engagements and perspectives. Students will be introduced with the idea of practice by viewing numerous practices such as Theatre, Dance, Film and its methods and understanding the meanings of such practices.