Department of English (Tura Campus)

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Head of Department

Dr. Ramona M. Sangma
Email: englishtura.nehu@gmail.com

Address

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Department of English
NEHU, Tura Campus
Chandmari, Tura-794002
West Garo Hills, Meghalaya

Faculty members

About the Department

History

The Tura campus of NEHU was established in 1996 with two departments - Department of English and Department of Garo. The English Department began with only one teacher, Sujata Gurudev. Presently the department has two Readers and three lecturers; in addition, the Department has the posts of one Professor, and one lecturer.

The department offers M.A. and Ph.D. programme in English. The department is likely to soon launch the M.Phil. programme in English.

The faculty members of the department have been publishing their critical and creative writings in leading journals of research and creative writings. They have made presentations of their research papers in various national and international seminars of the country. The department has been organising various programmes like Production of Plays, Workshop on Creative Writing, Refresher Courses, National Seminars, Special Lecture Sessions and, inter alia, carrying out publication of Journal.

The department is well equipped with state of the art multimedia equipment including LCD projectors, Wi-Fi sound equipment, digital video recording facilities including a Film Library which has in its collection most of the film adaptations of the prescribed texts, other significant foreign and Indian films as well as the Complete Shakespeare Series in VCD/DVD format. The library is being continuously upgraded by adding new titles to its holding.

Course offered

The Department of English offers the following courses
M.A.
Ph.D

Academic Calendar (December 2024 to December 2025)

Odd Semester classes to continue before the winter break From 4th December to 17th of December 2024 (13 working days including two Saturdays)
Winter Break 19th December 2024 to 2nd of February 2025
Odd semester classes to continue after the winter break From 3rd February to 28th of February 2025
Odd end-semester examinations From 3rd of March to 19th of March 2025
Even semester classes From 20th of March 2025 to 20th of July  2025
Semester break/admission to P.G program 21st of July to 31st of July 2025
Even end-semester examinations From 1st of August to 15th of August 2025
Odd semester classes From 18th of August 2025
Odd end-semester examinations From 1st of December  to 16th of December 2025
Winter Break From 19th December 2025 to 18th of February 2026

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