The Department of English and Cultural Studies, in consonance with its mission statement, is committed to promoting an intellectual climate through artistic creation, critical mediation and innovative ideation. It inculcates among its students a critical reading of the self, the society and the imagined with the aim of moulding them into responsible and socially sensitive citizens. The Department facilitates their holistic development by building emotional, academic, social, professional and global competencies. The Department aspires to create a nuanced understanding of canonical and non-canonical literary and cultural texts, their social milieu for an engaged and enduring understanding of life.
The Department promotes an intellectual climate of critical and creative ideation by inculcating among its students the habit of a critical reading of the word and the world alike. It has geared its academic engagements towards moulding students into responsible and socially sensitive citizens through programs that are designed to facilitate holistic development.
The academic programs offered by the Department are aligned with the University’s vision and mission. With programs offered at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels, the core areas of inquiry range from domains in language and literature, to those in and around culture.
Programs currently offered include BA (Triple major), BA (Double major - NEP), BA English (Hons), BA (Liberal Arts), MA (English and Cultural Studies), MA (English with Communicaiton Studies) and PhD (Cultural Studies).
The Department facilitates their holistic development by building emotional, academic, social, professional and global competencies.
In an increasingly material world, it is a rare privilege to read, contemplate, discuss and critique ideas that have shaped the world over centuries. Rooted in a domain that necessitates conversations over Time and Space, people and cultures, crisis and resolution, the department of English and Culture Studies is marked by lively debate and discussion leading to reflection and research. Among the oldest departments in the University and largest, we are constantly evolving, practising a pedagogy that is shaped by lived experiences and social needs.
We also offer courses that support English language competence across the University, using relevant and digital modes as well as conventional methods developing and producing our own content and materials.
In an increasingly material world, it is a rare privilege to read, contemplate, discuss and critique ideas that have shaped the world over centuries. Rooted in a domain that necessitates conversations over Time and Space, people and cultures, crisis and resolution, the department of English and Culture Studies is marked by lively debate and discussion leading to reflection and research. Among the oldest departments in the University and largest, we are constantly evolving, practising a pedagogy that is shaped by lived experiences and social needs.
We also offer courses that support English language competence across the University, using relevant and digital modes as well as conventional methods developing and producing our own content and materials. The department offers programs at the under graduate, post graduate and doctoral levels with courses dedicated to the intersections of Gender, Spatiality, Ecology and Service Learning, exploring newer modes and fields of narratives and the concerns of these developments. We provide extension services and consultancies through our in-house Incubation Cell. The faculty is involved in research and patenting projects and open to collaborations at multiple levels. Apart from academic writing, our faculty is graced by poets, novelists, translators and writers and most of us are connoisseurs of the Arts. We support Art and the Artists through festivals, deliberations and other avenues of creative partnerships. Our students are sojourners with us in this quest for Beauty and Truth… thoughts and ideas being the hope for the betterment of Self and Society, persuaded by Dostoevsky that ‘Beauty will save the world’ … the beauty of the human spirit, the relentless pursuit of truths in the hope eternal of a better world.
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| Program Name | Department | Program Type | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus |
| Master of Arts English with Communication Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Post Graduate Diploma in Public Service and Administration | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cultural Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus |
| Master of Arts English and Cultural Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Media, Psychology/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Central Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Communication and Media, English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Central Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Journalism and Digital Media, English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Central Campus |
| Master of Arts English with Communication Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Bangalore Central Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus |
| MA (English with Digital Humanities) | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Pune Lavasa Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Media, Public Affairs) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, English/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Bangalore Central Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Pune Lavasa Campus |
| Bachelor of Arts (English with Creative Writing/Honours/Honours with Research) | English and Cultural Studies | Undergraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Master of Arts English with Communication Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Postgraduate Programmes | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Media Studies | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Delhi NCR Campus |
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology | English and Cultural Studies | Doctoral (PhD) | Delhi NCR Campus |
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MSc Social Anthropology (2014-2015), University of Oxford BA PSEnglish (2011-2014), Christ University One of my favourite memories at Christ was when the English Department got our class to put up a production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Not only was it extremely fun to play Blanche DuBois, but it was also illuminating to find new […]
MSc Social Anthropology (2014-2015), University of Oxford BA PSEnglish (2011-2014), Christ University
One of my favourite memories at Christ was when the English Department got our class to put up a production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Not only was it extremely fun to play Blanche DuBois, but it was also illuminating to find new kinds of writing in what I think is one of the most diverse curricula in my college experience.
My time at Christ studying English instilled in me a deep knowledge and love of a wide range of literatures, and a flair for theatre (and theatrics) that has followed me since.
I was committed to Jabberwocky-the annual Literary carnival, hosted by the English Department as part of my Bachelors program between 2011 – 2014. The facilitators always helped us to find the questions within our personal spaces, and expand them to the Universe out there. I was so inspired after reading ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt […]
I was committed to Jabberwocky-the annual Literary carnival, hosted by the English Department as part of my Bachelors program between 2011 – 2014. The facilitators always helped us to find the questions within our personal spaces, and expand them to the Universe out there. I was so inspired after reading ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman, that I decided to take my bicycle on a solo trip from Bangalore to Jaipur, and then Jaipur to Vietnam. I cycled through 7 countries in a span of 8 months, and relived all that I had learned in my classes on this journey. Studying English Literature at Christ University helped me to get in touch with my own voice, and be able to express it to the world.
The teachers inducted us into the arcane world of English literature in unique ways. The teachers also had a unique way of reeling in the motley crew of seemingly recalcitrant high school graduates disguised as freshmen. Needless to say, it worked. To be honest I had no great expectations of literature altering my life in […]
The teachers inducted us into the arcane world of English literature in unique ways. The teachers also had a unique way of reeling in the motley crew of seemingly recalcitrant high school graduates disguised as freshmen. Needless to say, it worked. To be honest I had no great expectations of literature altering my life in any significant way. I knew I liked the written word, but I hadn’t experienced its’ full impact until I was taught how to navigate my way to the right ones. That’s where the English Department came in. To teach me, through an understanding of rhyme scheme, that there was a science behind creating and understanding prose. An understanding I try and utilise in my professional life till day. I was also taught that the right text needed the right tools, like literary theory, for dissection etc. To quote Anias Nin, “we write so we can taste life twice”. And as a corollary, I’d say we read so we can lead many lives.
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