Syllabus
Course:
Week 1: Sat. 14 Shawal/ 1 Sep= Registeration
Week 2: Sat 21 Shawal/ 8 Sep= Introduction
Week 3: Sat 28 Shawal/ 15 Sep= What is Poetry?: "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Week 4: Sat 6 Dhul-Qui'da/ Sat 22 Sep= "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randell
Week 5: Sat 13 Dhul-Qui'da/ Sat 29 Sep= Imagery: "Winter" and "Spring" by William Shakespeare
Week 6: Sat 20 Dhul-Qui'da/ Sat 6 Oct= Reading the poem: "A Study of Reading Habits" by Philip Larkin.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
Week 7: Sat 27 Dhul-Qui'da/ Sat 13 Oct= Denotation and Connotation: "There is no Frigate Like a Book" by
Emily Dickenson. "Cross" by Langston Hughes
Eid Al- Adha Break
Week 8: Sat 18 Dhul-Hija/ Sat 3 Nov= "When my Love Swears that she is Made of Truth" by William SHakespeare. Figurative Language: "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath
Week 9: Sat 25 Dhul-Hija/ Sat 10 Nov= First Midterm
Week 10: Sat 3 Muharram/ Sat 17 Nov= Imagery: Meeting at Night" and "Parting at Morning" by Robert Browning
Week 11: Sat 10 Muharram/ SAt 24 Nov= Symbolim: "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost
"The Sick Rose" by William Blake
Week 12: Sat 17 Muharram/ Sat 1 Dec= Second Midterm
Week 13: Sat 24 Muharram/ Sat 8 Dec= Students' Presentations
Week 14: Sat 2 Safar/ Sat 15 Dec= Student's Presentations + Revision
Week 15: Sat 9 Safar/ Sat 22 Dec= Oral and Make up Exams
Week 16: Sat 16 Safar/ Sat 29 Dec= General Exams
Week 17: Sat 23 Safar/ Sat 5 Jan= Final Exams