UP Assistant Professor, Govt Degree College Exam

UP PSC ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SYLLABUS

Syllabus

ORIENTATION SESSIONS

BRITISH LITERATURE

BL 1 History of British Literature (20/09/25)

01:31:23
BL 2 Early Renaissance England, Late Renaissance England (23/09/25)

02:00:48
BL 3 Beginning of English Prose & University Wits (24/09/25)

02:03:40
BL 4 Comedy of Humours & Metaphysical Poetry (27/09/25)

01:44:31
BL 5 Puritan England, Milton & The Restoration (02/10/25)

01:57:43
BL 6 Neoclassical age, Popular Prose Writing & Major Neoclassicists (04/10/25)

02:09:03
BL 7 Rise of the Novel – Psychological Realism & Epistolary Novel (25/10/25)

01:22:41
BL 8 Beginning of Romanticism, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads & Early Romantics (05/12/25)

01:27:51
BL 9 Later Romantics, Gothic Novel & Historical Novel (12/12/25)

01:25:51
BL 10 Domestic Novel, Prose & Beginnings of the Victorian age (12/03/26)

01:46:34
BL 11 Victorian & 20th Century Literature (21/03/26)

01:51:16

UNIT – II : POETRY (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Modern version) (13/11/25)

02:05:43
John Donne – The Canonization (07/10/25)

01:44:06
John Donne’s Poems (Metaphysical Poetry) – (06/12/25)

01:10:07
John Donne – The Ecstasy (15/01/26)

01:32:57
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (13/12/25)

01:30:14
Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion (22/11/25)

01:54:45
John Milton – Paradise Lost: Book I (30/10/25)

01:43:27
Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1 and 2) – (23/10/25)

01:12:12
Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1 and 2) 2 – (11/11/25)

01:11:22
William Blake – The Tyger & The Lamb (20/12/25)

01:31:16
William Wordsworth – Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (04/11/25)

01:21:16
William Wordsworth – Ode: On Intimations of Immortality (30/12/25)

01:52:53
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (03/01/26)

01:27:52
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Christabel (01/04/26)

01:30:31
John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn (06/11/25)

01:27:07
John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale (01/11/25)

01:26:04
PB Shelly – To a Skylark (28/10/25)

01:33:35
P. B. Shelley – Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (24/02/26)

01:33:21
Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Defence of Lucknow (28/02/26)

01:31:14
Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses (15/11/25)

01:33:33
Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Lotos Eaters (10/02/26)

01:26:22
Robert Browning- The Last Ride Together & My Last Duchess (04/12/25)

01:23:19
Matthew Arnold – Scholar Gypsy (25/11/25)

01:39:58
Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach (01/01/26)

01:11:86
W. B. Yeats: Prayer for My Daughter & The Second Coming (18/11/25)

01:32:37
W.B Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium (22/01/26)

01:35:46
W H Auden – Musee Des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W B Yeats & The Shield of Achilles (09/12/25)

01:41:18
Philip Larkin – Church Going & Poetry of Departures (27/01/26)

01:50:31
Ted Hughes -The Though Fox & Hawk Roosting (02/12/25)

01:39:24
Seamus Heaney – Digging & Punishment (10/04/26)

01:38:59

UNIT II POETRY SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Chaucer Prologue to Canterbury Tales 1/2

01:30:43
Prologue to Canterbury Tales 2/2

01:31:16
Donne – The Canonization and Valediction Forbidding Mourning (RECORDING by KV)

37:39
Donne -The Ecstasy

15:27
Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (RECORDING by KV)

01:02:53
Paradise Lost Book I (RECORDING by KV)

41:37
Rape of the Lock Part 1/2

01:48:26
Rape of the Lock Part 2/2

01:32:33
William Blake – The Tyger & The Lamb

46:31
William Wordsworth – Tintern Abbey & Prelude (NOT-IN-SYLLABUS)

01:36:43
William Wordsworth – Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (RECORDING by KV)

01:40:18
Coleridge -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (RECORDING by KV)

30:45
Keats- Ode on a Grecian Urn (RECORDING by KV)

26:20
Shelley- To a Skylark (RECORDING BY KV)

25:23
Tennyson – The Lotos-Eaters (RECORDING by KV)

14:13
Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach (RECORDING by KV)

58:53
Matthew Arnold – The Scholar Gipsy (RECORDING by KV)

01:50:49
T S Eliot – The Waste Land – Overview (RECORDING by KV)

01:26:21
WB Yeats – A Prayer for My Daughter (RECORDING by KV)

21:56
W B Yeats : The Second Coming, A Prayer for my Daugher

01:54:45
W.H Auden-In Memory of W.B Yeats

42:29
W.H Auden-Petition, Consider, The Shield of Achilles (IN SYLLABUS), Partition

40:46
Philip Larkin-Church Going

01:09:43
Ted Hughes – The Thought Fox (RECORDING by KV)

32:21
Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

58:48
Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

40:04
Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

39:06

UNIT – III : DRAMA (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (10/01/26)

