Department of English

MOTTO: CONFIDENCE WITH CREATIVITY

VISION: To provide holistic development in students by imparting quality-oriented teaching, nurturing literary sensibilities, language competence and critical thinking skills.

MISSION:

➢ To impart proficiency in communication skills.
➢ Innovative thinking and research skills.
➢ To inculcate good values and aesthetics through Literature.
➢ Innovation in teaching, excellence in scholarly and creative work and preparing graduates for fulfilling careers.

ESTABLISHMENT:

Degree	Course	Established Year
UG	BA English	1995

About the Department:

The Department of English of Salesian College of higher Education was established in the year 1995. The Department offers UG degrees at BA level affiliated to Nagaland University. With four faculty members in the department, we provide intensive mentoring to our students both in and beyond the classroom in a wide variety of forums. Ongoing lectures, film screenings, departmental seminars and various competitions on interdisciplinary themes make up our calendar. As we look forward, the English department remains committed to its mission of inculcating good values and aesthetics through Literature.

English Department Faculty Members

Vitsino Haikam

Tseili Dukhru

Lophro Mary Sapriinamei

Streamlet Bathari

ESTABLISHMENT:

Faculty Recharging Strategies
NAME	QUALIFICATION	ACHIEVEMENT
Lophro Mary Sapriinamei	MA	Seminar –4 Workshop – 1 Conference – 1 Publication – 1
Vitsino Haikam	MA , MPhil.	Seminar – 6 Conference – 1 Publication - 2
Tseili Dukhru	MA, NET	Seminar – 3 Workshop – 1
Streamlet Bathari	MA, NET	Seminar – 3 Conference – 1

DEGREE OFFERED:

Department of English

Department

ENGLISH

Programme Specific Outcome

● Educate students in both the artistry and utility of the English language through the study of literature and other contemporary forms of culture.
● Provide students with the critical faculties necessary in an academic environment, on the job, and in an increasingly complex, interdependent world.
● Graduate students who are capable of performing research, analysis, and criticism of literary and cultural texts from different historical periods and genres.
● Assist students in the development of intellectual flexibility, creativity, and cultural literacy so that they may engage in life-long learning.
● 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.

Semester - I

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	ENG (G) 101 B.A.GENERAL ENGLISH: Poetry, Basic English Usage and Language Skills.	● To provide the students with basic knowledge of literary terms. ● To enable the students to understand the usage of English grammar. ● To develop basic writing skills.
2	ELENG 102 ELECTIVE ENGLISH: Poetry, Grammar and Language skills.	● To provide with different metres of poetry in literature from various centuries. ● To enable the students with scholarly writings.
3	ENG (H) 103:History of English Literature	● To acquaint the students with rich writings of British literature from Elizabethan to Modern Age. ● To familiarize with various writings through the centuries.

Semester - II

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	ENG (G) 201 B.A.GENERAL ENGLISH: Drama, Prose and Language skills.	● To enhance the students on the difference between drama and prose writing of different age. ● To enable the students with comprehensive knowledge on creative writings.
2	ELENG 202 ELECTIVE ENGLISH: Poetry and Applied Language skills.	● To acquaint the student with various styles of writing poetry through different ages. ● To familiarize the student with the beauty and meters of poetry.
3	ENG (H) 203: History of English Language and Literary Terms.	● To develop the importance of language in literature throughout history of mankind. ● To enable the students with the history of English language and how words and grammar develop. ● To enhance the student with basic phonetics and critical literary terms.

Semester - III

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	ALENG (A) 301 B.A.ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH: Poetry, short story and composition..	● Appreciate and analyze the poem and plays in the large socio-political context of the time. ● Engage with the major genres and forms of English literature and fundamental skills required for close reading and critical thinking of the texts and concepts.
2	ELENG 302 ELECTIVE ENGLISH: Drama and Language skills.	● Explain and analyze the rise of the critical mind. ● Trace the development of Elizabethan tragedy and comedy. ● Appreciate and analyze the formal variations of classicism
3	ENG (H): Writings in English from Nagaland.	● Understand the socio-historical-political-economic contexts of colonialism. ● Appreciate and analyze the growing spectres of inequality arising women identity in Naga society.

