Course TypeNo. of CreditsCoursesCompulsory Courses0925General Courses0721Discipline Specific2884Foundation1030Major1339Elective0515Total44130

Course Code: ENG-3101

Course Description: The course aims at enhancing students’ skill and competence in communicating their ideas in writing and speaking in English language.

Course Objectives: To help the students achieve proficiency in language use and to develop skills in listening comprehension, improve reading efficiency; To use the conventions of standard written English with skill and assertion; To build- up vocabulary, and clearly and accurately reproduce specific data.

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: use English language proficiently in spoken and written discourse; use diverse English vocabulary in communication; use modern writing techniques.

Course Contents: 1. Parts of Speech a. Noun, Pronoun, Adjective b. Verb, Adverb c. Article, Preposition, Conjunction; 2. Direct/Indirect Narration; 3. Punctuation; 4. Functions of Language a. Greeting b. Requesting c. Apologizing; 5. Reading Comprehension; 6. Listening Comprehension; 7. Common Writing Errors; 8. Writing Techniques a. Paragraph Writing b. Essay Writing c. Letter Writing; 9. Story-Telling; 10. Autobiography.

Recommended Books: Edith Schwager, Better Vocabulary, (Latest Edition); Henry Thomas, Better English Made Easy, (Latest Edition); John Langan, College Writing Skills, 7th Edition; Devioto, J., The Essential Elements of Public Speaking. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

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Course Code: ISL-3102

Course Description: This course provides the students with the basic foundation to understand Islam as a religion and a civilization. … This is followed by exploring major themes in the Quran such as the concept of God (Allah), human kind, free will, evil, prophets (including major biblical prophets) and religious diversity.

Course Objectives: To enable and enhance the command of students about understanding of Quran. To study the specific topics of hadith, Serat and Fiqa. To review the services of Muslims in different departments of science. To understand Islam as a system of life.

Course Learning Outcomes: Students will understand the important basic sources of Islam that are Quran, Adhees, Seerat and Fiqa. Student will get important knowledge about the teaching of Islam about the social life. Student will acquire the knowledge about ethics by obeying them they can become good citizen and good human being.

Course Contents: (As per the detailed table in the PDF, too extensive to reproduce here but fully included in the original document. Key topics: Quranic sciences, selected verses from Surah Al-Baqarah, Surah Al-Mu’minoon, Surah Al-Hujurat, Hadith sciences, Seerah, Islamic civilization, Islamic legal sources, etc.)

Recommended Books: پروفیسرڈاکٹر محمد شہباز منج ،تعليمات اسالم، (اسالمیات الزمی) 2017; اسالم کا معاشرتی نظام، ڈاکٹرخالد علوی، 2010; اصطلاحات حدیث ،ڈاکٹر محمود طحان،1998; سید قطب ،اسالم اور جدید ذہن کے شہبات،1997; ڈاکٹر ساجد محمود ،اسالمیات الزمی،2021.

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Course Code: EDU-3103

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the teaching profession. Candidates will learn how the historical, philosophical and sociological foundations of education as well as current cultural, economic and political forces impact schools through class discussion and inquiry. Students will gain an understanding of educational policy and practice in preschool, elementary, middle and high school settings. Students will investigate and analyze the culture of schooling and classrooms by exploring various theories, social roles, structures, and current trends and issues in education. Emphasis will be placed on characteristics of effective teachers and establishing appropriate learning environments for diverse student populations. Throughout the course, students will explore a wide range of career possibilities in the education field and evaluate both the promises and pitfalls of technology in education.

Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes: Understand and elaborate key concepts related to education; demonstrate broad knowledge and understanding of education as a discipline; explain implications of different disciplines in the field of education; identify, plan and execute effective teaching methodologies for student learning; relate the different education and educational practices to Pakistani schools; understand the role of teacher, learner, content and methodologies in educational process; identify the drawbacks in an education system; demonstrate a variety of instructional approaches for student learning that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics.

Course Outline: Education (meaning, scope, elements, modes); Teaching and learning (principles, factors affecting learning, effective teaching, qualities of an effective teacher); Philosophy of education; Teaching methodologies; Educational psychology; Curriculum development; Assessment and evaluation; Bloom’s Taxonomy; Educational planning and management; Education in Pakistan.

Recommended Books: Majeed, An educational persona (Majeed book publishers, Lahore. 2016); Gary Thomas, EDUCATION, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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Course Code: KAS-3104

Course Description: Introduction to Kashmir Studies is included by UAJ&K as a compulsory subject for all the disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences. This course is designed to enable the students to learn about the Jammu and Kashmir state, that includes its geographic and demographic profile, history, politics and culture of Kashmir. This course also focuses on introducing the economic resources and cultural development in divided state of Jammu & Kashmir. More importantly, to help the students to trace the genesis of Kashmir issue and to highlight the potential threats of this issue for durable peace in the entire regions of South Asia.

Course Objectives: To enable the students to learn about the historical, cultural heritage of Kashmir; to provide the knowledge of political history of Kashmir; to impart the knowledge about the socio-political activism and liberation movement in Kashmir, genesis of Kashmir issue and its changing dynamics; to teach the students to get knowledge about the economic resources of Jammu and Kashmir State.

Course Learning Outcomes: After studying this course, the students will be able to understand the political and cultural history of Kashmir; the students will learn about economic resources and their significance for Kashmir; this course will enable the students to trace the genesis of liberation movement and Kashmir issue.

Course Contents: Geographic and administrative profile of divided state of Jammu & Kashmir (including Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir); sources of Kashmir history; ancient ruling dynasties; Muslim rule in Kashmir; Shah Miri dynasty; role of Sufi saints; Chak rule; Mughal occupation; Afghan rule; Sikh occupation; Dogra rule; Indian occupation; Kashmir issue genesis; Kashmir issue in the United Nations; human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir; economic resources of Jammu and Kashmir.

Recommended Books: Bamzai, P. N. K., [1962] A History of Kashmir; Sufi, G. M. D., [1948] Kashmir: Vol. I; Azad, S. M., [1970] Tarikh-i-Kashmir; Younghusband, F., [1991] Kashmir; Suharwardy, A. H., [1983] Tragedy in Kashmir; Shofield, V., [196] Kashmir in the Crossfire.

