Jadavpur University offers BA Honours course in English, under the semester system. The course is to provide a thorough grounding in literature written in the English language, from the earliest period to the present day. The duration of the course is 3 years.

BA Honours course subjects-

Semester 1

Core Courses

1. English Literature 1760-1830
2. English Literature 1830-1900

Semester 2

Core Courses

3. Literature and the other Arts
4. Postcolonial English Literature
5. Rhetoric and Composition

Semester 3

Core Courses

6. History of Language, Old and Middle English Literature
7. English Literature 1560-1630

Optional Courses

Any one from the list of the optional courses

Semester 4

Core Courses

8. English Literature1630-1760

Optional Courses

Any one from the list of the optional courses

Semester 5

Core Courses

9. English Literature 1900-2000
10. Detailed Study of a Shakespeare Play

Optional Courses

Any two from the list of the optional courses

Semester 6

Core Courses

11. Criticism
12. Indian Writing in English

Optional Courses

Any two from the list of the optional courses

Optional Courses-

1. Old English Literature
2. Middle English Literature
3. Chaucer and Langland
4. Renaissance Drama Excluding Shakespeare
5. The Tempest and its Aftermath
6. Metaphysical Poetry
7. Shakespeare in the 20th Century
8. Introduction to the Renaissance
9. Literature of the English Revolution
10. The Age of Enlightenment
11. The Romantic Novel
12. British Romantic Women Poets
13. Romanticism, Verbal and Visual
14. The Industrial Novel
15. Images of the Orient in Romantic Literature
16. Victorian Women Poets
17. The Fallen Woman and the 19th Century Novel
18. Poplar and Genre Fiction in the 19th Century
19. Edgar Allan Poe
20. Crossover: the uses of popular forms of fiction
21. Drama of Ideas in the 20th Century
22. American Poetry
23. Modernist Prose
24. Crime Fiction
25. Literature and Censorship
26. History, Literature and Criticism
27. Tragedy
28. Comedy
29. Drama in Practice
30. Global Cultures
31. Postcolonial Theory
32. The American Novel
33. The Novel and Modernity
34. African Writing in English
35. Settler Colony Literature
36. Contemporary Drama in English
37. Cultures of Protest
38. Writing in Practice

Contact-

Jadavpur University
188, Raja S. C. Mallick Road
Kolkata, West Bengal 700032