IIUI mission is to transform the society by promoting education, training, research, technology, and collaboration for reconstruction of human thought in all its forms on the foundations of Islam.
The syllabus for BS English four years programme is as under. All the courses are of 3 Credit Hours. The summary of the scheme of studies is as under:
Type of Courses
Credit Hours
Core Courses
78
General Courses(GC)
54
Total
132
Abstract of the Scheme of Studies Semester-wise 1st YEAR SEMESTER 1
GC 101 Study Skills
GC 102 Reading and Writing Skills
GC 103 Geography
GC 104 Arabic-I
GC I05 Islamic Studies ELL 101 Introduction to Literature SEMESTER 2
GC 106 Islamic History & Culture
GC 107 Communication and Presentation Skills
GC 108 Introduction to I.T. Skills
GC 109 Arabic-II
GC 110 Pakistan Studies
ELL 102 Short Fiction 2nd YEAR SEMESTER 3
GC 201 Introduction to Philosophy
GC 202 Creative Writing
GC 203 Social Sciences
ELL 201 Classical Poetry ( From Spenser to Pope)
ELL 202 Popular Fiction SEMESTER 4
GC 204 Introduction to Psychology
ELL 203 Fiction (1700-1900)
ELL 204 Romantic Poetry
ELL 205 Classical Drama
ELL 206 English Literary Prose 3rd YEAR SEMESTER 5
GC 301 History of Urdu Language & Literature
ELL 301 Pakistani Literature in English
ELL 302 Introduction to General Linguistics
ELL 303 Modern Fiction
ELL 304 Introduction to Literary Criticism: From Plato to Eliot SEMESTER 6
GC 302 Islam and Modern Western Thought
ELL 305 South Asian Literature in English
ELL 306 Introduction to Applied Linguistics
ELL 307 Literary Theory and Practice
ELL 308 Stylistics
ELL 309 Modern American Literature 4th YEAR SEMESTER 7*
ELL 401 Modern Poetry
ELL 402 Modern Drama
ELL 403 Postmodern Fiction
ELL 404 Modern Prose
ELL 405 Postmodern American Literature
ELL 406 Phonetics and Phonology
ELL 407 Morphology and Syntax
ELL 408 TEFL
ELL 409 Semantics
ELL 410 Sociolinguistics
ELL 411 Psycholinguistics SEMESTER 8*
GC 401 Research Methodology and Term Paper
GC 402 Media and Cultural Studies
GC 403 Translation Studies
ELL 412 World Literature in English Translation
ELL 413 Postcolonial Literatures
ELL 414 Post-war Literature
ELL 415 Islam and Western Literatures
ELL 416 Contemporary British Literature
ELL 417 Comparative Literatures
ELL 418 Minimalism (Syntax)
ELL 419 Computational Linguistics
ELL 420 Discourse Analysis
ELL 421 Syntactic Theory
ELL 422 Varieties of English
ELL 423 English for Specific Purposes
* Only six courses will be offered during semester 7 and five courses in semester 8. Total Subjects Taught: 44 Total Number of Credit Hours: 132