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Course Code: ENG-3105

Course Description: Language is central to human experience. This course provides a comprehensive overview of language origin, evolution of language as human faculty, and traces the history of English language in order to provide an idea how languages developed. The part on the history of the English language covers story of English language from beginning to the present. The course also includes a brief introduction of the history of linguistics with special reference to various schools of thought that have contributed significantly to the development of Linguistics.

Course Objectives: Give students a comprehensive overview of language as human faculty; familiarize students with different stories about the origin of language; provide students an overview of how a language develops through a comprehensive exposure to English language development; enable students to identify major theoretical formulations in the development of linguistics.

Contents: Language origin (divine gift, natural sound source, social interaction source, physical adaptation, genetic source); speech vs writing; language as human faculty (human vs animal communication, characteristics of language); language families; evolution of English language (Old & Middle English periods, 19th century); development of modern linguistics (Saussure).

Recommended Books: Bough, A.C. & Cable, T. (2002). A History of English Language; Joseph, J.E. (2002), From Whitney to Chomsky; Yule, George. (2006). The Study of Language.

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Course Code: ENG-3106

Aims & Objectives: This course aims at clarifying the basic, introductory concepts/ideas about literature and its major genres of fiction and drama.

Contents: What is Literature? Aim and Scope of Literature. Literature and Society; Literature and Belief; Art for Art’s Sake; Art for Life’s Sake; Apollonian and Dionysian Views; Literature and the Writer’s Personality; Romanticism and Classicism. Fiction (nature and types, forms e.g. short story, novella, novel; different types of novels). Drama (nature and function; forms; origin and development). Poetry (nature, kinds, stanza, meter & rhyme scheme). A brief introduction to the history of English literature from Anglo Saxons to the Restoration Age.

Recommended Books: Rene Wellek and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature; Mullik, B.R. Literary Criticism; Baldic, Chris Dictionary of Literary Term; Daiches, David. Critical History of English Literature; Brooks, Cleanth. Modern Poetry and the Tradition.

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Course Code: ENG-3201

Course Description: The course aims at enhancing students’ skill and competence in communicating their ideas in writing and speaking in English language.

Course Objectives: To enable the students achieve clear, appropriate and impactful interpersonal communication by improving their verbal and nonverbal communication; to help the students overcome the jitters and barriers in the communication processes; to cater the students with clear understanding of formal and informal communication undertakings.

Course Learning Outcomes: identify the components and elements of communication; recognize the functions of multiple components of different types of communication; demonstrate familiarity with multiple scenarios under the context of formal and informal communication; communicate and implement the knowledge to practically demonstrate when exposed to relevant formal or informal context.

Course Contents: Introduction to communication skills (nature and types, processes, types of communication skills); Interpersonal and Intrapersonal communication skills (communication networks, barriers and manipulations, communication as a transactional process); Interview skills; Presentation skills; Written communication; Formal and informal communication; 7Cs of communication.

Recommended Books: Hargie, O. (1986). The handbook of communication skills; Mandel, S. (1987). Effective Presentation Skills; Sen, L. (2007). Communication skills.

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Course Code: PKS-3202

Course Description: Introduction to Pakistan Studies is a compulsory subject for all the disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences. This course is designed to enable the students to learn about the ideological basis of Pakistan, its historical background, geography and strategic significance, economic resources, economic development, education system and cultural diversity. This course focuses on introducing the political and institution development in the country, it foreign policy and relations with other countries are also covered in this course. Further, internal and external issues and challenges faced by the country are also included in this course.

Course Objectives: To provide the basic understanding about historical and ideological background factors leading up to the creation of Pakistan; to acquaint the students will learn about the government, politics and constitutional development of Pakistan; the student will get knowledge about cultural, ethnic and regional diversities in Pakistan; this course will also enable the students to get knowledge on the economic development and resources of Pakistan; enable the students to learn about contemporary issues arising and challenges that Pakistan is faced today.

Course Learning Outcomes: after studying this course the students will be able to understand the Muslim nationalism in subcontinent; the students will have a good understanding about the reasons for creation of Pakistan the light of present situation of Muslims in India; the students will have good knowledge about Pakistan, civil and political rights, national ethics, culture and economy and current issue and threats facing by the country.

Course Contents: Historical Background (downfall of Muslim rule, War of 1857, role of Sir Syed, formation of Indian National Congress); emergence of political consciousness in Muslims of subcontinent (formation of Muslim league, partition of Bengal, Lucknow Pact); struggle towards creation of Pakistan (Quaid-e-Azam 14 Points, Roundtable conferences, Pakistan resolution); ideology of Pakistan; partition of the sub-continent; contribution of leaders for creation of Pakistan; geographic profile of Pakistan; political and constitutional development; government structures and governance; society and culture of Pakistan; education system; economy of Pakistan; foreign policy; Pakistan’s international relations; Kashmir issue.

Recommended Books: Rabbani. Ikram, Introduction to Pakistan Studies; Ishtiaq. H. Qureshi, the Struggle for Pakistan; Mehmood, Safdar, Pakistan Political Roots & Development; Abdul, Muslim Separatism in India; Khalid. B. Sayeed, the Political System of Pakistan; etc.

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Course Code: PSY-3203

Aims & Objectives: Describe psychology with major areas in the field, and identify the parameters of this discipline. Distinguish between the major perspectives on human thought and behavior. Appreciate the variety of ways psychological data are gathered and evaluated. Gain insight into human behavior and into one’s own personality or personal relationships. Explore the ways that psychological theories are used to describe, understand, predict, and control or modify behavior.

Contents: Introduction to Psychology; Methods of Psychology; Biological Basis of Behavior; Sensation, Perception and Attention; Motives; Emotions; Learning; Memory; Thinking; Individual differences.

Recommended Books: Atkinson R. C., & Smith E. E. (2000). Introduction to psychology; Fernald, L.D., & Fernald, P.S. (2005). Introduction to Psychology; Glassman, W. E. (2000). Approaches to psychology; Hayes, N. (2000). Foundation of psychology; Lahey, B. B. (2004). Psychology: An introduction; Ormord, J. E. (1995). Educational psychology.

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Course Code: ESC-3204

Course description: This course will emphasize the development of basic scientific skills and concepts in chemistry, physics, earth science and biology. In addition, scientific vocabulary and reading comprehension will be addressed to assist students in furthering their science education. In this course, students consider basic concepts from a number of scientific disciplines. Through the examination of everyday occurrences, students are introduced to scientific ways of thought and to the problem-solving methods used by scientists.

