MA in English

• Critically evaluate current issues and trends influencing the field of education.
• Conduct applied research: Formulate a researchable question or identify an organizational problem, design and conduct a study using appropriate methodologies, analyze data and draw reasonable conclusions, offer sound recommendations based on those conclusions
• Design appropriate and effective curricula and instructional strategies that are informed by current theories of learning and pedagogy, including meeting the needs of diverse learners
• Select and effectively utilize technologies for professional development and for enhancing student learning
• Write and speak clearly and coherently using correct grammar and sentence structure; communicate ideas and articulate arguments/positions in ways appropriate to reach the intended audience
• Establish effective professional relationships with a wide range of individuals in their workplace and/or associated with their work
• Critically evaluate current issues and trends in the practices of classroom instruction and curriculum development and apply that knowledge appropriately in the development of curricula and instructional strategies
• Educate students in both the artistry and utility of the English language through the study of literature and other contemporary forms of culture
• Provide students with the critical faculties necessary in an academic environment, on the job, and in an increasingly complex, interdependent world
• Assist students in the development of intellectual flexibility, creativity, and cultural literacy so that they may engage in life-long learning
• MA English students should be able to read literary and cultural texts in relation to philosophical, cultural, social and historical contexts
• Students should be able to close-read literary and cultural texts, engage in critical analysis of these texts, and make arguments about them based in a disciplinary understanding of argument and evidence
• They should be able to write about literary texts with conceptual complexity, informed at least in part by familiarity with literary and cultural theory
• MA graduates should be able to locate their own argument in a critical conversation, with understanding of discipline specific use of secondary sources

• helps students to learn a wide range of disciplines which are incorporated by the Bangalore City University to the thoroughly restructured syllabus of MA English
• helps the students learn the evolution of language, literature, culture and the politics
• enhances balanced and critical thinking of students
• cultivates language skills of students by introducing them to structures of language through a wide variety of literary works, phonetics and structure specific texts
• hones the writing skills of students and they learn the conventions of academic writing
• instills a critical perspective with which students approach literature and related disciplines
• introduces different literary periods and trends of each of these periods
• introduces works written by different sections of people (gender, racial and ethnic minorities) and makes the students give critical responses from different perspectives

The students:

• become proficient in grammar, structure, linguistics, phonetics, semantics and a wide range of language related paradigms
• critically interact with works from different contexts: literary, cultural, psychological, social, political, economic, historical and national and thus their level of critical thinking is enhanced
• become thorough with reading works with theoretical basis
• become capable of interpreting and exploring relationships from the points of view of different people
• become inspired by literary texts, open up their minds and stimulate the sympathetic/empathic imagination by allowing them to see the world through other’s eyes as well to foster intercultural dialogue
• approach and appreciate Indian literature in English and explore its uniqueness and its place among the literatures in English
• learn what language is and what knowledge a language consist of. This is provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems
• get sensitized with the critical tools used in the reading of literature
• form an idea of the complex nature of literary studies and how they are entangled with other aspects of the social body
• gain perceptive insights into the socio-political dynamics, the structuring points of view, the dominant ideology, hegemony, the prevailing common sense and communal underpinnings that mediate the writing, production, reception and survival of a work
• learn literary terms and the various streams in literary criticism, to make them aware of the inter-disciplinary nature of contemporary criticism and to develop in students, skills for literary criticism
• inculcate a literary, aesthetic and critical awareness of diverse cultures and literary creations and thus to arrive at a broader vision of the world
• come to know about the evolution of the Feminist movement and to familiarize them with the various issues addressed by Feminism
• become sensitized to issues like marginalization and subjugation of women
• form an idea of the complex discipline of film studies and become trained to evaluate, interpret and make critiques of modern films
• develop sensible response to great classics in translation and fine tune analytical skills with a view to achieving a broad, wholesome vision of life