Friday, August 31, 2012

                Polytechnic  Syllabus for Lecturers in English


POLYTECHNIC SYLLABUS
GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY
I. General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their
implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of
a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline.
II. Current events of national and international importance.
III. History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its
social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP Indian National Movement.
IV. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.
V. Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development –
Planning and economic reforms in India.
VI. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences.
VII. DISASTER MANAGEMENT (Source : CBSE Publications)
1. Concepts in disaster management and vulnerability profile of India / State of A.P.
2. Earth quakes / Cyclones / Tsunami / Floods / Drought – causes and effects.
3. Man made disasters - Prevention strategies.
4. Mitigation strategies / Mitigation measures.
ENGLISH
•          Writers and Texts
William Shakespeare Hamlet, Tempest
John Milton Paradise Lost-Book 1 and 9
William Wordsworth “Immortality Ode”, Tintern Abbey
John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”
Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “The Last Ride Together”
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
TS Eliot “The Waste Land”, Murder in the Cathedral
GB Shaw Saint Joan
Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
William Golding Lord of the Flies
Robert Frost “Home Burial”, “The Road Not Taken”
Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape
Toni Morrison Beloved
Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable
AK Ramanujan “Love Poem for a Wife”, “Small-Scale
Reflections on a Great House”
Girish Karnad Hayavadana
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Margaret Atwood Edible Woman
AD Hope “Australia”, “Crossing the Frontier”
Bessie Head A Question of Power
English Language Teaching
1) ELT in India : (History and status of English in India; English as Second Language,
English as Foreign Language, and English as Global Language).
2) Methods and Approaches : (Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-Lingual
method; Structural approach, Communicative language teaching)
3) Teaching of Language Skills : (Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
Skills; Teaching of Grammar and Functional English; Teaching of Vocabulary; Classroom
techniques; Use of authentic materials)
4) Testing and Evaluation : (Principles, Types, Objectives of testing and evaluation)
5) Phonetics and Phonology; Syntax and Structure.

Junior Lecturers in English Syllabus

Junior Lecturers in English Syllabus

 

General Studies

1. General Science:-Contemporary Developments in Science and Technology and their implications include matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of a well education person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline.
2. Current events of national and international study.
3. History of India- emphasis will be broad general understanding of the subject in its social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on A P Indian National Movement.
4. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.
5. Indian Polity and Economy – including the country political system - rural development – planning and economic reform of India.
6. Mental Ability – reasoning and references

JL English Syllabus

The period of English Literature from 1798 to1900 (19th century) with special reference to the works of
Wordsworth,colridge,Byron,Keats,Shelley,Lamb,Hazlitt,Thackeray,Dickens,Tennyson,Brownings,
Arnold George Eliot, Cayle and Ruskin.
1)      William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Hamlet, Julis Vrsdst(ceaser),Tempest
2)      John Milton: Paradise Lost Book 1&2
3)      Alexander Pope : The Rape of the lock
4)      William Words worth : The Immortality Ode, The Tin Tern Abbey
5)      John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale
6)      P.B Shelley : Ode to the West wind
7)      6) Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
8)      Charles Dickens : A tale of two cities
9)      Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
10)  W.B.Yeats : Byzantium, The Second Coming
11)  T.s Eliot : The waste land
12)  D.H. Lawrence : The sons and lovers
13)  Mulk Raj Anand : The Big heart
14)  R.K Narayan : The Man eater of Malgudi
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