• ENH offers three major programmes in English Literature, Applied Linguistics & ELT and Media and Cultural Studies.

• It also offers a Minor programme in History.

• The Literature concentration introduces students to a variety of Anglophone writing from different historical periods and regions such as the UK, the US, Anglophone Africa and South Asia.

• The Applied Linguistics and ELT concentration offers an understanding and analysis of language both as an acquired skill and a socio-cultural phenomenon, introducing students to different theories of language and their application in real life for English language teaching and beyond.

• The interdisciplinary nature of the Media and Cultural Studies concentration equips students with an orientation based on the origin and evolution of “media”, the study of cultural studies theories and an awareness of power-plays and world politics, enabling them to interpret the ever-changing cultural traditions and gain insights into global events and universal or personal experiences.

• ENH graduates develop highly valuable communication skills along with  critical thinking skills which are desired by the employers around the world.

Anecdotes from Three Alumni of ENH

While writing my undergrad thesis at ENH, I found some social disparities in the education system. That was the turning point that made me realise that in solving a social problem, I just need to be on the front line. Being a 'Social Entrepreneur' and working with menstruation problems of girls in Bangladeshi rural areas, is the result of that realization. I am grateful to my English Department at BRAC University for helping me ignite the dream of contributing to the bigger cause of society.

SHARMIN KABIR Batch: 2010 Founder, Wreetu Health and Well-being Foundation                                                                            Email: [email protected] | Cell: +88 01777 660 652 Visit: wreetu.org

It was probably 2005; I took a Post Colonial course, especially designed by our beloved Prof. Firdous Azim, For a beginner, the course was very challenging. If someone missed a class, that person would be lost the next day. During that course, I was staging a play titled – ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’. I was so involved in rehearsing for the play that I intentionally missed a class and spent the entire day at the rehearsal. The next day when I entered the English department, I was praying not to face Firdous Ma’m, but alas! She was standing right before me and was so upset that she scolded me like a schoolboy. No one at the department could remember when they last saw her get so distraught. 
I learned she had postponed and rescheduled the last class for next week, so I didn’t miss anything. I felt so guilty that I didn’t know what to do. How can a person be so pure, caring, and dedicated? This is how the English Department of BRAC University was. Every single faculty was my mentor, guide, and friend! 
By the way, if you are wondering, I finally managed an ‘A’ in that course, and Firdous Ma’m was the happiest person that day!
 

Asif Iftekhar Piyash CEO & Head of Creative & Strategy Brand Soup Advertising Ltd. Batch: 2002

I am grateful that I made the right choice back in 2005 and did my graduation from a university I am proud of. Teachers I got at BRAC University played a crucial role in shaping my future by imparting not only academic knowledge but also very important life lessons. BRAC University provides the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in support of theoretical learning through the internship program. I did my internship in the Daily New AGE. That experience initially helped me to develop the skills and knowledge needed to excel in my career. The residential semester at TARC, Savar, also helped with the necessary life skills one should have to be independent. Also, BRAC University offered a Professional Skill Development Program (PSDP) that helped me develop my skills for the competitive job market. 
The way I believe in gender equality and  feel empathetic towards others, and can smile during a bad day at work are all outcomes of my benevolent teachers like Syed Manjoorul Islam (SMI) and Firdous Azim. The most beautiful thing I experienced in BRAC University was the community: Friends, Seniors & Juniors. Through those amazing people, I have made many lifelong friends and equipped myself with essential leadership skills and multicultural cooperation, which I am still using to create value for the organizations I work for.

Layes Khan Bachelor of Arts in English Batch: Spring 2005 Current position: General Manager and Head of Marketing & Communications at International School Dhaka (ISD)

The degrees offered by the Department of English and Humanities prepare students to take on the practical world in myriad ways. Career opportunities span from the academic world of teaching and research to the corporate world of media, journalism, banking, NGOs and other public and private commercial ventures.

The B.A. Internships in various schools and media houses expose students to the  current norms of the job market and enable them to identify and establish contacts with employers of their choices.
The B.A. degree completed in this department make students eligible to pursue higher studies in reputable educational and research institutions worldwide.