01:27:14
Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus

22:40
William Shakespeare: Hamlet; Twelfth Night (09/10/25)

01:38:45
William Shakespeare: Hamlet (14/10/25)

01:12:35
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (16/10/25)

01:28:28
John Webster: Duchess of Malfi (16/12/2025)

01:42:40
Ben Jonson – Volpone (23/12/25)

01:43:34
Aphra Behn – The Rover (07/02/26)

01:48:11
Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer (31/01/26)

01:49:43
G. B. Shaw – Candida (27/12/25)

01:41:32
T. S. Eliot – The Family Reunion (21/02/26)

01:30:04
T S Eliot – The Family Reunion (14/03/26)

01:58:03
Harold Pinter – The Homecoming (14/02/26)

01:35:09
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot (24/01/26)

01:42:32
John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (19/03/26)

01:35:00

UNIT III DRAMA SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Dr Faustus

01:32:15
William Shakespeare- Hamlet Part 1/9

36:20
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2/9

35:10
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3/9

28:27
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4/9

36:52
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5/9

34:36
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6/9

42:19
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7/9

42:25
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8/9

24:22
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9/9

44:41
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night Part 1/3

01:44:55
William Shakespeare Twelfth Night – Part 2/3

55:21
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night Characters and Themes 3/3

29:00
Waiting for Godot Part 1 (RECORDING by KV)

49:52
Waiting for Godot Part 2 (RECORDING by KV)

57:19
Waiting for Godot Part 3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:15:46

UNIT IV FICTION AND PROSE (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews (29/01/26)

01:33:54
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (18/12/25)

01:48:04
Charles Dickens – Hard Times (03/02/26)

01:35:33
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles (10/03/26)

01:36:23
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (05/02/26)

01:38:14
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (17/01/26)

01:35:23
Bacon – Essays Of Studies Of Marriage and Single Life (06/01/26)

01:36:04
Bacon – Essays Of Studies Of Marriage and Single Life & Of Adversity (09/01/26)

01:35:23
William Golding – Lord of the Flies (15/04/26)

02:02:39

UNIT IV FICTION AND PROSE SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (RECORDING by KV)

16:56
Hard Times by Dickens (RECORDING by KV)

41:47
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles (RECORDING by KV)

40:43
Portrait of the Artist Part 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:39:16
Portrait of the Artist Part 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:03:34
Portrait of the Artist Part 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:02:06
Francis Bacon – Of Studies

29:29
Francis Bacon – Of Truth

34:41
James Stuart Mill – On Liberty (RECORDING by KV)

30:16

UNIT V: LINGUISTICS

UNIT VI: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

UNIT VI: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Midnight’s Children 1/3 by Salman Rushdie (RECORDING by KV)

49:59
Midnight’s Children 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

00:00
Midnight’s Children 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

33:58
The God of Small Things Characters, Themes, Symbols (1/4)

01:05:54
The God of Small Things Analysis 1 (2/4)

02:02:10
The God of Small Things Plot Analysis 2 (3/4)

01:01:43
The God of Small Things Plot Analysis 3 (4/4)

01:17:17
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala (RECORDING by KV)

43:23
Jayanta Mahapatra – Grandfather

01:12:29

UNIT VII: AMERICAN LITERATURE SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Walt Whitman-One’s Self I Sing, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

31:21
Frost – Birches (NOT IN SYLLABUS) and Mending Wall (IN SYLLABUS)

14:44
Death of a Salesman (RECORDING by KV)

01:33:58
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

23:10
Daddy by Sylvia Plath (RECORDING by KV)

01:12:01
Lady Lazarus – Plath (RECORDING by KV)

38:51
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (RECORDING by KV)

21:53
Tennessee Williams-The Glass Menagerie part 1

54:38
Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie part 2

01:21:51

UNIT VII : AMERICAN LITERATURE (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

UNIT VIII: NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

UNIT X : LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Gustave Flaubert – Madam Bovary (RECORDING by KV)

31:07
Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du mal) (RECORDING by KV)

28:31
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground (RECORDING by KV)

32:30
Sa’adat Hasan Manto – Toba Tek Singh (17/03/26)

02:12:30
Definitions of Translation & Early Theorists (28/03/26)

02:13:47
Literature in Translation (04/04/26)

01:59:12
Literature in Translation (12/04/26)

01:57:09
Vijay Tendulkar – Silence! The Court is in Session (14/04/26)

01:46:25

UNIT IX – WOMEN WRITING

UNIT XI: LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

CONTEMPORARY GENRES

VALLATH SPECIAL LECTURE

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & CURRENT AFFAIRS

GK & CA – ONLY PDF
Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

01:27:24
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

02:06:00
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

01:54:39
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

01:55:19
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

01:23:17
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

01:39:21
General Knowledge + Current Affairs

02:08:23
Historical Background of Indian Constitution (26/03/26)

01:51:40
Articles (30/03/26)

