Profile of Department of English

Tingkhong College

1. Name of the Department: ENGLISH
2. a) About the Department: The Department Of English was established in the year 1972. The department started imparting education in the rural area of Tingkhong with Higher Secondary education. And Under Graduate Course was introduced in later years. At present the department offers choice base credit system under graduate programme with honours in English, along with the compulsory papers such Ability-Enhancement Compulsory Courses and Skill Enhancement Course. The department, ever since its inception has been imparting higher secondary education in the subjects of English and Alternative English.

The department aims to cater to the needs of training in English as a medium of communication and as a global language essential for the students’ all-round academic and professional development. By offering the undergraduate B.A. in English Course, the department seeks to keep up with the equivalent colleges that have left their mark in the field of English Literary studies and sensitize students to the wider world of literature in an international language.

To transcend their knowledge of grammatical & compositional aptitude which would meet the needs of the dynamic career and professional demands? To impart the various technical skills of assessing and analyzing literature of different types and builds a sensibility of appreciating literature. To prepare the students of the locality for higher education in the concerned discipline and groom them for associated professions.

2. Year of Establishment: 1972 (Honours started in 2016)
3. Names of Programmes / Courses Offered (UG, PG, M.Phill, Ph.D., Integrated Masters, Integrated Ph.D. etc.):Undergraduate B. A. with Honours & B. A. Non-Honours

4. Names of Interdisciplinary Courses and the Departments / Units involved:

5. Annual / Semester / Choice Based Credit Systems (Programme wise):
6. i) B.A(Honours): CBCS
7. ii) B.A (Non-Honours): CBCS
8. Participation of Department in the course offered by other departments:
9. i) Skill Enhancement Courses
10. ii) Generic Elective
11. Courses in Collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institution etc.: Nil
12. Details of Courses/ Programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons: N/A
13. Number of Teaching Post

10. Faculty Profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization (D.Sc./S.Litt/Ph.D./M.Phill., etc.)

11. List of Senior Visiting Faculty: Nil
12. Percentage of Lectures delivered and Practical Classes handled (Programme Wise) by temporary faculty:

• A (Honours): 30%
• A (Non-Honours) AECC Classes: 40%

13. Student-Teacher Ratio (Programme-wise):

• A (Honours): 4:1
• A (Non-Honours): 50:1

14. Number of Academic Support Staff (Technical) and Administrative Staff, sanctioned and filled: N/A
15. Qualification of teaching faculty with D.Sc /D.Litt/ M.Phill. /PG: N/A
16. Number of Faculties with ongoing projects from- a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received: Nil
17. Departmental Project funded by DST-FIST, UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received: Nil
18. Research Centre/ Facilities Recognized by University: Nil
19. Publications per faculty (table):

1. a) Number of Paper Published in Peer Reviewed Journals (national/international) by faculty and students:

• Rimpu Gogoi

1. “Historical Archetypes & Subaltern Voices in Amitav Ghosh’s novel Sea of Poppies” (ISSN: 2393-8382)

• Nawab Tabassum Yasmin

1. “Sufism, Vaishnavite Movement and its Relevance in Today’s Assam: A Study with Special Emphasis on the History of Zikir and Zari” in Chirantan Chintan: An Annual Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-lingual Peer Reviewed Journal, Vol. III

• Fatima Begum

1. “Problems of Teaching the English Language in Rural Colleges with Special Reference to Assam”, Published in Pragyan: A Biannual Journal of Academic , Intellectual & Career Pursuit. (ISSN: 0976-4283)

1. b) Number of publication listed in international database ( For example, Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Data Base International Social Science; Directory, EBSCO host etc.):Nil
2. c) Monographs:Nil
3. d) Chapter in books:

• Rimpu Gogoi

1. “A Psychoanalytic Critique of GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee” published in SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL PROSPECTS IN INDIA (ISBN: 978-93-5105-345-3)
2. “Homosexuality: A Historical & Literary Perspective” published in CONTEMPORARY ISSUES ON SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES (ISBN: 978-93-5105-335-4)