Program Flow (Year/Semester wise distribution of courses)

Recommended Course Sequences

ENG 102: COMPOSITION I
The main focus of this course is writing. This course attempts to enhance students' writing abilities through diverse writing skills and techniques. Students will be introduced to two aspects of expository writing: personalized/subjective and analytical/persuasive. In the first category, students will write essays expressing their subjective viewpoints. In the second category, students will analyse issues objectively, sticking firmly to factual details. This course seeks to develop students' analytical abilities so that they are able to produce works that are critical and thought provoking.

ENG111: Principles of Linguistics
This course is designed to give students an overview of the basic concepts of language and linguistics. The course begins with a discussion on the linguistic system in general, and how humans and animals use it. In the following classes, students will learn the structure of human language in terms of sounds (phonology and phonetics), words (morphology), sentences (syntax) and meaning (semantics and pragmatics). 

ENG113 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH POETRY
Introduction to Poetry is a foundation course for the beginners of English literature undergraduate students. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the world of poetry in a way that they fall in love with poetry! While the periodical details of English poetry will set the ground, students will be encouraged to appreciate the shape, sound, emotion and strength of poetry. The course covers wide ranges of poems from across the globe, starting from British canonical to American poems; gradually we will reach closer to our continent and home. English poems written in Bangladesh will be taught to encourage students read and write poems on topics that matter to them.  

ENG114: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH DRAMA
Study of selected plays from ancient Greek times to the contemporary period; Survey of the development of the genre of drama, dramatic forms and concepts over time
The study of literature allows one to investigate the ways in which literary culture has engaged with and shaped society and continues to do so even today. This literature course explores many aspects of culture, performance and society. Introduction to English Dramais a historical overview of the development of drama and social environment for interpretation. This course will concentrate on critical reading and analysis of dramatic literature. The course offers analysis of drama, fundamentals of drama and dramatic forms. We will read a variety of dramatic literature, spanning the centuries from the ancient Greek theatre to modern times.

ENG115 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH PROSE
The development of English Prose has seen different stages and it continued to develop in response to the social and cultural atmosphere and changing norms. With roots in didactic prose, Biblical translations and oral traditions, English Prose has developed into various forms of literature, creative/non-fiction, and many genres of short story and novel.  In more recent history, it has evolved into forms of journalistic and informative writing, political and social critique, allegory, personal narrative and even hybrid text. The works will be addressed simultaneously as a form of writing and also in terms of different thematic and cultural issues.

ENG 123: History of English Language
This course introduces students to the history and expansion of the English language from its inception to the present day. This course starts with an introduction and overview of the history of English language then major themes like the Indo- European family of languages, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English are discussed. This course also explores English around the world in modern days including English in Britain, English in America, English in Africa and English in Asia and Pacific. Finally, the social and political factors that affect language changes are also explored briefly. 

ENG 201: COMPOSITION II
The course is designed as a workshop on practical writing focusing on principles and style, correct and effective expressions, and organization and writing.

ENG211: Sociolinguistics
This course has been designed to discuss the relationships between language and society. At first, students will learn the theories of register analysis, code-switching, speech accommodation, linguistic and social variables and so on in order to apply the theories in conversation analysis. The second segment of the course students are required to undertake a project on conversation analysis which will require them to collect data from their speech communities. They will use the theories and terms they learn in class to analyze data for their project.

ENG 212: Psycholinguistics
This course examines stage by stage acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of the child's first language. In other words, it aims to provide students with the knowledge of the earliest stages of a child language acquisition; development of the child's sound system i.e. how children perceive and produce the sounds of their language; the acquisition of language structure emphasizing the principles children apply in this regard and the acquisition of meaning along with their awareness of the form and function of speech acts. The course also covers major L1 theories that include behaviourist, innatist, maturation and cognitive theories. Students are required to undertake a project based on naturalistic observation to study children's early language acquisition processes.

ENG 213: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I
Taught as a fundamental literature course it aims to acquaint students with the first half of English Literature and the literary trends which added new facets to the epoch of English Literature. Being the first one of the three survey courses, this course is designed to give the students a comprehensive knowledge of English literature of the early periods, the Medieval, the Renaissance and the Jacobean period. We will start the curriculum with Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the first English writing with some directness to the modern readers. Some outstanding literary works from the Elizabethan and the Jacobean Literature will be taught and discussed at length too. We will read and discuss about different early English poets, their poems and poetic styles. As a part of this endeavor, we will also study the development of English Drama and theatrical techniques of the Renaissance and later period.

