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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Literary Theory Class 3- III PSEng

The following note is by Adarsh. Thanks Adarsh.

Names dropped : Saussure, Barthes, Claude Levi-strauss


Concepts dropped : Philology, Diachronic and Synchronic Studies, Language as a sign system; Signifier and Signified (1st Order System)

Points :

1. 'A course in general linguistics' - Ferdinand de Saussure. 1916. Compilation of notes made by his students. The book proved to be the turning point in semiotics.
2. Philology is the study of historical development of language.
3. Diachronic studies study language with history in mind, while Synchronic studies study language at a particular point in time. Saussure was a believer of the Synchronic model.
4. He put forward two propositions :
a. Language is a sign system.
b. Language is arbitrary.
5. A sign is the coming together of the 'signifier' and the 'signified'.
The signifier is word itself while the signifies is the suggestive meaning it creates. This was called the 'First order system'
Barthes Pushed the First order system into the level of visuals, thus making the relation between the signifier and the signified arbitrary.
This led to the loss of sacredness of the language.
Barthes later, in 1954, revised this to say that a it is possible to have a definite meaning which is called a myth. This was thus known as the 'Second order system.'

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Course Plan V sem Optional English - FEP and PSEng

Department of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

V Semester FEP, JPEng, PSEng

Literary Theory and Criticism

Course Plan 2007

Name of the Teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of hours (approx) : 37

Subject : Optional English

Papers : Literary Theory and Criticism, and Indian Literatures in Translation

No

Topic

No of Hours

Dates/Remarks

1

Literature a critique

June 06 – July 12

2

Structuralism

Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan : ‘The Implied Order: Structuralism’

Gerard Genette : ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’

Claude Levi-Strauss: ‘On Structuralist Approach to Levi-Strauss’

6-8

July 14- Aug 2

3

Post-structuralism

Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan : ‘Introductory Deconstruction’

Paul de Man : ‘Semiology and Rhetoric’

J. Hillis Miller : ‘On a Post-structuralist Approach to Wordsworth’s a “Slumber Did my Spirit Seal”’

8-9

Aug 4 - Aug 30

4

Psychoanalysis

William Vesterman : ‘A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Criticism’

Earnest Jones ‘Hamlet and Psychoanalysis’

Geoffrey Hartman : ‘A Psychoanalytic Approach to “A Slumber did my Spirit Seal”’

7-9

Sept 1- Sept 13

5

Introduction to Indian Poetics

12-14

Sept 15 – Sept 25

6

Review/Feedback

Last week of Sept

Methodology

The classes will follow lecture method. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisement and literary works. The lectures will not limit themselves to any particular discipline but rather explore ways of meaning making at the intersection of various disciplines. There will also be scope for student presentations.

Continuous Internal Assessment

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required essays. Failing to which you will not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

Course Plan I Sem Optinal English - I FEP

Dept of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

I Semester FEP

Print Culture and the Rise of the Nation-State

Course Plan

Name of the teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of Hours (approx) : 38

Subject : Optional English

Paper : British literature: Anglo-Saxon to Early Victorian

No

Topic

No of Hours

Dates/Remarks

1

Introduction

2

June

2

Essays

7

June, July

3

Robinson Crusoe

11

July

4

Northanger Abbey

11

Aug

5

Way of the World

07

Sept

11

Review/Feedback

1

Last week of Sept

Teaching Methods

The classes will have lectures and student presentations. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisements, print media and literary works. Lectures will explore the theme of the paper at the intersection of various disciplines. Supplementary reading will be announced from time to time.

CIA II

Will depend on the way discussion will shape up by the first week of July. It will be announced in the beginning of the II week of July.

