Shiv Chhatrapati Shikshan Sanstha's
Rajarshi Shahu Mahavidyalaya, Latur
(Autonomous)
Department of English
The Department of English has been functioning since 1970, the inception of the institute. The two faculty members, Dr Janardan Waghmare and Mrs Vijaya Rajopadhye laid foundation of the department. Dr Janardan Waghmare the founder Principal of our college and the Vice-Chancellor of our parent SRTM University, Nanded, efficiently headed our department for over 24 years. The mission of our department is to enable the students to communicate in English, to make the students aware of "values" in literature and to master English Language Skills and Soft Skills. Our faculty is integrated towards the interdisciplinary approach of knowledge. The Departmental faculties teach English to the students of all branches including those in the Arts, Science, Commerce, Computer Science, IT, Biotechnology and B.Voc.
The scope of the department became wider after accepting academic autonomy at institutional level in the year 2013-14. The department has extended its horizon of academic service and started PG course in English since June 2017. As an initiative, in collaboration with ELTIS (English Language Teaching Institute of Symbiosis, Pune), we have introduced Certificate Courses in - Spoken English and Foreign Languages.
In the Academic year 2021-22 Department of English has Sucessfully Signed two active MoU's with Sangmeshwar College (Autonomous), Solapur 11/02/2022 and Imperial English UK 22/02/2022. Under these MOU's there will be programs condected for students such as webinar, seminar, workshop & student exchange etc.
Besides teaching, the department offers co-curricular activities like Filmfest, Lab feast, Knowing a Book Series , Library Session , Alumni Talk, Career Counseling, SET-NET Preparation Classes, Slow Learner Advanced Learners, Yes you can and wings of fire, ECC - English Composition Competition , Rabindranath Tagore Reading Competition, Author's Week, Poetry Recitation, Author's Meet and Spell Bee Competition. Through LangLit (Students' Association of English), we conduct activities like poster presentation, student seminars, quiz competition, elocution and anchoring in various programs of the department which help students to overcome their phobia of public speaking in English. All these activities lend a hand for academic progress and cultural advancement of our students.
The BoS of English has developed the various courses such as Major, Minor, Generic, Skill and Vocational, Major Elective for four year UG Programme, in accordance with the NEP2020, which the institution has adopted and is going to implement from the academic year 2023–2024. NEP2020 gives the subject a larger perspective in order to diversify its knowledge and better acquaint students with the breadth of the Major subject.
The departmental library helps the students to develop the taste for various genres and books, also the students are exposed to new vocabulary which helps them in improving their fluency in speech and get the right expression of reading.
Department offers courses
- Undergraduate Studies- Communicative English for UG First Year and Second Year
- Undergraduate Studies- BA (Optional English as Core Course)
- B.Voc. Courses
- B.A. CEP Courses
- Post-Graduate Studies- MA (English Literature)
- Certificate Course- Spoken English
- Certificate Course- Foreign Language
Facilities Provided by the Department:
- Language Lab
- Departmental Library with 300+ books, Journals.
Programme Specific Outcomes
B. A. , B.Com., B.Sc., BCA, B,Sc. CS, B.Sc. BT B VOC Communicative English Programme Specific Outcomes
After completing this specific programme
1) Students will develop functional knowledge of English. 2)They will be confident at Listening (comprehending), speaking, reading and writing skills.
2) Students will demonstrate the oral communication skills needed to participate in a conversation that builds knowledge collaboratively: listening carefully and respectfully to others viewpoints; articulating their own ideas and questions clearly; and situating their own ideas while facing real life problems.
3) Students will be able to increase confidence in speaking publicly. Students will be able to prepare, organize, and deliver an engaging oral presentation.
4) Students will become accomplished and active readers.
5) They can appreciate ambiguity and complexity, and who can articulate their own interpretations.
6) Students will be able to write effectively for a variety of professional and social settings. They will practice writing as a process of motivated inquiry.
7) They will demonstrate an ability to revise for content and edit for grammatical and stylistic clarity. And they will develop an awareness of and confidence in their own voice as a writer.
B.A. English Programme Specific Outcomes
After completing this specific programme
1) Literature or the fine arts contribute to the gradual civilization of man by activating his sense-perceptions sharply so as to be quick enough to react to their appeal.
2) These arts appeal to the emotional aesthetic reflective intellectual meditative and spiritual faculties of man. Utility is the criterion of mechanical arts.
3) On the other hand, literature is a mode of reflecting reality, intending to appeal to the various faculties of sensitive sensible and sentient man.
4) It also offers pleasure. Besides it helps the learner to know the noble values in life making him a responsible citizen of this world and leads him to make the place more worth living.
5) Simultaneously this course will help the students to improve communicative skills in English.
M.A. English Programme Specific Outcomes
After completing this specific programme
1) Students will gain a knowledge of the major traditions of literatures written in English, and an appreciation for the diversity of literary and social voices within and sometimes marginalized by those traditions.
2) They will develop an ability to read texts in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, in order to gain a richer understanding of both text and context, and to become more aware of themselves as situated historically and culturally.
