Upcoming : Course in Media Content Creation

Programme Specific Outcomes

Literature courses in the Department of English (UG and PG) offer students the opportunity to study influential writings from the British, American, and global Anglophone traditions. Courses may focus on historical periods, literary genres or critical approaches . Studying these courses will be an essential and rewarding part of a life-long commitment to learning and growth.

UG level PSOs (TYBA- English Literature):

1. Theme-based Reading: The programme provides imaginative and critical insights into all areas of human experience such as war and peace, nature and culture, love and sexuality, selfhood and social identity, justice and atrocity, the sacred and the profane, the burdens of history and the dreams of the future. Learning to attend to the complexities of literary texts students will become accomplished, active and critical readers who appreciate ambiguity and complexity .
2. Sense of Genre: Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of language and genre shape meaning.
3. Sense of Culture and History: Students will gain a knowledge of the major traditions of literatures written in English, and an appreciation for the diversity of literary and social voices within those traditions. They will develop an ability to read texts in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, in order to gain a richer understanding of both text and context. This will help them become more aware of themselves as situated historically and culturally.

PG level PSOs (MA- English Literature)

In addition to the POs at the UG level , the students will learn the following ones:

1. Sense of Genre: Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of language and genre shape meaning. They will recognize how writers fulfil generic expectations, as well transgress or subvert them..
2. Critical Approaches: Students will develop the ability to apply various critical approches to literary works and deploy ideas from these texts in their own reading and writing.
3. Analytical and Writing skills: Students will be able to analyse and write effectively for academic and business domain. They will demonstrate an ability to revise for content and edit for grammatical and stylistic clarity.
4. Research Skills: Students will be able to identify topics and formulate questions for productive inquiry; they will identify appropriate methods and sources for research and evaluate critically the sources they find; and they will use their chosen sources effectively in their own writing, citing all sources appropriately.
5. Presentation skills: Students will demonstrate the skills needed to prepare, organize and deliver an effective oral presentation.
6. Valuing literature, language, and imagination: Students will develop a passion for literature and language. They will appreciate literature’s ability to elicit feeling and cultivate the imagination.. They will appreciate the expressive use of language preparing for a life of learning as readers and writers.