ENG214: Survey of English Literature II
This course aims to acquaint students with the literary and social history of the 17th and 18th century England, periods which are also known as Age of Milton and the Restoration. During this period the philosophies of ‘Empiricism’ and ‘Rationalism’ transformed the European societies. The influence of ‘Enlightenment and ‘sensibility’, the tensions of ‘Puritanism’ (1642-1660) and the literary revival of ‘Restoration’ (1660-98) marked the literature of this period. Enlightenment ideas gave expressions of ‘Protest’ to social injustice, endowing a new tradition to literature. The greatest English epic, Paradise Lost, the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe, some remarkable mock epics, political satires, and lampoons were written during this time. This added richness and diversity to the period’s work, which shall be analyzed through the course.

ENG 215: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE III
Blake to Hardy: Intensive Study of Blake, Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and Hardy. The course aims to take the students through the main movements and trends of writing of some of the most influential poets, playwrights and novelists of the 19th century in the British Literary Canon.  The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with the sources, influence and content of Romantic and Victorian literature of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century England, which will serve as a foundation for their future reading of literature and literary/cultural movements.

ENG217: SHAKESPEARE
Study of selected work of William Shakespeare ranging from tragedies, comedies, history plays and a selection of his sonnets. The study of Literature can provide students with a fresh and creative angle with which to approach their studies in particular and their lives in general. Shakespeare is one of the most complex playwrights. Even today, scholars continue to debate whether Shakespeare’s emphasis is psychological, religious, social, or political. In the 21st century we are facing the same challenges and asking the same questions as Shakespeare’s characters faced and asked. An essential element of the course is sustained reaction to/discussion of issues raised in the plays. The goal of the course will be to see how this great writer deals with the great questions concerning human action, human will, and human passions; and what his view of man is.

ENG 218: POSTCOLONIAL WRITING IN ENGLISH
This course will look at the vast body of contemporary writing in English from ex-colonial countries. Possible authors are Salman Rushdie, Ngugi 'waThiong'o, Amitav Ghosh, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott. The international status of English in today's world will be examined through these readings, and the changed but continuing significance of English studies highlighted. 

ENG221: Discourse Analysis
This course has been designed to provide students with knowledge of discourse analysis and meaning in context. At first, students will learn the theories of pragmatics such cooperative principles, deictic expressions, speech acts and so on in order to apply the theories in conversation analysis. The second segment of the course students are required to undertake a project on any type of discursive practices in Bangladeshi context. They will use Norman Fairclough’s CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) lens for to analyze data for their project.

ENG 242: The Study of English
This course will introduce students with various research methods in English language teaching (ELT) and Applied Linguistics. Students will learn key principles of research design, how to design a research, and utilisation of different research methods. Topics to be covered include qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches, reviewing relevant literature, various data collecting and analysing methods, and writing up qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research.

ENG262 THE URBAN NOVEL
The representation of the city in novels from several literatures will be the focus of this course. The course explores such topics as the semiotics of the city, the 'painting of modern life,' the commodity culture of cities, politics and anarchy, plots and urban detection, the city and the construction of identity, transgression in gender and class, the poetics of the city and the tensions between modernism and postmodernism. 

ENG301 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 
This course provides practical training in a range of research skills and methodologies. It includes classes on the choice and organization of thesis / research topics, the use of library resources, the Internet, the use of manuscripts and archives, media audiences and institutions, concepts of textuality, and the writing, documentation, and presentation of research articles / theses. This course also introduces qualitative and quantitative methods in research. In this regard, strategies for planning and carrying out various types of research will also be discussed and applied.

ENG319: MODERNISM 
In 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche in his novella Twilight of the Idols, writes about the death of the old and the birth of the New, a re-evaluation of all of one’s old values, therefore very consciously setting the mood for the next fifty years in literary movement.  This course will delve into the significance the death of traditional literary practices and birth of new ones, had on the thinkers, writers and poets of the late 19th and mid-20th century.  Ezra Pound’s slogan “Make it new” echoes through the different styles, forms and tones of Modernist writers and this course will help students trace the newness that Modernism gave birth to. The course will look at texts from Europe and America, historical movements and the aesthetic changes in writing and thought. Students are expected to do a considerable amount of reading of both primary and secondary resources. 

