Subject Code: HS1L002 Subject Name: Learning English L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4
Pre-requisite(s): None
The Learning English Course is designed to improve the English Listening, Speaking, Reading and Speaking skills of students.
I. Prose
A selection of fictional and non-fictional prose pieces spanning from 17th century to the Post-Modern Period.  Fiction and non-fictional pieces from English, American, Russian and Indian Literature are chosen to introduce the students to different writings from different ages and countries. The list is an inclusive one consisting of short stories, essays, excerpts, extracts from novels, biographies and memoirs, history, travel and other forms.
17th century- 18th century- Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Bunyan,  Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, R.L, Stevenson, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charles Lamb, F.M. Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Daniel Dafoe, Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll.
19th century- 20th century- Oscar Wilde, O Henry, H.H. Munro, Mark Twain, Somerset Maughaum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Gerald Durrell, Will Durant, E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Henry David Thoreau, Anton Chekov, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, J. Nehru, Virginia Woolf, Guy De Maupassant, Washington Irving, Margaret Fuller, Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe.
20th century- Present- J.M. Coetzee, R.K. Narayan, R.K. Laxman, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Yann Martel, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Thomas King, Richard Wright, N Scott Momaday, Chetan Bhagat, J. Krishnamurthy, Virginia Woolf, Gerald Vizenor, Alice Walker, Chinua Achebe, Jeffrey Archer, Issac Asimov, Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkien, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Oran Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Bertrand Russell, Ruskin Bond, A.G. Gardiner, John Steinbeck.
II. Writing- Paragraph, Essay, Précis, Dictation, Comprehension, Letter Writing
III. English Tutorial- Practice Listening and Speaking English
IV. English Practice- Grammar Assignments and Workbook (Everyday English Level I/II)

Text/Reference Books:
  1.  John Seely, The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking, OUP
  2. Krishna Mohan and Meenakshi Raman, Effective English Communication,  TMH
  3. R.W.Lesikar and John.D. Pettit, Business Communication: Theory and Application,  All India Traveller Bookseller
  4. Francis Soundaraj, Speaking and Writing for Effective Business Communication, Macmillan.
  5. Herta A. Murphy, et al., Effective Business Communication, Tata Mc-Graw Hill: New Delhi
  6. Ronald B. Adler and George Rodman,  Understanding Human Communication, Oxford University Press:  New York