[Notes] Pre-requisites & Basic Concepts

Module outline

1. Paper - 1 | Unit - 1 | Teaching Aptitude: Nature, Objectives & Characteristics of Teaching, Learners & Learning Process, Factors Affecting Teaching, Methods of Teaching, Teaching-Learning Aids & ICT Integration, Evaluation, Assessment & Measurement
2. Paper - 1 | Unit - 2 | Research Aptitude: Introduction to Research, Validity & Reliability, Research Paradigms & Types of Research, Research Process Steps, Research Ethics, Writing & Publication
3. Paper - 1 | Unit - 3 | Comprehension: Comprehension / Reading Comprehension / Unseen Passages (Critical Reasoning) (Paragraph Questions)
4. Paper - 1 | Unit - 4 | Communication: Communication Basics, Language and Semiotics, Types of Communication, Communication Models, Mass Communication, Mass Media, Journalism, General Knowledge and General Studies related to Communication
5. Paper - 1 | Unit - 5 | Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude: Series (Number and Letter Series) (Numerical Relations and Reasoning), Coding Decoding, Number System, Percentage, Ratio and Proportion (Ratios), Simple Interest and Compound Interest, Speed Time and Distance, Powers and Exponents (Surds and Indices), Profit and Loss, Average, Blood Relations, Directions (Direction Test), Analytical Reasoning (Counting Figures Reasoning), Verbal Analogy (Word Based Analogy), Divisibility Rules, Calendar, Miscellaneous, Time and Work
6. Paper - 1 | Unit - 6 | Logical Reasoning: Syllogisms, Non Verbal Reasoning (Spatial Aptitude) (Spatial Reasoning) (Visual Reasoning), Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Logical Deduction and Induction) (Prepositional Reasoning), Venn Diagram, School Of Thoughts, Fallacy, Western Logic
7. Paper - 1 | Unit - 7 | Data Interpretation: Data Interpretation
8. Paper - 1 | Unit - 8 | Information and Communication Technology: MS Office Applications, Cyber Threats and Malware Attacks, Role of Internet and Web Services, Electronic Data Interchange and E-Commerce, Internet Fundamentals, Web Design & Development, Web Publishing & Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Terms & Abbreviations, Artificial Intelligence, Society, Law & Ethics, Keyboard Shortcuts, Website, Browser & Services
9. Paper - 1 | Unit - 9 | People Development and Environment: Ecosystem, Biomes & Environmental Issues, MDG & SDG, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Soil, Noise Pollution and Waste Management, Natural Resources, Energy & Disaster Management, Global Environmental Conventions – COP, Protocols & ISA
10. Paper - 1 | Unit - 10 | Higher Education System: Vedic Education, Jainism & Buddhism, Ancient Universities, Pre-Independence Commissions, Post-Independence Policy, Higher Education Structure & Accreditation, Universities & Learning Programmes, Types of Education & NEP 2020
11. Live Classes: NTA UGC NET 2025 Live Class
12. Paper 2 | Unit 1 | Drama: Classical and Medieval Drama, Dramatic forms and conventions; comprehension passages, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, Nineteenth-Century and Modern British Drama, American Drama, Indian English Drama, Postcolonial and World Drama, Classical Greek, Roman and Sanskrit Drama, Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Medieval and Early Tudor Drama, Orientalism and Translation in Colonial India, Modern European Drama, Dramatic Forms and Theatre Theory, Roman, Late Classical and Medieval Criticism, Plato and Aristotle, Post-war British and Irish Drama, Formalism and New Criticism, Late Victorian and Early Modern British and Irish Drama, Theatre History and Institutions, William Shakespeare, Postcolonial and Commonwealth Fiction, Poetic Forms, Devices and Prosody, Renaissance Poetry, Postcolonial Drama, Syntax and Generative Grammar, Foundations of Literary Criticism, Modern British and Irish Poetry, Indian Drama, Sociolinguistics and Language Variation, Indian English Poetry, The Novel: Origins, Theory and Forms
13. Paper 2 | Unit 2 | Poetry: Old and Middle English Poetry, Poetic forms and conventions; comprehension passages, Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Victorian and Modern British Poetry, American Poetry, Indian English, Postcolonial and World Poetry
