The Department of English was established in 1945.
The Department of English is presently headed by Professor Dr. Leena Chandorkar. The Department of English is one of the oldest departments and is the backbone of the college as every student has English as a compulsory subject at the entry level of graduation. As one of the important departments of the college, it has played a salient role in the academic ambience of the college. With the introduction of the NEP 2020 from the academic year 2023, the role of the department has increased manifold. It is offered as a major subject, leading to a four-year Honours course. The Honours course for undergraduates familiarizes them with the basic genres of literature and to the branches of language studies such as Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. There is also a paper on Literary Criticism. In addition to the Major paper, English is offered as an Optional subject for the Arts and Science students and has received an overwhelming response from all streams. The NEP 2020 offers greater scope for innovation and creativity for syllabus framing and the department faculty looks forward to designing more job-oriented courses in the forthcoming years. The Department has conducted several National Conferences in the past. The last one entitled as “New Horizons of Women’s Studies in 21st Century” was conducted in January 2020.
Our Department, apart from regular teaching process conducts several enriching activities which include:
The Department of English is presently headed by Professor Dr. Leena Chandorkar. The Department of English is one of the oldest departments and is the backbone of the college as every student has English as a compulsory subject at the entry level of graduation. As one of the important departments of the college, it has played a salient role in the academic ambience of the college. With the introduction of the NEP 2020 from the academic year 2023, the role of the department has increased manifold. It is offered as a major subject, leading to a four-year Honours course. The Honours course for undergraduates familiarizes them with the basic genres of literature and to the branches of language studies such as Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. There is also a paper on Literary Criticism. In addition to the Major paper, English is offered as an Optional subject for the Arts and Science students and has received an overwhelming response from all streams. The NEP 2020 offers greater scope for innovation and creativity for syllabus framing and the department faculty looks forward to designing more job-oriented courses in the forthcoming years. The Department has conducted several National Conferences in the past. The last one entitled as “New Horizons of Women’s Studies in 21st Century” was conducted in January 2020.
Our Department, apart from regular teaching process conducts several enriching activities which include:
- lectures by Eminent Scholars
- Dramatic readings and Presentations of texts
- Poster Making
- Model Making
- Providing E books to students
- Paper Presentations
- Literary Fest
| Photo | Name | Qualification | Experience | CV |
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Prof. (Dr.) Leena Chandorkar, Professor & Head | MA, M.Phil, Ph.D, NET | 20 years | View |
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Mr. Vinod Vasantrao Suryavanshi | MA, NET, SET | 6 Years 10 Months | View |
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Mr. Sunil R. Karpatti | M.A., B.Ed., SET | 9 year,10 month | View |
Staff Details
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ACTIVITIES (2019-2023)
- MA students had a meeting with staff and students of Indian Institute of American Literature (May 2019)
- Motivational talk by Dr Amar Singh, Professor and Head, Govt. College, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. ( 14th Dec 2019)
- Alumni Meet ( 23rd Nov 2019 and 29th Feb 2020)
- National Conference ( 30th and 31st January 2020)
- Two online lectures as part of Industry-Academia Interaction held on 23rd December 2021
- Online additional credit course organized by the Dept of English on Communicative English from March 2, 2022 to March 22, 2022. The course was free of cost and 85 students received certificates of credit on completion of the course.
- Lit-Fest for and by students, which included poster exhibition, quiz, elocution (January 2020, January 2023)
- One- day trip to Wai (January 2023)
- Remedial coaching for students weak in English held throughout December 2017
- Guest lecture series organized for PG students throughout 2017-2018
- Guest lecture series organized for PG students through the academic year 2016-2017
- Course on Spoken English organized for Science students, January 2017
- Spelling Bee competition organized for FYBA students in October 2016
- English is offered as a major subject to BA students.
- English is compulsory subject to FYBSc (General), FYBSc (Computer Science), FYBSc (Computer Application) and FYBSc (Biotech) as an Ability Enhancement Course.
- It also offered to Science students as GE/OE subject.
- Department of English has Post-graduate course in English.
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| F. Y. B. A. (Grant ) |
| F. Y. B. A. (No Grant) (English medium) |
| M. A. |
English Department Activities
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