Course Objectives: To develop students understanding about the use of basic science in everyday life. To ignite and increase students resolve about scientific inquiry skills through conducting scientific experiments and participating in hands-on activities.

Course Learning Outcomes: To increase student ability to solve scientific problems. To enhance student scientific inquiry skills through conducting scientific experiments and participating in hands-on activities. To increase student understanding of basic scientific concepts. To heighten student awareness of scientific issues affecting their lives and increase their interest in science.

Course Contents: I. Physical Sciences (universe, galaxy, solar system, eclipses, weather, natural disasters, energy resources, atomic structure, chemical bonding, modern materials). II. Biological Sciences (cell structure, biomolecules, plant and animal kingdom, human physiology, common diseases, biofuel). III. Food Science (balance diet, quality of food, food deterioration and control). IV. Information Technology (computer fundamentals, networking, internet, social media, AI, telecommunications).

Recommended Books: The GALE Encyclopedia of Everyday Science. 3rd Edition; Common Everyday Science by Carleton Washburne; Everyday Science: A Course of General Science By L. M. Parsons; Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s New Guide to Science; Rabnawaz Samo, Encyclopedia Manual of everyday science; Ch Ahmed Najib, Caravan EVERYDAY SCIENCE Objective; Bill Bryson. A Short History of Nearly Everything; Science of everyday things. 2002.

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Course Code: ENG-3205

Aims & Objectives: The course aims to build on the background knowledge of phonological description & theory in order to explain the theories & the principles regulating the use of sounds in spoken language; train students in the skill of transcribing spoken languages – particularly English; & examine cross-linguistic similarities & variation in sounds – particularly English & Urdu.

Contents: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology; Difference between Phonetics and Phonology; The Production of Speech Sounds; Speech Articulators; English Phonemes and Allophones; Vowels and Consonants; Diphthongs & Triphthongs; The Place and Manner of the Production of English Consonants; Phonemic Transcription; Syllable and Syllabic Structure; Strong and Weak Forms; Stress; Aspects of Connected Speech: Assimilation, Elision and Liaison; Phonological Rules; Contrastive Phonology: English and Urdu Phonology, Problematic areas for Pakistani Learners.

Reference Books: Roach, P. (1991). English phonetics and phonology; Gimson, A. C. (1984). An introduction to the pronunciation of English; Kreidler, C. W. (1989). The pronunciation of English.

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Course Code: ENG-3206

Aims & Objectives: One of the objectives of this course is to inform the readers about the influence of historical and socio-cultural events upon the production of literature. Histories of literature written by some British literary historians will be consulted to form some socio-cultural and political cross connections. In its broader spectrum, the course covers a reference to the multiple factors from economic theories to religious, philosophical, and metaphysical debates that overlap in these literary works of diverse nature and time periods under multiple contexts. The reading of literature in this way i.e., within the socio-cultural context will help the readers become aware of the fact that literary works are basically a referential product of the practice that goes back to continuous interdisciplinary interaction.

Contents: The Age of Renaissance and Reformation; The Puritan Age; The Restoration Period; Augustan Age or Eighteen-Century Literature; Romantic Age; Victorian Age; Neo-Classical Age; Modern Age; Post-Modern and the Contemporary Age; A brief overview of the literary movements will also be given in their relevant ages such as Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Modernism, Existentialism, Absurdism, Surrealism, Formalism, Structuralism / Post-structuralism, Post Modernism (New Historicism, Feminist Literary Theory).

Recommended Readings: Alexander, M. (2017). A history of English literature; Daiches, D. (1969). Critical History of English Literature; Docherty, T. (2016). Postmodernism: A reader; Evans, I. (1976). A Short History of English Literature; Gillie, C. (1977). Longman companion to English literature; Long, W. J. (2013). English Literature; Sanders, A. (1994). The short oxford history of English literature.

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Course Code: ENG-4301

Course Objectives: To help the students read academic texts critically; to help the students write well organized academic texts.

Course Contents: Introduction Language Skills (written & oral, productive & receptive, primary & secondary); Reading and its purposes; Reading Comprehension Factors; Reading Strategies; Critical Reading; Models of Reading; Reading process (pre-reading, while reading, post reading activities); Types of writing and their characteristics (formal/informal, general vs academic, characteristics of academic writing, process of writing); Writing summaries of different articles; Precis Writing; Interpreting and analyzing charts, tables and graphs; Making appropriate notes using strategies such as mind maps, tables, lists and graphs.

Recommended Books: Razi, Salim. (2011). Advanced reading and writing skills in ELT: APA style handbook; Barnet, S. and Bedau, H. 2004. Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing; Gardner, P. S. 2005. New Directions; Grellet, F., Writing for Advanced Learners of English.

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Course Code: COM-4302

Objectives: Enable students to understand the computing discipline and different computing environments; enable students to properly identify the software or hardware or both of their need corresponding to the problem at hand; enable students to use computer to fulfill their basic need regarding computer interaction.

Course Learning Outcomes: Breadth of knowledge corresponding to the different computing environments; capacity to discover the software/hardware and the functionality associated with both categories; capacity to use the computer for preparing needful documents/ppt/spread sheets etc.

Course Contents: Introduction to computing and computers; history of computing; generation of computers; types of computers; how computer works/ binary numbers; software (types, application area); Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel); Hardware (IO devices, processors, memory); Internet (email, security); future of computers/computing.

Recommended Books: Peter Norton, Introduction to computers; Larry Long and Nancy Long, Information Technology in Perspective.

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Course Code: SOC-4303

Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the sociological study of society. Sociology focuses on the systematic understanding of social interaction, social organization, social institutions, and social change. Major themes in sociological thinking include the interplay between the individual and society, how society is both stable and changing, the causes and consequences of social inequality, and the social construction of human life. Understanding sociology helps discover and explain social patterns and see how such patterns change over time and in different settings. By making vivid the social basis of everyday life, sociology also develops critical thinking by revealing the social structures and processes that shape diverse forms of human life.

Course Objectives: To introduce students with sociological concepts and the discipline; demonstrate comprehension of roles and functions of various social institutions and relationships among them; demonstrate understanding of several sociological principles and apply them to explain social phenomena or situations.

