Syllabus for

Academic Year  (2022)

The assessment methods developed by the course instructor (sometimes in consultation with the students) include three internal assessments, a mid-semester examination and an end-semester examination. Some papers also provide for flexibility in the structure and the mode of administering these assessments. Details of such testing patterns will be available through the respective course instructors as well as the syllabus for the papers. Feedback would be provided to students on their internal assessment which will enable them to build on their knowledge of the specific papers.

Thedepartment’sacademicworkbeganattheBannerghattaRoadCampusinMay2016.Withacademicprogramsthathavebeen designed to provide a comprehensive learning environment through faculty members trained in institutions of variousnational and international repute, the department provides a holistic approach to engaging with language, literature andculture. The department promotes an intellectual climate of critical and creative ideation that aims to inculcate among itsstudents a critical reading of the word and the world alike. It has geared its academic engagements towards mouldingstudentsintoresponsibleandsociallysensitivecitizensthroughprogramsthataredesignedtofacilitateholisticdevelopment.The academic programs seek to build academic, social and professional competencies along with an ethical outlook. Theacademic programs offered by the department are aligned with the University’s vision and mission. Offering programs attheundergraduate,postgraduate,andresearchlevels,thecoreareasofenquiryrangefromdomaininlanguageandliterature,tothoseinandaroundculture.ProgramscurrentlyofferedincludeBAEnglish(Hons);BA(LiberalArts);MA(EnglishandCultural Studies), and PhD (Cultural Studies). The Department of English and Cultural Studies (BGR Campus) hasconsistently worked towards evolving novel and pertinent learning environments that are highly learner-centric, firmlylocating its academic exercises in our contemporary world. The courses designed are a vibrant confluence of valuableengagementswithdisciplinesincludinghistory,sociology,philosophy,linguistics,ethics,comparativeliteratureandculture,among others. With faculty members having developed their expertise in a variety of fields including Gender Studies,PopularCulture,PostcolonialStudies,ScreenStudies,LanguageInstruction,andSociolinguisticsamongothers,itsacademicexercisesprovideforimmensescopeforstudentstolearn,unlearn,andrelearn,andworktowardsmoreinformedandeffectivesocial citizenship.

Towards critically reading the self, society and the imagined.

The Department of English and Cultural Studies aspires to promote an intellectual climate through artistic creation, critical mediation and innovative ideation in a culture of reciprocal transformation.

The BA English (Honours) is a three-year rigorous program, offering a platform for varied literary, cultural and professionalexplorations. This program has been designed after having taken stock of the shifts in English Studies as practiced andenvisionedindifferentpartsofthe globetowardsamore criticalculturalstudiesparadigm.Keepingthisinmindthecurriculum in its three-year span will comprise courses on Culture, Gender, Ecology, Cinema, Linguistics, History, Writing,Indian Epics, Urban Spaces, Disability Studies, Children’s Publishing, among others, and will equip them with a more nuancedunderstanding of life and society. Empowering students to pick up key skills, introducing them to crucial concerns and debatesin the field, helping them gain job-oriented training and enabling them to attempt public intellectualism are some of theenvisioned aims of the curriculum. Students are expected to make their choices as electives from the third semester onwards,where a student must choose an elective from either Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Language and Linguistics track inthe third and fourth semesters and from each strand from the fifth semester onwards. The student, therefore, would be creatinghis/herownpoolofelectivestowork withby alsoensuringexposuretoeach ofthetracks in eachsemester oftheprogram.

With committed faculty, the program hopes to bring in robust pedagogical practices, coupled with empathy towards studentneedsand intelligibility.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: Apply critical thinking skills to cultural texts, socio-political contexts, movements, and events while participating in curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities.

PO3: Generate research outputs by identifying and incorporating appropriate research methods and methodologies through engagements in the classroom, fieldwork, internship, and guided research.

PO4: Evaluate the discourses on citizenship, nation-state, gender and diversity, hegemonic practices and sustainability within regional, national and global contexts by employing the frameworks and concepts introduced in various courses.

PO5: Utilise writing skills to communicate effectively to support academic endeavours by consistent and systematic involvement in collaborative peer engagements and assignments, research, and internship projects.

PO6: Practise and display the skills of leadership and problem-solving by participating in and organising group assignments, national and international seminars, conferences, workshops, research projects, internships, apprenticeships, and co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

PO7: Demonstrate an understanding of the value of interdisciplinary inquiry.