ENGLISH Department

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SAGNIK BANERJEE

Assistant Professor, English

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MADHUMANTI PANJA

State-Aided College Teacher (Category - I)

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Dr Uttam Kumar Guru

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR & HEAD

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About the Department

 

 

History: 

The Department of English came into being in 1961, the year of inception of the college. In an island that was uninhabited about eighty years back, as per the historical records, English language made its impact felt under the mentorship of Professor Shyamal Chakraborty. Initially the department offered only General course (BA) and compulsory courses in BA/B Sc and B Com. 

In 2018-19, Honours course was introduced, and today the Department is one of the prestigious academic sections in this institute.  

 

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Key Highlights: 

  • The Department sees to it that a student is developed holistically with her/his knowledge of ‘WORD’ connected with the ‘WORLD’.
  • The Department regularly organizes conferences/seminars/invited lectures apart from offering creative scopes through students’ programmes and wall magazines. 
  • The Department has a Library of its own, and students can easily access these books, especially, texts avoiding the rush at the central library. 
  • The department makes it mandatory for all teachers to take at least one special class for each semester per week. 
  • Teachers constantly encourage students to participate in co-curricular activities organized by Cultural, Sports Units and different clubs. 

 

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Strenghths of the Department: 

  1. One of the key strengths of Department is the student-teacher ratio, that is, 26:04. And this informs the teaching-learning process in a very conducive way. 
  2. Extra classes are taken by almost all teachers to acclimatize students of this remote region with nuances of the English language and grammar. 
  3. Another specialty of the department is its express focus on the alumni of the Department – where they had/have been engaged in job/studies as of now. 
  4.  Experiential learning or special teaching-learning method is practiced in the Department. 

Syllabus

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1 HONOURS & GENERAL (Pass) SYLLABI
2 FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH as per the PROVISIONS OF NEP 2020

Departmental Notices

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1 Notice regarding publication of Departmental Wall Magazine 'Pegasus'
2 Notice regrading an important meeting (20 Dec, 2019) for organising ICSSR Sponsored International Conference on the Sundarabns
3 NOTICE ON SCREENING OF THE FILM MACBETH.
4 Notice on the screening of the film Twelfth Night on 28.03.2019
5 Notice on Holocaust Memorial Programme held on 20-02-2020
6 Film Screening of Toba Tek Singh
7 Notice Regarding Department Wall Magazine 2021
8 Notice Regarding Wall Magazine 2022
9 Notice Regarding Screening of Film "Aamar Katha"
10 Notice for Student Seminar (Semester 1)
11 Notice on Screening of Tintin in Tibet on 27.11.2023
12 SCHEDULE OF STUDENT SEMINAR TO BE HELD ON 05-10-2023

Curricular Delivery Schedule

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1 Curricula Delivery Schedule UKG
2 Curricula Delivery Schedule SB

Po & Co

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1 PO CO 2023-24

Previous Year Question Papers

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1 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-I Paper-CC-1
2 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-I Paper-CC-2
3 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-II Paper-CC-3
4 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-II Paper-CC-4
5 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-CC-5
6 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-CC-6
7 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-CC-7
8 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-SEC-A-2
9 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-CC-8
10 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-CC-9
11 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-CC-10
12 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-SEC-B-1
13 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-SEC-B-2 -
14 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-CC-11
15 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-CC-12
16 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-DSE-A-2
17 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-DSE-B-1
18 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-VI Paper-CC-13
19 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-VI Paper-DSE-A-3
20 B.A. (Honours) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-VI Paper-DSE-B-3
21 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-I Paper-CC1-GE1
22 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-CC3-GE3
23 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-LCC-L1-1
24 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-III Paper-SEC-A-2
25 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-DSE-A-1
26 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-IV Paper-LCC-L2-1
27 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-V Paper-LCC-L1-2
28 B.A. (General) English CU Examination-2022 Semester-VI Paper-DSE-B-1

Programme

Programme Run in the Department

Honours (CBCS): 

B.A. (Honours): Currently Semester 3 & 5 (as per the CBCS syllabus of Calcutta University, 2018)

B.A. (Gen.):  Currently Semester 3 & 5 (as per the CBCS syllabus of Calcutta University), 2018)

 

B. A. (Major): As per the Curriculum and Credit Framework  (CCF) of Calcutta University 

B.A. (Multidisciplinary):  As per the Curriculum and Credit Framework  (CCF) of Calcutta University

 

Research

Research @ English Department

Research @ English Department 

Mr Sagnik Banerjee submitted his thesis titled ‘Articulating the City: Representation of Calcutta in 19th Century English ’texts' at the University of Calcutta this year. He is awaiting the degree of PhD soon.  

Dr Uttam Kumar Guru is currently working on a short-term project titled ‘LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SYNCRETISM IN THE INDIAN SUNDARBANS’ under Acharjya Prafulla Chandra Research Grant, a flagship research initiative of IQAC for the faculty members of college. 

