What We Teach

Beginning this year, the courses  are  transitioning  to  the National Education Policy’s Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (UGCF) syllabi. The new curriculum offers Ability & Skill Enhancement and Value Addition courses to students across different streams apart from Generic  &  Discipline Specific Elective and Core Courses. The English AEC course develops critical reading, expository and academic  writing, debate and discussion abilities en-route sensitizing students about the importance of language as a mediator of knowledge and identity. It introduces the cultural and intellectual heritage of the English language as well as a reflective understanding of the structure and complexity of the language and the literature that exists in it.
English SEC courses aim at  imparting  practical  skills,  hands-on training, soft skills, etc., to enhance the employability of students. English VACs on offer aim at building communication skills for improved and effective social and professional performance and personality building as well as focus on  environment,  ethics  and culture. The Core courses on offer include  World  Literatures, Women’s Writing, Literary & Cultural Theories,  Communication and Translation, Film, Gender and Performance Studies. Students develop theoretical perspectives and critical approaches  that  helps them read a wide variety of texts with close attention to themes, conventions, contexts, and their own positions in terms of community, class, caste, religion, language, region, gender, politics and global vs. local.

Elective courses like Postcolonial Literatures, Partition Literature and Popular Literature draw closer attention to the relationship between literature and society. Translation & Film Studies, Comic Strips & Graphic novels and Text and Performance courses provide students with a theoretical understanding as well as  practical experience in translation and, multi-media,  film  &  performance theories apart from reading translations, films, comic strips, graphic novels and performances as culturally situated texts.

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The Core courses on offer include World Literatures, Women’s Writing, Literary & Cultural Theories, Communication and Translation, Film, Gender and Performance Studies. Students develop theoretical perspectives and critical approaches that helps them read a wide variety of texts with close attention to themes, conventions, contexts, and their own positions in terms of community, class, caste, religion, language, region, gender, politics and global vs. local.

Courses with an interdisciplinary bent like Literature in Social Spaces and Literature in Cross-Cultural Encounters encourage students to look at texts with different disciplinary lenses. Papers such as Applied Gender Studies: Media Literacies and Contemporary India: Women and Empowerment attempt to mainstream ideas of gender studies and equip students from all streams to become informed consumers as well as ethical participants in popular cultural discourses.