About Department

The Department of English, Karnataka State Open University was established in the year 1996. It offers B.A, M.A, Ph.D., Diploma and Certificate Courses. Many eminent teachers served the Department with great distinction. The faculty of the department specialized in the areas of study such as; Literary Criticism and Critical Theory, Feminism and Women‘s Writing, Partition Narratives, Translation Studies, Indian Writing in English, Post-colonialism, Film Studies, Gender Studies and Modernism and Postmodernism. The English Department strengthens students by cultivating critical thinking that can spark creativity, innovation and inculcate the values of critical reading, effective writing, and the richness of literature of past and present. It further facilitates the students the acquisition of communication skills with a humanistic approach. A language laboratory for students of the Department has been set up. Our future plans for the Department include developing a Centre for Post-Colonial Studies. Over the years, the Department has organized several ELT workshops, Conferences on various contemporary literary issues. At present, the Department has five Assistant Professors.

Vision

To be one of the premier institute in imparting the management education through the ODL system and also through the online mode in an effective and efficient manner.

Mission

• To inculcate entrepreneurial skills and management skills to execute it practically in order to attain excellence in business administration.
• Among the budding managers, cultivating the principles of corporate governance, Business Ethics, and corporate social responsibility.
• To promote self-employment in the world of competition through Entrepreneurship and Developing capable Business and Community leaders.

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Department of Studies and Research in Management