The course introduces students to the sound system of English. It considers listening to words in isolation and in connected speech. Emphasis will also be given to the comprehension of casual speech and careful speech and the structure of speech as aid to listening. Students will practice listening to individual speakers.

This course focuses on reading aloud, silent reading, reading for information, and reading for enjoyment. Readings will be drawn from short stories and extracts from the newspaper and magazines. Students will be guided to use the dictionary in reading.

This course is a follow-up on ENG 011 and it focuses on listening to speech in real and simulated situations. Areas to be covered include discussion by more than two speakers, signals of agreement and disagreement; listening to public speech; evaluating speech, listening to highlights, telephone conversation, lectures, and radio and television news.

The course is a follow-up on ENG 013 and it consolidates and advances students reading skills. Students will be guided to read for enjoyment and reading for information. Students will also be introduced to different reading skills such as skimming and scanning; and using contextual information to guess the meaning of new words and expressions. They will also be guided to study the connotative and denotative meaning of words. Texts for reading will include novels, textbooks and scientific reports.

This course builds on the clause as an organic part of the sentence, sentence types and the use of sentences in text are highlighted with the view to developing the writing and oral skills of the students in the domains in which they need English in their studies and after graduation. 

This is a course that seeks to determine some of the concerns of a selection of representative African women writers.  It will examine literary writers from West, Southern, and North Africa, with the intention of determining the forms by which these writers deploy the issues of major focus.  The two central subjects that will engage our attention will include class and gender, with an emphasis on the power relations that underpin them. We hope to establish the literary ways by which these subjects are fictionalized in the writing of the selected writers.

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the topography of oral literature           (orature) in Africa. Some of the theoretical and genre related problems in the area will be considered with a view to classifying the essentially literary nature of our subject.

This course explores the influential prose written in Europe, exclusive of the British Isles. Beginning with the growth of the novel in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the course will proceed through the rise of Romanticism to the tensions surrounding the two European Wars (1914 – 1917, 1939 – 1945), culminating in the literature in the Europe divided by the politics of the Cold War. All works will be read in translation.

The course seeks to highlight the major landmarks in the history of the English language that have made English the most outstanding international language. The course therefore engages a chronology of the evolution of English Language by examining the following periods: the Germanic Period, the Old or Anglo-Saxon Period, Middle English,  and the Period of Modern English; the notion of Lingua Franca is also studied, and the course finally shows that today’s English is related to the phenomenon of Language Mixing because although Germanic by origin ( vocabulary and Grammar), todays’ English is comprises words borrowed from hundreds of other languages.

In a sweeping movement from the Greek classification to contemporary African literature, this course explores the theoretical, philosophical, historical and ideological foundations of literary criticism and practice. It considers such received principles as the immanent history of literature, the nature of art, concepts of beauty in art, and the creative process in literature. The course guides students to reflect on the practice of art and criticism by considering a selection of canonical texts from Aristotle and Achebe to Tolstoy and Woolf.

The course focuses on the particular contributions by selected Western Writers to the twentieth century Novel. The objective is to place the achievements of these writers within the broad spectrum of Modern Prose Fiction.