Courses taught included

• beginning English composition and comprehension,
• classical mythology, epic, and other literature in translation,
• undergraduate courses in every period and genre of English literature,
• advanced writing courses,
• specialized MA courses and thesis supervision,
• literature courses to students in the Education and Science faculties.

a) Courses by session, course number, and subject/author

1. Session 1988-89 [second semester]

• AC102 Précis Writing.
• AC024 Mythology: Homer Iliad.
• AC137 Beginning Composition.
• AC503 (MA course) Literary Criticism: Western Classical Criticism
Aristotle Poetics
Horace Ars Poetica
'Longinus' On the sublime

• AC023 Poetry (Crabbe, Swift, Keats)
• AC024 Mythology
Hesiod Works and Days and Theogony
Ovid Metamorphoses
Homer Odyssey and Iliad (latter in précis form)
• AC134 Literature Before 1800
Second Shepherds' Play
Everyman
Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus
Shakespeare Macbeth
• AC311 Renaissance Literature
Erasmus The Praise of Folly
The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Gardner)
• AC321 Composition and Literary Criticism 3.
• AC348 Modern Drama 2
Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire
Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night
• AC504 Master's Thesis Course: Henry Fielding.
• PT132 Comprehension and Composition.
• PT131 American Literature
Robert Frost, selected poems
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
• SS377 Drama
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest
Sophocles Oedipus the King
Terence The Eunuch
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman

• AC238 Literature from Dryden to Austen
Dryden Annus Mirabilis , Mac Flecknoe , Absalom and Achitophel , To the Memory of Mr. Oldham , Alexander's Feast , The Secular Masque
Pope Windsor Forest , Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady , The Episode of Sarpedon , Epistle II: Of the Characters of Women , Dunciad Book 4.
• AC311 Renaissance Literature
Erasmus The Praise of Folly
Sir Thomas Browne Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus
• AC316 American Literature 2
Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn
Saul Bellow Herzog
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
• SS376 Short Stories
Theroux Yard Sale
Poe The Cask of Amontillado
Hemingway The Killers
Conrad The Lagoon
Gogol The Overcoat
Borges Death and the Compass
• SS378 Poetry [critical analysis of selections from many authors.]
• Master's Thesis supervision:
"Epic Reference in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ."

• AC124 Introduction to Literature (rhetoric)
• AC251 Introduction to Poetry
Shakespeare Sonnets
The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Gardner)
Pope The Rape of the Lock
Whitman Leaves of Grass and other poems
Frost, selected poems
• AC311 Renaissance Literature
Erasmus The Praise of Folly
Sir Thomas Browne Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus
• PT112 Introduction to Literature before 1800
A selection of 16th and 17th century poets: Wyatt, Marlowe, Ralegh, Shakespeare, Donne, Waller, Milton, Marvell
Pope The Rape of the Lock
Defoe Moll Flanders
Fielding Joseph Andrews
• PT231 Literary Criticism II (writing)
• Master's Thesis Supervision
"Epic Reference in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ."
"Musical structure in Selected Novel's of Virginia Woolf."

• AC134 Understanding Literature (rhetoric)
• AC251 Introduction to Poetry
Shakespeare Sonnets
The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Gardner)
Pope The Rape of the Lock
Whitman Leaves of Grass and other poems
Frost, selected poems
• AC351 Augustan Literature
Dryden Mac Flecknoe , Annus Mirabilis , Song for St. Cecilia's Day , Alexander's Feast , Absalom and Achitophel
Pope Windsor Forest , An Essay on Criticism , Epistle II, to a Lady: of the Characters of Women , Dunciad Book 4
Swift Gulliver's Travels
• PT181 Literature Before 1800
A selection of 16th and 17th century English poetry
Pope The Rape of the Lock
Fielding Joseph Andrews
• PT291 Language and Literary Criticism II
Examination of selected passages and critical composition upon them.
• PT292 Literature from Dryden to Austen
Dryden Mac Flecknoe , A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
Pope An Essay on Criticism , Epistle II, to a Lady: of the Characters of Women
Swift Gulliver's Travels
Austen Pride and Prejudice
• PT492 Literary Criticism 2
Critical analysis of selections in an anthology prepared by the department,

• AC134 Introduction to Literature (rhetoric)
• AC251 Introduction to Poetry [as above]
• AC351 Augustan Literature [as above]
• PT181 Literature Before 1800 [as above]
• AC454 Literary Criticism
Western Classical and Sanskrit literary critical theory
• AC471 American Literature II
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
• AC501 (M.A. course) Topics in Renaissance and Augustan Literature
Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici
Swift A Tale of a Tub
Augustan periodical and controversial literature
Augustan translations of classical literature
• AC502 (M.A. course) The Modern Novel
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
• AC503 (M.A. course) Literary Theory: Western Classical and Sanskrit literary theory
Aristotle Poetics
Horace Ars poetica
'Longinus' On the sublime
Abhinavagupta Commentary on the Rasasûtra of Bharata
• Master's Thesis Supervision
"Conflict in the Poetry of Robert Frost"
"Christian Humanism in Selected Black Women Characters of William Faulkner."

• Courses and material taught as above for 1993-94, with the omission of AC134 and AC471, and the addition of AC024 Background to Literature. Taught Sanskrit on a non-formal basis.

• Courses taught as above for 1994-95, with the addition of AC350 Renaissance Literature: Erasmus The Praise of Folly

b) Teaching Materials Compiled

1. A Handbook of English Grammar
2. A Guide to Literary Style
3. Figures of Speech
4. An Introduction to Logic for English Literature Students.
5. The Rhetorical Theory of the Imagination
6. Anthologies of poems and short prose pieces for courses in the Education and Science faculties

c) Departmental and Administrative Duties 

• served as internal examiner for M.A. dissertation--
"Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides : Two Narratives and Two Sensibilities."
• Chairman of Department Library Committee, 1990-92.
• Coordinator, RAI (Rancangan Asasi Inggeris) program, 1994-96.
• Chairman of Department Workload Coordinating Committee, 1992-1996; responsible for tabulation and distribution of workload figures.
• Secretary responsible for taking minutes at departmental meetings.

d) Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia [Malaysian Examinations Board, Ministry of Education]

• Preparation of questions for Sijil Tinggi Periksaan Malaysia (STPM Higher Malaysian Examination Certificate, equivalent to British "A" levels) English literature papers and marking of the same, 1989 to1995.

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