PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOs)

To be a globally renowned university, as per our vision, we need to produce quality products (graduates/post graduates) into the market who have potential strengths to meet all the professional and personal challenges prevailing at global levels and who can serve in all the possible positions of their respective job domains and contribute towards holistic growth of their respective employment providers as well as the nation, world. The post graduates must also possess cutting edge R&D skills in their domain areas.

This, is exactly what has been framed into the University’s Mission and thereby the Mission has converged into the following Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) which are best suited to postgraduate ENGLISH programs, and are those that complement the university vision, mission.

A. To develop strong student competencies in English Language and Literature and its applications in a globally informed, interactive environment.

B. To develop strong student skills in focussed research, analysis and interpretation of the variegated yet ubiquitous cultural and societal ambience.

C. To prepare the students to successfully compete for employment in a wide range of professions such as, teaching, media studies, journalism, creative writing, content developing, etc and to offer a holistic experience in research methods, data analysis to meet the proliferating demands of the new world.

These PEOs are designed to be attained by all the post graduates within 2 to 5 years of their post graduation.

The Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) are as follows:

• PEO-1: Introduce students to the professional conversation in English studies in various fields and to texts from diverse eras and cultures, with the intention of provoking and supporting their intellectual curiosity.


• PEO-2: Culture and History: Students will gain knowledge of the major traditions of literatures written in English, and an appreciation for the diversity of literary and social voices within–and sometimes marginalized by–those traditions. They will develop an ability to read texts in relation to their historical and cultural contexts, in order to gain a richer understanding of both text and context, and to become more aware of themselves as situated historically and culturally.


• PEO-3: Valuing literature, language, and imagination: Students will develop a passion for literature and language. They will appreciate literature’s ability to elicit feeling, cultivate the imagination, and call us to account as humans. They will cultivate their capacity to judge the aesthetic and ethical value of literary texts–and be able to articulate the standards behind their judgments. They will appreciate the expressive use of language as a fundamental and sustaining human activity, preparing for a life of learning as readers and writers.


• PEO-4: Sense of Genre: Students will develop an appreciation of how the formal elements of language and genre shape meaning. They will recognize how writers can transgress or subvert generic expectations, as well as fulfill them. And they will develop a facility at writing in appropriate genres for a variety of purposes and audiences.


• PEO-5: Critical Approaches: Students will develop the ability to read works of literary, rhetorical, and cultural criticism, and deploy ideas from these texts in their own reading and writing. They will express their own ideas as informed opinions that are in dialogue with a larger community of interpreters, and understand how their own approach compares to the variety of critical and theoretical approaches.


• PEO-6: Research Skills: Students will be able to identify topics and formulate questions for productive inquiry; they will identify appropriate methods and sources for research and evaluate critically the sources they find; and they will use their chosen sources effectively in their own writing, citing all sources appropriately.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES (POs):

On completion of the program the student will be able to:

• PO1. Gain an introductory knowledge of some of the issues explored in influential works in English language and the stylistic strategies that writers used to explore those issues.


• PO2. Read complex texts actively: recognize key passages; raise questions; appreciate complexity and ambiguity; comprehend the literal and figurative uses of language.


• PO3. Appreciate literary form: recognize how form and structure shape a text’s meaning; appreciate how genre generates expectations and shapes meanings.


• PO4. Interpret texts with an awareness of and curiosity for other viewpoints.


• PO5. Practice writing as a process of motivated inquiry, engaging other writers’ ideas through the use of quotations, paraphrase, allusions and summary. Use sources well and cite them correctly.


• PO6. Attend to a wider range of voices within interculturation.


• PO7. Enjoy the experience of reading challenging literature: appreciate literature’s ability to elicit feeling, cultivate the imagination, and call us to account as humans.