Course Contents: Introduction to sociology; basic concepts (group, community, society, social interaction); social interaction (associative and dis-associative processes); society and social systems; social groups; social institutions; culture (definition, aspects, characteristics, elements, types, cultural diversity, organizations of culture); deviance and social control; social norms and social sanctions; socialization and personality development; social change; social stratification; social mobility; collective behavior and social movements.

Recommended Books: American Sociological Association, Career in Sociology; James M. Henslin, Down to Earth Sociology; John J. Macionis, Introduction to Sociology; George Ritzer, Introduction to Sociology; Anthony Giddens, Sociology.

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Course Code: EVS-4304

Objectives: Summaries core and fundamental knowledge of concepts and methods appropriate to environmental science; monitor, measure and assess a variety of environmental variables; understand how science and the scientific method address environment systems and issues; understand the concept of sustainability, how the Earth’s major natural systems function, and how they are affected by human activity.

Course Contents: Environmental systems; biosphere and its components; biodiversity and conservation; population ecology; ecosystems; human population characteristics and growth; pollution (air, land, water, industrial, radioactive, thermal, pesticides, plastics); global warming, climate change, fossil fuels; urban environment and sustainable cities; sustainable solutions (3-R’s, renewable energy, stewardship); sample collection and laboratory techniques.

Recommended Books: Wright, R. T. (2007). Environmental science; Pepper, I.L., Gerba, C.P. & Brusseau, M.L. 2006. Environmental and Pollution Science; Miller, T.G. 2012. Environmental Science; Elliot, D. 2003. Energy, Society and Environment; Tiwari, G.N. & Ghosal, M. K. 2005. Renewable Energy Resources; Science of everyday things. 2002.

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Course Code: ENG-4305

Introduction: This course is an overview of English grammar, surveying English grammatical structures and the major patterns of language use, and developing skill in grammatical analysis. It seeks to familiarize and enable students to learn basic concepts of grammar of modern English and acquaint them with functions and uses of grammatical structures.

Learning Objectives: identify and distinguish among the grammatical features of English; analyze the grammatical structure of complex sentences; learn basic concepts of grammar of modern English; understand functions and uses of grammatical structures; analyze the structure of naturally occurring sentences.

Contents: What is grammar? Descriptive vs prescriptive grammars; Grammatical units; Kinds of words; Grammatical categories of words (parts of speech); Morphological, syntactic, and semantic characteristics of content word classes; Noun, pronoun, adjective, article, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition; Functional categories; Types of phrases; Types of clauses; Kinds of sentences; Tense and aspect; Voice; Subject-verb agreement; Infinitives and Gerunds; Conditional Sentences; Tree diagrams.

Books: Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Leech, G. (2002). Longman student grammar of spoken and written English; Conrad, S., & Biber, D. (2009). Real grammar; Thomson, A. J., & Martinet, A. V. (1986). A practical English grammar.

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Course Code: ENG-4306

Objectives: This course aims to enable the students learn how to comprehend, discuss, evaluate, and above all enjoy the spirit of English prose style, essay and short story. The socio-cultural aspects and thematic priorities reflected in this genre of the selected ages and writers will also be highlighted. This course has been designed to help students understand how historical and socio-cultural events influence English Prose and how the literature of a particular nation and age shape the thinking of the writers. In this course students will learn about the historical events and their influences on literary writers and their works in English prose.

Outline: English Prose: An Introduction; Elizabethan Prose (Francis Bacon: Selected Essays); Neo Classical Prose (Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels/A Modest Proposal); Romantic Prose (Charles Lamb: Selected Essays); Bertrand Russel’s School (Causes of Unhappiness/Unpopular Essays).

Recommended Books: All Texts selected for this course; The Rise of English Literary Prose by George Philip Krapp; The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640, Edited by Andrew Hadfield.

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Course Code: MAT-4401

Course Learning Outcomes: To prepare the students, not majoring in mathematics, with essential tools of the functions and their properties; to learn several techniques to find the solution of a system of equations; to understand the basic concept of matrix to perform matrix operation and use matrices to solve problems, basic concept of determinant, how to find the determinant of a matrix and properties of determinant, sequences and series and their properties, fundamentals of trigonometry, trigonometric identities.

Course Contents: Functions (graphical transformation, properties, composition and inverse, domain and range, max/min, increasing/decreasing, piecewise functions, continuity and discontinuity, polynomials and rational functions, absolute valued function, exponential and logs functions); systems of equations; matrix algebra; determinants; Cramer’s rule; inverse matrices; series and sequences; trigonometry (angles in radians and degrees, right triangle trigonometry, law of cosines & sines, area of triangle, basic trigonometric identities).

Recommended Books: Text book of Algebra and Trigonometry Class XI (PTB); Calculus and Analytic Geometry, MATHEMATICS 12 (PTB); Anton H, Bevens I, Davis S Calculus; Stewart J, Calculus; Anton, H., Bivens, I., Davis, S., & Polaski, T. (2010). Calculus: early transcendental; Thomas, (2018). Calculus.

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Course Code: ARB-4402

Course Objectives: To aware the students about the importance of Arabic language in Islamic studies; to aware the students about the basic rules of Arabic grammar so they can get benefit from Islamic knowledge; to produce the ability of understanding of Quran in students through Arabic language; enable the students so that they can exact pronounce the Quranic words.

Course Learning Outcomes: Students will learn the basic laws of Arabic language; students will be able to understand the Holy Quran by understanding Arabic language; through Arabic language students will recite the Holy Quran with exact pronunciation.

Course Contents: Detailed weekly breakdown covering Arabic letters, grammar (types of words, nominal and verbal sentences, attached and detached pronouns, possessive constructions, prepositions, verb conjugations, numbers, etc.) and translation of selected Quranic verses (Surah Al-Baqarah, Al-Fatiha, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq, An-Nas, etc.).

Recommended Books: Arabic for understanding the Qur’an ,CEF, Islamabad, 2021; Dr. Habibur Rehman Asim, Lisanul Quran; اللغة العربية لغير الناطقين بها, جامعة الملك السعود; لسان العربی، علامہ اقبال اوپن یونیورسٹی.