Semester - IV

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	ALT. ENG 401 : Alternative English (Prose, Poetry & Language Skills)	● To enable the students in understanding the style and structural components of Modern English prose and drama. ● To introduce the students to Indian poetry in English relating to the rich cultural context.
2	El. ENG 402: Elective English (Fiction and Applied Language Skills)	● To familiarize the students with different features and strands of fiction writing. ● To introduce novel as an emerging literary genre during 17th and 18th century fiction with particular focus on the early women writers. ● To enable the students to have a firm grasp of communication requirement in social, business And official context.
3	ENG (H) 403: Drama & Composition.	● To introduce the students to different aspect of drama and dramaturgy. ● To acquaint the readers about the different features, intricacies and understand multi layered social comment of Modern English Drama.

Semester - V

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	El. ENG 501 : Elective English ( Literary Criticism)	● To provide the students with the knowledge of the development of Criticism from Greek Antiquity, the development and background of English Criticism. ● To enable the students to comprehend and analyse English Prose and Poetry
2	ENG (H) 502 : Fiction and Language Skills	● Making the students familiar with different aspects of fiction writing. ● Acquainting the novel as a dominant literary genre in the 18th and late 19th Century with new experimentations in the later years. ● Develop the critical analysis through in-depth study and critical evaluations of literary texts.
3	ENG (H) 503 : Literary Criticism	● To acquaint the students with the existing traditions in Anglo-American Criticism.. ● To broaden the students’ understanding of a literary text by interpreting and exploring it through the critical canons.

Semester - VI

	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	El. ENG. 601 (A) : American Literature (Poetry, Prose & Language Skills)	● To introduce different form of Literature, which, owing to its difference, will develop a more eclectic approach to literary text in a wider cultural context. ● Ensuring an in-depth study of some representative text of American poetry.
2	ENG (H) 605 : Literary Theory	● To educate the students about the major critical movements in literature and its implications on the society in general ● To enable the students to craft their own discussions based on the author’s ideology and thinking.. ● To provide a theoretical framework which will enable the students to make their own interpretations based on various theories.
3	ENG (H) 606 (A) : American Literature (Fiction & Drama)	● To acquaint the students with a comprehensive history of American Fiction and Drama. ● To enlighten the students about the different forms of Modern American drama by giving them adequate knowledge about the social, historical and cultural backgrounds of the plays.

FYUGP Course

Semester - I

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-1/PAPER 1: INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE (ICL).	● Appreciate the pluralistic and inclusive nature of Indian classical literature and its attributes. ● Enable the students to historically situate the classical literature and diverse literary cultures from India, mainly from Sanskrit, but also Tamil, Prakrit and Pali by focusing on major texts in the principal genres. ● Trace the evolution of literary cultures in India in its/their contexts, issues of genres, themes and critical cultures.
2	ELENG 302 ELECTIVE ENGLISH: Drama and Language skills.	● To engage the students with classical literary traditions of Europe from the beginning till the 5th century AD. ● To enable the students to understand the evolution of the concept of classic and classical in the European literary thinking and its reception over a period of time. ● Develop the critical analysis through in-depth study and critical evaluations of classical literature of Europe.

Semester - II

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-3/PAPER 3: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH (IWE).	● To teach the historical trajectory of various genres of IWE from colonial times till present. ● To enable the student to critically engage with Indian literary texts written in English in terms of colonialism/post colonialism, regionalism, and nationalism. ● To enable the student to understand and appreciate the distinct use of English language in IWE.
2	C-4-PAPER 4: BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 14TH TO 17TH CENTURIES (BPD-1)	● Ensure an in-depth study in order to understand the tradition of English literature from14th to17th centuries. ● To enable the students in developing a clear understanding of Renaissance Humanism that provides the basis for the prescribed texts. ● Appreciate and analyze the poems and plays in the larger socio-political and religious contexts of the time.

