Programme specific outcome
Undergraduate
- PSO 1: Discern the process of communicating and interpreting human experience through
literary representation.
- PSO 2: Perceive the range of periods of English literature, its genres, and the critical
traditions.
- PSO 3: Understand how individuals in specific historical, cultural, and rhetorical
circumstances represent their experience and ideas through the medium of language.
- PSO 4: Interpret texts with critical, aesthetic, and ethical sensitivity with an
understanding of the relationship between the milieu and its literature.
- PSO 5: Comprehend the literary, cultural, and socio-historical contexts in which
literature is written and read.
- PSO 6: Develop an awareness of the depth and complexity of human existence, perceived
across the boundaries of time, place, culture, race, ethnicity, and gender.
- PSO 7: Become effective thinkers and communicators in the current information-intensive
society.
- PSO 8: Attain a foundational understanding of humanities to identify and pursue higher
studies.
- PSO 9: Utilize the professional skill set acquired to seek and find employment, and
pursue life with conviction and confidence.
Postgraduate
- PO 1: Disciplinary Knowledge: Capable of demonstrating comprehensive knowledge and
understanding of one or more disciplines that form part of postgraduate programs of study.
- PO 2: Critical Thinking: Capability to apply analytic thought to a body of knowledge;
analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs on the basis of empirical evidence; identify
relevant assumptions or implications; formulate coherent arguments; critically evaluate practices, policies,
and theories by following a scientific approach to knowledge development.
- PO 3: Problem Solving: Capacity to extrapolate from what one has learned and apply their
competencies to solve different kinds of unfamiliar problems, rather than replicate curriculum content
knowledge; and apply one’s learning to real-life situations.
- PO 4: Analytical & Scientific Reasoning: Ability to evaluate the reliability and
relevance of evidence; identify logical flaws and gaps in the arguments of others; analyze and synthesize
data from a variety of sources; draw valid conclusions and support them with evidence and examples while
addressing opposing viewpoints.
- PO 5: Research-related Skills: Ability to analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from
quantitative/qualitative data; critically evaluate ideas, evidence, and experiences from an open-minded and
reasoned research perspective; develop a sense of inquiry and capability for asking relevant
questions/problems, synthesizing, articulating, recognizing cause and effect relationships, and defining
problems. Formulate hypotheses, test, analyze, interpret results, and derive conclusions.
- PO 6: Self-directed & Lifelong Learning: Ability to work independently, identify and
manage a project. Ability to acquire knowledge and skills, including “learning how to learn,” through
self-paced and self-directed learning aimed at personal development and meeting economic, social, and
cultural objectives.
- PO 7: Participation & Research: Participate as critical and active citizens in society
and at work; pursue careers and research in English studies and allied disciplines.
- PO 8: Reading & Projects: Document their reading and interpretive practices in
assignments, translation works, and independent projects.
- PO 9: Confidence & Effectiveness: Confidently and effectively articulate their literary
and textual experiences.
- PO 10: Social Skills & Empathetic Approach: Recognize a professional and reflective
approach to leadership, responsibility, personal integrity, empathy, care, and respect for others,
accountability, and self-regulation.
