DEPARTMENT OF
English
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Department of English aims at making graduates with high level of English proficiency and critical thinking ability that will help them perceive their significance in society. Upon graduating, they will be confident to speak out for themselves, and face the world with advanced communication skills and knowledge required in academic, professional, technological, socio-cultural and political spectrum around them.
The curriculum of English at BUFT is one of the broadest in scope and the most intensive in the country, providing students with the chance to explore the interconnections between English language and literature, opportunities to study English from the perspectives of how the language works and is structured as a system and how it is used as an expressive tool in literary texts. The program offers students the opportunities to study principally British and American Literature from its origin in Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th and 21st century complemented by literary pieces of world literatures in English including African, Indian, Australian, Canadian and Caribbean literature.
The program also offers language and linguistic courses which provide students with a threshold to explore the ways in which English language has shaped and been shaped by culture throughout history and in different countries. Studying English language and literature at BUFT will train students to perceive and master the art of communication and rhetorical skills, writing and reading skills, key analytical skills and the ability to read literary texts in broader intellectual, philosophical and historical context. While studying, students are required to apply their critical thinking and appreciate and judge literary genres, style and techniques used by the authors of literary texts, and engage in literary discussions and debates held in classrooms and seminars.
Vision
To ensure that students can develop a flexible intellectual capacity centred around advanced level of communication skills, and critical and analytical abilities which can be applied to a wide range of professional responsibilities, making students globally qualified citizens.
Mission
To help students develop advanced level of communication skills and build comprehensive knowledge of studies in language, literature, and ELT, integrating interdisciplinary courses like Philosophy, Anthropology and European History.
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Values
- Transformation
- Freedom
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- Name of the Degree: Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English, abbreviated as B. A. (Hons) in English
- Curriculum: Outcome Based
- Language of Instruction: English
- Courses Start: Spring (January) & Fall (July) each year
- Standard time to attain the Degree: Four years (eight semesters, six months each)
- Minimum grade to attain the Degree: 2.50 in a scale of 4.00
Bachelor of Arts in English (Code: 515)
The B. A. (Hon’s) in English program consists of 8 academic semesters and a total of 132 credits.
This bachelor degree with honors in English provides students with the opportunity to study English language and literature extensively and develop their communicative competence to an advanced level.
At all levels of instruction, the courses offered in the program have four basic objectives:
1. Developing depth, clarity, precision and high level of proficiency in spoken and written English.
2. Emphasizing the importance of social and cultural values that shape our ideas, civilization and our contemporary world.
3. Building up a flexible intellectual capacity towards critical thinking and problem-solving which can be applied to a wide range of professional responsibilities where individuals must take action in the face of concrete human problems.
4. Bridging art, culture, fashion, literature, language and communication.
Program Educational Objectives [PEOs]
The educational objectives of B.A.(Hons) in Englis program are as follows:
PEO 1: to develop advanced level of clarity, precision and fluency in spoken and written communication necessary for leadership in bringing social transformation.
PEO 2: To facilitate a comprehensive study of language, literature, culture, and communication foregrounding the importance of cultural and social values that have shaped civilization and are required for a better world ensuring social justice, human freedom and dignity.
PEO 3: To develop a flexible intellectual capacity centered around analytical, problem-solving, and critical abilities that can be applied to a wide range of professional and social responsibilities where individuals must take action to address concrete human problems.
Program Learning Outcomes [PLOs]
A learner successfully completing BA (Hons) in English programme will be able to:
PLO 1: Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles and approaches of English studies that focus on language, literature, culture, and communication, and of the ways in which those principles have developed.
PLO 2: Understand and evaluate the human, social, cultural and linguistic values, which are addressed in English studies that have shaped civilization and are required for ensuring social justice, human freedom and dignity.
PLO 3: Demonstrate analytical and critical abilities in the reading of representative texts that can be applied to a wide range of professional and social responsibilities and leadership where individuals must take action to address concrete human problems.
PLO 4: Apply the knowledge and abilities to address issues /solve problems that simulate those in real life contexts.
PLO 5: Show the ability to perceive issues/the world in new/alternative ways.
PLO 6: Communicate and interact effectively and clearly in English in a variety of social, academic and professional contexts.
PLO 7: Exercise autonomy at a very substantial degree in making judgments/ decisions in academic tasks and activities promoting the management of self, others and the allocation of substantial resources.
PLO 8: Demonstrate flexibility of thinking and behavior in favor of whatever is good and beautiful in life while dealing with multiple concepts or approaches to solving a problem.
PLO 9: Demonstrate commitment to ethical practices/values in academic activities which may lead to practice in the real life.
PLO 10: Display understanding and readiness for risk-taking and lifelong learning.
