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The Department of English and Foreign Languages became functional from June 2007. Started with the objective of enhancing English/Communication Skills, the Department offers M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes. The programmes aim at enabling students to gain subject knowledge, generate their own knowledge and the emphasis is especially on devising enabling processes to carry that knowledge into the real world in a meaningful manner - in other words converting knowledge into productive action. The Department has implemented a teaching-learning process that involves more participation by students. The classroom transaction is interactive, significantly departing from the teacher -tell-it-all modes. The students, instead, will do the course, learning how they learn. And by this exercise, the students are expected to become effective monitors of their learning. The pedagogy comprises training the students in capturing, storing, accessing, sharing, creating and applying knowledge. The Department is also going to play an important role in conducting special classes for Remedial English and Communication Skills for students drawn from the various disciplines in the campus. The special paper on Thinking and Cognition offers the most up to-date knowledge on perception, memory, imagery and problem solving to enhance one’s approach to problem solving. The paper “Soft Skills through Literature”
is designed with the purpose of first sensitizing students to soft
skill capacities by having for examples famous characters from classics
and then prompting them to identify those concepts and traits in
the areas of movies, comics, commericials etc. In addition the syllabus contains skill-based courses – “Literature: Analysis, Approaches and Applications,” “Copy Editing,” and “Public Speaking, Journalistic and Creative Writing.” The Department’s future plans include design of customized short-term courses for students from other disciplines to improve their communication skills. FACULTY STRENGTH The Department at present has a Professor and a Reader and four lecturers and the faculty strength is augmented by guest lecturers. M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE The programme is designed to impart employable skills at the same time concentrating on the perceptual and conceptual abilities. The literature sections are taught so as to enable
students to acquire cognitive skills. The pedagogical interface
will involve creating awareness of cognitive processes required
to make sense of the various texts. Students are led to make their own thoughts and
from this point onwards they will be trained in speaking and writing.
The progress in these areas of communication is supported by reading
of texts and listening to lectures. Students’ progress in the four domains of
communication is consistently monitored by the faculty. The programme aims at providing competencies for the cutting edge and making the Post Graduates Industry/Academia ready. In addition to Indian students, the department has students from China doing the Postgraduate programme and a one-year UG programme in English. M.PHIL AND PH.D Both full time and part time Areas of Specialization in Literature studies, English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Communication / Cognitive / Soft Skills.
The Department has a State-of-the-art Language Lab to train students in Communication. TEACHING METHODS Keeping in view the learners with varying competencies
the necessary shift from the traditional teacher-centric methodology
to learner-centric approach has been made. Students are trained
in methods of teaching English including Computer Assisted Language
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