Project

Project

Dr Uttam Kumar Guru is currently working on a short-term project titled ‘LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL SYNCRETISM IN THE INDIAN SUNDARBANS’ under Acharjya Prafulla Chandra Research Grant, a flagship research initiative of IQAC for the faculty members of college. 

Facilities

Departmental Library: 

The Department has a library of its own, and students can easily access these books on immediate and emergency basis during college hours. A total of 96 books is available for students to access. 

Remedial Coaching: 

The Departmental teachers actively participate in Remedial Coaching, apart from taking additional and special classes.  

Virtual Classroom: 

The Department has a virtual classroom, and all teachers take audio-visual classes on regular basis.  

 

 

Activities

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITY

Academic Year 2023-24

  • The students of Semester II performed the first act of the play Macbeth as part of their academic project work on 03-08-2023, with the programme directed by Dr. Uttam Kumar Guru, Assistant Professor, Department of English.
  • The Semester III students were shown as part of their curricular enrichment film on Tintin in Tibet.
  • Periodic Tests conducted for the Students of the Department.
  • A Student Seminar was conducted amongst students of Semester 1 on 05-10-2023, titled “The Genealogy of English Poetry: A Historical Approach”.

Academic Year 2022-23

  • The Department published its wall magazine on Teachers’ Day on 5th September 2022.
  • Periodic Tests conducted for the Students of the Department.

Academic Year 2021-22

  • The Department published its wall magazine on Teachers’ Day on 5th September 2021.
  • Online Screening of the Film Aamar Katha: A Documentary on the Life of Binodini Dasi (directed by Tuhinabha Majumdar) on 05-05-2022.

Academic Year 2020-21

  • Film programme “Bol ke lab Azaad Hain”; Online Screening of the Film Toba Tek Singh (directed by Ketan Mehta) adapted from the novella of the same name by Sadat Hasan Manto on 09-06-2021.
  • Holocaust Remembrance Programme conducted by the Department of English and Department of Education on 20th February 2020, followed by the film screening of the film The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (dir. Mark Herman).

Academic Year 2019-20

  • The Department published its wall magazine on Teachers’ Day on 5th September 2020.
  • Two-Day ICSSR Sponsored Seminar titled “Sundarbans: Past, Present and Future Possibilities” on 4th and 5th January 2020.

Concept Note

The Sundarbans, a mosaic of islands spread across India and Bangladesh, is the largest mangrove forest in the world and home to the famous Royal Bengal Tigers. But apart from the reserve forests, many islands in the Indian Sundarbans are densely populated. Despite its closeness to Kolkata, these back-of-the-beyond islands are largely underdeveloped. The most remarkable thing about the Sundarban delta is the anthropological diversities, and its unique folklore involving Bonbibi, Dokkhin Ray and Manasa Devi. UNESCO that has recognised the Sundarbans as a World Heritage site mentions it as an “excellent example of ongoing ecological processes” apart from it being a “landmark of ancient heritage of mythological and historical events”. Implicit in this Synthesis of the Sundarbans on UNESCO website is an acknowledgment of the confluence of past and present –the spatial continuum of this place in terms of its complex tidal waterways alongside its historical and anthropological significances. The conference is intended to explore three intertwined aspects of the Sundarbans and its people—its social characteristics, cultural practices and economic condition.  The social and cultural life in the Indian Sundarbans is informed and conditioned by the occupational hazards of unpredictable nature, that is, fishing and catching crabs in the precarious brackish waters and collecting honey and wax in the tiger-infested forests. The societal structures and cultural practices are consequentially informed by these life-and-death equations involved in earning a life. The conference is aimed at exploring the ongoing saga that is the Sundarbans—its uniqueness in terms of its social, economic, cultural, ecological, demographic and anthropological aspects. The subtext of interdisciplinarity that the conference proposes to stress is consistent with the intersections of these aspects which overlap in this geologically strange archipelago of islands at every turn.

Academic Year 2018-19

  • Screening of the Film Macbeth (dir. Justin Kurzel) for the students of the Department, on 15-03-2019.
  • Screening of the Film Twelfth Night (dir. Kenneth Branagh) on 28-03-2019 in the Department.
  • One-Day Student Seminar on “Sundarbans: Past, Present and Future Possibilities” on 7th September 2018.

 

Academic Year 2017-18

  • The Department of English along with the Department of Mathematics had conducted the memorial programme on the Death of Stephen Hawking on 16 March 2018.

Contact Us

Contact Us

For any queries/clarifications/grievances, contact the following persons: 

Dr Uttam Kr Guru (HoD) - 9434367053 [rgurru@gmail.com]

Mr Sagnik Banerjee - (Assistant Professor) - 9432956327 [sagnikbanerjee08@gmail.com ]

Ms Madhumanti Panja - (State Aided College Teacher - I] - 8116423733 [panjamadhumanti@gmail.com]

For any kind of clarifications/ grievances/ act of ragging or harassment should be immediately reported to iqacshdc@gmail.com or over 9083826879, apart from the above numbers/ids