1. e) Books edited:Nil
2. f) Books with ISBN:Nil
3. g) Citation index:Nil
4. h) SNIP:Nil
5. i) SJR:Nil
6. j) Impact Factor:Nil
7. k) h-index:Nil
8. Areas of Consultancy and income generated: Nil
9. Faculty as members in:
10. a) National Committee: Nil
11. b) International Committee: Nil
12. c) Editorial Boards: Nil
13. Students Projects: Nil
14. a) Percentage of Students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental /programme: Nil
15. b) Percentage of Students placed for project in organizations outside the institution i.e. research laboratories / industry/ other agencies: Nil
16. Awards/Recognition received by faculty and students:Nil
17. List of eminent academicians/ visitors to the department:Nil
18. Seminar / Conference / workshop organized & the source of funding: Nil

26. Student Profile programme / Course wise:

27. Diversity of Students:

28. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examination such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil Services, Defence Services etc.?: Nil
29. Student Progression

30. Details of Infrastructural facilities:-
31. Library: Yes, available.
32. Internet Facilities for Staff and Students: Not available.
33. Class room with ICT facilities: Computer lab accessible for ICT-based classes. Other class rooms of the department are not facilitated with ICT facilities.
34. Laboratories: Common Computer Lab of the college accessible.
35. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies:Post-matric Scholarship and Girl Student Scholarship under the Govt. of Assam.
36. Details of the student enrichment programme (Special lectures/workshop/seminars) with external experts: One workshop on Postcolonialism in 2018.
37. Teaching methods adapted to improve student learning:Traditional Lecture Method, Additional classes, Tutorials, Online Classes, Provision of E-materials, ICT-supplemented classes, Group Discussions, Seminars, etc.
38. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and extension activities:

The students and the faculty members regularly participate in the activities of social responsibilities and Extension organized by the College NSS Unit, IQAC Green Audit cell, Red Ribbon Club etc.

35. SWOC analysis of the department and future plans (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Challenges)

Strengths:i) Dedicated permanent faculties and contractual teaching staff.

1. ii) Good amount of books related to the discipline made available in the central library under the efforts of the department.

(iii) Teacher-students ratio for the honoursprogramme students is a strength on its own as there are lesser than 10 students in each batch, which helps pay more attention to each students needs and learning-speed.

Weaknesses: i) Insufficient permanentfaculties.

1. ii) Insufficient books of the current CBCS syllabus available in the department library.

Opportunities:

2016. i) Prospects of good results expected from a few students towards building the credibility of the department’s honoursprogramme as honours was introduced very recently in the year 2016.
2017. ii) Opportunities for students to avail the best mentorship and quality in classes due from the newly recruited dedicated faculties.

                     iii) Students are increasingly being encouraged and taught the use of ICT mediums.

1. iv) New opportunities for the students to avail additional training from certificate courses focusing on Spoken English and Academic Writing newly offered by the department.

Challenges: i) Students applying for honours in English are mostly from vernacular medium causing great amount of gap in communicating the disciplinary knowledge in class.

1. ii) Rural geographical location and prominence of vernacular medium schools makes very lesser number of students ready or oriented to apply for the B.A in English programme.

                    iii) Fulfilling class-tution demand with insufficient number of faculties.

                   iv)Lack of enough public transport, and distance becomes a problem for the students causing them to miss classes.

36. Future plans:
37. i) The department plans to conduct guest-faculty lectures/talks/seminars regularly in each semester.
38. ii) Plan to make educational trips each year.

iii) Plan to offer certificate courses on Spoken English and Academic Writing every year.

1. iv) Plan to start a departmental ISSN journal as soon as possible.
2. v) Plan to create an e-book library and question banks for each semester.
3. vi) Plan to regularly engage students in viewing educational visual contents related to the course.