The department of English, H.C.D.G. College aims at imparting inclusive and equitable quality education to all in the broader field of English language and literature.
To achieve quality education improved, flawless and effective teaching methodologies by discouraging rote learning and cramping, and to create a healthy environment to generate industrious human resource for the service of our nation.
To work zestfully and resourcefully to impart the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing not only to support the students in present time but also to cater their future needs for quality educational opportunities.
To provide an interdisciplinary and holistic knowledge environment by developing understanding of Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, International Studies and Environmental Studies.
To help students see themselves as professionals, as part of a discipline with skills and abilities valuable in their future opportunities.
To assure the students achieve creativity through reading, analyzing and presenting and to develop critical thinking as well as inquisitiveness.
To provide a platform and space to learn new skills, soft skills to meet the challenges of the fast changing society.
To develop the department as a centre for academic excellence.
Strength of the Department-
The department has committed, vibrant and trained faculty who apart from teaching mentor students and develop a strong bond with students at personal, social and academic level.
Varied teaching methodologies have been adopted to achieve a receptive and non-oppressive environment for the students.
Seminars, special classes, film screening, theatre performances, seminar/project presentation have been arranged/organized regularly to encourage students to explore beyond the prescribed syllabus as well as to encourage participatory and experiential learning.
The “Reading and Cine Club” is an integral part of the department. It arranges special lectures by invited guests, poetry reading & writing competitions, film screening, and theatrical performances by invited theatre repertories.With the initiative of the department HCDG College Campus Film Society has been formed and got affiliation from Federation of Film Societies of India.
The department also uses audio-visual aids, video conferencing, online modes of teaching for effective teaching-learning process and encourage the students to relate their prescribed texts with experimental knowledge.
Opportunity of the Department-
The department has been an epicentre in various extension activities of the college. It holds extramural lectures, special lecture for the divyanga, film screening for the students within the college campus, special talks on films in both online and offline mode, poetry reading &writing competitions, seminar paper presentation using power point, career counselling classes, workshop on soft skill, exhibit drama, enact plays or part of plays by renowned playwrights, special projects on the lives and culture of the indigenous tribes and communities inhabited in the surrounding villages of the college. All these activities enhance the cultural vision and impart new energy among the students through participatory learning.
More Add-on and professional courses can be provided for a better result in the field of language and communication.
Challenges of the Department-
It is a challenge for the department to generate interest among students who mostly come from vernacular medium schools.
The household environment of the students are quite inconvenient as most of them belong to BPL.
Equally challenging is to expose such students to the diverse world of literature and make them appreciate a piece of literature critically. Hence, less students prefer to opt for English Literature as theirHonours Course.
Suggestions to overcome the challenges-
The challenges can be well taken by the department by offering remedial classes and introducing them to communicative English.
The department has organized workshops, special talk programmes on structural grammar, literature, literature and film, enactment of drama etc. by inviting the students of nearby schools. More such programmes would be organized among the students of feeder schools.
Strategic plan for 15 years-
To establish the department as a centre of academic excellence.
Modifying and updating teaching methods keeping in view the challenges and demands of teaching English as a second language.
Undertaking collaborative efforts with other institutions of excellence in India.
To acquire more books to give a thrust to the departmental library; to develop an audio-visual archive in the department.
Give a new dimension to the Spoken English Course by incorporating learners from outside of the college campus.
To provide soft skill classes to nearby schools.
To promote inquisitiveness and research attitude among students.
To open Post Graduate (Distance) Courses in the department under Dibrugarh University and KK Handiqui State Open University, Assam.
To provide professional courses, certificate courses, diploma courses in collaboration with other higher educational institutions of the country.
To carry out activities for community development and gender equity, social justice as well as for the preservation of environment.
Publications from the Dept. of English.
Indian Drama: Tradition and Transition
Journal of English Literature and Language
Dawn (Wall Magazine)
Students’ Seminar Paper Collection
Amlokhi Gashar Suhuri (Munin Borkataki Award Winning Collection of Assamese Poems by eminent poet Manoj Barpujari)
School Suti Hol (Collection of Children poems by eminent poet Dr. Jatin Konwar)