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Course Code: STA-4403

Course Objectives: To have introduction of Statistics as a field of Knowledge and its scope and relevance to other disciplines of natural and social sciences; acquire the basic knowledge of the discipline of Statistics; understand and differentiate between the types of data and variables; evaluate and interpret basic descriptive Statistics; display and interpret data graphs.

Contents: Introduction, nature and scope; data presentation and scale of measurements; charts (pictogram, pie chart); graphs (frequency curve, cumulative frequency curve, stem and leaf diagram, polygon); central tendency (arithmetic mean, median); dispersion (quartiles, variance); moments; rates and ratio; index numbers (simple aggregative, Laspayer’s).

Recommended Books: Mann, P.S. (2010). Introductory Statistics; Walpole, R.E., Myers, R.H and Myers, S.L.(1998). Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientist.

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Course Code: LAW-4404

Contents: Meaning and Definitions of Law, Significance/Importance of Law, Scope of Law, Concept of State and Law, Concept of Rights and Law; Law as a Social Science; Comparison of Jurisprudence with other disciplines; Law and morality; Western Sources of Law (Legislation, Precedent, Customs, Agreements); Islamic Sources of Law (Quran, Sunnah, Ijma, Qiyas, Istihsan); Kinds of Law (Imperative, Physical, Natural, Conventional, Customary, Practical, Civil); Classification of Law (Private/Public, General/Special, Common/Equity); Subjects of Law (Persons, Corporations, Capacity, Immunities); Lawyers and Legal Practitioners; Code of Conduct of Advocates.

Recommended Books: Atul M. Setalvad, Introduction to Law; Jurisprudence by John Salmond; Jurisprudence by Hibbert; Jurisprudence by Dennis Lloyds; Jurisprudence by C.W Paton; Justice R ZA Channa, Precedents; First Book of Jurisprudence by Pollock; English Jurisprudence by Sir Abdul Rahim.

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Course Code: ENG-4405

Course Description: The key aim of the course is to introduce the students to the basic word structure in Pakistani languages. It engages them to have an understanding of words and parts of words. It will help them to understand word structure in Pakistani languages.

Aims & Objectives: The course will help students familiarize with the structure of a word and then a sentence in a language, specifically focusing on Pakistani languages and then any language in the world, e.g. English.

Course Contents: Introduction to morphology; Morpheme, Morph and Allomorph; free morphemes (roots, stems and bases); bound morphemes (affixes: prefixes, suffixes); types of bound morphemes; word classes; basics of phonetics; inflectional morphology (pluralization, degree marking, verb forms); derivational morphology (formation of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs; word formation processes; derivation by compounding: endocentric, exocentric and copulative compounds).

Recommended Books: Adams, V. (1987). An Introduction to Modern English Word-formation; Katamba, F. (2005). English Words; Lieber, R. (2009). Introducing Morphology; McCarthy, A. C. (2002). An Introduction to English Morphology.

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Course Code: ENG-4406

Aims & Objectives: To focus on a genre-specific historical development; to perceive Poetry as refined commentary on the aesthetic concerns of its time; to develop keen awareness of poetic language and tone.

Contents: Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; Spenser: The Faerie Queen (Book 1. Canto 1); Milton: Paradise Lost (Book 1); John Donne: Love & Divine Poems (Max 4); Alexander Pope: Rape of the Lock (Canto 1).

Recommended Readings: Abrams, M. H, The Mirror and the Lamp; Coghill, Nevil. (1948) The Poet Chaucer; Gardner, Helen, Ed. John Donne: Twentieth Century View Series; Spens, Janet. (1934) Spenser’s Faerie Queen; Tillotson, G. On the Poetry of Pope.

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Course Code: ENG-5501

Aims & objectives: This course will provide them with sufficient grounding in syntax to enable them to cope better with other courses (e.g. in Acquisition, Disorders or Psycholinguistics) which presuppose some background in syntax.

Contents: Introduction to Syntax; The Noun Phrase; The Verb Phrase; The Adjective Phrase; The Adverb Phrase; The Prepositional Phrase; Phrases in the sentence; Sentence Structure: constituents, categories & functions; Tree diagrams; The functions of clauses; Coordination and subordination; Noun clauses; Adjective clauses; Adverb clauses; Main and Subordinate Clauses; Non-finite clauses; The verb groups.

Recommended Readings: Burton-Roberts, N. (2016). Analysing Sentences; A. Moravcsik (2006). An Introduction to Syntax; Miller, J. (2008). An Introduction to English Syntax.

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Course Code: ENG-5502

Aims & Objectives: The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with: How the message inherent in a piece of literature could be achieved by looking at the linguistics patterns and deviations adopted by the writer; Application of Linguistics to the Understanding and Criticism of Literature.

Contents: Emergence of Stylistics; Stylistics as a Bridge between Linguistics and Literary Criticism; Literary Language and Literariness; Distinction between Standard Language and Poetic Language; Nature of Literary Language; The Intricate Relationship between Sender/Addresser and Receiver/Addressee in Literature; Literature as a Foregrounded Language: Parallelism and Deviation; Figurative Language; Verbal repetition; Patterns of Sound; Redundancy and Absurdity in Literature; Meter and Rhyme; Stylistics Analysis of Short Stories and Poems.

Recommended Books: Leech, G. A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry; Wales, Katie. A Dictionary of Stylistics; Widdowson, H.G. Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature; Wright, Laura, and Jonathan Hope. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook; Zhukovska, V. V. (2010). English Stylistics.

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Course Code: ENG-5503

Aims & Objectives: This course aims to explain the theory of discourse analysis and to demonstrate its practical relevance to language learning and teaching.

Contents: What is discourse? Discourse and the sentence, Grammar within and beyond the sentence, Language in and out of context, Spoken vs. written discourse; Formal & contextual links (Parallelism, Referring expressions, Repetition and lexical chains, Substitution); Conversational principles (Cooperative Principle, Politeness Principle, Speech Act Theory); Views on Discourse Structure (Discourse as product, Discourse as process, Discourse as a Dialogue, Discourse in communicative development, Information structure in discourse).

