Department Profile

Introduced in 2007, the English Department initially used to offer course only for General students but since 2009 the Department has been offering Honours Programme as well at the undergraduate level. Earlier, the nature of the B.A English Honours programme was annual (Part I+Part II+Part III) but the semester wise choice based credit system is currently being adopted in accordance with the guidelines of the affiliating university. Apart from three full time teachers there are two NET-qualified SACT faculties in the Department. Till now, six eminent external academicians have visited the Department to deliver lectures. The Department has organized one UGC sponsored national level seminar and one national level webinar in addition to a theatre workshop involving external experts. The students of the Department participated in the essay writing competition organized by Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, West Bengal and also in the seven-day web workshop organized by Santipur College, Nadia, West Bengal in recent past. Moreover, the students contributed to the post-workshop e-book (ISBN: 978-81-937204-2-4). Two of the faculties are currently engaged as Members of the Board of Studies in English (UG) of the affiliating university.