Surya Sen Colony, Block B, Siliguri
Dist.: Jalpaiguri, West Bengal (India)-734004
Email: suryasen@suryasencollege.org.in
Phone : +91 353-2691488, +91 94763 87939

SURYA SEN MAHAVIDYALAYA

Govt. Aided College & Recognized by UGC u/s 2(f) &1 2(b) :: Established in: 1998
NAAC ACCREDITED  ::   ISO 9001:2115 & ISO 21001:2018 CERTIFIED
Masterda Surya Sen

Indian revolutionary
and School Teacher

22 Mar1894 - 12 Jan 1934

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH



  Syllabus:

    Honours Program Course Syllabus (click here to view the syllabus)


    Language Course Syllabus (click here to view the syllabus)


  About the Department:
'Without Literature, Life is Hell' -- Charles Bukowski
  Since the inception of the college in the year 1998, English Department started its journey with only Elective English for general students. Honours course was introduced in the Department in 2003, with one full-time teacher in the substantive post and one part-time teacher. Now the Department has 6 teachers to look after imparting the subject to more than 3000 students enrolled in Honours Program and Program courses.
Despite shouldering this huge responsibility with the shortage of teachers, the Department has constantly been engaged in experimenting with various teaching methodologies in making learning of English a joyous and purposeful experience for the students. Screening of films, organizing students centric seminars, the arrangement of invited lectures by faculties from other institutions are some of the key activities to supplement conventional teaching practices.

PRIORITY AREAS:
 With the introduction of CBCS syllabus by the University of North Bengal in 2018 session, the Department has reworked its priority areas following the changing academic environs in today's volatile socio-cultural clime. Technical writing skill, being one of the primary requisites of the employers, in this world of 'private economy', classes on language learning and writing skills is given additional importance for Program course students and are conducted by teachers having expertise in Language teaching.

OBJECTIVES:
 However, studies in English literature don't just prepare students for the workplace - they prepare them to embrace ideas and cultural ethos which will help them to strike bonhomie with others in a multicultural matrix. While our Program course incorporates experiential learning into our course offerings, our BA Honours program fuses traditional and global contents into it, helping students to be a global citizen with traditional moorings. Today, the English Department maintains its strong commitment to traditional areas of English study, promoting at the same time, issues related to cultural diversity, identity-formation, construction of gender and nation-building. The Honours Core course offers students a fine balance of traditional British literature courses, with Indian classical writings, American and Modern Indian literature with writing from other related areas such as Partition Literature, Popular Culture, Women's Writing and Children's Fiction.

LANGUAGE LABORATORY:
 Realizing the need for developing good communication skills for students coming from the vernacular background, the Department opened its exclusive language laboratory in the year 2019 and offers 'IT Enabled English Language Certificate Course'(IEELCC) which is compulsory for all first semester Core Course students. With 30 computers and a state-of-the-art setting, the language laboratory of the department has become ground zero for hyper-multimedia language education. Two specially trained teachers from the Department of English, Prof.Sanchita Das and Prof.Ishwar Darnel act as instructors and coordinators for this specially designed language course The Department has a plan to extend the scope of the course to the students of other departments from Jul 2020

WHY ENGLISH AT SSM?
 The department, through all its varied activities, propagates the idea that there's no substitute for what the regular teacher brings to the classroom. Classroom experiences should shift students from passive to active, maintaining their interest and promoting active participation. To ensure this our lesson-plans have ample scope for students' active participation in the classroom so that attending classes, rather than becoming a compulsion, becomes an outcome of motivation. Students participate in the student-centric seminar, group discussion and other literary activities. We also invite teachers from other institutions to deliver talks on various topics. Such invited talks aim to expose students to different teaching experience.

Departmental wall magazine Oracle is a platform for the students to showcase their literary skill. The aim of all this is to prepare students with analytical, critical, and communication skills so that after passing from this institution students can get opportunities of pursuing higher education in various disciplines or crack competitive examinations.

To bring back the culture of reading, the Department has a Reader's Club where under the tutelage of designated teachers students are encouraged to read various books and then take part in the discussion. This develops the critical thinking of the students.

The department encourages students and sometimes makes it compulsive for the students to participate in various literary and cultural competitions to showcase their creative potentials.

EMOTIONAL WELL BEING:
 Feelings of stress and anxiety are a part of life and the college students are not exempted from this. At the adolescence, stage stress can, at times, be overwhelming. Each person has different types of stressors. What bothers one student might not bother another. The department has an active mentor-mentee program where a group of students' emotional wellbeing is taken care of by a particular teacher. The department also encourages students to meet teachers personally in resolving personal issues.