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required texts. Failing to which you may not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown hard cover book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

Course Plan I Sem Optional English - JPEng

Dept of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

I Semester JPEng

Print Culture and the Rise of the Nation-State

Course Plan

Name of the teacher : Anil Pinto

Total No of Hrs (aprox) : 24

Subject : Optional English

Paper : British Literature: Late Victorian to the Present

No

Authors / Texts

No of Hours

Dates/Remarks

1

Introduction

1

June

2

Chaucer

2

June

3

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

3

June/July

4

Introduction to Drama

1

July

5

Donne, Herbert

2

July

6

Dryden, Pope

2

July

7

Thomas Grey

2

Aug

8

Shakespeare - Macbeth

6

Aug

9

Blake

2

Sept

10

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Keats

2

Sept

11

Review/Feedback

1

Last week of Sept

Teaching Methods

The classes will have lectures and student presentations. The lectures may draw upon visual material namely painting, films, advertisements, print media and literary works. Lectures will explore the theme of the paper at the intersection of various disciplines.

Supplementary reading will be announced from time to time.

CIA III

Will depend on the way discussion will shape up by the last week of July. It will be announced in the beginning of the I week of August.

Guidelines for Submission in case of written assignments:

· The written assignment should be based on your field research. The typed assignment should adhere to the following specifications: A4 size paper, 12 font size, 11/2 line space, font: Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond

· Assignment details - your name, reg. no, class, semester, assignment code, name of the College, name of the teacher in-charge and date of submission- should be mentioned on the top right-hand side of the first page. Do not use a cover page.

· You are free to take the assignment beyond the expected criteria. Such efforts will be appreciated

· Those who are going to be out of town can submit the assignment online

· No late submission is entertained

· Plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in rejection of assignment

· Remember to give reference at the end of your assignment of the books, articles, websites, and films that you have referred to. The following pattern may be followed: Author’s name with the last name first, a period, name of the book italicised, a period, Place of Publication, colon, name of publication, year of publication, page no

o E.g.: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, My Experiments with Truth, New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.

o In case of a website give the complete URL of the site referred to along with the above details

o If you are directly lifting some lines quote them. If you are using some idea write it in your words but acknowledge it

For further information on bibliography writing please refer to MLA Handbook – Sixth Edition.

Note:

Ø Attendance is compulsory for all the sessions.

Ø Please be punctual. If you are late, you will not be allowed to attend the class. However, should there be any serious issue, do discuss with me or bring to my notice through the counsellors.

Ø I expect you to come to class having read the required texts. Failing to which you may not allowed to attend the classes.

Ø Please feel free to clarify your doubts, ask questions or give feedback in the class, department or through email.

Ø While emailing please mention your name, class and batch.

Ø If you are absent for any of the classes please get the help of your classmates to get updated, before you approach me for help.

Ø If you wish to make classroom presentation on any topic or idea within the framework of the syllabus, you will be given encouragement and guidance.

Ø Visit my blog for notices and announcements regularly

Ø I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you do not receive reply within that time, you may assume that I have not received your email.

Ø As far as possible avoid calling me on my mobile phone.

Ø I am available in the department for any meeting or discussion between 8.30 and 9 am only. If you come at other times there is a brown hard cover book on my table in which you could leave me messages.

Ø All the best. Let us grow together.

Anil Pinto

Email: anil.pinto@christcollege.edu, ajpinto42@gmail.com

Blog: http://anilpinto.blogspot.com

Monday, June 23, 2008

ON THE JOB REPORT PATTERN

ON THE JOB REPORT PATTERN

Cover page
Declaration of student
Declaration of guide
Letter from college
Employer’s letter
Acknowledgment
Content
Intro to the course
Objectives of the internship
Choice of work place
Job description: appointment
Duration
Profile of workplace
Organizational structure
Tasks and analyses
Challenges
Retrospection
Appendices

For bibliography, footnotes, follow MLA style

AND THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT….

