 Namaskar Satsriyakaal and Khama Ghani. My name is Arvatha Karwa and I welcome you back to your favorite YouTube channel. Today in this video we are going to talk about a very hot topic. We are going to talk about the latest IGNU MA English Literature syllabus and how you can choose the optional subject during your MA English in IGNU. So if you are an MA English student of IGNU or if you are planning to do MA English from IGNU then please don't go anywhere we will cover in detail what is the ideal choice to pick when it comes to the MEG optional subjects and why. Let's look at the syllabus first. IGNU gives different codes to different subjects. All in all there are 19 subjects and masters of English literature. From MEG 1 to MEG 19 there are 19 subjects. Let's first understand what this MEG is. M stands for Masters and EG stands for English. Hence MEG stands for Masters in English. Out of the 19 subjects you just have to study 8 subjects in 2 years. 4 in the first year and 4 in the second year. You don't have to study all the 19 subjects so you can take a deep breath and relax. These 8 subjects are also further divided. In the first year you get 1 compulsory subject and 3 optional subjects. Similarly in the second year also you get 1 compulsory and 3 optional subjects. Now let's move on and talk about the compulsory subject. In the first year the compulsory subject is MEG 5 which is Literary Theory and Criticism. They have chosen this as compulsory because it is a very difficult and tricky subject and nobody wants to take it otherwise. So if this was not a compulsory subject no student would have opted for it. Also since this is a subject which is very important when it comes to English literature they have made it compulsory. In the second year they have given you a choice even in choosing a compulsory subject. You can either choose MEG 4 which is Aspect of Language or MEG 15 which is Comparative Literature and you have to choose one of these two and apart from this you have to choose 3 optional subjects about which we are going to talk in a while. Now like I said you have total of 19 subjects if you minus 3 compulsory subject that is MEG 5 Literary Theory and Criticism, MEG 4 Aspects of Language and MEG 15 Comparative Literature you will be left with 16 subjects. These 16 subjects are divided into 5 modules. Each module has 3 subjects except for the last module which has 4 subjects. So 5 into 3 is 15 and the last subject has one additional last module has one additional subject so it goes to 16. So if you have to conclude what this syllabus structure looks like you can say that in the first year you have to study MEG 5 plus 3 other optional subjects similarly in second year you have to choose between MEG 4 and MEG 15 and take 3 optional subjects as well. When it comes to optional out of the 5 modules you have to choose 2 modules in 2 years one module in the first year and the second module in the second year. Now before moving ahead a quick reminder for all my lovely students out there if you are looking for MA entrance, PhD entrance, UGC net, PGT TGT exam updates then please follow us on Instagram and Facebook we regularly post important information related to exams on these social media sites. Moreover we also share quick revision videos on our Instine Facebook page every Wednesday where we help you revise important topics in less than 60 seconds. Friends now let's talk about how you should select any optional subject. I will quickly take you through three criterias you should select any optional subject which meets all the three criterias. Now criteria one this is based on the syllabus you should always choose a subject whose syllabus is less a lot of students who enroll themselves in IGNU for MA English are either working professionals or our housewives or are busy preparing for some competitive exam which doesn't leave them with a lot of time in hand. That's why they have chosen the distance route to education. Now in that case you should definitely choose the subject in which the syllabus is less so that you have time to complete the syllabus and then time to even revise it right so that's the first criteria. Now we move on to criteria number two which is to make sure that whatever subject you're opting for study material of the same is readily available online and offline both. Though IGNU provides us with books but what if you are not able to understand the language of those books plus we know that IGNU won't offer you any classes and you have no other option but to study on your own you neither have teachers to explain you nor you have seniors to guide you it would be a waste of time if you're unable to find any online study material or reference books on the topic that you have chosen to study because then you will be spending a lot of time understanding it comprehending it and trying to figure out what to write in the exam paper. Let's say it has a complicated novel which is not available online what will you do then you will start panicking and that won't really help you right so ensure that you only choose the subjects jinka study material or guide books available here. Moving on to the third criteria which is about choosing less complicated module you will find a lot of students who have this urge to choose a subject which is very difficult or very different which no one chooses now the thing that if they do this then the examiner will give them more