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Expanding Horizons in English

Course No.: 422
Full Marks: 100
Level: B.Ed. Second Year
Pass Marks: 35
Nature: Theory
Total Periods: 150 (6 per week)

1. Course Description

This course is designed to enhance students’ horizons of knowledge through the reading of interdisciplinary texts in English. It includes authentic English writings intended to broaden worldviews and present glimpses of different socio-cultural realities. The curriculum is divided into twelve units covering fields such as humanities, human rights, globalization, science, and literature.

2. General Objectives

  • Expose students to socio-cultural realities through English writings.
  • Familiarize students with issues of human rights, freedom, and globalization.
  • Enhance language proficiency and vocabulary repertoire.
  • Encourage the study of masterpieces in poetry and short stories.
  • Develop interpretative and analytical faculty regarding science and technology texts.

3. Specific Objectives and Contents

Unit & Weight Contents / Readings
Unit I: Humanities (16%) Myths, The Bhagavadgita, The Necessity of Religion, Themes of Existentialism, My Early Life.
Unit II: Society and Culture (9%) Cultural Pluralism, New Social Movements, Who is Ethnic, Sherpas on Mt. Everest, Numafung.
Unit III: Human Rights (8%) Humanism, Anatomy of Fascism, Chernobyl Disaster, Women Rights are Human Rights.
Unit IV: Education & ELT (10%) Alternative Schooling, ESL in Africa and Asia, Ideology in the Classroom, Sources of English Vocabulary.
Unit V: Globalisation (6%) What is Postmodernism?, The Postmodern Mind, Deaths of Nepali migrants overseas.
Unit VI: Writers at Work (5%) Interviews with Robert Frost, Mo Yan, and Orhan Pamuk.
Unit VII: Peace (5%) Om, Peace Education, Strike Against War, On Love.
Unit VIII: Travel (5%) Into Thin Air, Death Valley, Kenya on Horseback, Three Months in Austria.
Unit IX: Music and Art (8%) Leonardo da Vinci, Destitute but Free, Ambar Gurung Odyssey, Indian Classical Music.
Unit X: Poetry & Fiction (20%) The boy who lived, Hope and comfort, Why is Rumi best-selling?, Gitanjali, Scars, Rain.
Unit XI: Science & Tech (5%) Our Picture of the Universe, Computer: The Next Stage, Nanotechnology.
Unit XII: Nature (3%) Ecological Imperialism, Earth's Green Mantle.

4. Evaluation Scheme

A written examination of 100 marks will be conducted with the following structure:

Question Type Count Marks
Group A: Multiple Choice 20 Questions 20 x 1 = 20
Group B: Short Answer 8 Questions 8 x 7 = 56
Group C: Long Answer 2 Questions 2 x 12 = 24

5. Recommended Books

  • Prescribed: Awasthi, J. R., et al. (Eds.) (2016). Reading for the New Horizons. Kathmandu.
  • Reference: Morley, D. (2007). The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Cambridge: CUP.
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