TSPSC Junior Lecturer in English - Syllabus
PAPER – I: GENERAL STUDIES AND GENERAL ABILITIES
1. Current affairs – Regional, National and International.
2. International Relations and Events.
3. General Science; India’s Achievements in Science and Technology.
4. Environmental issues; Disaster Management- Prevention and Mitigation
Strategies.
5. Economic and Social Development of India and Telangana.
6. Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India.
7. Physical, Social and Economic Geography and Demography of Telangana.
8. Socio-economic, Political and Cultural History of Modern India with special
emphasis on Indian National Movement.
9. Socio-economic, Political and Cultural History of Telangana with special
emphasis on Telangana Statehood Movement and formation of Telangana
state.
10.Indian Constitution; Indian Political System; Governance and Public Policy.
11.Social Exclusion; Rights issues such as Gender, Caste, Tribe, Disability etc. and
inclusive policies.
12.Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts and Literature of Telangana.
13.Policies of Telangana State.
14.Logical Reasoning; Analytical Ability and Data Interpretation.
15.Basic English (10th class Standard).
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7. ENGLISH (P.G. LEVEL)
I. Genres, Movements, Schools, Concepts.
Renaissance-Reformation, Metaphysical poetry, Neo-classicism, Puritanism,
Restoration, Romanticism,Victorian Age, Realism-Naturalism, Expressionism,
Symbolism, Modernism, Postmodernism.
Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Diaspora, Race
Gender and Caste.
English Literary Criticism from Philip Sydney to Matthew Arnold
New Criticism, Formalism, Archetypal criticism, New Historicism, Psychoanalytical
criticism,Reader response criticism.
Literary Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Prose, Drama (origins and development,
elements, forms, types)
II. Writers and Texts
i. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
ii. William Shakespeare Hamlet
iii. John Milton Paradise Lost-Book 1
iv. William Wordsworth “Immortality Ode”, Tintern Abbey
v. Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “Andrea del Sarto”
vi. Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’ Urbervilles
vii. TS Eliot The Waste Land
viii. G.B. Shaw Saint Joan
ix. Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
x. William Golding Lord of the Flies
xi. Walt Whitman “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomd”,”Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
xii. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman
xiii. Toni Morrison Beloved
xiv. Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable
xv. Kamala Das “An Introduction”, “The Old Playhouse”
xvi. Girish Karnad Hayavadana
xvii. Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
xviii. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
xix. Margaret Atwood Edible Woman
xx. Derek Walcott Dream on Monkey Mountain
III. English Language Teaching
1. ELT in India : (History and status of English in India; English as Second
Language, English as Foreign Language, and English as Global Language).
2. Methods and Approaches: (Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-
Lingual method; Structural approach, Communicative language teaching)
3. Teaching of Language Skills : (Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and
Writing Skills; Teaching of Grammar and Functional English; Teaching of
Vocabulary; Classroom techniques; Use of authentic materials) Teaching
literature.
4. Testing and Evaluation: (Principles, Types, Objectives of testing and evaluation)
5. Phonetics and Phonology; Syntax and Structure.
IV. Literary comprehension-(Excerpts from poetry and prose for comprehension