2-RM Literature

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Course Profile

Course Information:
Title: Advanced Research and Bibliographic Methods Course Code: ?

Credit Hrs.: 3hrs per week Course contact Hours: 48 (16 weeks)

Pre-requisites: None (must be registered for MS English Literature at FURC)

Course site: http://qazis.com & Foundation University CMS

Instructor Information:

Name: Ubaidullah A Qazi Email: ubaid.qazi @fui.edu.pk

Office Location: Room 10, First Floor, Jinnah Block Office Phone: Ext: 217

Course Objectives:

This course is helped at enabling participants to develop an understanding of:

· Selected research techniques and approaches within the literary research paradigms

· Skillset required for using appropriate tools for collecting data

· Ways to analyze and report qualitative and quantitative data

· Ethical issues at all stages of the research process.

Lecture Breakdown

	Reading A	Additional Reading or Task / Activity
Week 1	Introduction to the Course: What is research? Visit to Library - Encyclopaedias, References, Journals Catalogue search
Week 2	‘Tools and techniques of literary research: Online and Printed Sources Sousa Correa. The Handbook to Literary Research Chapter 2 (Page 7-36)
Week 3	What is English & What is Literature? WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 1 (Page 5-22)	Anthology – (Page 3-18)
Week 4	Foundation Skills – From opening to Critical Analysis WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 2 (Page 27-56)	cont.
Week 5	Library Research and Scholarly Method WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 3 (Page 57-84)	MLA Formatting and Style (General)
Week 6	Writing in English Studies WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 4 (Page 85-112)	MLA Text Citations
Week 7	Major Genres 1 – Drama WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 5 (Page 117-152))	MLA Works cited
Week 8	Major Genres 2 - Prose Fiction WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 6 (Page 154-174)	MLA Works cited (cont.)
Week 9	Mid Term
Week 10	Major Genres 3 – Poetry WHITLA, The English Handbook Chapter 7 (Page 175-201)	MLA Formatting Quotations
Week 11	Language and Literary Studies WHITLA, The English Handbook	MLA Footnotes & Endnotes
Week 12	Institutional Histories of Literary Disciplines Sousa Correa. The Handbook to Literary Research
Week 13	The Place of theory in Literary Criticism Sousa Correa. The Handbook to Literary Research
Week 14	Literary Research and Interdisciplinarity Sousa Correa. The Handbook to Literary Research
Week 15	Recent Critical Practice WHITLA, The English Handbook
Week 16	The Politics of Reading Gender, Class and Ethnicity WHITLA, The English Handbook
Week 17	Planning, Writing and Presenting a dissertation or thesis Sousa Correa. The Handbook to Literary Research
Week 18	Final term

Disclaimer: Course content is under revision, and may change without prior notice.

Note: This outline has been created as a resource for course participants, but the faculty reserves the right to make changes and modifications, if deemed necessary.

Grading Model:

Mid-Term – 30 Marks
Final Term – 50 Marks
Sessional – 20 Marks

Quiz x 2 Assignment x 1 (Details of Assignment will be communicated in class)
Presentations

Textbooks:

Whitla, William. The English handbook. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print.
(photocopies of respective chapters will be made available every week.)
Sousa Correa, Delia Da and W. R Owens. The handbook to literary research. London: Routledge [in association with] the Open University, 2010. Print.
(Available in PDF and in FU Library)
Grix, Jonathan. The foundations of research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.
(Available in FU Library)
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.
(Available in FU Library, older version also available in PDF)
Kennedy, X. J and Dana Gioia. Literature. New York, NY: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995. Print.
(Available in FU Library)
Altick, Richard D. The art of literary research. New York: Norton, 1993. Print.
Childs, Peter and Roger Fowler. The Routledge dictionary of literary terms. London: Routledge, 2006. Print.
(Available in PDF and in FU Library)