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Yes. Through dept meetings, valuable suggestions are incorporated both in curriculum design
and teaching practice.
b. students on staff, curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation and what is the
response of the department to the same?
Yes. Regular evaluation process is undertaken by the college. These evaluation sheets are
given to the teachers.
c. alumni and employers on the programmes and what is the response of the department to the
same?
There is both an informal and formal process of sharing feedback. Usually the Principal and
Head of Dept share feedback individually with teachers.
32. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)
1) Darius Sunawala, Radio personality
2) Nazarius Manoharan, Theatre personality and advertising expert
3) Vibha Ghorpade, Theatre artiste and entrepreneur
4) Mallika Prasad, Theatre artiste and director
5) Kirtana Kumar, Documentary film-maker
6) Srikanth Mallavarapu, Professor, Roanoke College, USA
7) Mahesh Dattani, Playwright and theatre-person
8) Richard Tholoor, dancer and theatre-person
9) Vivek Madan, theatre entrepreneur
10) Nakul Krishna, Rhodes scholar (2007)

33. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar)
with external experts.
1. Thursday Causerie
2. Meta
3. Literati
4. Tackle Fest
5. Certificate Courses
The Department of English offered the following certificate courses during the academic year
2014- 15
1. Development Journalism and Volunteering is a 120-hour course offered by the department
in collaboration with Headstreams, an NGO specialising in educational support for the
underprivileged. The course will offer students a critical understanding of notions of
development, followed by intensive training sessions in reporting from the margins of society.
The course will commence in July and end in February. The course is open to all
undergraduate students. Classes will normally be held on Saturdays and on public holidays.
2. The Contemporary Dance Practices Course is a 60-hour course offered by the department in
collaboration with the noted performer Veena Basavarajaiah. Prior acquaintance with dance is
useful, but not mandatory.
3. Winging It is a 120-hour, 4–credit course in Theatre and Performance Studies offered by the
department in collaboration with several noted Bangalore-based theatre performers. The
course will include training in dramatised reading, improv techniques, mime, voice,
movement, acting, and scripting for the stage.
4. The Creative Writing Course is a 60-hour course where a student will learn how to start the
writing process before progressing to poetry, fiction and non-fiction over six modules and
submit a 5000-word portfolio of original writing to complete the course.
5. Fighting/Writing: Culture Journalism in Troubled Times is a 60-hour, course where a
student will learn the basics of reporting and interviewing while also encountering the
disconnect between traditional arts-and-culture reporting and the manner in which the question
of culture itself has become prone to quarrels and controversies. The course offers a grounding
in the idea that Culure is ordinary rather than a series of artifacts, and promotes an ongoing
polemic with received wisdom and common sense over modules specific to everyday
experience. Those taking the course student will submit a 5000-word portfolio of original
writing to complete the course

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