The University Grants Commission (UGC) has started a few measures to bring value, productivity and incredibleness in the Higher Education System of nation. The critical measures taken to improve scholarly guidelines and quality in advanced education incorporate development and upgrades in educational programs, instructing learning procedure, examination and assessment frameworks, other than administration and different matters.

The UGC has detailed different controls and rules every once in a while to progress the advanced education framework and keep up least principles and quality over the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India.

The CBCS gives a chance to the understudies to pick courses from the endorsed courses involving center, elective/minor or ability based courses. The courses can be assessed taking after the evaluating framework, which is thought to be superior to the customary imprints framework.

The uniform reviewing framework will likewise empower potential businesses in surveying the execution of the hopefuls. In request to acquire consistency assessment framework and calculation of the Cumulative Grade Point Normal (CGPA) in light of understudy's execution in examinations, the UGC has planned the rules to be taken after.

The Department of English, University of Delhi

Has an same year of origin as the University of Delhi, 1922. The Department offers degrees at MA, MPhil and PhD levels and regulates undergrad instructing at the 79 Colleges which are partnered to the University. From 1970 the Department started working from two grounds: the principle Campus at the Arts Faculty, North Delhi. Understudies additionally enlist at the Non-Collegiate Women's Education Board for the MA degree.

Structure of English Honours under CBCS
Core Course
Paper Titles

1. Indian Classical Literature
2. European Classical Literature
3. Indian Writing in English
4. British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries
5. American Literature
6. Popular Literature
7. British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries
8. British Literature: 18th Century
9. British Romantic Literature
10. British Literature: 19th Century
11. Women’s Writing
12. British Literature: The Early 20th Century
13. Modern European Drama
14. Postcolonial Literatures

Discipline Centric Elective (Any four)
Paper Titles

1. Modern Indian Writing in English Translation
2. Literature of the Indian Diaspora
3. British Literature: Post World War II
4. Nineteenth Century European Realism
5. Literary Theory
6. Literary Criticism
7. Science fiction and Detective Literature
8. Literature and Cinema
9. World Literatures
10. Partition Literature
11. Research Methodology
12. Travel writing
13. Autobiography

Generic Elective (Any four)
Paper Titles

1. Academic Writing and Composition
2. Media and Communication Skills
3. Text and Performance
4. Language and Linguistics
5. Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment
6. Gender and Human Rights
7. Language, Literature and Culture

Ability Enhancement Course (Compulsory)
Paper Titles

1. Environmental Study
2. English/MIL Communication

Ability Enhancement Elective Course (Any two)
Paper Titles

1. Film Studies
2. English Language Teaching
3. Soft Skills
4. Translation Studies
5. Creative Writing
6. Business Communication
7. Technical Writing

Course Syllabus – English Honours, University f Delhi

Course: English (Hons.)

Semester I
Paper 1: English Literature 4(i)
Paper 2: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(i)
Paper 3: Concurrent – Qualifying Language

Semester II
Paper 4: English Literature 4(ii)
Paper 5: Twentieth Century Indian Writing(ii)
Paper 6: English Literature 1(i)
Paper 7: Concurrent – Credit Language

Semester III
Paper 8: English Literature 1(ii)
Paper 9: English Literature 2(i)
Paper 10:
Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(i)
Option B: Classical Literature (i)
Option C: Forms of Popular Fiction (i)
Paper 11: Concurrent – Interdisciplinary

Semester IV
Paper 12: English Literature 2(ii)
Paper 13: English Literature 3(i)
Paper 14:
Option A: Nineteenth Century European Realism(ii)
Option B: Classical Literature (ii)
Option C: Forms of Popular Fiction (ii)
Paper 15: Concurrent – Discipline Centered I

Semester V
Paper 16: English Literature 3(ii)
Paper 17: English Literature 5(i)
Paper 18: Contemporary Literature(i)
Paper 19:
Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(i)
Option B: Literary Theory (i)
Option C: Women’s Writing of the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (i)
Option D: Modern European Drama (i)

Semester VI
Paper 20: English Literature 5(ii)
Paper 21: Contemporary Literature(ii)
Paper 22:
Option A: Anglo-American Writing from 1930(ii)
Option B: Literary Theory (ii)
Option C: Women’s Writing of the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (ii)
Option D: Modern European Drama (ii)
Paper 23: Concurrent – Discipline Centered II

Contact

Department of English
Faculty of Arts, North Campus
University of Delhi
Delhi – 110007, India
email: head@english.du.ac.in, engdepartment.du@gmail.com
Phone : (91) 11-27666757
Fax: (91) 11-27666343