Department of English and Foreign Languages
Overview
The Department of English represents a dynamic community of learners, researchers and teaching staff motivated to contribute to on- going dialogues in their various areas of study. The Department aims to foster a proud tradition of academic excellence, with students involved in widening their horizons of knowledge and faculty members engaged in not only devoted and interdisciplinary teaching but diligent research, creative work, and awareness initiatives as well. The Department is conceived with the broader understanding that humanistic knowledge provides an ideal foundation for exploring and understanding the human experience. It recognizes the study of subjects categorized under Humanities and Languages helps us to have a better understanding of the past, while at the same time giving us a clearer picture of what the future has in its store.
The Department comprises a dynamic community of learners, researchers and teachers conscious of the ongoing dialogue in their respective areas of study, and motivated to enrich them. It fosters a proud tradition of academic excellence, with students taking up various activities to expand their horizons of knowledge, faculty members devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, research and creative activities. The department enables the student to understand the evolution and disciplinary reconfiguration of subjects categorised under Humanities and Languages along the temporal categories of past, present and future. Steadily growing ever since its inception in 2009, the department creates learning opportunities through innovative classroom activities, workshops, seminars and invited lectures on a regular and continued basis. Film club, Theatre club and Literary club provide additional learning experiences to the students.
