Gauhati University Courses

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 (1865­1939)

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)