14. Paper 2 | Unit 3 | Fiction, short story: Early Prose Fiction and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Narrative forms and conventions; comprehension passages, Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Modern British Fiction, Mid-Twentieth-Century and Contemporary British Fiction, American Fiction and Short Stories, Indian English Fiction and Short Stories, Postcolonial and World Fiction, American Fiction, The Short Story, European and Latin American Fiction, Forms of Non-Fictional Prose, Enlightenment Philosophical and Political Prose, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Prose and Social Criticism, Ecocriticism, Postcolonial and World Poetry, Reader-Response, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
15. Paper 2 | Unit 4 | Non-Fictional Prose: Prose forms and conventions; comprehension passages, Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Prose, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Prose, Romantic and Victorian Prose, Modern British Prose, American Non-Fictional Prose, Indian Non-Fictional Prose, Postcolonial and World Prose
16. Paper 2 | Unit 5 | Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in Use.: Basic concepts of language, Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics and English in Use, Language acquisition and learning theories, Language pedagogy: approaches and methods, Teaching Skills, Materials and Assessment, Nature and Functions of Language, Structural Linguistics and Semiotics, T. S. Eliot and Modern Criticism, Neoclassical Criticism
17. Paper 2 | Unit 6 | English in India: history, evolution and futures: Colonial history of English in India, English, nationalism and post-independence language policy, Evolution of Indian English, English and Indian literary cultures, English education and multilingual India, Futures of English in India, The Anglicist Turn: Rammohan Roy to Macaulay, English, Power and Language Politics, Company Rule, Missionaries and Early Institutions, Print Culture and the Press, Wood's Despatch and the Colonial University, Language Policy in Independent India, Historical Linguistics and the History of English, Indian English and Its Futures, Early English Prose and the English Bible, Morphology and Word Formation, Language Contact and Varieties of English, Beginnings of Indian Writing in English, Histories and Criticism of Indian English Literature, Indian Fiction in English to the 1960s, Translation and Indian Literary Cultures, Contemporary Indian Fiction and Fiction in Translation, Fiction Survey, Prizes and Adaptations, Language Teaching Methods
18. Paper 2 | Unit 7 | Cultural Studies: Basic concepts of culture, Origins and development of Cultural Studies, Ideology, power and hegemony, Identity and representation, Popular culture, media and consumption, Postcolonial and global cultural contexts, Foundations of Cultural Studies, Popular Culture and Subcultures, The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, Consumer Culture, Everyday Life and Space, Genre Fiction, Postmodernism, Bakhtin and Dialogism, Feminist Literary Criticism, Posthumanism and New Materialism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Media, Film and Visual Culture, The Culture and Civilisation Tradition, Cambridge Criticism, British Cultural Studies and the Birmingham School, Language Acquisition and Learning, Marxism, Ideology and Hegemony, Theory Across Schools, Michel Foucault: Discourse and Power, Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Taste, Identity, Difference and Representation, Gender and Queer Theory, Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Criticism, Nation, Diaspora and Globalisation
19. Paper 2 | Unit 8 | Literary Criticism: Greek Classical Criticism, Roman and Late Classical Criticism, Indian Poetics, Renaissance and Neoclassical Criticism, Romantic Criticism, Victorian Criticism, Modern Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism and New Criticism
20. Paper 2 | Unit 9 | Literary Theory post World War II: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction, Structuralism and Narratology, Marxist Theory, Cultural Materialism and New Historicism, Psychoanalytic Theory, Feminist, Gender and Queer Theory, Reader-Response and Reception Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Ecocriticism, Posthumanism and Trauma Theory
21. Paper 2 | Unit 10 | Research Methods and Materials in English: Foundations of Research, Research design and planning, Research materials and sources, Textual and bibliographical research, Methods of analysis and data collection, Documentation and scholarly writing, Research ethics and publication