M.A. English

Department of Humanities

Programme Level

Postgraduate

Duration

2 Years

The major programmes in the Department of Humanities are BA and MA in English Literature and PhD in English and Management. It strives to train students in literature, critical thinking and writing. The interdisciplinary programme structure facilitates a holistic growth, makes students ready for a career in research and academics, helps them get scholarships abroad and get through the highly competitive job market. The Department also render yeoman’s service to the entire KIIT fraternity by enriching the University’s academic and non-academic programmes. It offers both its students training in English Communication and Management.

About the Programme

The M. A. English programme, which envisages a linkage between the BA English Honours syllabus and the required knowledge and skill for the PhD work, stresses on the importance of literary language in its ramifications of subjectivity, context, medium and message, for literature is an imaginatively wrought work in a charged language. The syllabus takes into account the nature of literature itself in its relations to the wider culture. Besides facilitating workable ways for reading and understanding literature, it shoulders the special and unique responsibility for considering aesthetic, intellectual, rhetorical and cultural matters. While retaining the fundamental philosophy of humanities education—cultivation of humanistic values and critical thinking—this syllabus aims at developing students’ critical, communicative, and research skills that they need in their academic and professional life.

  • Programme Outcomes:

    By the end of this programme, students will able to

    • To cultivate the ability to look at and evaluate literary texts as a field of study and as part of the wider network of local and global culture.
    • To demonstrate a critical aptitude and reflexive thinking to systematically analyze the existing scholarship and expand critical questions and the knowledge base in the field of English studies using digital resources.
    • To critically interact with works from different contexts: social, political, economic, historical and national as subject’s conscious of their own socio-historic specificity and thus their level of critical thinking is enhanced.
    • To become a master’s in reading works with a theoretical basis.
    • To become inspired by fiction, inculcate critical thinking, and stimulate the sympathetic/empathic imagination by allowing them to see the world through other’s eyes as well to foster intercultural dialogue.
    • To appreciate, interpret Indian Literature in English and explore its’ uniqueness and its’ place among the world Literature.
    • To learn what language is and what knowledge a language consists of.
    • To know about the basic examination of the internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems and get sensitized with the critical tools used in the reading of literature.
    • To form an idea of the complex nature of literary studies and how they are entangled with other aspects of the social body.
    • To learn literary terms and the various streams in literary criticism, to make them aware of the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary criticism, and to develop students, skills for literary criticism.
    • To inculcate a literary, aesthetic, and critical awareness of diverse cultures and literary creations and thus to arrive at a broader vision of the world.
    • To come to know about the evolution of the different literary and social movement and to familiarize them with the various issues addressed by them
    • To become sensitized to issues like marginalization and subjugation and to develop a sensible response to great classics in translation and fine-tune analytical skills with a view to achieving a broad, wholesome vision of life.

Syllabus Overview

Sl. No. Course Category Course Code Course Title L T  P Total

Hours

 Total Credit
Core Courses
1.        CC I LL61001 Medieval and Early Modern Literature 4 1 0 5 5
2.        CC II LL61003 Early Modern Drama 4 1 0 5 5
3.        CC III LL61005 Restoration and Augustan Age 4 1 0 5 5
4.        CC IV LL61007 Criticism and Theory I 4 1 0 5 5
5.        CC V LL61009 Research Writing 4 1 0 5 5
Total of Theory 25 25
Semester Total 25 25
Sl. No. Course Category Course Code Course Title L T  P Total Credit
Core Courses
1.        CC VI LL61002 Romantic Age 4 1 0 5 5
2.        CC VII LL61004 Victorian Age 4 1 0 5 5
3.        CC VIII LL61006 Criticism and Theory II 4 1 0 5 5
Discipline Specific Elective Course Genre I (Any one)
4.        DSEC I LL61008 Themes and Ideas in Poetry 4 1 0 5 5
5.        DSEC II LL61010 Understanding Fiction 4 1 0 5 5
6.        DSEC III LL61012 Rhetoric of Non-Fiction 4 1 0 5 5
Skill Enhancement Elective Course (Any one)
7.        SEEC I LL61014 Advanced Writing 4 1 0 5 5
8.        SEEC II LL61016 Literature Review 4 1 0 5 5
9.        SEEC III LL61018 Writing Web Content and Doing Web Research 4 1 0 5 5
Total of Theory 25 25
Semester Total 25 25

Centre for Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CCSCL)

The Centre for Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CCSCL), housed by the School of Liberal Studies, aims to offer research opportunities in different interdisciplinary fields. The CCSCL will collaborate with organizations both within and outside Odisha to preserve aboriginal cultures, while facilitating partnerships with global scholars and institutions to promote cultural exchange and advance research. It also seeks to provide courses to bridge the gap between the fields of technology and humanities, enabling students to cultivate a comprehensive approach towards the social, political, and cultural contexts and implications of their work.

Alumni Speaks

”In these 2 years of MA I got an exposure to a thoughtfully designed robust curriculum, extremely learned professors and a collaborative environment.”

Aditi Anindita
Senior Social Media Manager, Digituall, Bhubaneswar
(Alumna, 2023 graduated, M.A. English)

“The supportive faculty, diverse student body and a rigorous academic curriculum at the School fostered an environment of growth and exploration.”

Simran Das
Student of European Plurilingualism University of Naples Federico II, Italy
(Alumna, 2023 graduated, B.A. English)