3) Students will Value literature, language, and imagination, they will develop a passion for literature and language.
4) They will appreciate literature's ability to elicit feeling, cultivate the imagination, and call us to account as humans.
5) They will cultivate their capacity to judge the aesthetic and ethical value of literary texts and be able to articulate the standards behind their judgments.
6) They will appreciate the expressive use of language as a fundamental and sustaining human activity, preparing for a life of learning as readers and writers.
7) Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of language and genre shape meaning.
8) They will recognize how writers can transgress or subvert generic expectations, as well as fulfill them. And they will develop a facility at writing in appropriate genres for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Faculty
| Photo | Name | Designation | Qualification | Resume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Anuja Anirudh Jadhav | HoD & Assistant Professor | M.A.B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D | View |
| Dr. Sachin Dattatraya Bhandare | Assistant Professor | M.A. SET,Ph.D | View |
| Dr. Chandrashekhar Ashok Dawane | Assistant Professor | M.A. B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,SET | View |
| Dr. Sachin Madhukarrao Kale | Assistant Professor | M.A.,B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D | View |
| Mr. Krishna Dnyanobarao Deshmukh | Assistant Professor | M.A.,B.Ed.,SET | View |
| Dr.Bhalke Nitin Shivaji | Assistant Professor | MA., B.Ed., M.Ed., M.Phil. PGCTE., SET, PhD. | View |
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Mr.Thorat Deepak Manoharrao | Assistant Professor | M.A. M.Ed.,M.Phil.,SET(Education),DSM,SET(English) | View |
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Mrs. Vaishali Vishnu Gurav | Assistant Professor | M.A.(English) M.Ed. | View |
Syllabus
| Degree/Class | CODE course | 2023-24 | 2022-23 | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.G.F.Y (CE) | Communicative English | View | View | View | View | View | |
| U.G.F.Y | Core Course | View | View | View | View | View | |
| U.G.S.Y (CE) | Communicative English | View | View | View | View | View | |
| U.G.S.Y | Core Course | View | View | View | View | View | |
| U.G.T.Y | Core Course | View | View | View | View | View | |
| B.A.F.Y.(CEP) | English for Competitive Exams | View | View | View | View | View | |
| B.A.S.Y.(CEP) | English for Competitive Exams | View | View | View | View | View | |
| B.VOC First Year | Practical English | View | View | View | View | View | |
| B.VOC Second Year | Soft Skills & Persnality Development | View | View | View | View | View | |
| M.A First Year | Literature | View | View | View | View | View | |
| M.A Second Year | Literature | View | View | View | View | View |
Teaching Plan
| Name | 2022-23 | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Anuja Anirudh Jadhav | View | View | View | View | View |
| Dr. Sachin Dattatraya Bhandare | View | View | View | View | View |
| Dr. Chandrashekhar Ashok Dawane | View | View | View | View | View |
| Dr. Sachin Madhukarrao Kale | View | View | View | View | View |
| Mr. Krishna Dnyanobarao Deshmukh | View | View | View | View | View |
| Dr. Nitin Shivaji Bhalke | View | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mr. Deepak M Thorat | View | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mrs. Vaishali V Gurav | View | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mr. Kishor Yuvraj Patil | N/A | View | View | View | View |
| Mr. Mahesh Kumbhar | N/A | View | View | View | View |
| Dr. Abhijeet Sahebrao Bhandwalkar | N/A | View | N/A | N/A | N/A |
ACTIVITIES
2023 - 2024
2022 - 2023
| Name of Activity | Date | Activity Report |
|---|---|---|
| Alumni Meet | 02/05/2023 | View |
| Library Session on Eminent Renaissance Writer | 01/04/2023 | View |
| Poetry /Story Translation Competition | 28/03/2023 | View |
| Film-Fest | 03/03/2023 | View |
| Speech on Special Author | 17/02/2023 | View |
| Author's Sketch Competition | 17/02/2023 | View |
| Library Session on Gems of Indian Literature | 30/01/2023 | View |
| Knowing a Book Lecture Series (Lecture 4) | 21/01/2023 | View |
| Film-Fest(Every second & fourth Saturday ) | 14/01/2023 | View |
| Twelve Days Capacity Building Programme on "Advanced Research Methodology for Young Aspirants in Social Sciences and Humanities" | 12 to 24/12/2022 | View |
| Career Orientation: Opportunities Beyond Border on Personality Development and Positive Thinking | 11/10/2022 | View |
| Library Session Grammar books | 27/09/2022 | View |
| Knowing a Book Lecture Series (Lecture 3) Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time | 20/09/2022 | View |
| Poetry Recitation Competition | 31/08/2022 | View |
| Library Session on Two Indian Writers: Rabindranath Tagore and R. K. Narayan. | 30/08/2022 | View |
| National Webinar on Multilingualism and Language Diversity in the Classroom | 27/08/2022 | View |
