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Studies in the New Englishes

This course explores the processes of the spread of English around the world in contemporary times as well as its different functions and forms. The course introduces students

to contemporary varieties of English in both native and non-native contexts. It also encourages students to examine the impact that non-native varieties of English have

on the development of English. Students will also be exposed to the attitudes of native and non-native speakers towards the power and domination of English today.

Areas to be considered include nativization, acculturation, language and power, language and identity, language and culture, and the linguistic description of Englishes,

especially Ghanaian English.

Course Code: 
ENG 903
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Language and Ideology

This course explores the system of ideas that pertains to social and linguistic relations. Ideology, as a systemic body of ideas in a society, is embodied in

the sociolinguistic structure of any given society. Thus, this course links language and ideology in order to explore the connections between discourse and

society as well as issues related to language and development of ideologies in society. Areas studied will include issues related to power and solidarity, language

and socio-political issues, and influence of ideology on daily texts and talk. Students are also taken through processes of analysing systemic ideological discourse

(e.g. institutional discourse) in order to recognise implied meanings and competing social values present in such discourses.

Course Code: 
ENG 910
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Advanced Stylistics

The course seeks to discuss earlier and current linguistically motivated stylistic theories, with particular emphasis on the theoretical and methodological

problems in the application of linguistics to stylistic analysis of literary texts.   Two aspects of stylistics, Stylostatistics (study of statistical structure of literary texts),

and Phonostylistics (study of the expressive or aesthetic functions of sounds) will be the main areas of study.

Course Code: 
ENG 908
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Topics in Modern English Grammar and Usage

This course is designed for students who intend to specialise in the study of English grammar. It deals in detail with selected topics such as the NP, complementation

of  verbs and adjectives in modern English, adverbial usage, pro-forms, theme and rhyme, sentence types and discourse functions, and the semantic and syntactic

functions of coordination and subordination. The analytical framework to be used will be the one adopted by the Quirk grammars and studies based on the

International Corpus of English (ICE). 

Course Code: 
ENG 906
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Topics in English Phonology

The course equips students with knowledge about the major theories of phonology, including classical phonemics, prosodic phonology and generative phonology,

and then focuses on the segmental and non-segmental features of modern English.  There will also be a practical phonetics component involving the use of a language laboratory.

Course Code: 
ENG 904
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Corpus Linguistics

This course offers students the opportunity to study the development, construction and use of various corpora in the study of language. It stresses the core values of a corpus-based

analysis as a viable alternative to the competent-based approach of the transformation-generative school. Students will gain practical experience working with the International Corpus of English (ICE)

Course Code: 
ENG 902
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Research Methods in English

The course exposes candidates to a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods commonly used in language and literary research. Issues covered include research design, developing

appropriate data collection instruments, survey and field techniques, sampling methods, content analysis, statistical analysis, discussion and interpretation of findings, and reporting research.

Course Code: 
ENG 901
No. of Credits: 
4
Level: 
Level 900
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Feminist Theory

This course will assume a posture of enquiry not assertion. There will be a definitely exploratory attitude to this course because evidence is strong that feminist literary theory looks for its home on borderlines: it has better things to do than patrol boundaries. Thus, there will be some suggestions of the inter-disciplinary in the course.

The course will review a series of topics that seem to situate and define a good deal of women’s writing on:

  1. Discourse-as-power and the politics of women’s writing;

  2. Gender and race;

  3. Cultural deformations of women into fetish, object, other;

  4. Literary canonization that marginalize and silence women.

Course Code: 
ENG 821
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

Studies in Literature and Society

These two contemporary writers (Ayi Kwei Armah and NgugiWaThiongo) differ mainly in the sources of their influences. Yet, in spite of Ayi Kwei Armah’s absorption

in the ideas of Frantz Fanon, and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s alignment with a folksy kind of Marxism, both writers explore the actual, spiritual and moral terrain of African

life and history. Both express a concern for African wholeness; both are disturbed by a history of European exploitation in Africa; both have attacked the notion

that economic relationships among people can be meaningfully studied from emotional and moral concerns; and yet both writers seem convinced that humans

cannot produce good work unless they are themselves good. This course will study the complete up-to-date writing of these two writers with a view to assessing

the value of their contribution to modern African thought.

Course Code: 
ENG 811
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English
Literature-in-English)

Literary Perspectives on Autobiography

This course is designed to exercise and extend critical skills and to provide some practice in research. The main focus will be on autobiography, since

this relatively ignored literary form: questions of self–representation in literature, the transformation of reality via imagination, the relationship between literature

and history, and nature of literary or poetic art.

Course Code: 
ENG 809
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
English

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