Undergraduate Program

Course Credit: 4

This introductory course has been designed to give students elementary knowledge about the very core aspects of linguistics. Linguistics is a broad subject, with connections to psychology, philosophy and cognitive science. This course will provide an overview of linguistic analysis, ranging from the studying human speech sounds to the structure and meaning of sentences. This introductory language course is primarily designed to allow students to gain a sufficient amount of explicit knowledge of the different branches, methods and the core and applied areas of linguistics, to provide students with the tools necessary for understanding language structures.

Course Credit: 4

Language is constantly evolving, and this course provides a framework for understanding the processes of language change, how languages develop over time, how they interact with other languages, how they diverge into distinct varieties and how languages can be grouped genealogically. This course will also help in tracing the origins of languages and language families and can shed light on the historical and cultural factors that have shaped linguistic diversity around the world. This involves the reconstruction of proto-languages, hypothetical ancestral languages from which modern languages are descended. The course will also offer the understanding and the description of relationships between different languages and language families, and provide insights into the cultural and historical context in which these languages developed.

Course Credit: 2

This course is designed to refresh students’ memory in the four language skills regarding Bangla language through displaying a wide variety of authentic text types and challenging tasks. The adapted reading texts have been chosen to stimulate students to react and respond effectively with confidence, as each unit contains grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The text aims to give further practice on the above-mentioned skills required at university level, however, writing and speaking skills will be given more attention to enhance these two skills through the use of the communicative approach. The course also provides students with a considerable range of different advanced activities on vocabulary, grammar and writing in general.

Course Credit: 2

This course aims to develop a functional knowledge of the English language with a focus on the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, for practical use in various spheres of academic scholarship. Through this course, students will learn elementary rules and techniques to improve their speaking as well as academic writing skills, in order to prepare students to communicate effectively in English within an academic context, whether for university study, research, or professional development.

Course Credit: 2

This course presents fundamental concepts and theories covering many areas of contemporary sociology. This course analyses the influence of social and cultural factors on human behaviour in such areas as language, culture, socialisation, groups, deviance, sexuality, stratification, race, gender, economics, family, religion, and the environment. Social dynamics and social institutions will be explored, coupled with the ever-present issues of social change and the impact of these changes on society and the individual.

Course Credit: 2

This course is a general introduction to the four fields of anthropology that looks at how anthropologists study cultural and physical aspects of humankind. The course will explore a range of societies and methods of anthropological study. This course covers such topics as anthropological views on language, economic systems, population dynamics, kinship, political systems, religion, art, medicine, as well as globalization, power relations and ethics.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to give students a theoretical as well as descriptive knowledge of phonetics and phonology. In this course they will learn basic elements of articulatory phonetics e.g. the analysis of speech sounds including their classifications, nature of airstream mechanism, transcription of sounds with IPA etc. In the phonology section, students will acquire some fundamental phonological concepts of human sounds.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to make students well acquainted with a brief description and classification of morphology. Through this course, they will learn existing theories and methods of morphological analysis of words used in languages. Students will have an introduction to morphology and morphological analysis in theory and practice through this course. By focusing on a variety of occurrences, including those falling under words and word formation, in Bangla and other languages, this course helps students develop the skills necessary for assimilating the theoretical fundamentals of morphology, as well as observing patterns in data, describing and analysing word structure, and testing hypotheses. By the end of the course, students will comprehend the function of morphology in the grammar and how it relates to other components, such as phonology, syntax, and semantics.

Course Credit: 4

This course focuses on what writing is, and how it encodes language. It includes the definition, origins, and typology of writing systems with a particular emphasis on text normalization, the decipherment of lost scripts and orthographic reforms. Since writing encodes language primarily by means of morphophonological analysis, the course correlates with the basic courses phonology and morphology.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to introduce students to the study of psychology. It is intended to provide broad coverage of the field by presenting basic theories, research, and applied use of psychology. It will give students a background from which to either pursue more advanced psychological courses, or to retain the information as a basic knowledge of psychology in general. Areas that will be covered include: research methods, biological bases of behavior, human development, sensation, perception, learning, intelligence, motivation, emotions, personality, mental disorders and their treatment, and social psychology. These areas will be approached from both theoretical and applied perspectives.