The history of the Department of English dates back to the establishment of the College at Nagapattinam in 1844. Since its inception, the Department has been striving to equip the students with English language skills required for research and employment, and to offer them holistic formation. It is the largest Department of the College, which enjoys the status of being the only Department that has contact with every student at the undergraduate level. B.A. programme in English literature was started in the year 1962, M.A. in 1965, and M.Phil in 1984. The Department has two shifts (aided and unaided) with 38 dedicated faculty members, teaching around 750 B.A. English and M.A. English students all together. It was upgraded as a Research Department in 1999. Currently, there are nine approved PhD supervisors. The Department is marked by a wide range of activities organized by Communication Club, Bibliophile Club, Bards' Club, Drama Club, Film Appreciation Club, YOES and Lit-Quest, which seek to unearth and nurture the multiple talents of the students, and which unveil the strenuous efforts taken by the staff members to mould the overall personality of the students. Besides these activities, Bridge Course, Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Special Lectures, Remedial Programme, Certificate Courses in French and English, and coaching classes for NET/SET are regularly conducted. The Department has a diversified curriculum which, in addition to British and American Literature, encompasses Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Subaltern Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Indian Diasporic Literature, Indian Writing in English, Women's Writing, Film Studies, News Reporting and Editing, Introduction to Journalism, ELT, Linguistics, Research Methodology and Western Aesthetics.
Bridge Course is a characteristic feature of the Department of English at St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli. When the concept of the Bridge Course was introduced in the late 1960s, St. Joseph's was a pioneer in implementing the programme in collaboration with the British Council, Madras. Revived in the year 1994, it has undergone a very long process of evolution through several experimentation results over the years. Currently, it is conducted for ten days before the commencement of the regular classes in the academic year. The key objectives of Bridge Course are:
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