B. A. ENGLISH HONOURS

Note: A 4 credit Internship/ vocational course/ capstone projectis to be completed either in 2ndor in 4thsemester of the Degree Programme in-between thesemester breaks)

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

BA in English (Hons) (4 Years)
Pass in 10+2 or equivalent with at least 50% marks.

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The NEP 2020 aims to transform the education system by integrating local, national, and international standards. It aims to gradually reduce dropouts and maximize attendance. According to the NEP 2020, students who complete one, two, or three years of UG programmes can use their acquired knowledge to obtain suitable opportunity of employment. To achieve the objectives outlined in the NEP 2020, the BOS of the School of Language and Literature-KIIT DU has prepared the current Four-year Undergraduate Degree Programme (FYUP) structure.

The FYUP English 2023 course considers English studies from various perspectives. Literary study does remain a core component of the syllabus, however, its acquisition is supplemented by the introduction of such courses which assist in the development of soft skill and vocational expertise. The FYUP Structure’s many exit and entry options allow students to exit and rejoin their programme in stages or graduate with a Certificate, Diploma or Degree in one go.

KSLL’s Undergraduate English Literary Studies Curriculum spans eight semesters, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of British, American, European, Indian, and New Literatures across genres. In addition to literary studies courses, pragmatic courses for skill enhancement and generic electives have been created to maximize employability while meeting the demands of learners across the specialization in English literature at the same time. The syllabus aims to achieve such outcomes as providing substantial subject knowledge, critical thinking, problem-solving, leadership, creativity, and cutting edge research skills through interdisciplinarity. Learners need these skills to meet the demands of the 21st-century competitive knowledge economy. The final year of FYUP focusses on research so that excelling graduates, after one year of Master’s, can pursue PhD research with ease.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

1. The followings are the objectives of KSLL’s Undergraduate English Literary Studies:
   • To foster life skills like communication, cooperation, teamwork, and resilience;
   • To provide students with the option to pick their learning trajectories, allowing them to follow their talents and interests in life;
   • To open up multi-disciplinarity by dismantling rigid disciplinary boundaries;
   • To give holistic education by ensuring the unity of the Western knowledge system with Indian knowledge System;
   • To contribute to a holistic student development for global adaptability by furthering creative and critical thinking, innovative skill and humanistic outlook; and finally
   • to introduce outstanding research as a core requirement.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES (PO)

1. Students who complete the B.A. (Hons.) Programme will achieve the following outcomes:
   • Cultivate disciplinary expertise
   • Acquire multidisciplinary knowledge
   • Achieve multicultural competence
   • Sharpen creative, critical and reflective thinking
   • Improve analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills
   • Sensitize students to ethics and morality
   • Raise citizenship awareness
   • Increase local and global outlook
   • Equip students with a critical understanding of critical theory
   • Hone in students’ research skill
   • Develop communication skill
   • Build life skill

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOs)

Students who complete the B.A. (Hons.) Programme will be able to:

• enhance their English literature reading and writing skills through a sustained skill-based engagement;
• hone in critical-analytical thinking essential for academic success and career advancement;
• learn about local, national, and global life, letter, geography, and culture to appreciate distinct heritages and symbiotic relationships;
• review, analyse, and research literary and cultural texts;
• channelize their creativity with a humanistic, and socio-economic and ethical trajectory;
• exhibit high character, multidimensional thinking, and problem-solving skills in communication.
• expose students to historiography so that they become able to relate themselves to trajectories of the past, present and future both nationally and internationally;
• figure out the politics of historiography so that they can see link between national events and international issues and gain insight into the future;
• be savvy about a comparative, contextualized, and interdisciplinary approach to literature, culture, and philosophy from many perspectives and theories;
• pave for themselves a pathway for a PhD Degree, particularly those interested in academics.

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOs)

To allow students, through a sustained skills-based interaction with various literary genres,to constantly upgrade their English language skills to the college level and additionally hone in their critical-analytical thinking towards the highest level—skill- sets indispensable for both academic depth and clarity, and career performance and enhancement.
2. To acquaint students sufficiently with local, national and global life and letter, geography and culture so that they have an appreciation for heritages of diverse nature and a responsiveness to symbiosis with humanity of various climes.
3. To enable them to execute review, analysis and mini research of and into literary and cultural texts.
4. To help channelize students’ own creative surge with a humanistic outlook and an ethical accountability to socio-economics.
5. To produce such graduates as equipped with a rhetorical communication, a good character, a multi-dimensional thinking and a flair for problem-solving.
6. To expose students to historiography so that they become able to relate themselves to trajectories of the past, present and future both nationally and internationally.

PROGRAMME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOs)

1. The programme educational objectives are as follows:
   • To encourage targeted development of skills such as reading and speaking foreign languages like French and German.
   • To reorient students’ liberal arts knowledge towards research tasks such as paper writing and conference presentations. In other words, prepare them for top Indian and international PhD programs.
   • To equip students with skills for careers in business, industry, journalism, education, and administration.
   • To instil democratic and egalitarian ideas in students to prepare them to address injustices and prejudice as future leaders.

PEDAGOGY

The program’s teaching methodology and approaches are designed to leverage maximum understanding of language, literature and culture seamlessly and simultaneously through the pedagogy. The subject will blend lecture method, case studies, discussions, review of articles and books, projects, role-plays, assignments, quizzes and class presentation for a holistic development of the students

ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION

DEFINITIONS