Title page- centered and bold- times new roman- 14&12
Page numbers for the following in roman numerals (i, ii….) :-
Student declaration
Guide dec
Letter from coll
Employer’s letter
Acknowledgement
CONTENT page- do not number this page.
-
“CONTENTS” write in bold+centered+caps
-
Items-not bold, no caps
Intro to course- start numbering (1,2,3,4,…) from this page
Reason for choice of workplace- keep it short
Profile of workplace
Job description, tasks, analyses
Challenges, retrospection
Page numbers: centered+bottom
Logo of the college in title page-black, uniform in size
Paragraphs to be justified


Note:

  1. I am emailing the initial page format with text for the benefit of all. Will try to mail it to all,. Just in case if you have not received it please contact Preethi who will forward it to you.
  2. some of you have not given your diaries. Neither have you met me at the appointed time nor have you informed me about the absence or reasons for absence. I strongly disapprove this.
  3. those of you have not given the diaries please do it by tomorrow. Lest I may be forced to penalise you in your evaluation.
  4. I am available in the dept for general meeting between 8.30 and 9am. If you wish to leave any message you may either write it in the brown book left one my table or email me.
(I thank Nehal Shah for taking down the instructions meticulously last year and making them available this year)


Friday, June 20, 2008

Literary theory class 2 for PSEng on 20 June

Names dropped: Foucault, Lacan, Hayden White, Claude Levi-strauss and Derrida, Chomski

Concepts dropped: Narratology, power, language in psychoanalysis, binary

Issues:

1. Critique of notions of ‘Students own opinion”

2. Looking at student originality in terms of connections they make between ideas and see problems with the ideas/ works being engaged with when confronted with the local contexts/lived experiences.

3. Problems with existing frameworks of sociology and psychology as disciplines in the Indian academia

4. Our problems while engaging with concepts like nations. Conditioned by narratives

5. Unconscious is organized like Language – Lacan

6. Gap between linguists and psychoanalysis over language (I owe this insight to Prof Da Silva)

7. Do add what I have forgotten.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Course in Existentialism

Dept of Media Studies

organizes

Certificate Course in Philosophy

Existentialism: A Way of Life

Course content

1. Introduction - Existentialism as a 'Movement'
2. Soren Kierkegaard - A Journey through the Stages of Life
3. Martin Heidegger - A Call to Authenticity
4. Jean Paul Sartre - A Response to Challenges of Freedom
5. Gabriel Marcel - A Life of Intersubjectivity
6. Albert Camus - A Philosophy of Absurdity
7. Conclusion - Critical Appraisals

Classes: July first week onwards on Saturday afternoons

Course fee: Rs 1000 for CC students (Other s Rs 1500)

Course coordinator: Anil Pinto, Dept of Media Studies

For further details: Email - anil.pinto at christcollege dot edu

Or

Meet Anil Pinto between 8.30 and 9 am or Padma Kumar between 4 and 4.30 pm in room 107

II JPEng GE Groups for presentation


I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

1

11

21

30

39

48

57

67

77

2

13

22

31

40

49

58

68

78

3

14

23

32

41

50

59

69

79

4

15

24

33

42

51

60

70

80

5

16

25

34

43

52

61

71

81

6

17

26

35

44

53

62

72

7

18

27

36

45

54

64

73

8

19

28

37

46

55

65

75

9

20

29

38

47

56

66

76


  • The roman numbers represent the II semester lessons in Perspectives and the numbers below them are of those of the respective team members.
  • Each group has to present a summary of the lesson and two critical write ups of not less than 1000 words each. The rest of the group can explore the assigned piece through skits, films, musical compositions, songs, sketches, cartoons etc. However, such things should be supported with a write up giving the text and comments on them.
  • Groups can decide on the venue of classes with prior intimation to me
  • The groups have to choose leaders and give their names to Shwetha by Saturday.
  • The students have to present the respective pieces on allotted dates.
  • Evaluation criteria and the dates for presentation will be announced in the next week with mutual consent.

Groups

Leaders

I

Alphin (7D2301)

II

Anjan (7D2302)

III

Shikha (7D2350)

IV

Prakruthi (7D2370)

V

Shwetha (7D2352)

VI

Bhavani (7D2326)

VII

Sunaina (7D2354)

VIII

Sagarika (7D2319)

IX

Parinatha (7D2366)