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6. Adventures in Difference: Exploring Gender, Justice and Wellness in the Contemporary is a
60-hour course offered in collaboration between the department of English, the NGO Samvada
and Baduku Community College. Involving Self Work, Perspectives, and Writing/Reading
the Self, the course connects the personal to the structural, the subjective to the formal, the ‗us‘
and the ‗other‘, the familiar and the unfamiliar, as they exist in relation to the gendered self.
34. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.
Dialogic method, Research – Seminars, Tutorials, Social Media interface, audio visual aided
teaching
35. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and
learning outcomes monitored?
There is constant interaction between the HOD and the faculty. As one of the best practices,
we have a core committee for department work and a disciplinary committee to follow up on
the student progression – academic and otherwise.
36. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.
Teachers accompany students on the outreach programmes. They guide students to make
presentations, write papers and participate in seminars outside the college. Teachers in the
department also guide students in relation to social commitment issues. They also facilitate
short term introductory programmes for outreach activities.
JEAN – The Josephite English Alumni Network was set up in 2015 in order to continue
academic conversations with alumni. It has already carried out reflective and interactive
sessions on teaching – learning processes, particularly with young alumni who are in the
teaching profession. We are also in the process of introducing NET/SLET training.
37. Give details. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other
agencies.
We have been accredited as part of the institution by NAAC. The department‘s work has been
highly commended in a 2014 evaluation of College conducted by LIBA (Loyola Institute of
Business Administration).
38. Detail any five Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the
department
Strengths –
1. Most people in the Department have either completed their PhDs or have enrolled towards a
research degree. We have 4 NETs and 3 SLET/K-SETs. Teachers travel for seminars and
conferences to deliver keynote and plenary talks. Thus we can say that we have highly
qualified and respected faculty and academic rigour in the department.
2. We are a very student-friendly department. Primarily because of our remediation and
tutorial programmes. Teachers spend a great deal of time evaluating written work of students
and sharing feedback about their speaking and presentation skills.
3. We understand that we have strong and empowering General English, Additional English,
Optional English, Journalism, Communicative English and Media-Culture-Technology
syllabi which enable students to see English language learning as relevant and important for
their everyday experiences.
4. One of our best practices is the Streaming Process for General English, Additional English
and Media, Culture Tec students. A diagnostic test which helps in identifying clusters of skills
in English language among students is conducted, in order to assess the streams they will be
marked under. This Streaming enables teachers to give personal and sustained attention to the
language needs of the specific cluster-skilled classroom. It also empowers students to learn
the specific skills that they are challenged by.
5. The department has been in creative and innovative collaborations with NGOs, Theatre
groups and cultural organisations to enhance the quality of extracurricular and co curricular
programmes directed by the department.
Weaknesses--
1. Student – teacher ratios are far from desirable, as a result of systemic problems that are
beyond the institution‘s control.
2. Sometimes we are not successful in persuading funding agencies such as the UGC about the
relevance of our proposed projects.

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