ENG 011: INTERMEDIATE LISTENING       [4 Credit hrs]

The sounds of English: words in isolation and connected speech; understanding casual speech and careful speech; structure of speech as aid to listening; anticipating what the speaker is going to say; listening to one speaker.

ENG 012: INTERMEDIATE SPEAKING             [4 Credit hrs]

Sounds of English in isolation and connected speech; pronunciation, plural forms, past forms, possessive forms, phrases, sentences; statements and questions, highlighting parts of the sentence, conversations and discussions; turn taking, signalling readiness to begin, ending; checking understanding; holding the floor; use of pauses and fillers: asking for repetition.

ENG 013: INTERMEDIATE READING               [4 Credit hrs]

Reading aloud and silent reading, reading for enjoyment; short stories and extracts; reading for information: the newspaper; use of the dictionary in reading.
ENG O14:

INTERMEDIATE WRITING             [ 4 Credit hrs]

The sentence and its parts, simple, coordinate and complex sentences, agreement within sentences; joining sentences, pronouns, using words with similar meanings to avoid repetition; writing simple stories; the past tense and time adverbs; describing what has happened: adverbs of manner; the paragraph; the personal letter; sentence types: subordination and questions; use of words in writing; formal and informal vocabulary, technical and common words; describing places and people: adjectives, adverbs of place.

ENG 021: ADVANCED LISTENING                 [4 Credit hrs]

Discussion by more than two speakers, signals of agreement and disagreement; listening to public speech: facts, opinions, evaluating what you hear, listening to highlights, telephone conversation, the lecture, the radio and television news.  

ENG 022: ADVANCED SPEAKING              [4 Credit hrs]

Polite forms of speech; highlighting parts of what you are saying.  Formal and informal speech; deliberate and rapid speech; building argument; refuting argument, public speech: persuasion, information, anecdotes, jokes, quoting and referring to sources of information, structuring speech.

ENG 023: ADVANCED READING                     [4 Credit hrs]

Reading for enjoyment, the novel; reading for information: skimming and scanning; reading textbooks and scientific reports, using contextual information to guess the meaning of new words and expressions.  The rudiments of analysis; connotative and denotative meaning of words.

ENG 024: ADVANCED WRITING                      [ 4 Credit hrs]

Types of paragraph; joining paragraphs; interactive writing; the business letter; writing paragraphs: topic sentences and supporting sentences; from paragraph to essay. Expository writing on selected topics; argumentative writing on selected topics; editing: spelling, vocabulary, grammar, cohesion and coherence.

Bachelors Degree programme

Criteria for students intake to the programme
In addition to the general University requirements, an applicant to the programme should have a pass not lower than grade D in Literature in English and at least grade D in Core English at the SSSCE.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

ENG 101: THE USE OF ENGLISH                         (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course aims to develop both oral and writing skills of students.  It reinforces and further develops skills in comprehension, summary and paraphrasing using texts from a variety of sources, and introduces the student to the basic theory of the production of English sounds.

ENG 111: PRINCIPLES OF PROSE FICTION        (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

This introductory course involves the definition and recognition of the tools for appreciating texts. The focus here is on prose fiction, and the elements to be examined include character and characterization, story and plot, the tropes, setting etc. close analysis of selected literary works as the basis of effective critical writing will be regularly undertaken by students.

ENG 201: THE SENTENCE AND ITS PARTS     (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course deals with an in-depth  study of the sentence and its parts. Issues to be considered include word classes, the phrase and clause structure. Students will be encouraged to identify and use these structures in their composition.

ENG 211: THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA                 (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course focuses on peculiar features of drama, including dialogue, action, multi-medial element, types of drama etc. as well, the course will examine those features that the dramatic text shares with other genres of literature, via, character and characterization, plot, setting, theme etc.

ENG 202: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ENGLISH CLAUSE  (CORE )                                  [3 Credit hrs]
This course is a continuation of eng. 201. It deals with the forms and functions of clausal types with emphasis on co-ordination and subordination, and their stylistic effects on composition.

ENG 212: THE TECHNIQUE OF POETRY                       (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

The focus in this course is the nature of poetry. It will discuss the various characteristics of poetry, including form, structure and function, the tropes, types of poetry etc. Other elements to be discussed include the imagination, beauty, emotion and perception.

ENG301: INTRODUCTION TO MEANING [3 Credits hrs]

The course examines some of the areas covered by linguists in their attempts to understand the meaning of ‘’meaning’’ The relevance of semantics to language use will be highlighted. Also to be covered are the following topics: definition of semantics; introduction to semantic theory of English with reference to sense and reference in their synchronic aspects.

ENG 303: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY     (CORE)  [3 Credits hrs]

This is a continuation of the oral aspect of Level 100 and provides an exposure to some aspects of phonetic and phonological theory with emphasis on the identification and use of English sounds in discoursal contexts.  As far as possible contrasts and similarities with the sounds of some Ghanaian languages will be established.