Recommended Readings: Brown, G. and Yule, G. (1983). Discourse Analysis; Cook, G. (1989). Discourse; Coulthard, M. (1985). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis; Edmondson, Willis. (1981). Spoken Discourse; Gee, J. P. (2005). An Introduction to Discourse Analysis; Grice, H P. (1975). Logic and Conversation; Johnstone, B. (2002). Discourse Analysis; Leech, G. & Thomas, J. (1988). Pragmatics; Leech, G. (1983). Principles of Pragmatics; Levinson, S. (1983). Pragmatics; McCarthy, M. (1991). Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers; Richards, J. & Schimidt, R. (1983). Language and Communication; Schiffrin, D. (2001). Approaches to Discourse; Stubbs, M. (1983). Discourse Analysis; Wardhaugh, R. (1985). How Conversation Works.

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Course Code: ENG-5504

Aims & Objectives: The course traces the history of literary criticism in English literature from the Greek critics and theorists to the time of the Renaissance. The study of Aristotle and Longinus who came to second life in the 16th century England helps us see that the roots of critical thought in English literature lie in the ancient Greeks. The views of the English critics from Sidney to Dr. Johnson provide landmarks in the development of critical ideas about art and literature. This course particularly aims at equipping the students with the tools of criticism and providing them skills to critically evaluate the works of art as mature critics.

Contents: Aristotle The Poetics; Philip Sidney An Apology for Poetry; William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads; S.T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria Chapters XVII and XVIII; I. A. Richards Practical Criticism.

Reading Reference: Wimsatt & Brooks: Literary Criticism, A Short History; Daiches, D. (1967): Critical Approaches to Literary; Abrams, M.H. (1977): The Mirror and the Lamp; Lucas, F.L. (1981): Tragedt; Butcher, S.H. (ed): Aristotle Theory of Poetry and Fine Art.

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Course Code: ENG-5505

Objectives: The course will present some classic plays which have influenced the development to English drama. It will represent various forms for example tragedy and comedy and their variations. The course is designed to impart, discuss, evaluate, and above all enjoy the spirit of classics in drama. The socio-cultural aspects of society reflected in the drama of the selected ages will also be highlighted. The purpose of this course is to explore the nature, function, and themes of Classical Greek, Roman and Elizabethan drama in their theatrical, historical, and social contexts. Through a detailed study of the texts bythe selected dramatists, the course traces the development of the key features of tragedy and comedy. In this course students will study text of the selected dramas and critically analyze the selected dramas from various thematic and stylistic perspectives.

Course Contents: Sophocles – Oedipus Rex; Marlowe – Doctor Faustus/Jew of Malta; Shakespeare – Hamlet/Twelfth Night; Ben Johnson – The Alchemist/Volpone.

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Course Code: ENG-5601

Aims & objectives: To enable students to conduct their own small scale research; the main aim is to get them familiarized with the techniques and methods of selecting topics, developing questions, collecting and analyzing data and also preparing the research report.

Contents: Introduction; Qualitative and Quantitative Research Paradigms; Identifying and Defining a Research Problem; Variables; Sampling Techniques; Tools for Data Collection: Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation & Case Studies; Data Analysis; Elements of the Research Report; Referencing and Citation.

Recommended Readings: Allwright, D. & Bailey, K. (1991). Focus on the Language Classroom; Brown, D. (2004). Doing Second Language Research; Brown, J. D. & Rogers, T.S. (2002). Doing Second Language Research; Bryman, A. (2004). Research Methods for Social Sciences; Dornyei, Z. (2007). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics; Nunan, David. (1992). Research Methods in Language Learning; Robson, C. (2002). Real world research; Schofield, J. W. (2007). Increasing the generalizability of qualitative research.

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Course Code: ENG-5602

Aims & Objectives: This course deals with approaches to the study of meaning. It intends to introduce the students with the linguistics meanings at the word and sentence level.

Contents: Introduction to Semantics; The Study and dimensions of meaning; Language in use; Semantic roles; Lexical relations; Reference; Sentences as arguments; Speech acts; A variety of predicates.

Recommended Books: Kreidler, C. W. (2002). Introducing English Semantics; Allan, Keith. 1986. Linguistic Meaning; Cruse, D. Alan. 1986. Lexical semantics; Eimas, P. & Miller, J. (eds.). 1995. Speech, Language and Communication; F. R. Palmer. 1976. Semantics; Frawley, William. 2002. Linguistic Semantics.

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Course Code: ENG-5603

Aims & Objectives: The period covered under this course starts from 1789 with the advent of Blake’s work. This is the romantic revival period in which Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Lamb etc establish its immense poetic and prosaic richness. The course is designed keeping in view the different tastes of the romantic revival period that save our bests with the poems selected for it. The influence of Romantic Poetry can be seen on Victorian poets, especially Tennyson. The model intends to help the students to understand the shift towards modern poetry.

Recommended Texts: William Blake: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; William Wordsworth: “The Thorn”, “Old Cumberland Beggar”, “Lines Written in Early Spring”, “Lucy Poems”, etc.; S. T. Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”, “Dejection: an Ode”; John Keats: “Ode to Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to Autumn”, etc.; Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”; Tennyson: “Lady of Shallot”, “Lotus Eater”; Browning: “My Last Duchess”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, “Last Ride Together”.

Recommended Books: M.H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp; Cleanth Brooks. The Well-Wrought Urn; F. R. Leavis. Revaluation; Edward Dowden. The French Revolution and English Literature; B. Beer. Coleridge the Visionary; G. M. Ridenour. Shelley; W. J. Bate. ed. Keats; Bennett Weaver. Wordsworth; Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson; Brooke, Stopford A. Tennyson; Bloom, Harold, ed. Robert Browning; Phelps, William Lyon. Robert Browning.

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Course Code: ENG-5604

Aims & Objectives: The Aim of introducing this course is to enable the readers to have a full view of 18th to 19th century Novel which is rich in diversity, creativity and popular appeal.

Contents: Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Charles Dickens: Great Expectations/Hard Times; George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss; Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles/The Return of the Native.

Recommended Readings: Allen, Walter. The Rise of the Novel; Allen, Walter. The English Novel; Bloom Harold. (1987) Ed. Modern Critical Views: Thomas Hardy; Bloom, Ed. (1987) Modern Critical Interpretations: Jane Austen; Bloom, Ed. (1987) Modern Critical Views: Charles Dickens; Kettle, Arnold. (1967) An Introduction to the English Novel.