Semester - III

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-5/PAPER 5: AMERICAN LITERATURE (AL)	● To enable the students’ understanding of the depth and diversity of American literature, keeping in mind the history and culture of the United States of America from the colonial period to the present (17th century to 21st century) ● To critically engage with the complex nature of American society, given its journey from specific religious obligations and their literary transformations (such as Puritanism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, etc.) to the growth of anti- or non-Christian sensibilities. ● To educate the students about the African American experience in America (both ante-bellum and post-bellum) to issues of exclusion in societies relevant to their learning experience.
2	C-6/PAPER 6: POPULAR LITERATURE (PL)	● Trace the early history of print culture in England and the emergence of genre fiction and bestsellers. ● To engage the student with discussions on high and low culture, canonical and non-canonical literature. ● To enlighten the students about the characteristics of various genres of non-literary fiction by use of various methods of literary analysis to interpret popular literature.

Semester - IV

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-7/PAPER 7: BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES	● Identify the major characteristics of the Comedy of Manners and Mock-Heroic poetry. ● Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and understanding of the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural thoughts of the 17thand 18thcenturies ● Examine critically keys themes in representative texts of the period, including Sin, Transgression, Love, Pride, revenge, sexuality, human follies, among others.
2	C-8/PAPER 8: BRITISH LITERATURE 18TH CENTURY	● Examine and analyze the form and function of satire in the eighteenth century ● Appreciate and analyze the formal variations of Classicism. ● Map the relationship between the formal and the political in the literature of the neoclassical period.

Semester - V

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-9/PAPER 9: BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE	● Understand the Romantic period in English literature in terms of its social, philosophical, intellectual, literary backgrounds including German and French influences ● Analyze and understand the main characteristics of Romanticism ● Appreciate the canonical and representative poems and prose of the writers of the Romantic period.
2	C-10/PAPER 10: BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CENTURY	● Identify and analyze the socio-economic-political contexts that inform the literature of the period ● Comment on the historical and political awareness of literary texts as reflected in the ● Transition from nature to culture across various genres ● Understand the conflict between self and society in different literary genres of the period
3	C-11/PAPER 11: WOMEN’S WRITING	● Recognize the importance of gender specificity in literature ● Understand and appreciate the representation of female experience in literature ● Explain the difference between the feminine and the feminist as opposed to the female ● Examine and appreciate the role played by socio-cultural-economic contexts in defining woman

Semester - VI

Sl. no.	Course Title	Course Outcome
1	C-12/PAPER 12: BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY	● Trace the history of modernism in the socio-cultural and intellectual contexts of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Europe ● Link and distinguish between modernity and modernism ● Explain the links between development in science and experiments in literature ● Explain the history of early twentieth-century modernism in the light of stream of consciousness, Jungian and Freudian ideas, Psychoanalysis, Imagism, Cubism, Vorticism
2	C-13/PAPER 13: MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA	● Understand the role of theatre and drama in the introduction and shaping of modernity ● Understand and engage with concepts like realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, the Avant Garde, the epic theatre, the theatre of the absurd, etc. ● Understand how meaning is created in theatre and be able to write about innovations ● Introduced into theatrical practice in the late nineteenth and the twentieth century
3	C-14/PAPER 14: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES	● Understand the social-historical-political-economic contexts of colonialism and postcolonialism in India and other countries affected by colonial rule ● Understand the scope of post-colonial literatures in India and elsewhere, primarily as a response to the long shadow of colonialism not just of colonial occupation ● See through a corpus of representative postcolonial texts from different colonial locations the effects of colonial rule on the language, culture, economy and habitat of specific groups of people affected by it.
4	C-15/ PAPER 15: LITERARY THEORY	● Identify theoretical concepts with theorists and movements with which they are associated and in the process understand their contexts ● Apply various theoretical frameworks and concepts to literary and cultural texts ● Evaluate and analyze strengths and limitations of theoretical frameworks and Arguments

BEST PRACTICES:

➢ Observation of important International Literary Events.
➢ Peer teaching and classroom reading.
➢ Departmental meetings every month.
➢ Conducting competitions like essay, drama, Handwriting, debate, poetry writing and extempore.
➢ Exposure visits and study tours.
➢ Conducting and attending workshops and departmental seminars.

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