ENG 305: BUSINESS ENGLISH 1 (For Students Offering Bachelor Of Management Studies)  (ELECTIVE)    [3 Credits hrs]

The course is designed to provide enough practice materials in writing skills.  We will look at how language is used in text to perform a variety of functions, which secretaries routinely perform.  Our focus will be on sentence construction; structure and style of the relevant texts will be studied.  Students will use the structures and styles they identify in constructing their own texts - summary, précis, synopsis, business letter, other  types of writing.

ENG 311: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN WRITING(CORE)          [3 Credits hrs]
The course involves a critical examination of the themes and styles in modern African writing. It provides an overview of modern African literature in English highlighting trends and developments with the works of specific writers  used for the purpose of illustration.

ENG 313: STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE (CORE)          [3 Credit hrs]

The course is designed to expose students to a selection of the works of Shakespeare. Emphasis will be on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, themes, characterization and language, as well as his contribution to poetry.

IN BRITISH LITERATURE        (ELECTIVE)            [3 Credit hrs]

This course will be based on the sweep of British writers from Beowulf to Eliot. It will also deal with major trends in literature form the British Isles. It explores the influential poetry and prose written in the British Isles, beginning with Beowulf and continuing up through Eliot’s “The Wasteland”. Topics considered include the growth of the novel from Fielding through Woolf, the progression of British poetry from Chaucer to Yeats, and the effects of major cultural shifts – the Reformation, Oliver Cromwell, industrialisation, the First World War, the loss of empire-upon the literature of the island.

ENG 399: RESEARCH METHODS                        (ELECTIVE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course introduces students to the basic tenets and practices of conducting research in the humanities and will focus on both library and field research.  By the end of the course it is expected that students would be equipped with the necessary skills to formulate a topic, collect the required data and provide an analysis of the findings. The areas of concentration are specified in the course outline. Students are expected to be pro-active and be willing to go into the field and collect data. For this reason we shall spend half our allotted time in the classroom and the other in the field. Due to the weight of the work required of students, this course may not be examined at the end of the semester. Rather, extensive assignments would be used to determine both the continuous assessments and the final grades.

ENG 302: ASPECTS OF THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH   (ELECTIVE)                                  [3 Credit hrs]
This course builds on the clause as an organic part of the sentence, sentence types and the use of sentences in text.

ENG 304: ENGLISH IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS            (ELECTIVE)        [3 Credit hrs]

The course looks at the different forms and functions of English in communities that have other languages genetically unrelated to English as first language.  Topics to be treated include the growth of English as a world language, the emergence of new English as a world language, the emergence of new Englishes, perceptions of non-native varieties of English, the relationship between English and indigenous language, and samples of Ghanaian English.

ENG 306: BUSINESS ENGLISH II (For Students Offering Bachelor Of Management Studies)          [3 credit hrs]
This course continues the work started in Business English I (Eng. 305).  As an intermediate course, it emphasizes comprehension and interpretation of written communication, structural and stylistic variations required in major routine secretarial functions such as summarizing, writing formal letters of various kinds, writing memoranda, routine and special reports.

ENG 312: ASPECTS OF POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE  (ELECTIVE)                        [3 Credit hrs]
The course studies the development of post-colonial literature in English from areas other than Africa.  These areas include Canada, the Caribbean, India and Australia.  The course will examine ways in which these former colonies  give literary expressions to their relatively common past experience.

ENG314: GENDER AND WRITING        (ELECTIVE)  [3 Credit hrs]

This is a course that seeks to determine some of the concerns of a selection of representative African women writers.  It will examine literary writers from West, Southern and North Africa, with the intention of determining the forms by which these writers deploy the issues of major focus.  The two central subjects that will engage our attention will include class and gender, with emphasis on the power relations that underpin them. We hope to establish the literary ways by which these subjects are fictionalised in the writing of the selected writers.

ENG 316: CANONICAL AMERICAN LITERATURE (ELECTIVE)                                                      [3 Credit hrs]
Literature produced in what is now the United States began to take on a unique character even while the region was still a British colony. This course will look at a few of the important colonial writers – Williams Bradstreet, Wheatly – follow the growth of American literature from independence in 1776 through the writing produced in the turbulence of the Civil Rights era. Attention will be given to well known American writers such as Dickinson, Witman, Melville, Twain, and Ellison. The course will also look at the American vernacular, the effects of Slavery, and the role of the individual on the formation of American literature.

ENG 401: STRUCTURE AND STYLE       (ELECTIVE) [3 Credit hrs]

The course introduces the student to the following issues: modality and information structure, including the various kinds of cohesion; theme/rhyme distribution.

ENG 403: THEORIES OF GRAMMAR     (ELECTIVE)   [3 Credit hrs]

The course is concerned with the theory and practice of grammatical descriptions. It will examine traditions of grammar including Traditional Grammar, Structuralist Grammar and Transformational Grammar.