ENG 327: Second Language Acquisition
This course has been designed to provide students with knowledge of SLA. There are two segments in this course: issues and theoretical perspectives, and research. The first segment includes the key issues in SLA: the roles of L1, input, interaction and formal instruction in SLA, and learners' strategies. Besides, this course focuses on individual differences in SLA i.e. age, intelligence, attitude, motivation, memory etc. In the second segment of the course students are required to undertake a project on any issues related to SLA. This course also gives an overview of the major theories of SLA that include acculturation, accommodation, monitor-model, interlanguage and universal theories.

ENG 328: Advanced Grammar
The course is designed for higher level students of Applied linguistics and ELT. The course introduces the students to a more ‘modern’ approach to analyse language, i.e. the descriptive approach as opposed to the prescriptive one, that they are already familiar with. The view promoted about grammar in this course is that grammar is the underlying system of languages in the variations that people use. The traditional view regarding grammar forwarded previously to the students holds a purist position regarding grammar use, i.e. there are definite instructions regarding the ‘accurate’ use of language, and all users should adhere to those rules. The discourse on descriptive grammar breaks away from this rigid position, and is interested in exploring, and describing the variety of ways in which people use language in real life.  

ENG 331 CULTURAL STUDIES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
This course will introduce students to the core concepts in cultural theory as well as equip them with skills to analyse and understand cultural artifacts and movements in our own society. The course intends to give students a background in cultural studies, highlighting issues such as popular vs. ‘high’ culture, entertainment and cultural politics including feminist and post-colonial perspectives. This course is designed to enable students to apply literary and cultural theory to the life they see around them, thus making them into keen and analytical purveyors of culture. The course will begin by introducing students to the core concepts of culture, as well as the way that popular culture enters and influences our daily lives. Students will be expected to relate these theories to contemporary popular music, film and media, including television and the print media. However, the emphasis on theory will ensure the intellectual contents of the course. This is a very dynamic course and readings will change according to the contemporary context. 

ENG332: Teaching Techniques
After students are introduced to an array of language teaching methods that have been proposed over the years, the course Teaching Techniques presents a natural progression towards the more practical aspects and issues of  English Language teaching.  To this end,   the course emphasizes the understanding and execution of various hands-on pedagogical issues as well as tools that have emerged in international literature as well as practices of the field. While from time to time, the course refers to major language teaching methods, the primary focus remains on the techniques proposed by Communicative Language Teaching and its various offshoots, for example, Task-based Language Learning, Content-Based Instruction, etc. Designed for students concentrating on English Language Teaching, the course offers a bridge between the theoretical discourses presented in ‘ENG 334: ELT Methodology’,  a c o re  course on language teaching methodologies,  and ‘ENG 439: Teaching Practicum’, an advanced hands-on course on language teaching focusing on the actual implementation of various methods and techniques.    

ENG 333: Globalization and Media
The course will rely to a large extent on the work of the students, to bring concrete, up-to-date examples which we can use to assess the theoretical readings and reconsider their conclusions in light of our examples. We start with major debates on the role of communication and media technologies in network society, globalization, and transnationalism. We move on to focus on how macro social forces and institutions such as state and market shape the development of social media and other new communication technologies. Finally, we discuss theoretical framework surrounding both phenomena, from that of simulation, to proper distance/proximity and the ‘other.

ENG 334: ELT Methodology
This course will provide students an overview and a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of English to the speakers of other languages. It will familiarise students with various approaches, methods and techniques of language teaching. Students will also be introduced to various teaching and learning related issues including understanding learners, role of culture in teaching, selecting, evaluating and adopting textbooks and course materials.  Students are encouraged to adopt a critical and reflective approach to their own  teaching and learning. 

ENG 335: Linguistic Theories
This introductory course aims at familiarizing the students with the major theoretical developments in linguistics, namely Historicism, Structuralism, Functionalism, Generativism, and a few other theories of linguistics to help them develop an awareness of the different approaches to the study of language. The idea is to chart a conceptual ground on which language as a medium of communication today stands.   

ENG354: Survey of American Literature I
This survey course focuses on American literature from its Puritan origins to the first half of the 20th century. Representative texts from each of the literary periods that eventually formed the canon of American literature will be discussed in detail. With particular attention to the issues of race, class, and gender, we will study how diverse writers represented, challenged, and helped to create the dominant cultural mythologies that remain powerfully influential even today. During the semester we will read a wide array of American authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Jacobs, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. Through guided discussion and independent research, we will strengthen our ability to read and write critically about literary texts, and we will gain a deeper appreciation of American literary history as a rich terrain of contested values that can help us to understand what it means to be American.

