Our VisionTo offer an education that provides a competent and globally relevant skill set comprising Communication Skills and Life Skills to students and to mold them as responsible and self-reliant individuals.
Mission Statements
Department of English was established with the inception of the college in
1942.
The department offers Language Course and Skill Development Courses across
programmes like
B.A, B.Com, B.Sc with various combinations for about 1100 students.
Apart from language and Skill Development Courses the strength of the
department lies in the
two core courses i.e., Special English and Communicative English in three
major system and a
Single Major honours programme in Special English and a Minor in
Communicative English. The
department is offers certificate courses on need basis.
The diverse courses offered in the two programmes offered have helped students
secure admissions
in EFLU, Hyderabad Central University, AP Central University Ananthapuramu and
meritorious
awards like Best Community Service Project award of Commissionerate of College
Education, Govt.
of A.P. in 2022.
Student Centric Teaching Learning Practices of the department such as pair work,
group work,
project based learning, LSRW skills ensured through activity based learning ,
Practical
component on skills assessment ensured better achievement of intended Learning
Outcomes.
Eight faculty members presently work in the department. The strength of the
departments lies in
5 faculty being doctorates.
The department has designed and offered an Ability Enhancement Certificate Course, titled, “Reading for Pleasure” for the first semester B.A., English Major students. This course is offered as an introductory course for 30 days from 25-09-2023 to 02-12-2023 to create an aptitude towards literature among students from diverse disciplines. The entire course material was selected from the books published by the National Book Trust of India and was graded to suit the weekly progress of the students. The visual content of the books during the first two weeks is gradually replaced by the verbal content. The department has designed worksheets for each story to aid and check the comprehension of the students. The students were also checked for their oral reading skills. The final assessment was done on two levels with an oral presentation of their favourite story and a written test created from a new story.
The Department of English, GCW (A), Guntur has exchanged an MOU with the Department of English, P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts & Science. A Faculty Exchange programme was organized as a follow-up activity on 15-11-2023. Dr N. Santhi Sri Devi and Dr G. Seshu from the department were invited to train V Semester Computer Science students at P.B. Siddartha College of Arts & Science on Interview Caveats and Workplace etiquette. The programme was conducted in an interactive mode for two sessions and proved to be helpful to the students before attending campus drives.
The department has conducted an exit-level workshop for two days on 23-11-2023 & 24-11-2024 on writing skills for the benefit of V semester students. The workshop was held in four sessions to equip the students with certain necessary and specific writing skills to face the screening for higher education or a job interview. The sessions on Resume preparation, Workplace correspondence, Essay writing and Writing a Statement of Purpose for admission into universities abroad delivered by eminent resource persons were received well by 116 final-year students.
The department has organized a field trip with first-semester students on 21-12-2023. Approximately forty students were taken to the Guntur Book Festival to create awareness of the various books available in the market. Students came to know about some popular publishing houses that specialized in publishing books on literature, science and technology, biographies and autobiographies. Many of the students purchased books useful for competitive exams.
The department reaches out to the unreached sections of the society as a part of the flagship programme titled, ‘Ananta Mythri’. An extension activity was conducted at Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, Guntur for two days on 29-12-2023 & 30-12-2023. Faculty from the department trained the differently abled people staying in the trust on basic communication skills such as letter writing, e-mail composition and interview skills prescribed as a component of the Livelihood Resource Project offered by the trust.
A Two-Day National Level Webinar titled, “Narratives of Identity” was organized by the department on 28-02-2024 & 29-02-2024. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Urmi Satyan from Pandit Deen Dayal Energy University, Gujarat. Around fifty participants explored the different dimensions and roles of identity through storytelling, cultural perspectives, personal journeys, digital, art and literature.
The Commissioner of Collegiate Education, Andhra Pradesh has constituted a team of lesson writers to design a course book for the third-semester students as they don’t have language courses after the second semester in the single major system. It is a matter of pride for the department that Dr K. Padmaja, in charge of the Department of English at Government College for Women(A), Guntur is the co-editor of this communication skills book. An orientation programme to familiarize English teachers with this book was organized by the department on 24-04-2024. This orientation programme was organized on the occasion of ‘English Language Day’ celebrated to commemorate William Shakespeare’s birthday every year. Around 300 English teachers across the state of Andhra Pradesh have participated in this orientation programme and were briefed about activity-based language teaching.
The first meeting of ‘Lalit’ (Language and Literary Forum) of the college
was
jointly organized
by the five language departments of the college, viz., English, Telugu,
Sanskrit, Urdu, and
Hindi. 19-10-2019
Second Literary Forum Meeting: Poetry Reading session was followed by a
presentation on
Namini
Subrahmanyam Naidu, a renowned Telugu writer by Dr K. Sujata, Lecturer in
Telugu.
22-11-2019
Third Literary Forum Meeting: Presentation on R.K. Narayan by Mr P.
Narasimha Rao,
Lecturer in
English and on ‘MAA GOKHALE’ a renowned Telugu Short Story writer by Dr N.
Vijaya Lakshmi,
Lecturer in Telugu. 16-12-2019
Literary Competitions - Essay Writing & Elocution Competitions were
conducted by the
department
given the College Anniversary Day. 27-01-2020
Language Quiz - The Department has organized a quiz programme in which
the participation
of all
Special English and Communicative English students is ensured.
07-02-2020
UGC Sponsored Two-Day Workshop on Communication Skills - The department
has organized a
Tw-Day
workshop on Communication Skills in four sessions for the benefit of the
students. 14-02-2020 &
15-02-2020
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