BA English Hons

Lady Shriram College for Women, New Delhi

Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in English Hons is a full-time three-year undergraduate degree course offered by the University of Delhi, Delhi.

The Department of English enhances the interpretative and expressive skills of students in an intellectual environment that is stimulating and nurturing. It equips students with both a rigorous knowledge of the subject as well as a critical and analytical ability. It provides an engagement with issues as varied as identity formation, race relations, gender stereotypes and the politics of language. The emphasis is on an inter-disciplinary approach. The courses have been methodically designed to explore world literature, Indian literature, and literature in translation. The classes are lively, interactive spaces where students are encouraged to share their own perceptions, ask searching questions, and engage in discussions in an atmosphere that fosters self-expression balanced with respect for the right of others to voice their opinions. This spirit is nurtured in a changing classroom that has seen a widening of the student base to include students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds and learning curves. In fact, this extreme diversity becomes a pedagogic tool since the faculty believe that validating the experiences of the diverse student body is an important aspect of the pedagogic goal in a Literature classroom that sees Literature not as an ivory tower product but a contextually produced and socially mediated process. The Department is privileged to have an extremely dynamic faculty whose expertise in critical theory has been widely acknowledged and whose creative writing has been published extensively.