Program Outcomes

• Disciplinary Knowledge of English Literature and Literary Studies:

  Ability to identify, speak and write about different literary genres, forms, periods and movements;

  Ability to understand and engage with various literary and critical concepts and categories;

  Ability to read texts closely, paying attention to themes, generic conventions, historical contexts, and linguistic and stylistic variations and innovations;

  Ability to understand appreciate, analyse, and use different theoretical frameworks;

  Ability to locate in and engage with relevant scholarly works in order to develop one’s own critical position and present one’s views coherently and persuasively;

  Ability to situate one’s own reading, to be aware of one’s position in terms of society, religion, caste, region, gender, politics, and sexuality to be self-reflexive and self-questioning;

  Ability to understand the world, to think critically and clearly about the local and the global through a reading of literatures in translation and in the original, to be a located Indian citizen of the world.

• Communication Skills:

  Ability to speak and write clearly in standard, academic English;

  Ability to listen to and read carefully various viewpoints and engage with them; and

  Ability to use critical concepts and categories with clarity.

• Critical Thinking:

  Ability to read and analyse extant scholarship;

  Ability to substantiate critical readings of literary texts in order to persuade others; and

  Ability to place texts in historical contexts and also read them in terms of generic conventions and literary history.

• Analytical Reasoning:

  Ability to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in scholarly texts spotting flaws in their arguments; and

  Ability to use critics and theorists to create a framework and to substantiate one’s argument in one’s reading of literary texts.

• Problem Solving:

  Ability to transfer literary critical skills to read other cultural texts; and

  Ability to read any unfamiliar literary texts.

• Research-Related Skills:

  Ability to problematize, formulate hypothesis and research questions, and to identify and consult relevant sources to find answers; and

  Ability to plan and write a research paper.

• Reasoning and Reflective Thinking:

  Ability to analyse texts, evaluating ideas and literary strategies;

  Ability to formulate logical and persuasive arguments; and

  Ability to locate oneself and see the influence of location—regional, national, global—on critical thinking and reading.

• Self-Directing Learning:

  Ability to work independently in terms of reading literary and critical texts; and

  Ability to carry out personal research, postulate questions and search for answers.

• Multicultural Competence:

  Ability to engage with and understand literature from various nations and reasons and languages; and

  Ability to see and respect difference and to transcend binaries.

• Moral and Ethical Values:

  Ability to interrogate one’s own ethical values, and to be aware of ethical issues; and

  Ability to read values inherited in literary texts and criticism vis a vis, the environment, religion, and spirituality, as also structures of power.

• Life-long Learning:

  Ability to retain and build on critical reading skills; and

  Ability to transfer such skills to other domains of one’s life and work.

About University

Who is our MA English Literature for:

• Students who have completed their undergraduate degrees and want to specialize in English Literature for better prospects
• Teaching staff and qualified teachers looking for a Masters degree for career growth prospects
• Students with a long-term goal of becoming English Professors at Universities/Colleges after completing their PhD

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