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Department Profile

The department has consistently striven to provide quality teaching to students. In terms of resources and infrastructure, the department has a lot of the latest audio-visual equipment at its disposal, including a Television set, LCD projector. The department has a good collection of high-quality books in the departmental library. It also has a fair number of quality CDs and DVDs related to literature that enables us to arrange screenings for students from time to time. The college has also recently set up a Language Laboratory facility to be used by all language departments. The department provides a forum to the students for extra and co-curricular activities such as Poetry readings, dramatics, debates and language games and quizzes. Our students have consistently made their mark during events organized by other institutions in various competitions. Prof. Dr. Katte A.Y., Head, Department of English, is a member of the Board of Studies for English at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. Apart from this, he is also a research guide and a lot of good research is happening under his guidance. Five research students have been awarded PhD, and eight research students are doing research under his guidance. One of our faculty members, Mr Gund K.D. is a member of the NSS Committee of the college. Besides this, our faculty members are invited as guest speakers to other institutions as also as Resource persons for seminars, conferences or state and national-level academic courses, such as Refresher courses. All in all, both the staff and the students of the department have been fairly active in the past and hope to lead the department and college to greater heights in future too.
Vision-
To Enhance the quality of teaching and learning to achieve excellence in the subject of English.
Mission
To make the students good human beings and citizens of the world.
Goals-
● To make the students know legible and job hunter.
● To imbibe soft skills and communication skills
● To create interest in reading and learning the English language and literature.

Intake

Sr No	Year	Intake Capacity
1	Year 2015-16	120
2	Year 2016-17	120
3	Year 2017-18	120
4	Year 2018-19	120
5	Year 2019-20	120
6	Year 2020-21	120

Teaching Staff

Sr. No.	Name of Faculty	Designation	Qualifications	View Profile
1	Mr. Mane S.C	M.A., SET, PhD.	Assist. Professor & Head	View CV
2	Mr. Gund K.D.	Assistant Professor	M.A., M.Phil.	View CV
2	Mr. Gaikwad S. A.	M.A., SET, NET	Assist. Professor (CHB)	View CV

Courses & Syllabus:

S.N.	Course	Syllabus
1	B.A. S.Y Sem- IV-English(Comp.) -IV (Learning Language Skills-II)	Click To View
2	B.A. S.Y. (Sem-III)-English(Comp.) -III (Learning Language Skills-II)	Click To View
3	B.COM.- ENGLISH COMPULSORY- SECOND YEAR	Click To View
4	BA, B.SC- (OPT.) ENGLISH- FIRST YEAR SEM - I & II	Click To View
5	BA, B.SC- (OPT.) ENGLISH- SECONDT YEAR SEM - III & IV (2)	Click To View
6	BA, B.SC- (OPT.) ENGLISH- THIRD YEAR SEM -V & VI (2)	Click To View
7	BA, B.SC.- ENGLISH COMPULSORY - SEOND YEAR	Click To View

PROGRAMES & COURSE OUTCOMES:

