TAILIEUCHUNG - An appraisal of major English courses for bachelor's of arts

The purpose of this article is to identify the strong and weak aspects of the major English courses of three year Bachelor's programme under the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tribhuvan University. This article is primarily based on the library research along with the discussions carried out with the teachers of major English. The courses are appropriate and relevant as they impart the knowledge of both literature and literary theories but have holes in the system of teaching learning activities and evaluation system. This article attempts to provide some suggestions for pedagogic implications to the concerned authorities accordingly. | AN APPRAISAL OF MAJOR ENGLISH COURSES FOR BACHELOR S OF ARTS Sushil Lamichhane ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to identify the strong and weak aspects of the major English courses of three year Bachelor s programme under the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tribhuvan University. This article is primarily based on the library research along with the discussions carried out with the teachers of major English. The courses are appropriate and relevant as they impart the knowledge of both literature and literary theories but have holes in the system of teaching learning activities and evaluation system. This article attempts to provide some suggestions for pedagogic implications to the concerned authorities accordingly. Key words Bachelor s level courses major English analysis relevance strengths weaknesses. INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE This article attempts to analyze the existing courses of major English under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tribhuvan University. The students of major English in . level have faced many problems in grasping the knowledge and skills from the theory plus literature based courses due to many problems even though the courses have link up with the courses of higher secondary education. Students are also baffled with by the techniques applied by the teachers in teaching learning process. The courses are designed to evaluate the students only by the annual evaluation system. The teaching and evaluation system has also created problems to the students to internalize the literary theories. Many teachers become unfriendly to the students to impart more practical approach of teaching because they feel that they have no role in evaluating the students. This leads to the decrease in the qualities as well as size of the students in the subjects. So this article has tried to evaluate how far the prescribed courses are suitable and whether the instructional techniques evaluation schemes the courses include are

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• Appraisal of major English courses
• Major English courses
• Bachelors of arts
• Major English
• Concerned authorities accordingly