ENG355: Survey of American Literature II
This survey course focuses on several landmark works of 20th century American literature. At the beginning of the century some American writers found their country provincial and left for Europe, while many who immigrated here saw it as the epitome of life and liberty. Those who remained here portrayed the politico-economic, socio-historical, racial issues through their fiction. World War I, The Great Depression, The Great Migration, The Civil Rights Movement, Neo-liberalism, late-capitalism, and many other factors directly influenced the 20th century literary scene in the US. The shift from modernism to postmodernism is equally reflected in poetry as it did in fiction. The first quarter of the century was also the time that witnessed the rise of American drama. The Harlem Renaissance contributed significantly in enriching the tradition of American novel with works that are now considered classics.  

ENG 358: Survey of World Literature in English Translation II
This literature course will expose students to some of world's masterpieces written in languages other than English and translated into English. While reading each literary text, we will be particularly mindful of what can be "lost" or "gained" in translation, and how bigger issues such as class, space and time impact on the logic and art of translations. We will take a broad meaning of the term ‘world literature’ which includes the traditional European classics from the 18th century as well as classics outside of the Euro-zone and may, often be, more contemporary to our time. While reading the texts, we will try to understand how the changing flows of world power relations as well as the current world without virtual borders have widened the meanings and opportunities of world literature. 

ENG 364: Theories of Fiction
A survey of the essentials and the novel in literary theory, focusing on the models presented in semiotics, structuralism and post-structuralism, psychoanalysis and new criticism.  We study Bakhtin, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari, Marguerite Duras, Lacan, Anne Carson and Barthes, Balzac, Gayatri Spivak, Derrida and many others. 

ENG 366 MAJOR TEXTS OF FEMINIST TRADITION IN THE WEST
This course takes the students through the writings that have helped to shape feminist thought in the West. Concentrating on literary texts, it looks at the writings of Wollstonecraft, Kate Millet and Maya Angelou, covering the development of feminist thought from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. Beginning by looking at major nineteenth century novels and poetry, it proceeds to fiction written in the twentieth century, concentrating on the diversity of women’s realities and situations.

ENG 367 ENGLISH WRITING AND BRITISH COLONIALISM
This course concentrates on twentieth-century texts and the ways in which the colonial experience is reflected in literary writing and critical thinking. “Postcolonial” writings will be read in conjunction with texts from the “imperial” centre that deal with colonial themes and issues. The Saidian notion of “counter-point” will be used to make texts speak to each other. The course will look at the “African, Caribbean and South Asian experience”. The course looks mainly at novels, but some poetry will also be covered.

ENG 401: Editing
The editor's role; reading proofs; the production process; marking the typescript; structure and headings; spelling and vocabulary; grammar; meaning and clarity; punctuation; capitals and hyphen; dialogue and extracts; perspective and level; the author's voice; consistency and house style; numbers and math; use of italics; styling in bibliographies; notes and short title references; author-date references; making cuts; tables; lists; design and layouts; illustrations; preparing the index; permission and libels; preparing the preliminary pages and jacket blurbs.

ENG 404: COPYWRITING
This course is developed with the aim to introduce students to the principles and practices of writing effective copy for print media advertising (magazines and newspapers), audiovisual advertising, direct mail, brochures, catalogs, the World Wide Web and other formats.

ENG414 Twentieth-Century English Literature
Twentieth-Century English Literature is a major course for students concentrating on English literature and can be an elective one for students concentrating on streams such as Linguistics and Media. Since this is a survey course, it will be divided into different periods, such as early, middle and late twentieth century. This will enable students to make their way through the difficult but exciting century that saw unprecedented changes in various fields, from literary to scientific, at a global scale. Marked by the two world wars and then the Cold War, the twentieth century was challenging for writers both at psychological and social levels. This course will address those challenges and their on-going impact, contributing to give students a comprehensive knowledge on all three mediums- prose, poetry and drama- that have been influential in the last century. 