marks but that's not the case instead what will happen is you will end up spending too much time on understanding that topic and hence you will score less marks in that exam so it is better that you choose subjects which are scoring in nature and which take less time to understand which are really easy to understand however if you're very determined to follow the subjects of your interest even if they are hard you only want to pursue those subjects then why not who is stopping you but make sure that you put your heart and soul into it only then you will be able to make marks in that subject. Now let's see that what you should choose between MEG 4 and MEG 15 we are first going to talk about the choice between the compulsory subject in second year and then later in this video I'm going to take you through the five modules which are optional and I'll tell you which one you should opt for in which year now friends out of MEG 4 and MEG 15 MEG 4 is a very very technical subject it is aspects of language pretty complicated very technical in nature plus its material is not available online I would suggest you never to take it rather the best choice would be to take MEG 15 that is comparative literature some students think that comparative literature is complicated but let me tell you that's not the case I'll give you an example if a question says write a note on symbols used in pride and prejudice by Jane Austen you can easily write it right no biggie but let's tweak the question the question says compare the symbols used in pride and prejudice and mill on the floss now you'll think that this is a very difficult question but actually it's not I'll tell you how first you have to write a paragraph on symbols in pride and prejudice then use the same symbols to write a paragraph on mill on the floss for example if you choose marriage as a symbol then you write a paragraph on marriage in pride and prejudice then you talk about marriage again in regards to mill on the floss and that is how you keep on doing till the time you conclude your answer another benefit of this is sometimes we don't have enough material to write about a single novel but when the question asks you for a comparison then you can easily write two pages on each novel so two pages on first novel two pages on the second novel and then two pages you can write comparing the two novels and giving your conclusions and hence you have enough material to write a six page answer which you might not have be able to write in case of a single novel therefore without a doubt I will suggest that you take 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you pick any author William Wordsworth Jonathan Swift William Shakespeare and there is a plenty of material available online in form of podcasts video lectures guidebooks summaries you name it and you have it secondly in UGC net and English PGT TGT exam British literature is the most asked portion so if you have these aspirations to clear all these exams this will be a win-win situation for you so in the first year you should opt for British literature which includes MEG one two and three British poetry British novel and British drama now let's talk about the optional in the second year I always suggest students to go for module number five which is American literature it has four subjects but you have to only choose three so you can skip the first subject and go for MEG 11 that is American novel MEG 17 which is American drama and MEG 18 which is American poetry this also has the same logic the material is readily available plus since it is just about a single country you can use the background information in all the papers related to American literature so you can read about American renaissance you can read about American romanticism and you can use the same information in all the three papers this might not hold true for the other modules like new literature because it has one paper on Canadian literature and one paper on Australian literature now you have to read different countries in order to apply and write answers for different papers now the question comes what about Indian literature isn't that a easier choice than to choose American literature a lot of students want to opt for Indian literature because they find it very easy now you'll be tempted to opt for it because it hits home right but friends you won't find summaries and analysis of Indian literary text online Premchand Kalidas in Saro pe aapko material nahi milega and that's why we avoid Indian literature because the material is not available neither guidebooks are available nor online websites are there which give you detailed summary of these texts plus the second disadvantage is the syllabus of Indian literature is pretty lengthy American literature is competitively have a very very decent syllabus and with that note I have reached to the end of this lecture let me know what subjects have you chosen in Ignu second year if you found this video helpful then please like the video and also share it with other fellow aspirants if you have any questions and doubts or if you want me to make a video on any other topic feel free to put that in the comment section below I would fondly read your comments and will reply to them that's it from my side for this video lecture I'll meet you very soon with another interesting video till the time we meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpita karwad.com