First year of the second cycle
- OBJECTIVES
- A master written language commensurate with
the (B.A) level. The ability to advance aid sustain constructive
arguments, Originality and creativity in language use: use registers, style and apt idiomaticexpressionto convey meaning. Evidence mastery comprehension and interpretation techniques in order to be able to summarise effectively, The abilityto be able to listen to and understand English speakers origins as well as produce natural English pronunciation and intonation; discuss with case different topics using appropriate. oraltechniques.
- CONTENTS
- allthe four language skills(speaking, listening, reading and writing), Adequate mastery of pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence structure,discourse, semantics etc.
e. STRUCTURE
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- reading comprehension students will be expected to read a comprehension text with adequate understanding of its content and context and then lucidly answer the questions on the text; lexicology, syntax and usage students overall knowledge of the English vocabulary, its sentence structure and usage arc tested here; Pronunciation: Students will be expected to discriminate sounds, identify stress patterns and relationship between spelling and pronunciation; Writing: different topics will be provided and students will be required to demonstrate their creative writing skills, strengths of arguments and overall manipulation ofthe language; Speaking and listening : this take the form of an oral interview for candidates who are successful in the written part ofthe exam. Students will be required to demontrate adequate listening and understanding ability as well as manifest adequate communicative competence.
- Applicant for BIL
- The structure of their examination is proposed by the, French department.
d. LITERATURE
- General objectives
- To test how candidates ability to identify, analyse and discuss literary aspects with reference to a specific text; to see the candidates’ s level of comprehension interpretation and communicative competence in answering questions in literature; to see the candidate’s ability to match text and context especially with reference to how social, philosophical historical etc issues permeate literature.
Specific objectives
Poetry:
- To see how candidates can read and appreciate a poeme with emphasis on meaning and sense, how the candidate can use both technical i.e poetic parameters and thematical issues to arrive at a superficial and deep meaning of the poem; to see the candidates’ knowledge of the poetic tenets and how they permeate poems drawn from different cultural backgrounds. To see the use and ability of candidates’ memory aid
answering questions - i.epoems that have been red
previously.
Prose:
- to see how the candidates can rend and appreciate shat prosetexts using prosaic and thematical issues; tosee how candidates can identify, analyseand interp****aspects of anarrative like plot, character, theme setti*** style, tone, symbolism, irony, point of view etc; To test candidates’ knowledge on the growth development of prose fiction — specificallyconvergence and divergence between the traditional modem nove1.
Drama
- To seehowcandidates can interpret and answer ****in drama pertaining eitherthematic issues or both, To see if the candidates can distinguish between trad**drama (based on Aristotelian Principles) and ****drama – in other words to see if they understa*** various trends in drama. To test the candites’ability to discuss specific ***influences in play script and show how they in*** the playwright’stechniques.
CONTENTS
- The questions will be based on atypical first degree programme for literary studies.. Questions will cover aspects of literature drawn from Cameroon, African, English and African — American literatures
- STRUCTURING
- This paper will comprise three questions,the questions will cover the three main genres poetryprose and drama. the poetry question will be based on an unseen poem which candidates will be expected in read,analyse, interpretand answer specific questions, The question on prose and drama will require the candidates to draw examples from a text from stated or unstated literary cultures or backgrounds.