As part of the scientific activities organized by thr Faculty of Translation and Languages, Professor Wasif Al-Salami ( The Dean of the Faculty ) gave a lecture entitled ( Teaching the Novel for Students of the Department of English ) in which he talked about the following points.
- The novel as a literary genre- Its constituents - Its forms - Its types - Its aims.
- The factors which led to the rise of the English novel.
- The realistic novel as a new way of presentation.
- The important novelists at the earlier beginning of the English like Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding , and Samuel Richardson .
- The concern of the earlier novelists with giving moral instruction to the readers for the sake of reforming what is wrong .
- The way of studying the novel by the students in preparing for their exam.