English

STRENGTHS:

•The department has a well-knit,committed and vibrant faculty, who apart from being

proficient teachers are alsoinstrumental in maintaining a strong bond and a high level

of interaction with students atall levels.

• The faculty of the departmenthas adopted varied teaching methodologies to

make the classroom environmentreceptive and non-oppressive for its students.

• Even without initiating anovert division of classes into weak and strong

students, it addresses the needsof the ‘weak’ by holding special remedial classes for

them. Besides, special attentionis paid to such students during tutorials, where they

are taught how to write an answerto a question, how and what to look up in a

reference book, what is therelation between a text and its form/ structure etc.

• The students are encouraged toexplore beyond their prescribed curriculum by

exposing them to variousseminars, extension talks, lecture series etc., which are a

regular feature of thedepartment.

• The department is committed toprovide varied exposure to students and encourages

them to not only participate inseminars in other colleges but also exposes them to the

larger world of literature.

• It also uses audio-video mediato make the works of literature come alive within the

college premises and also helpstudents relate their course work with experiential

knowledge regular through visitsto screening of the plays.

WEAKNESSES

•Large classes. At times we have to struggle to find improvising ways

  to engage rural students to Englishfoundation course, in particular due

 to large number of students and  Govt. apathy to create new posts.

OPPORTUNITIES

•English department sees opportunities in being at the epicenter of the

  college’s wide-ranging collaborativeenterprises like, holding student-

  centric events, guest-lectures, poetry andprose readings by writers and students, holding departmental seminars, paneldiscussions, film screenings

  etc. All these impart to students culturalvision and fresh energy.

•Strategic position of the college could be utilized to undertake more

  professional Courses like English Honoursto equip students better.

CHALLENGES

•It is a challenge to generate interest of students, who come from diverse

   backgrounds, in an altogether new discipline(Literature).

•Equally challenging is to expose such students to the discipline’s course

   content, its synergetic diversity andcoherence.

•Both these and related challenges are well taken by the Department.