Overview

St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College Celebrates its 150th anniversary in the year 2014–2015. In this century and the half the College has reached many milestones. It has seen the making of many prominent faces; people who have made not only Bengal, but India proud. 2015 is the centenary year for the Department of English as well. In the last one hundred years the Department has maintained a high standard, dealt firmly and satisfactorily with ever increasing demands from the learners, appointed a faculty that boasts of high academic standards as well as continuous research.

The Department is unique in another respect. It has its own Departmental Journal with ISSN number Symposium (ISSN 2320–1452). This journal has already seen five issues and is highly regarded in the English Literature teaching community.

The primary reason behind the decision to open a Postgraduate Department in St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College arose out of a demand from the learners themselves. As it is, with the growing increase in student numbers and equality, the demand for seats in postgraduate institutions is ever on the rise. Since our college is centrally located, and we have a very large demand for seats at the under graduate level (at least a 50:1 ratio as far as application and seats are concerned), it is only to be expected that the postgraduate department will be equally successful.

One of the major advantages St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College has is space. But even more significantly the College boasts of a Library that is rich not only in its collection of titles, but also in the efficiency and helpfulness of the stuff members looking after it. Along with the Central Library, there is also the Departmental Seminar Library. The latter in particular is already equipped to the assist post graduate students with reference books and as the project progresses, the department has concrete plans of developing a new post graduate library with textual as well as digital material.

With a number of under–graduate colleges stepping up with the affiliation of the University of the Calcutta and some evolving into independent entities, it is felt by a large section of the stakeholders including the Governing Body, the faculty, guardians and most impotently the students that St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College should also join this initiative. In 2005 the first NAAC Peer Team that visit St. Paul’s recommended five of its eleven departments for upgradation to post graduate status. Along with English, other departments such as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics feature in that list.

The Course

About The COURSE

The Course consists of eight papers each of Full Marks 100. Each paper (100 marks) consists of three units. The first unit is divided into three sub–unit and the second and third units are divided into four sub–units each. The first units of each paper comprise 20 marks and the two other units 40 marks each. A midterm internal assessment will be made on the first unit of each paper and the examination on the other two units will be held at the end of the term.

Students will have to write a long answer consisting of 15 marks and a short answer of 5 marks for each paper in the internal assessment. The remaining 80 marks per paper (expect paper VII) will be assessed at the end of the academic year where students will have to write two long answers of 15 marks each in each unit of the paper along with two short questions of 5 marks each. The internal assessment will be held on the first unit of each paper (i.e., total of 80 marks in Part – I and a total of 80 marks in Part – II) and the final examination will be held on units 2 and 3 only (i.e., a total of 320 marks in Part – I and 320 marks in Part – II).

Paper VII in Part – II consist of two term papers of 20 marks each and one dissertation of 40 marks all related to the paper VII syllabus. The term papers would be marked by the respective guides of the students. The Dissertation would be marked both by the guide and an external examinar after a viva–voce examination.

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Exam Pattern

PART – I

UNIT – I (Internal Assessment – February)

Total Course Fee Per Year

Inaugaration