01:42:25
Current Events, Indian Polity, Executive, Judiciary & Legislature (08/04/26)

02:06:25
Judiciary, Legislature, Modern Indian History & Indian National Congress (09/04/26)

02:07:06
Indian history, Indian Geography & Indian Rivers (16/04/26)

02:05:05
Indian Geography, General Science & ISRO (17/04/26)

02:00:46

REVISION SESSION

TOPIC WISE QUIZZES

UNIT II POERTY
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
John Donne – Canonization
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock
William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
John Keats-Ode on a Nightingale
Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy
Lord Tennyson – LOTOS-EATERS
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming
Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach
W.B.Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Philip Larking – Church Going
UNIT III DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
George Orwell – 1984
Of Truth
Francis Bacon – Of Studies
Of Marriage and Single Life
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

About Course

Course Content

UP PSC ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SYLLABUS

Syllabus

ORIENTATION SESSIONS

Orientation (18/09/25)

BRITISH LITERATURE

BL 1 History of British Literature (20/09/25)

BL 2 Early Renaissance England, Late Renaissance England (23/09/25)

BL 3 Beginning of English Prose & University Wits (24/09/25)

BL 4 Comedy of Humours & Metaphysical Poetry (27/09/25)

BL 5 Puritan England, Milton & The Restoration (02/10/25)

BL 6 Neoclassical age, Popular Prose Writing & Major Neoclassicists (04/10/25)

BL 7 Rise of the Novel – Psychological Realism & Epistolary Novel (25/10/25)

BL 8 Beginning of Romanticism, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads & Early Romantics (05/12/25)

BL 9 Later Romantics, Gothic Novel & Historical Novel (12/12/25)

BL 10 Domestic Novel, Prose & Beginnings of the Victorian age (12/03/26)

BL 11 Victorian & 20th Century Literature (21/03/26)

UNIT – II : POETRY (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Modern version) (13/11/25)

John Donne – The Canonization (07/10/25)

John Donne’s Poems (Metaphysical Poetry) – (06/12/25)

John Donne – The Ecstasy (15/01/26)

Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (13/12/25)

Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion (22/11/25)

John Milton – Paradise Lost: Book I (30/10/25)

Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1 and 2) – (23/10/25)

Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (Canto 1 and 2) 2 – (11/11/25)

William Blake – The Tyger & The Lamb (20/12/25)

William Wordsworth – Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (04/11/25)

William Wordsworth – Ode: On Intimations of Immortality (30/12/25)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (03/01/26)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Christabel (01/04/26)

John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn (06/11/25)

John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale (01/11/25)

PB Shelly – To a Skylark (28/10/25)

P. B. Shelley – Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (24/02/26)

Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Defence of Lucknow (28/02/26)

Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses (15/11/25)

Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Lotos Eaters (10/02/26)

Robert Browning- The Last Ride Together & My Last Duchess (04/12/25)

Matthew Arnold – Scholar Gypsy (25/11/25)

Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach (01/01/26)

W. B. Yeats: Prayer for My Daughter & The Second Coming (18/11/25)

W.B Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium (22/01/26)

W H Auden – Musee Des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W B Yeats & The Shield of Achilles (09/12/25)

Philip Larkin – Church Going & Poetry of Departures (27/01/26)

Ted Hughes -The Though Fox & Hawk Roosting (02/12/25)

Seamus Heaney – Digging & Punishment (10/04/26)

UNIT II POETRY SYLLABUS BASED SELF PACED VIDEOS

Chaucer Prologue to Canterbury Tales 1/2

Prologue to Canterbury Tales 2/2

Donne – The Canonization and Valediction Forbidding Mourning (RECORDING by KV)

Donne -The Ecstasy

Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (RECORDING by KV)

Paradise Lost Book I (RECORDING by KV)

Rape of the Lock Part 1/2

Rape of the Lock Part 2/2

William Blake – The Tyger & The Lamb

William Wordsworth – Tintern Abbey & Prelude (NOT-IN-SYLLABUS)

William Wordsworth – Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (RECORDING by KV)

Coleridge -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (RECORDING by KV)

Keats- Ode on a Grecian Urn (RECORDING by KV)

Shelley- To a Skylark (RECORDING BY KV)

Tennyson – The Lotos-Eaters (RECORDING by KV)

Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach (RECORDING by KV)

Matthew Arnold – The Scholar Gipsy (RECORDING by KV)

T S Eliot – The Waste Land – Overview (RECORDING by KV)

WB Yeats – A Prayer for My Daughter (RECORDING by KV)

W B Yeats : The Second Coming, A Prayer for my Daugher

W.H Auden-In Memory of W.B Yeats

W.H Auden-Petition, Consider, The Shield of Achilles (IN SYLLABUS), Partition

Philip Larkin-Church Going

Ted Hughes – The Thought Fox (RECORDING by KV)

Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

Edmund Spenser – Epithalamion 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

UNIT – III : DRAMA (LIVE CLASS VIDEOS)

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (10/01/26)

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus