About the Department
The Department of English has every reason to feel proud of its spirit and social service. It was established in 2002 and committed to promote the vision to create a congenial environment for the students to learn English and use it in their day-to-day communication.
Vision
To create a congenial environment for the students to learn English and use it for day-to-day communication. To make the department a Centre for Excellence in English.
Mission
- To motivate the students to have a special liking for English.
- To make the students understand the importance of the language at the global level.
- To adopt new techniques to improve communication
- To create better opportunities for employment by making them acquire excellent communication skills in English.
Programmes offered
The department offers instruction in English under part II for the Undergraduate classes, and it runs U.G. & P.G. and M.Phil. programmes.
Programme Highlights
The instruction in part II for the UG courses focuses on Grammar,
formal writing, and creative writing in an effort to give the students practical
competence in the use of all language skills. It is a course designed to help students
face the competitive examinations for their career and also provide them with a system
of values.
At the U.G. and the P.G. levels, there are papers of high literary
content and literary training and also papers of professional interest. Papers such as
Research Methodology, Translation Studies, New Literature in English, Journalism, Media
Writing, English Language Teaching, British Literature, Indian Classical Literature in
Translation, Science Fiction,Detective Literature, Literary Theories and Criticism,
South Asian Literature in English,Green Literature,Diasporic Literature and Women's
Writing in English are included. These also help them face competitive examinations like
NET and SLET successfully. The project work helps the students put to use the knowledge
of Research Methodology they gathered in the Methodology paper.
