Gauhati University MA English Syllabus
 

I have done my graduation and planning to do MA English from Gauhati University searching for the course details. Can you please provide me eligibility to apply for MA Englisg degree in Gauhati University also provide me complete course syllabus so that I get to know subjects?

Re: Gauhati University MA English Syllabus
 

The Gauhati University which is located in Jalukbari, Guwahati, is the first, oldest and renowned University in the entire North East India.

It was established in 1948. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating university.

Course details:

Eligibility

Minimum Qualification : Graduate

Duration
2 Years, Full Time, Post Graduate Degree

Syllabus:

Semester I

Paper 1 English Social and Cultural History
Paper 2 Poetry I (Medieval to the Romantics)
Paper 3 Drama I * Renaissance and Jacobean Drama
Paper 4 Prose 2: Life Writing
Paper 5 Great American Texts

Semester II

Paper 6 Contemporary Indian Writing in English
Paper 7 Poetry II: Victorian to the Present
Paper 8 Women’s Writing
Paper 9 Modern European Literature

Paper 10 Option i : Yeats (1865*1939)

Option ii: The Brontes
Option iii: Salman Rushdie

Semester III

Paper 11 Drama II: Modern European Drama
Paper 12 Prose I * Genres
Paper 13 Fiction I
Paper 14 Literary Criticism
Paper 15 Contemporary South Asian Fiction

Semester IV

Paper 16 Modern Literary Theory
Paper 17 Fiction II
Paper 18 & 19

Option A: Indian English Literature (I & II)
Option B: American Literature (I & II)
Option C: Literary Theory: From Structuralism to the Cultural Turn (I & II)
Option D: Women and Literature (I & II)
Option E: Language and Linguistics (I & II)
Option F: World Literatures in English Translation (I & II)
Option G: Translation Studies (I & II)
Option H: Children’s Literature (I & II)
Option I: Latin American Literature (I & II)
Option J: Shakespeare (I & II)

Contact:

Gauhati University
Gopinath Bordoloi Nagar, Jalukbari
Guwahati, Assam 781014
Phone: 0361 257 0415