This course addresses the practical study of research techniques for thesis writing. Students are trained in basic concepts of research such as identifying the problem, reviewing the literature, building research design and drafting hypotheses or objectives. Research curricula and their application to research (library, Internet, other sources of information, monitoring, experimental): preparation of research proposal, data collection, data analysis (sorting, presentation and description), form of research report, principles of scientific writing of reports, results, recommendations and documentation. The aim of the course is to learn about the methods of scientific research in the field of English literature and to acquire the skill of scientific research in the field of English literary studies

This course focuses on the Romantic period (the key figures representing the two generations of this period) then on two Victorian novelists (Charles Dickens or William Thackeray or George Eliot or William Trollope).

· This course is an English course for post graduate students those details with the techniques and strategies in teaching of literature to undergraduate students in the English language departments. The students of this course will be brought to a rewarding and worthwhile experience of teaching literature, and eventually formulate their unique ways of teaching literary texts to equip their students with literary competence, develop critical thinking skills and a sense of literary appreciation. The course will present various critical approaches to literature and how those approaches are put into practice in the classroom.

This course is a survey of the main periods of English literature and the British literary works written from 500 to the present with special attention to their literary qualities and conceptual context. The course will develop appreciation of the works assigned, as well as allow students to read literature sensitively and critically. Class discussion will focus on cultural, social, historical, and political issues raised by the literature and students' reactions to them.

This course will examine three Shakespeare plays: a history, a comedy, and a tragedy. Topics will include character, form, spectacle, theme, and sources. Students will be introduced to a range of critical approaches to Shakespeare's plays and encouraged to reflect on questions of, cultural value, and authority. The course is particularly suitable for students wishing to become more familiar with the playwright's work.

This course studies the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Wallace Stevens. Then we examine one play by Arthur Miller and one by Eugene O’Neill.

This course examines the development of American fiction from the 1920s to contemporary voices and trends. The texts will be interpreted from a social and historical perspective, as products of American culture, and also from a formal or aesthetic perspective, as examples of literary genres or aesthetic movements which have a complex history and development within and outside of American literary circles. The texts: William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) and Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).

This course explores contemporary British novels (since 1965) that represent different strands of fiction and legacies of history, culture, and politics. The works selected engage with social and class structures, racial, ethnic, and questions of national identity, and they present some variety in narrative tones, style, and structure.

The course studies a few postcolonial (African, Asian, Latin American or Australasian) works and explores the way such works provide a representation of the suppressed as well as the suppresser, and hence offers a representation of conflicting views and ideologies. The course is text-oriented, but matters of history and context are also considered as essential.

This is a survey of the prominent literary theories in the twentieth century: Historical/Biographical criticism, Formalism/New Criticism, Archetypal Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response Criticism, Post-Colonialism. The students explore the way texts are studied, evaluated, and interpreted from different angles.