DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

The Department of English came into existence with the establishment of the erstwhile Noorul Islam College of Engineering and became an integral part of Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education with the conferment of university status on it by the Government of India in 2008. The Department teaches English as a subject to the undergraduate students of Technology, Commerce, Business Administration and Biomedical Sciences and Technology.

The Vision

To provide programs of the highest quality and promote advanced learning in literature and areas of research, publication, creative work, and other professional activities and to make students highly competent covering all skills at all levels of English.

he Department of English covers British Literature, American Literature, Literary Criticism/Theory, Translation, New Literatures from many diverse nations of the world, African Literature, Canadian Literature, Indian Writing in English and English Language Teaching (ELT) as core subjects. Nonliterary subjects like Soft Skills and Journalism and Mass Communication are also in the galore of literary studies to enrich the knowledge of the students in other allied areas.

COURSES OFFERED

• M.A. English

• M. Phil. English

• Ph.D. English

The Department offers M.Phil. and Ph.D. research programmes in English language and literature with the objective of attaining original and quality research production and publication. Staff and scholars of the Department regularly publish in peer-reviewed refereed national and international journals including UGC Approved Journals and the Scopus.

Research areas include ELT, British Literature, American Literature, Canadian Literature, Indian Writing in English, Modern and Postmodern Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Ecofeminism, Dalit Literature, Subaltern Literature, AfroAmerican Literature, Fourth World Literature etc. and also encompass all genres of English Literature and all areas of language studies.

The Department has also introduced four Soft Skills Courses named Soft Skills–I, Soft Skills–II, Soft Skills–III and Soft Skills–IV incorporated in the curriculum and taught for the second and third year students of the B.E./ B.Tech., MCA and M. Sc. Programmes. Soft Skills Courses aim at enhancing the Communicative and Linguistic Competence of the students of the university. The Soft Skills Courses instill various personal, professional and lifelong skills in the students that are required for better employability and effective job execution after employment.

The programmes lay emphasis on the overall growth of the students from different communicative and employability perspectives which the present global competition fosters and demands of from the job-seekers.

The Department, under its Centre for Foreign Languages, imparts French, German and Japanese languages to the second and third year students of B.E./B.Tech. Programmes. The Centre provides them with the basics of these foreign languages with a view to enhance their global employability.

The Department organises National Seminars and Conferences every year to bring together academicians, researchers and scholars of Departments of English from far and near and provides a platform for discussing and advancing new frontiers of knowledge and new trends in literature, language and allied areas of study, and furthering research and publication.