About English

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart"

~Nelson Mandela

English being the universal language has a lot of significance in present scenario. This characteristic nature of the language has set forth a goal to pursue it as it has a global perspective. If enquired why we should study English literature, the answer is implied in Tolstoy’s two basic questions: “Who are we and how shall we live?” English being a powerful language recounts the human predicament quite potentially through ages.
The English subject in Midnapore City College has come into existence from the very introduction of this college in the year 2017. The department offers both UG and PG courses. In a well-connected city like Midnapore the need of studying English in both UG (Hons.) and PG courses had been immense for a long time. A large number of students who wants to pursue their career in studying English literature have become beneficial to a great extent. The rush for admission in both UG and PG courses is actually overwhelming.
From its strong foundation in a traditional approach to the subject, the Department is now keenly exploring newer areas, especially those that articulate its location. A strong thrust of the Department is in interdisciplinary studies of the literature and culture of the region, especially of the literature and culture that have emerged in a unique colonial experience and against the backdrop of recent political and social events. The Department's goal is to develop good teachers and scholars who are also responsible citizens and good human beings.
It provides students who join its various programmes with an environment that is intellectually stimulating and challenging and seeks to teach them not only the discipline in all its dimensions but also valuable life lessons. It fosters diversity, openness and a spirit of courageous inquiry and maintains an easy camaraderie among its faculty and students that is especially useful in the implementation of its programmes. While it maintains an atmosphere that is friendly and helpful the Department prides itself in adherence to schedules, insists on serious and sustained study. Its faculty has a reputation for working as a team and many of its activities, like seminars, workshops, curricular revisions and the declaration of examination results in record time are successful primarily because of this capacity to work together. Students join this Department from all the states of the region, giving it a cultural and ethnic diversity that has always contributed to its cosmopolitan outlook in all college matters as well as in the pursuit of the discipline.