The department initiates Curricular and co-curricular activities periodically to tap out the latent potentials of the students. Such events enable the students to develop communicative competence enhancing their confidence, to obtain professional excellence, their creative skills, event management skills and team management skills. Various academic workshops and conferences are conducted periodically to equip them and train them to have ingenuity and achieve excellence in academics and inspire them towards research. All new faculty attended orientation programs. Faculty members attended training programs organized by KITS.
Name of the Programme | Period | Details |
From | To | Name of the resource persons | Title of the topic / lecture delivered | No. of Participants |
Faculty Empowerment Programme’ | 26h Sep 2011 | I point | Faculty Training | 10 |
Research Workshop | 19-09-2011 | Dr.Thirumalai | Research Avenues | 40 |
Teacher Support Program | 10th July 2012 | BEC, Cambridge | Training | 14 |
Teacher Support Program | 15th Nov. 2012 | BEC, Cambridge | Training | 14 |
Teacher Support Program | 21 and 22nd June 2013 | BEC, Cambridge | Training | 14 |
Coordination Program | 21st Jan 2014 | BEC, Cambridge | Orientation | 11 |
Coordination Program | 12th Nov 2014 | BEC, Cambridge | Orientation | 11 |
Orientation | 1ST April 2015 | Pearson English | Orientation | 11 |
Coordination Program | 3rd May 2017 | BEC, Cambridge | Orientation | 15 |
4th May, 2017 | 15 | | | |
Teacher Support Programme | 18th Sep 2017 to 19th Sep. 2017 | BEC, Cambridge | Training | 40 |
FDP CONDUCTED BY OTHER INSITUTIONS:
Number of Faculty | Name of the programme | Institution | Year |
2 | Faculty development programme | Organized by American University of India (AUI), Kodaikanal | 21.11.13 and 22.11.13 |
Seminars / conferences / workshops organized
Name of the Seminar/workshop | Date | Resource persons |
International Seminar on Chomsky’s Contibution to Language Stusies | 17-10-2011 | Dr.George Bedell, UK |
Training cum Workshop on assessing Communicative competence of Learners | 29-30 October 2012 | Dr.Balakumar, Head,National Testing Service India, CIIL, Mysore |
National level seminar-cum-workshop on “Recent Advances in ELT” | 25.10.13 | Dr.RajniBadlani, Chief Advisor, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi |
Naional level seminar on the World of Canadian Literature Themes, Trends and Techniques | 24. 09.2014 | Dr. Om P.Juneja President, International Council for Canadian Sudies, Ottawa |
29th IACS International Conference on Canadian Studies: Theory and Practice | 27-29th January 2016 | Dr. Gopa Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Kerala, Dr. Om P.Juneja President, International Council for Canadian Sudies, Ottawa Dr.Yan Gong, Beijing University, China, Dr.Brendabeck, University of Toronto, Dr. Ramabai, University of Toronto |
Intercollegiate Conference and seminar on Empowered and Marginalised Women in Media and Literature | 12th March 2016 | Dr.Koteswari, Associate Professor, Head, Mercy College, Kerala |
One Day National Conference on Women as Sculptors & Architects: A Call for Change | 17th March, 2017 | Dr.Kadambari, (Rtd) Adjunct Professor and Head of Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Youth Development, Chennai |
Development programmes conducted by the Department for students
S.No. | Name of the Programme | Names of External Experts | Date | Duration |
1 | Lexical Semantics | Dr.Umarani Pappusamy | 09-01-2015 | Half a day |
2 | ELT WORKSHOP | Dr.Krishnaswamy | 24-03-2015 | Half a day |
3 | Eco critical Studies | Dr.Suresh Frederick | 12-01-2015 | 2 hours |
4 | American Literature and literary theories | Dr.Stanely Mohan | 26-03-2015 | 2 hours |
5. | Feminism and Indian Women writers | Dr.Pravin Joshi | 12-12-2014 | 2 hours |
6. | Post Doctoral Fellowship and Innovative Research methods and Recent Trends in American Literature | Dr.Ravichandran Fullbright Awardee, IIT Kanpur | 17-12-2015 | Half a day |
7 | Effective Research and Quality Publication | Dr.Nageswari, VIT University, Vellore | 26-02-2016 | Half a day |
Highlight of the participation of students and faculty in extension activities. All the staff members are either programme coordinators or programme officers of DECE clubs and the students work in any of the clubs or in extension activities. Students have to be a part of these extension activities to score non – academic activities. Clubs in KITS are Journalism Club, Karunya Arts and Literary Association (KALA), Nature Club and Advanced Leadership Club are some of the clubs in which the staff and students are involved. a)Conducted and co-ordinated an FDP for All Indian Association for Christian Higher Education b) Extension activity conducted to EMS School students- SARANG on 13-09-2013
- c) Outreach to the Old age Home, SEESHA. 05-09-2014
- d) An Orientation Program on Environmental Protection and Awareness was conducted on
4-05-2015 e)A program was conducted on ‘ Women Empowerment’ on 9th March 2015
Life and Literature event A new initiative to integrate literature in the leaning process is done by a literature enactment on stage which enhances their confidence and competency in their professional skills and integrates work with values. Details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department.
- BEC Training offered to Staff and students;
- Literary Events – Quiz and debate
- Mindkraft competitions
- Department Associaion”PEARL” Inaguration was held on11-09-2013
- Valedictory function of the association was conducted on 25-03-2014
- Through PEPSAK Association Literary contest on Dramatics was conducted during 25-09-2014 to 30-09-2014
- National level Literary competition cum workshop for Literature students was conducted on 5-03-2015 to 6-03-2015
- Visit to EFL University Library, Hyderabad during 16h -18th August 2014
- English Language Skill Assessment of EMS School Teachers on 11h Sep.2014
- Mindkraft 2016: Dramatics competitions, English dept. Stall with tableaus of Cindrella, Dr.Faustus, Midsummers Nights Dream Scenes and the Globe Theatre and Collesium models.
CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE Best Cambridge Centre of the year award for academic support for 2014 and 2015 Students were trained for Cambridge English BEC (VANTAGE) exam and 370 students were qualified in 2014. This certificate helps students to be placed.