The department of English is one of the oldest departments in the college, initially started in erstwhile St. Joseph's College. Today it is one of the foremost departments of English Literature in Kashmir Valley and its alumni occupy senior positions in academia, adminstration and other services in and outside the country As English language and literature forms a common component of all the faculties.Teaching has always been a high priority for the Department, with a good deal of contact between students and teachers. Faculty are free to design courses and in recent years they have offered courses in new fields such as (among others), popular culture and music, Western attitudes to the 'Orient', aspects of the Renaissance, queer theory, history of the book, aboriginal and settler colony literatures, editing, textual criticism, postcolonial studies, drama and creative writing. Some of the courses include practical training as well as lecture-based teaching. While the urge to excel is high, and the burden of coursework can be quite heavy, students are also given guidance and mentoring and a good deal of freedom to use their initiative in their work. This prepares them for competitive careers in their chosen fields after they graduate. The Department also focuses on research and has a fairly large population of M.Phil and Ph.D. scholars who bring an inquiring edge to the Department's preoccupations. Inter college and inter university level seminars are held two or three times a year and senior scholars and faculty present papers alongside delegates from all over the valley.

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Courses Offered :- B.A/ B.Sc./ B.Com/ BBA / BCA /BMMMC

Duration :- 3 Years

Intake Capacity :- 1000