Department of English

Department of English

Undergraduate

The U.G. Department of English was established in the year 2009. The courses offered at Undergraduate level focuses on Language Skill Development through Prose, Poetry, Fiction, drama and aims to enrich the students knowledge of various Ages such as Elizabethans and Augustans, Renaissance, Pre-Romantics and Romantics, Victorian, Modern and Indian Writing in English . The course aims at familiarizing the students with classical texts such as William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, R.K Narayan’s The Guide, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq, Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, Chaman Nahal’s Azadi, Tagore’s The Post Office. Short Stories like Munshi Premchand’s “The Shroud”, Sashi Deshpande’s “My Beloved Charioteer”, Ismat Chugtai’s “Roots”, Intizar Hussain’s “A Chronicle of the Peacocks” George Orwell’s Animal Farm, K. Mansfield’s “A Cup of Tea”. Poetry like John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud”, Milton’s “On his Blindness”, Dryden’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, William Blake’s “London”, Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”. Essays by Bacon, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy, Alice Walker, J.B. Priestley, M.K. Gandhi, Leigh Hunt, S Radhakrishnan etc. For the holistic development of the students, the department also organizes various activities such as:

  • Seminars
  • Debates
  • Visit to Jaipur Literature Fest
  • Debates and Speeches
  • Poetry Recitation
  • Presentations
  • Academic Assignments
  • Movie Screening
  • Test Series
Postgraduate

The P.G. Department of English came into being in the year 2009 and has 40 seats allotted for the Master’s program. The courses offered at Post-Graduate level focuses on Language Skill Development through Modern English Usage, Phonetics and Language. It aims to enrich the students’ knowledge of various Ages such as Elizabethans and Augustans, Renaissance, Pre-Romantics and Romantics, Victorian, Modern and Post-Modern. The course aims at familiarizing the students with classical texts and various literary theories such as Milton’s Paradise Lost, Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Karnad’s Tale Danda, Dattanni’s Final Solutions, Bbharti’s Andha Yug, Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, Bharat’s Natyashastra, Aristotle’s Poetics, Pope’s Essay on Criticism, Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands and Showalter’s Towards a Feminist Poetics. For the holistic development of the students, the department also organizes various activities such as:

  • Seminars
  • Debates
  • Visit to Jaipur Literature Fest
  • Debates and Speeches
  • Poetry Recitation
  • Presentations
  • Academic Assignments
  • Movie Screening
  • Test Series
Department of English