| Essay writing Competition | 13/08/2022 | View |
| Alumni Talk-I | 12/08/2022 | View |
| Knowing a Book Lecture Series (Lecture 2) Visakhadatta's Mudrarakshasa | 05/08/2022 | View |
| Need of English Language in Students' Life | 1/08/2022 | View |
| Library Session | 29/07/2022 | View |
| Knowing a Book Lecture Series (Lecture 1) Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha | 09/07/2022 | View |
2021 - 2022
| Name of Activity | Date | Activity Report |
|---|---|---|
| A National Level Webinar on Poetic Creativity and Translation of Poetry | 25/03/2022 | View |
| Film-Fest (Every Saturday) | 25/02/2022 | View |
| Academic Expert Meet | 11/02/2022 | View |
| Workshop for UG & PG Students on Comparative Literature | 31/01/2022 | View |
| A National Level Webinar English Language and Allied skills for Employability | 08/10/2021 | View |
| One Day National Workshop on Research Methodology In Humanities: | 22/09/2021 | View |
| Knowing a Book Lecture Series (Lecture 1) Uchlya (The Branded) | 06/08/2021 | View |
| Speak English Better Course | 02/08/2021 to 09/10/2021 | View |
| NET/SET Preparation Guidance | 23/07/2021 to 31/12/2021 | View |
2020 - 2021
| Name of Activity | Date | Activity Report |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing A Book Lecture Series (Lecture 5) Bhalchandra Nemade's Hindu | 17/04/2021 | View |
| Online National Level Certificate Course of Japanese Language | 25/03/2021 to 17/04/2021 | View |
| Knowing A Book Lecture Series (Lecture 4) Richard Wright's Black Boy: Racism and Subjugation | 13/03/2021 | View |
| National Webinar on Learning Outcomes-Based Curriculum for English Language and Literature Study | 19/02/2021 | View |
| Knowing A Book Lecture Series (Lecture 3) George Eliots The Mill on the Floss | 10/02/2021 | View |
| Knowing A Book Lecture Series (Lecture 2) John Ruskin's Unto This Last: Its Relevance in the Modern Age | 07/01/2021 | View |
| A National Level Online Workshop on Strategies for Effective Online Teaching | 15/12/2020 | View |
| Knowing A Book Lecture Series (Lecture 1) Godan by Munshi Premchand: A Translation Perspective | 05/12/2020 | View |
| NET/SET Preparation Guidance | 24/07/2020 to 11/12/2020 | View |
| National Webinar Possible Effects of COVID-19 On Higher Education | 03/07/2020 | View |
| Speakfast Preparation Course | 29/01/2020 to 29/01/2021 | View |
2019 - 2020
| Name of Activity | Date | Activity Report |
|---|---|---|
| Author's Week | 31/07/2019-07/02/2020 | View |
| National Workshop on E Content Development for Effective Teaching and Learning | 14 and 15/02/2020 | View |
| Webinar on Professional Development and Career Opportunities in Abroad | 08/02/2020 | View |
| Film Fest | (2019-20) Every Sat | View |
| Inauguration of Langlit | 15/10/2019 | View |
| SET NET Guidance | 27/07/2019 TO 24/08/2019 | View |
2018 - 2019
| Name of Activity | Date | Activity Report |
|---|---|---|
| Tagore Fest | 22/02/2019 | View |
| 21st Century Skills for Career Readiness for UG & PG Students | 02/01/2019 | View |
| Avishkar Research Festival | 19/12/2018 | View |
| Spoken English Workshop | 07/12/2018 | View |
| English Club Inauguration Function | 15/09/2018 | View |
| NETSET Workshop for PG Students | 10-11/09/2018 | View |
Language Lab
Most of the population of the world is bilingual. All the students are being taught a second language in their academic subject and English is the most common of it. After becoming an autonomous, the English is taught as a communication language, in the college. The English department of college has the facility of English Language Lab designed under UGC, New Delhi Scheme. It proved instrumental to simplify many aspects of language teaching. Teachers can bring out the facts and rules of language to students in an easily graspable way. It provided education plus entertainment means edutainment. All the students of graduation from all faculties blissfully enjoy English language lab facilities. The language lab facility is financially supported under CPE I-Phase, II-Phase and III-Phase.
Information About Language lab
| Sr.No. | Information | File |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | About Language Lab | View |
| 2 | Language Lab Handouts | View |
| 3 | About Software | View |
| 4 | Time Table 2018-19 | View |
| 5 | Time Table 2019-20 | View |
| 6 | Time Table 2020-21 | View |
| 7 | Time Table 2021-22 | View |
| 8 | Time Table 2022-23 | View |
Memorandum of Understanding
| Sr.No. | w.e.f | MoU With | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 09/07/2022 | Yashwant Mahavidyalaya,nanded | View |
| 2. | 22/02/2022 | IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK | View |
| 3. | 11/02/2022 | Sangmeshwar College (Autonomous), Solapur | View |
| 4. | 2022 | Adarsh mahavidyalaya ,Omerga | View |
| 5. | 07/01/2020 | English Language Teaching Institute of Symbosis ,Pune | View |
| 6. | 31/05/2018 | M/s. Macmillan Publishers India Private Ltd. | View |