Programme Outcomes
PO1: Social responsibility and awareness: Students acquire knowledge and can apply in social sciences, literature and humanities which make them sensitive and help to grow ability as responsible citizens. It also creates social consciousness (BL6).
PO2: Inculcation of human values: Students can apply knowledge with human values framing the base to deal with various problems in life with courage and humanity (BL6).
PO3: Familiarize learners with social and economic issues: Learners get familiarize with social, economic, historical, geographical, political, ideological and philosophical tradition and thinking (BL2).
PO4: Communication and linguistic skills: Students acquire good communication and linguistic skills which is the need of modern time and essential for campus drives (BL3).
PO5: Competency: It empowers graduates to appear for competitive examinations and higher studies (BL6).
PO6: Creativity: Students will acquire the sense of social service and creative ability (BL6).
Course Outcomes:
B. A.
1. English Paper II & IV: Reading Literature Aim of the Course
CO1: To enable students to read and appreciate various forms of literature and critically interact with them from different perspectives.
CO2: To introduce students to appropriate literary strategies and literature.
CO3: To pinpoint how far literary language deviates from ordinary language.
CO4: To unravel many meanings in a literary text.
2. Paper IV: Semester Two Unit One: Methodology of Literature
CO1: To develop appreciation for the purposes and pleasures of prose fiction and nonfiction.
CO2: To articulate ways that literary works to construct values and ethical meanings.
CO3: To practice analytical reading on multiple examples of each genre chosen.
CO4: To illuminate literary choices and conventions, including texts that are culturally and historically diverse.
CO5: To identify major features of literary forms and construct arguments.
CO6: To understand different forms of literature - the ode, lyric, Sonnet, novel and dramatic type’s comedy and tragedy.
CO6: To understand various aspects of novel and drama.
BA II English Optional
CO1: To enable students to read and appreciate various forms of literature and critically interact with different perspectives.
CO2: To introduce learners with appropriate literary strategies.
CO3: To pinpoint how far literary language deviates from ordinary language.
CO4: To unravel many meanings in a literary text.
3. Paper V &VII: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 1550-1750 Paper V: Semester III
On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Interpret various forms of literature.
CO2: Distinguish and analyze literary forms like essay, mock epic, drama and novel.
CO3: Compare and differentiate between literary language and ordinary language.
CO4: Unravel many meaning in literary text.
4. Paper VI & VIII:
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 1750-1900 Paper VI: Semester III On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Understand literary forms of poetry: Ballad and dramatic monologue, romantic poetry, prose, play and novel in 18th century and 19th century.
CO2: Appreciate the poems of S.T. Coleridge and Robert Browning.
CO3: Comment on themes and styles of Oscar Wilde’s play.
CO4: Understand plot, characters and setting in the novel of Thomas Hardy.
5. BA III English Optional
CO1: To introduce students to Modern English Literature.
CO2: To familiarize students with literary terms and introduce them with various streams in literary criticism and develop skills for literary evaluation.
CO3: To help learners to approach and appreciate Indian literature in English and make them see its place among world literature in English.
CO4: To introduce students to American literature and its diverse cultures reflected in writing.
CO5: To make students able to understand the background of English literature and help them to write on its development.
CO6: To understand how literature of modern period relates to the important trends of the period.
CO7: To make the students aware of the fact that all readers are critics and introduce them to basic texts in criticism while developing critical thinking in them.
CO8: To introduce students to the thematic concerns, genres and trends of both Indian Writing in English and American Literature.
CO9: To lead the students to see how texts are affected by context. 6. Paper IX & XIII:
Twentieth Century English Literature Semester V Contents: Unit One: Poetry On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Understand how the literature of modern period relates to the importan trends of 20th century.
CO2: Appreciate poem by T.S. Eliot and W.B Yeats.
CO3: Comment on the themes of Osborne and G.B Shaw’s plays.
CO4: Understand character setting in the novels of Kingsley Amiss and D.H Lawrence.
7. Paper X & XIV:
Introduction to Literary Criticism and Terms Semester On successful completion of the course, students will be able to …..
CO1: Identify and discuss classical Greek critics of literature.
CO2: Provide a brief overview of major critical theories by critics like Aristotle, Sir Philip Sidney, William Wordsworth and F.R. Leavis.
CO3: Learn the terms related to various genres of literature.
CO4: Cultivate an understanding of major critical and interpretive methods.
8. Paper XI & XV:
Indian Writing in English After studying the course, the learners will be able to….
. CO1: To understand nineteenth Century Reform - Movements in India; the Indian National Movement; Rise of the Indian Novel and Caste-Class.
CO2: To become aware of social, political, and cultural issues reflected in Indian writing in English, with reference to Indian social reformations, freedom struggle, women education and empowerment in nineteenth century.
CO3: To appreciate artistic and innovative use of language employed by writers to instill values and develop human concern through literary texts.
CO4: To familiarize students with emergence and growth of Indian Writing in English in the context of colonial experience.
CO5: To discuss issues concerning Indian Writing in English such as representation of culture, identity, history, constructions of nation, (post) national and gender politics, cross-cultural transformations.
9. Semester V Poetry:
On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to….
CO1: Understand background of Indian English literature and its development.
CO2: Critically appreciate themes in poems of Nissim Ezekiel and Arun Kolatkar.
CO3: Understand and evaluate themes, plot, character in the plays of Girish Karnad and Vijay Tendulkar.
CO4: Appreciate the theme, setting, characters in the novels of Raja Rao and U.R Anantha Murthy
10. Paper XII & XVI:
Project Work on History of English Literature
CO1: To understand the background of English literature and empower learners on its development.
CO2: To understand different aspects of research methodology.
CO3: To write research papers.
CO4: To understand new trends, movements in English literature.