ENG434: Materials Design
The course aims at familiarising the students with the underlying theories and principles of English language teaching materials. Equipped with the requisite knowledge and sufficient exposure to a wide array of various audio-visual-textual materials drawn from multiple sources, for example, magazines, newspaper articles, periodicals, etc., students will be able to develop a critical perspective toward them. Moreover, they will be given hands-on training on how to adopt, adapt, and develop materials for teaching ESL/EFL classes. As a part of their major assignments, students will be provided with a teaching context and asked to identify the curricular goals and course objectives, and based on their findings; they will develop a course unit outline (materials portfolio), prepare lesson plans (at least 2), and create materials for those lessons.

ENG 437: Testing and Evaluation
This course aims to introduce students with underlying principles of language testing and assessment. Students will learn developing and critiquing language tests and classrooms test materials. Students will also learn how to critically evaluate and validate various language tests. They will also be introduced with recent development in language testing research. Although the focus of this course is particularly on language testing and assessment, the theories and methods discussed in this course can be applicable in other contexts as well.

ENG 438: Syllabus Design
This course introduces students to a needs-based, learner-centered approach to designing ELT curricula, courses, and materials. You will work together step by step towards developing a syllabus: they have to choose a language course and write a description of the students followed by needs analysis. Based on the results of the needs analysis, you have to design a syllabus and based on a chosen section of a syllabus, you have to come up with a lesson plan followed by designing of materials. Finally, students will formally “pitch” the proposal in an in-class presentation preparing them for the real world of curriculum development. 

ENG 439: Teaching Practicum
This course offers students the knowledge of various language teaching techniques. The students will  get the opportunity to observe actual classes of different levels by visiting various schools in the city. In order to evaluate those classes critically, students will be given sufficient theoretical knowledge through class lectures and discussions, which they can apply during their own teaching sessions as well. 

ENG 440: English for the Print Media
This course will provide students with the English Language skills necessary to work or write for newspapers, journals and other print media. The course will give them an understanding of how a newspaper or journal is organized and introduce them to the different aspects of journalistic writing. The course content will include news reporting, feature writing, literary-critical analysis, news commentary, op-eds and post-editorials, planning a story, including cross-checking and editing.

ENG461 Modern British Drama 
Modern British Drama is a major course for students concentrating on English literature and can be an elective one for students concentrating on streams such as ELT and Media. By the time students reach this course, they have considerable knowledge on the long tradition of British dramas from the 16th to 19th century. This course will address the recent and on-going histories of British dramas, contributing to give students a comprehensive knowledge on the tradition of British, in some cases European, dramas, and enhance their capacity to situate dramas as an important literary genre in relation to fiction and poetry. This course takes on many key elements of the 20th century modernism as a literary movement. It offers students to contextualize their knowledge on key philosophical debates of the 20th century and post-war Europe. Both as a standalone and a part of the literature map, the course stimulates advanced level engagement with contemporary literature and drama. 

ENG465: Translation Studies 
This course will introduce students to the core conceptual trends and areas of translation studies. Students will study the theory and phenomena of this new academic discipline to re-view translation not as “a poor copy of the original” but as “an act of invention that produces a new original in another language.” Hence, students will that translation has a language of its own other than the language on which it basis its re-creation. Students will also learn that an act of translation has immense power to subvert and deconstruct hegemonic ideologies of the dominant discourses related to the domination, marginalization and subjection of a certain class and race in society by another.

ENG466: Dissertation
Students will write a dissertation in consultation with a supervisor on any area in their specialized stream. At the end of the semester students will be required to make a satisfactory presentation to a board of examiners. For students taking options B or C, this can be a semester-long internship, followed by a report, which must be acceptable to a board of examiners. (6 credits)

ENG490: SEMINAR COURSE 
This course is offered to students in the senior year. Special courses/topics will be offered either by a senior full-time member of the faculty or by visiting faculty on a special topic. The course will consist of 3-hour long extensive seminars on various sub-topics each week. This course requires intensive study and a close working relationship between student and teacher. 
This is an introductory course for students to learn about the diversity, discrimination and differences that exist in Bangladesh state and society. Designed to be completed in a single semester, the course examines the various concepts, ideas and forces that shape social inter-actions and access that lead to violations of rights in society. The course is connected to every other course in the field as the topic of the course examines how various socio-economic compulsions create either inclusion or exclusion of the vulnerable people in Bangladesh.