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The Department of English, The People’s University of Bangladesh, started its academic activity in July 1996 as a pioneering department among the private universities of Bangladesh under the leadership of a renowned academic of the country, Dr. Ahsanul Haque, the former Professor and Chairman, Department of English, University of Dhaka.
Over the years, the Department has become a spot of learning and enlightenment. It has a team of qualified full-time faculty members along with some illustrious guest faculty members from other universities. It offers one of the best opportunities in the country for higher degrees in English studies. It takes special care to stimulate the critical and the creative faculties of the students in a homely atmosphere.
The Department of English regularly publishes its wall magazine, titled “Treenayon,” under the supervision of its Language and Literary Club to provide a space for the students to demonstrate their creativity. It often arranges afternoon shows of films/movies based on famous literary classics.
Chairman, Dept. of English
The Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English is a 4-year under graduate program of 141 credits. Along with sufficient Core and Elective courses of having importance in the arena of local, regional, and global English studies, a number of multidisciplinary courses have been included in the curriculum of this program as General Education courses to make the students competent for the competitive examinations as well as to inculcate moral and cultural values, managerial capacity, gender sensitivity, and global knowledge in the students. There are also two Capstone courses in the curriculum for developing students communicative and research skills.
The Department of English has set up the following missions to reach the above-mentioned vision:
The Department of English of The People’s University of Bangladesh strives to produce skilled graduates with digital literacy and a deep moral and cultural values to compete in the local and global job markets and to engage themselves in research works and life-long learning for the sustainable development of the country.
The objectives of the Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English program are:
By the end of the Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English program, students will be able to:
Students who have any of the following qualifications may apply for the admission to BA (Honors) in English program:
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-01 | Basics of Writing | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-02 | Literary Terms, Rhetoric and Prosody | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-15 | Bangla Literature-I | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-03 | Introduction to Poetry | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-12 | Fundamentals of Linguistics | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-19 | History of English Literature-I | 3.00 |
| 4 | EH-23 | Bangla Literature-II | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-06 | Romantic Poetry-I | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-10 | Introduction to Drama | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-22 | Social and Political History of England-I | 3.00 |
| 4 | MTH-121 | Mathematics -II (Integral Calculus, Ordinary and partial Differential Equations) | 3.00 |
| 5 | HUM-101 | Economics | 2.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-11 | Elizabethan Drama | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-28 | Social and Political History of England-II | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-38 | Old English Poetry | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-13 | Introduction to Novel | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-18 | Fundamentals of ELT | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-24 | Metaphysical Poetry | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-16 | Romantic Poetry-II | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-26 | Highlights of Western Thought-I | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-33 | Phonetics and Phonology | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-08 | Advanced Writing | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-17 | 18th Century Literature | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-41 | Highlights of Western Thought-II | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-14 | Victorian Novel | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-29 | Eastern Thought | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-32 | History of English Literature-II | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-21 | Jacobean Drama | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-27 | 16th and 17th Century Prose | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-40 | Psychology | 3.00 |
| 4 | EH-45 | Second Language Acquisition | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-20 | Victorian Poetry | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-25 | English for Specific Purposes | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-31 | Classics in Translation | 3.00 |
| 4 | EH-39 | 16th and 17th Century Poetry | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-35 | Literary Criticism-I | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-42 | English for the Media | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-43 | Middle English Poetry | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | EH-34 | American Literature | 3.00 |
| 2 | EH-37 | Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics | 3.00 |
| 3 | EH-44 | Literary Criticism-II | 3.00 |
| 4 | EH-46 | Viva Voce | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0231 1111 | Remedial English | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 3112 | Bangla Language and Literature | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1113 | Introduction to Poetry | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 1114 | Introduction to Prose | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 1115 | History of English Literature | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0231 1121 | English Language Skills | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0222 3122 | History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0611 3123 | Computer Application and ICT | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 1124 | Introduction to Drama | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 1125 | Old and Middle English Literature | 3.00 |
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0231 1231 | Academic Writing | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 1232 | Fundamentals of Linguistics | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1233 | Sixteenth and Seventeenth Poetry | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 1234 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0312 3235 | Bangladesh Studies | 3.00 |
| 6 | 1021 3236 | General Science and Environment | 3.00 |
Students will take six (6) courses
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0232 1241 | Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Prose | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 1242 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1243 | Romantic Poetry | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 2244 | Phonetics and Phonology* | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 2245 | English for Specific Purposes* | 3.00 |
| 6 | 0223 3246 | Highlights of Eastern Thought | 3.00 |
| 7 | 0314 3247 | Basics of Social Science | 3.00 |
Students will take six (6) courses
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0232 1351 | Classics in Translation | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 1352 | Victorian Poetry | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1353 | Literary Criticism | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 2354 | Morphology and Syntax* | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 2355 | English for the Media* | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0223 3356 | Highlights of Western Thought | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0421 3357 | Human Rights and Social Justice | 3.00 |
Students will take six (6) courses
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0232 1361 | Victorian Novel | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 1362 | Twentieth Century Poetry | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1363 | Literary Theory and Cultural Studies | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 1364 | Research Methodology | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 2365 | Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis* | 3.00 |
| 6 | 0232 2366 | Linguistics Theories* | 3.00 |
| 7 | 0313 3367 | Human Psychology | 3.00 |
Students will take six (6) courses
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0232 1471 | Shakespeare Studies | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 1472 | Twentieth Century Drama | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 1473 | Fundamentals of English Language Teaching | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 2474 | Stylistics* | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 2475 | Professional Communications* | 3.00 |
| 6 | 0231 2476 | Women, Gender and Literature* | 3.00 |
| 7 | 0312 3477 | Ethics, Values and Good Governance | 3.00 |
Students will take seven (7) courses
| SL | Code | Course Title | Credits |
| 1 | 0232 1481 | Twentieth Century Fiction | 3.00 |
| 2 | 0232 2482 | American Literature* | 3.00 |
| 3 | 0232 2483 | South Asian Literature in English* | 3.00 |
| 4 | 0232 2484 | World Short Stories* | 3.00 |
| 5 | 0232 2485 | Literature and Environment* | 3.00 |
| 6 | 0232 2486 | Teaching Language and Literature* | 3.00 |
| 7 | 0417 3487 | Organizational Behavior | 3.00 |
| 8 | 0031 4488 | Viva Voce | 3.00 |
| 9 | 0031 4489 | Project | 3.00 |
| 1 | Admission Fee | 10,000/- |
| 2 | Fee Per Credits | 1,500/- |
| 3 | Fee Per Semester | 26,438/- |
| 4 | Total Course Fee | 2,11,500/- |
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