Research

Prof. Dr. Katte A. Y.

CS., JCS and Examiner, for Dr. B.A.M.U. Aurangabad Examinations
Co-Coordinator and Member of N.S.S. Advisory committee
In charge Lecturer of the Students Council
Member of Sports Advisory Committee
Chairman of Students Council Committee
Chairman of Literary Association Committee
Worked as Rector of Students Hostel
Chairman of Students Discipline Committee
Chairman of Students Council Committee
Chairman of Literary Association Committee
Member of Advisory Committee, National Seminar Organized by Department of English, Dr. B.A.M.U. Aurangabad
Member of Advisory Committee, National Seminar Organized by Department of English, Maulana Azad College, Aurangabad.
Chairman and Member of paper setting Committee of English of Dr. B.A.M. University, Aurangabad for B.A., B.Com. and B. Sc.
Moderator and Examiner for B.A., B.Com. and B. Sc. of English of Dr. B.A.M. University, Aurangabad
Examiner of English in Pune University, Pune
Chairperson for the Paper Presentation Session at the International Seminar on “Innovations in Teaching” 2016
Resource person for the Plenary Session of the International Conference on “Fourth World Literature and Culture” 2014
Chairperson for the Paper Presentation Session at the International Conference on “Religion Literature and Culture” Organised at Dnyansagar Institute of Management and Research 2017
Chairperson for the Paper Presentation Session at the International Conference on “Globalization Literature and Culture” 2018

Mr. Gund K. D.

Member of Social Science Association
Member of NSS Committee
Member of Literary Association Committee

Activities

Sr. No.	Student-Centric Activities	Duration	Participants
1	Certificate Course: Personality and Skill Development	01.09.2018 to 30.09.2018	35
2	Certificate Course: Spoken English	02.01.2020 to 08.02.2020 (30 days)	21

Alumni List:

Sr. No.	Name	Designation	Place
1	Mr. Kshirsagar Budhwant	A.P.I.	Ahmednagar
2	Mr. Aware Rahul Abarao	P.S.I.	Thane
3	Mrs. Borade Nirmala Dnyandev	Advocate	N. Parishad, Beed
4	Mr. Taware Datta Mohan	Teacher	Jr. College, Raimoha Dist. Beed
5	Mr. Vikas Vilas Patil	Advocate	Washi
6	Mr. Shelke Balaji Baburao	Asstt. Prof.	SRM University, Sikkim
7	Mr. Aware Sunil Shivaji	Teacher	Washi
8	Ms. Ghotale Ashwini Ishwarrao	Asstt. Prof.	Jaykranti College, Latur
9	Mrs. Gadhave Priyanka Ashok	Asstt. Prof.	K.M.J.M.Washi

Future Plan

To organize an international seminar
To connect the department more strongly with the alumni
To focus more on ICT-enabled teaching
To increase activities related to the curriculum.

KARMAVEER MAMASAHEB JAGDALE MAHAVIDYALAYA, WASHI