The department of English came into existence since the day Jaintia Eastern College was established in 1992 as a subject in Pre-University Course and subsequently upgraded to Undergraduate Course in 1993. Mrs. Sukla Roy was the founder lecturer.
At present, 5 (Five) fulltime teaching staff associated with the department. Honour Course in the subject was started/introduce in 2015 besides teaching Compulsory English paper in Commerce department.
Objectives:
- To achieve the vision, mission and objective of the College.
- To facilitate students to achieve their potential capabilities and ensure overall development of individual
Faculty:
- Smt. Affinda G. Lapasam
- Shri. Firsterborn Dkhar
- Miss. Dianghun Shadap (HoD)
- Shri. Emidau P. Sohsley
- Miss. Pinky A. Lamare
Programme Outcomes (PO)
The main motive upon completing the programme is to ensure that the students are being provided with best quantity and quality of education. The course helps the learners to enhance writing, reading, listening and communication skills. It instills in the learners the freedom of imagination, creativity and critical thinking to make them able to value one’s knowledge on subject and culture. The students will be able to cultivate and harvest different walk sections of people (gender, racial and ethnic minorities) and helped them give critical responses from different perspectives. Enhance employability by developing their linguistic competence and communicative skills.
Course Outcomes (CO)
By the end of the course, the students understand poems and equipped themselves with techniques used in fiction as well as to understand the major and minor plots. It helped students to identify the elements of poetry and also encourages them to involve him/her in writing short stories. They acquired knowledge about elements of drama, history of different literary ages, familiarized them with numbers of great writers, criticism, and different schools of criticism of different ages. It enhanced student’s critical thinking and enabled them to compare Poems of American Literature with the Indian Writing in English.
Specific Outcome (SO)
By the end of the programme, the students will be thorough in reading works with theoretical basis. They will be capable of interpreting and exploring relationships from the point of view of different people. The students being inspired by fiction will helped open up their minds to stimulate the sympathetic/ empathic imagination which will allowed them to see the world through other’s eyes as well as to foster intercultural dialogue.
The students learnt to approach and appreciate Indian literature in English and its uniqueness. They developed the capacity to form an idea of the complex nature of literary studies and how they are entangled with other aspects of the social body. The course also enabled students to learn the literary terms and various streams in literary criticism. The students inculcate a literary, aesthetic and critical awareness of diverse cultures and literary creations at a broader vision of the world. They also came to know about the evolution of the feminist movement and familiarizing them with the various issues addressed by feminism which they can sensitized the issues like marginalization and subjugation of women. They developed a sensible response to great classics in translation and fine tune analytical skills with a view to achieving a broad, wholesome vision of life.
Career Option:
Teaching, Journalist, Content Writing and Blogging, Creative Writer, Law, Translator, Editor, Civil Services, Motivational speakers, Call-Centre etc.
Departmental Activities:
- The department conducted tests, sessional tests, home assignment and other extracurricular activities. Assist the college in conducting university examination.
- Conducts monthly departmental meetings, discussed academic and non-academic activities, syllabus coverage. Time Table, date for Class & Sessional Tests, Assignment topics, teaching plan and allotment of topics to individual teacher.
- The department properly maintains Teacher Manual-Cum-Record
- Book and Self-Appraisal for Academic Performance Indicators (API).
- Conduct Remedial Coaching Classes.
- Online classes (if needed) and sharing of study materials, notes, etc. via Whatapps etc.
- Assistant Professors organized and participated in seminars, trainings and workshops in and outside the college
- Organized activities like short skit, literary treasure hunt, debate, group discussion and reading
Mentor-Mentee:
Students are grouped in equal numbers and mentors are appointed by the college for Guidance/Counselling, solution to specific
problem areas of individual students is resolved.
Future Plans:
Study tour, exchange teaching with other colleges, Communication Skills.