 Our mission is to strengthen the liberal education of students by developing a deepened understanding of language and literacy, the value of critical reading and effective writing, and the richness of literature, past and present. We value teaching that will lead our students to participate in society as informed, responsible citizens.


  Research Activities:

    Project Details

Name of the faculty member

Project Title

Funding Agencies

Duration

Grant amount

Sutapa Saha

From Literature to Film: A Transition of Perspectives in Satyajit Ray's Films

UGC-MRP

Submitted on 20.12.2017

1,20,750/-

Dr. Arnab Baul

Idea of Violence in Shakespeare.

UGC-MRP

2010-2012

1,40,000/-



  Extension Activities:

Funding Agencies

Date

Seminar/ Conference/ Workshops/ Invited Lectures

Speakers

Governing Body, SSM

23 Dec.2019

Invited Lectures

Parjanya Sen, Sonada degree College

Governing Body, SSM

23 Dec.2019

Student Centric Seminar

Parjanya Sen, Sonada degree College

Governing Body, SSM

26 April,2019

Invited Lecture

Dr.Kaustav Chakraborty, South Field College

Governing Body, SSM

26 April,2019

Student Centric Seminar

Dr.Kaustav Chakraborty, South Field College

Governing Body, SSM

20 November, 2017

Invited Lecture

Dr.Paromita Ghosh, Maynaguri College



  Student Section :

  Result

Year

Students Appeared

Students Passed

First Class

University Rank

2018-19

48

36

nil

nil

2017-18

35

28

nil

nil

2016-17

30

16

nil

nil



  Achievement of the past students

Name of the Student

Year of Passing

Present Position

Ranjit Roy

2019

Asst.Prof. Kamakhyaguri College

Sulata Sarkar

2018

Sales Executive, Trip to Natute, Coochbehar

Subham Dey

2017

Animation Teacher , DPS Siliguri

Nirmalaya Das

2016

Asst.Teacher, Chaturagach BFP School

Arunava Sengupta

2016

Asst Teacher, WB Council of Rabindra Open School



  Student Progression to Higher studies

Name of the student

Year of Passing

Course Pursuing

Institute

Priyanka Sharma

2018

M.A.

Sikkim University

Jibojyoti Choudhury

2018

M.A.

NBU

Suchitra Ghosh

2018

B.Ed

Pragati College of Education

Punam Kumari Prasad

2018

B Ed.

Phansideya Primary Teachers’Training Institute

Keya Das

2018

M.A.

RBU Distance

Pinki Roy

2018

M.A.

NBU Distance

Soma Das

2018

MBA

Human resource Development, ICFAI Univ.Sikkim

Tanusree Ghosh Roy

2018

D.ELED

Pragati College of Education



  Departmental Activities

Date

Name of the Event

Resourse Person (if any)

Topic

No. of Participants

28 Feb,2020

Official Inauguration of Language Lab

MIC Tourism Sri Gautam Deb

-

247

13 Feb,2020

Language Course Syllabus Module Orientation

Sanchita Das

Ishwar Darnal

Language Learning and Job Opportunities

65

 23 Dec.2019

Seminar

 Parjanya Sen, Sonada degree College

The Good,The Bad and the Ugly: Your Textual Encounter with fascinating Characters

68

16 November,2019

Counseling

All the teachers

Psychological, gender related issues

200

13 November,2019

Inauguration of Wall Magazine

--

Wall magazine (Vol.2)Inauguration

Topic: Literature and Environment

78

26 April,2019

Invited Talk

Dr.Kaustav Chakraborty, South Field College

Voices in Indian English Poetry: Post Independence Era

102

3 January,2019

Inauguration of Wall Magazine

 

Wall magazine Oracle (Vol.1)Inauguration

Topic: Epics of the World

76

8 September,2018

Gender Sensitization

All the teachers

A Passage to Equivalence: Towards the Equlty of Gender

171

17 February,2018

Gender Sensitization

 

Crossing the Bar: Program of Gender Equity

171

20 Novermber, 2017

Invited Talk

Dr.Paromita Ghosh, Maynaguri College

Imagination , Empathy and the Importance of literature

171



  Contact Us Email: english.ssm98@gmail.com





Faculty





Routine
Odd Sem Routine
Even Sem Routine

Infrastructure

a) Laboratory:

Sl.No.

Name of The Instruments

Total Number

1

Computer with latest configuration

30

2

Head Phone

30



b) Teaching Aids:
  PPT
 Headphone and projectors for language classes
 Dedicated software for language class
 White Board
 Use of social media like WhatsApp for extended counseling
  Screening of Movies & Documentaries


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