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Course Code: ENG-5605

Objectives: Modern Drama is essentially a drama of ideas rather than action. The stage is used by dramatists to give expression to certain ideas which they want to spread in society. Moving from drawing-room comedy to absurdism and the question of existentialism, students will study a wide range of the fascinating drama that has been composed during the past century. Many of these plays are now acknowledged “classics” of modern drama; the rest are prize-winning contemporary plays that have broken new ground. These plays will be taught both as distinguished writing and as scripts for performance. Paying particular attention to the importance of religion, nationalism, identity, absurdity of life, the burden of existence, and futility of chasing dreams in shaping modern life, much of this drama suggests that current events are inseparable from a larger cultural history. Within socio-historical and socio-cultural contexts, students will know about the ways socio-cultural ideas shape the thinking of the dramatists and how the modern dramatist have used drama as a literary tool to mirror the dominant ideologies that define modern life. In this course students will learn about the historical events and the dominants ideas that shaped the modern drama and theatre. They will be able to know about different ideas, issues and themes discussed by the writers in their dramas.

Course Contents: Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House; G. B. Shaw – Arms and the Man/Pygmalion; Harold Pinter – The Caretaker; Arthur Miller – The Death of a Salesman; Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot.

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Course Code: ENG-6701

Course Objectives: By the end of this course, students will be able to: Explain key concepts involved in teaching language skills; Employ language learning strategies to improve their own language (English); Devise and use activities to teach different language skills; Integrate multiple language skills in a single lesson; describe chief characteristics of important approaches and methods of teaching second and foreign languages; plan and construct tests for testing different language skills and interpret test scores.

Teaching Listening: What is listening?, purposes, listening comprehension process, transactional and interactional listening, listening processes, listening strategies, intensive and extensive listening, listening problems, activities for teaching listening.

Teaching Speaking: What is speaking?, purposes, communicative competence, teaching pronunciation, features of conversation, speaking problems, criteria for selecting speaking activities, activities for teaching speaking.

Teaching Reading: What is reading?, purposes, reading comprehension process, reading processes, reading strategies, intensive and extensive reading, fluency reading, reading problems, reading and vocabulary, activities for teaching reading.

Teaching Writing: What is writing?, purposes, difference between speech and writing, the process of writing, organization of paragraph/essay, writing different types of paragraphs, characteristics of a good piece of writing, types of writing, communicative writing, writing problems, activities for teaching writing, writing and error correction.

Teaching Integrated Skills: Developing lesson plans for teaching multiple skills in a single class.

Teaching Methods: Various aspects of approaches and methods in teaching second/foreign languages, such as Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, Communicative Language Teaching, Situational Language Teaching, Desuggestopedia, etc.

Recommended Books: Alderson, J. C., & Urquhart, H. A. (Eds.) (1984). Reading in a Foreign Language; Brookes, A. & Grundy, P. (1990). Writing for Study Purposes; Brown, G. & Yule, G. (1983). Teaching the Spoken Language; Bygate, M. (2004). Speaking; Byrne, D. (1986). Teaching Oral English; Byrne, D. (1988). Teaching Writing Skills; Carter, R. & R. Mc Carthy. (1997). Exploring Spoken English; Davies, F. (1995). Introducing Reading; Grabe, W. and Kaplan, R. (1996). Theory and Practice of Writing; Grell, F. (1982). Developing Reading Skills; Harmer, J. (2003). Practice of English Language Teaching; Larsen-Freeman, D. (2003). Techniques and principles in language teaching; Nuttall, C. (1996). Teaching Reading Skills; Richards, J. & Rodgers, T. (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching.

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Course Code: ENG-6702

Aim and Objectives: The course intends to introduce the students with the meaning as it is constructed by communicators under conditions of actual language use, largely by viewing meaning as arising from an interaction of literal or semantic factors with psycholinguistic processes of presupposition, inference, anaphora, and speech acts, as well as contextual factors represented in co-text, situation, and beliefs about the world.

Contents: Meaning and Context; Context and Context; Deixis and Meaning; Types of Deixis; Functions of Deixis; Reference and Inference; Presupposition; Entailment; Implicature; Grice’s Theory of Implicature; Cooperative Principle and Conversational Maxims; Speech Act Theory; Austin’s Theory Of Speech Acts.

Recommended Readings: Yule, G. (2000) Pragmatics; Leech, G.N (1983) Principles of Pragmatics; Levinson, S. (1983) Pragmatics.

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Course Code: ENG-6703

Course Description: This course helps students understand different popular texts in the genre of fiction and the subgenres of fiction, across the world. This course will broaden students’ vision with respect to English literature in general and popular fiction in particular, written in different cultures with different language use. The popular fiction texts in this course have been selected from a wide range of cultures so that students can experience different cultures as well as writing styles in these texts. This course makes an interesting read for the students as they will come across different writers’ interests, stories, characters, conflicts/issues and themes etc. Responding to these diverse texts will be challenging to the students as well making them think critically and formulate their own meanings and ideas as they come across each text. The works selected for this course have been taken from different writers who belong to different parts of the world and communities. This diversity is reflected in these authors’ work though they reflect other communities as well, the ones they have not lived in. These works fulfill the needs of the modern day reader to read a good literary piece of work that they can relate to as these works are related to contemporary themes and elements. For example suspense, mystery, crime, love, trust deceit, destiny, redemption, guilt, friendship, death etc. These works can make students think critically and motivate them to do further research and studies related to the selected works.

Course Objectives: To expose the students to what is popularly read and appreciated worldwide in the genre of fiction; to familiarize students with popular fiction in English literature written by the most recognized authors; to construct the ability to think critically and promote intellectual growth of the students; to nurture sensitivity towards cultural diversity through a critical study of the selected works.

Course Outlines: 10-15 Short stories of Authors of different Nationalities, selecting at least five authors from five different nationalities.

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ENG-6704: American Literature – Poetry: Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass), Emerson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson (Selections).

ENG-6705: Modern Novel – Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness), E.M. Forster (A Passage to India), Virginia Woolf (To the Light House), James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), William Golding (Lord of the Flies).

ENG-6706: Literary Theory and Practice – Detailed syllabus covering: Defining Literary Criticism, Theory and Literature; Tracing the Evolution of Literary Theory and Criticism (Plato to Plotinus, Dante to Boccaccio, Sidney to Henry James); Russian Formalism and New Criticism; Reader-Oriented Criticism; Structuralism; Deconstruction; Psychoanalysis; Feminism; Marxism; Cultural Poetics or New Historicism; Postcolonialism; Eccentricism.

