1st Year Master Syllabuses (Literature) Blida University

African Literature Syllabus:

I) Semester1:


a- Orality and Culture in African Literature:


1)- Precolonial Traditions in Africa

"Things Fall Apart"

2)- African Epistemology Knowledge (the Way of Thinking)

"Armah's Novels"

3)- Yoruba Cosmology in Wole Soyinka Ydam and other poems

b- Cultural Clash:

No Longer at Ease: Chinua Achebe

The Lion and the Jewel: Soyinka Wole

c- Protest in Algeria:

Frantz Fanon and Ngugi wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood



Books to Read:

Post-colonial Theory: The Fashionable Theory

•Frantz Fanon:

1- Black Skin White Masks

2- The Wretch on the Earth

•Edward Said:

1- Orientalism

2- Culture and Imperialism

• Homi Bhabha:

1- Nation and Narration

2- The Location of Culture

•Gayatri Spivak:

1- The Citique of Post-colonial Reason

• V Y Mudimbe:

1- The Invention of Africa.
(The Idea of Africa)




American Civilization Syllabus:


1^st Semester:

I/ The Religious Foundation in the American History

2^nd Semester:

II/ Modern Policies in the United States



Sociology Syllabus:


مقدمة:


- فائدة العلوم الإنسانية


- علم الاجتماع: تعريفه وفائدته


الفصل الأول:


- دراسة الظواهر الاجتماعية

- أصل وتاريخ علم الاجتماع

- معايير علمية لهذا العلم (الميدان)

- العلوم الطبيعية والعلوم الاجتماعية

- موضوع علم الاجتماع

- بعض القواعد للمقاربة العلمية

- التحليل السوسيولوجي


الفصل الثاني:

- علم الاجتماع المدرسي

الفصل الثالث:

- التقسيم والهياكل الاجتماعية (الطبقات
المهنية والاجتماعية)




British Civilization:


Syllabus and Topics for Research:


• The Birth of England (the Anglo-saxon Heritage)


• The Birth of Parliament (Magna Carta)


• The Reformation (establishment of Anglican Church)


• The Birth of the 1^st of the Empire – Ireland and America


• Empire and India


• Stuart's Parliament and Religion (prior of the Civil War)


• The Civil War


• Cromwell and Restoration


• The Exclusion Crisis


• The Glorious Revolution


• The Birth of Great Britain (how, why, and in what effects)


• The Scientific Intellectual Revolution in Britain


• Britain, America and France


• The Revolution in Agriculture (consequences)


• The Revolution in Industry


• Radicalism and Reform


• The Struggle of Free Trade


• The Age of Greatness and Prosperity


• Britain's Decline and the New Imperialism


• Liberals Vs. Conservatives in 19^th C


• The Working Classes in the 19^th C


• Ireland in the 19^th C

I have scanned some of my handouts and i'll be scanning and posting following this syllabus


Glourious revolution


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Reformation


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Industrial and agricultural revolution

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A nice essay on Ngugi and orality in general

http://ifile.it/97cwotr/essay ngugi 1.jpg

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An essay on Petals of Blood

http://ifile.it/db3ra5y/essay petals 1.jpg

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http://ifile.it/h9p4q8a/essay petals 3.jpg

Thank you Nacer, it's very useful indeed.
@ bless you My sweet Sassy. Great as usual