ENG 405: LITERARY STYLISTICS                        (ELECTIVE)  [3 Credit hrs]

The course will critically examine the difference between communal language and the language of literary discourse.  It will also help focus students’ attention on the linguistic organization of selected literary texts and, most importantly, examine the literary significance of any particular linguistic organization.

ENG 411: AFRICAN LITERATURES   (ELECTIVE)[3 Credit hrs)
This course is designed to introduce students to the works of writers who have made significant contribution to the development of creative writing in Africa. Attention would be focused on the following:  a critical examination of the thematic and stylistic concerns of selected writers from various parts of the continent and the relationship between oral and written African Literatures.

ENG 413: MAJOR EUROPEAN WRITERS (ELECTIVE)       [3 Credit hrs]

This course explores the influential prose written in Europe, exclusive of the British Isles. Beginning with the growth of the novel in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the course will proceed through the rise of Romanticism to the tensions surrounding the two European Wars (1914-1917, 1939 – 1945), culminating in the literature in the Europe divided by the politics of the Cold war. All works will be read in translation.

ENG 415: LITERATURE OF GHANA       (ELECTIVE)  [3 Credit hrs]

This Survey course on literature from Ghana explores aspects of the discipline from its earliest manifestations to the more recent publications.  It looks at types, themes and trends in Ghanaian literature.  The course will begin with a broad overview of verbal and non-written literary expressions in order to provide a framework for discussion and appreciation.  It will proceed to critically evaluate written and imaginative literary works by selected writers from Ghana, in the light of their oral and historical origins as well as their literary antecedents.

ENG 417: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE  (ELECTIVE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course will be concerned with the thematic issues and literary techniques in the works of major African American writers including Zora N.Hurston, Langston Haughes, Ralph Ellison, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Frederck Douglass, Sterling Brown, James Braithwaite, Earnest J. Gaines and Toni Morison.

ENG 419: CARIBBEAN–AFRICAN–AMERICAN LITERATURE         (ELECTIVE)               [3 Credit hrs]

This course aims to provide the student with a survey of Caribbean literature in English alongside the literature written by United States writers of African/American decent.  We examine literary history, touch briefly on criticism, and closely study representative poems, novels and plays.  The concept of a Pan-African literature in English is also introduced.

ENG 402: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH         (ELECTIVE) [3 Credit hrs]

This course is intended to help students to distinguish varieties of English by analysing the linguistic patterning of texts.  It is also expected to improve students’ own writing in different situation.  Hence the course will be very practical with exercises in analysing and writing business letters, reports, minutes, speeches, etc.

ENG 404: HISTORY OF ENGLISH               (ELECTIVE)    [3 Credit hrs]

The course seeks to highlight the major landmarks in the history of the English language that have made English the most outstanding international language.

ENG 406: ERROR AND CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS   (ELECTIVE)                                                   [3 Credit hrs]
The course attempts to expose students to the scientific study of recurrent errors made by second language learners of English.  Special emphasis will be given the nature of the similarities and differences between English and L1X systems. The pedagogical significance of error and contrastive analysis will be examined in detail.

ENG 412: ORAL LITERATURE IN AFRICA (ELECTIVE) [3 Credit hrs]

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the topography of oral literature (a. k. a orature) in Africa. Some of the theoretical and genre related problems in the area will be considered with a view to classifying the essentially literary nature of our subject.

ENG 414: LITERARY CRITICISM             (ELECTIVE)  [3 Credit hrs]

In a sweeping movement from the Greek classification to contemporary African literature this course explores the theoretical, philosophical, historical and ideological foundations of literary criticism and practice. It considers such received principles as the immanent history of literature, the nature of art, concepts of beauty in art, and the creative process in literature. It is an aim of the course to lead students to reflect on the practice of art and criticism by considering a selection of canonical texts from Aristotle and Achebe to Tolstoy and Woolf.

ENG 416: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT IN DRAMA (ELECTIVE)          [3 Credit hrs]

This course discusses the development of Dramatic theory from the period of the Ancient Greeks to the present. It aims to acquaint students with the changing theoretical bases of the genre from Greek tragedy to later dramatic forms like the theatre of the absurd, the various types of comedy, modern tragedy etc. Representative texts will be used for illustration.

ENG 418: STRUCTURE AND THEME IN PROSE FICTION   (ELECTIVE)      [3 Credit hrs]
The course will focus attention on structure and theme in prose fiction and on  particular contributions by selected Western Writers to the twentieth century novel. The objective is to place the achievements of these writers within the broad spectrum of Modern Prose Fiction.

ENG 420:THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS IN POETRY  (ELECTIVE)                                                    [3 Credit hrs]
This course examines poetry from the period of the Romantics to the present. The focus will be on the changing trends in thematic and stylistic concerns over the period.

ENG 499: LONG ESSAY                 (CORE) [3 Credit hrs]

Core Courses in Language

The courses must be taken by all language option candidates.