ENG-6707: Introduction to Psycholinguistics – Scope of Psycholinguistics; Psychology of Learning (theories of language learning: Behaviourism, Mentalism, Interactionism, Memory); Individual Learner Factors (Age, Affective and personality factors, Cognitive styles, Motivation, Learner Strategies).

ENG-6708: World Englishes – Introduction; The roots of English; The spread of English; Variation in English; Pidgin and creole languages; English as an international lingua franca; The inner/outer/expanding circles; Major Trends in World Englishes; Classification of Englishes; The future of Global English.

ENG-6709: Second Language Acquisition – Basic concepts of SLA (First language acquisition, comparing first and second language acquisition, factors affecting SLA, individual differences, classroom SLA, interlanguage, language transfer, error analysis); Theories of SLA (Behaviorism, Monitor Model, Sociocultural Theory, Universal Grammar, Connectionism, Cognitive Theory).

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Course Code: ENG-6801

Aims & Objectives: The aim of the course is to develop an awareness and understanding of different variables among the students that interact with the language and society. This course will enable the students to develop an in depth understanding of the interaction between language and society.

Learning Objectives: Develop an awareness and understanding of different variables among the students that interact with the language and society; enable the students to develop an in depth understanding of the interaction between language and society; familiarize students with core areas of sociolinguistics; assist students learn key issues in sociolinguistics; equip students with necessary skills for conducting small scale research in sociolinguistics.

Course Content: Sociolinguistics: language and society; Varieties of language according to users and situations of use; Language and dialects, Accent, British vs American varieties of English, regional dialects, social dialects, diglossia; Register analysis; Pidgin and creole; Lingua-franca; Colloquialism, slang, and taboos; Language and gender; Communicative competence; Bilingualism and multilingualism; Code-switching and code-mixing; Speech community; Language and culture.

Recommended Books: Wardhaugh, R., & Fuller, J. (2015). An introduction to sociolinguistics; Meyerhoff, M. (2011). Introducing sociolinguistics; Romaine, S. (2008). Language in society; Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2018). Register, genre, and style.

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Course Code: ENG-6802

Aims & Objectives: This course aims to introduce students to a selection of literature and criticism generated by the colonizers and the colonized. Students will be able to participate meaningfully in the debate inaugurated by Post-Colonial literary studies. They will be able to identify the common thematic concerns and stylistic features in the cross continental voices of the empire. They will also be able to recognize post-colonial literature and criticism as a distinct and significant addition to English literary studies.

Suggested Primary Reading: General Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory; Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart; Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; Ben Okri: The Famished Road; Hanif Kureishi: Buddha Suburbia; Derek Wallcot: Dream on a Monkey Mountain; Derek Wallcot: Selected Poems; Agha Shahid Ali: Country without a Post Office (Poem).

Suggested Secondary Reading: Achebe, Chinua, “The Role of a Writer in A New Nation”; Ashcroft, B. Griffiths, G. and Tiffin, H. Eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader; Belsey, C. Critical Practice; Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism; Peck, J. Ed. New Casebook on Post-colonial Literatures; Smith, H. Beyond the Post Modern Mind; Burnett, Paula. Derek Wallcot: Politics and Poetics; Hamner, Robert. D. Critical Perspectives on Derek Wallcot; Thieme, John. Derek Wallcot.

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ENG-6803: Corpus Linguistics – Corpus and corpus linguistics; types of corpora; historical overview; corpus-based vs intuition-based approach; corpus-based vs corpus driven approaches; representativeness, balance, and sampling; corpus annotation and tagging; survey of available corpora (BYU, COCA, MICASE, etc.); statistics for corpus linguistics.

ENG-6804: Translation Studies – History of Translation; Source language and Receptor’s language; Translation as an Interdisciplinary Field; Types and sub-types of Translation; Theories of Translation; Translation in the Western and Eastern World; Scope of Translation Studies; Major terms; Metaphors in Translation; Approaches and Methodology; Shift Analysis; Barriers in Translation; Principles of Translation; Semantic and Communicative Translation; Comparison of Speech Acts in English and Urdu.

ENG-6805: Language, Culture and Identity – Relationship between language and culture; language and identity; Identity Formation: Strategies and Theories; Types of identity; Region and language perspective; Identity Crisis, Multiculturalism; Linguistic relativity, Linguistic determinism, Culture shock.

ENG-6806: Testing and Evaluation – Assessment and Testing; Classification of Assessment (informal/formal, formative/summative, norm-referenced/criterion-referenced, discrete-point/integrative); Principles of Language Assessment (practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, washback); Test Types (aptitude, proficiency, placement, diagnostic, achievement); Drawing up test specifications; devising test items; scoring; grading; feedback.

ENG-6807: Pakistani Literature in English – Fiction: Bapsi Sidhwa (An American Brat, Ice Candy Man), Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows), Mohsin Hamid (How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia), Mohammad Hanif (Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti), Nadeem Aslam (The Blind Man’s Garden); Poetry: Zulfiqar Ghose, Salman Tarik Kureshi, Adrian A. Hussain, Moen Farooqi, Taufiq Rafat, Farida Faizullah; Screen Plays: Hanif Qureshi (My Son the Fanatic); Essays: Zulfiqar Ghose, Intizar Hussain, Bapsi Sidhwa, Rukhshana Ahamd, Shahid Suhrwary; Contemporary Short Stories: Muneeza Shamsie, Aamer Hussain, Kamila Shamsie, Daniyaal Muenudin, Bapsi Sidhwa, Zaibunisa Hamidullah.

ENG-6808: Islam and Western Literature – Introduction to Islamic and Western literary traditions; Islamic literary influence on Western literature; Sufism and mystical traditions in Western literature; Orientalism and its impact on literature; Postcolonial literature and Muslim writers; Intersections of Islamic and Western feminist literature. Recommended texts: “The Arabian Nights”, “The Conference of the Birds”, “The Kite Runner”, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, “The Forty Rules of Love”, “The Sheik”, “Road to Makkah”.

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ENG-6809: Internship – It will be non-credit course and will be assessed on Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory basis (S/U)

ENG-6810: Comprehensive Oral – It will be assessed on Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory basis (S/U)