Program Out-come
Students should be familiar with representative literary and cultural texts within a significant number of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.
Students should be able to apply critical and theoretical approaches to the reading and analysis of literary and cultural texts in multiple genres.
Students should be able to identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values, and themes that appear in literary and cultural texts and understand the way these ideas, values, and themes inform and impact culture and society, both now and in the past.
Students should be able to write analytically in a variety of formats, including essays, research papers, reflective writing, and critical reviews of secondary sources.
Students should be able to ethically gather, understand, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of written and electronic sources.
Students should be able to understand the process of communicating and interpreting human experiences through literary representation using historical contexts and disciplinary methodologies.
Program Specific Out-come
On pursuing an emphasis in Literature, English gain a deeper understanding of the resources of the written word.
It helps students to explore the entire range of human experience in the resources of language in Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Prose and Drama.
It helps students to build skills of analytical and interpretive arguments; become careful and critical readers, Practice writing in a variety of genres as a process of intellectual inquiry, creative expression and ultimately to become more effective thinkers and communicators who are well equipped for a variety of careers in our information intensive society.
It offers students the opportunity to study influential writings from the British, American and global Anglophone traditions.
It focuses on a historical period, an issue or theme, a critical approach or a literary genre.
It provides imagination and critical insights into all areas of human experience- war and peace, nature and culture, love and sexuality, selfhood and social identity, justice and atrocity, the burdens of history and the dreams of the future.
Studying Literature encourages the graduates to view the reading of challenging and imaginative texts as an essential and rewarding part of a life –long commitment to learning and growth.
Read complex texts actively recognize key passages, raise questions, appreciate complexity and ambiguity, and comprehend the literal and figurative uses of language.
Increases confidence in speaking publicly, articulate clear questions and ideas in class discussion; listen thoughtfully and respectfully to other ideas and prepare, organize and deliver engaging oral presentations.
Enjoy the experience of reading challenging Literature, appreciate literature’s ability to elicit feeling, cultivate the imagination and call us to account as humans.
Learning Out-Come
By the end of the B.A. English programme, the students will be able to
Acquire critical temper, creative ability, and realisation of human values
Cultivate humaneness, respect, empathy and openness to the varied affiliations in different contexts across the world
Employ the knowledge gained, in criticism, interpretation and in the different modes of writing and oral communication
Interpret historical and cultural forces that shaped humanity through literary texts
Formulate the interconnectedness of all areas of knowledge and its synthesis, and get inspired by great minds, thoughts, and actions.