Activities Organized

The department of English has always led from the front in terms of tying in activities, and events (co-curricular and extracurricular) to the goal of creating a well-rounded graduate student. This is the prime directive behind any and all our activities, be it extension activities through competitions, co-curricular events, departmental events or the departmental club.

These are few of the events that the department organizes annually:

 

Talking Tree Series

These are a series of lecture series, meet and greets, discussion forums etc. where students meet various eminent personalities from literary and academic fields. In the year 2019- 2020 guests like art critic Mr. Ranjit Hoskote, well-known author and translator Mr. Jerry Pinto, and last but not the least comic illustrator and author Ms. Vidyun Sabhaney interacted with our students. Over the years we have had Padmashree awardee Shri. Shashi Deshpande, noted Goan award winning writers join us for this event.

Creative Writing Workshop

This is an annual workshop where noted authors, and writers are invited to work with interested students to work on various facets of writing. From 2018 onwards Goan short story writer Ms. Jessica Falerio, has been one of our resource people who has lead this workshop. 

The Bard by the Mandovi - The Shakespeare Festival Goa

This is the most unique event for high-school and HSSC school students in a calendar year. This one-day multi event competition is an annual event conducted for the last 10 years from 2010onwards. This event is completely organized by first year students aided by their seniors, which act as an extension event, as they apply their knowledge gained in the classroom in areal-time setting. The event is commensurate with our graduate attributes and programme level goals for an English graduate.

Pegasus - An Inter-Collegiate Literary Festival

Running for the last 12 years, since 2008, this is the longest running inter-collegiate literary festival in Goa, organized by the students of the department. A two-day multi event competition extension event, students hone inter-personal skills, managerial and organizational skills, and human resource skills. Students learn to be resourceful, and how to work as a team to achieve a common goal. The event is commensurate with our graduate attributes and programme level goals for an English graduate.

Cosfest Goa -  An All Goa Cosplay Event

For the last three years, the department has organized Cosfest Goa, an event born out of our Visual Literature course and an outcome of the Study tour taken to Mumbai Comic Con. Students organize this All-Goa event open to families and the public, as an extension activity, where they apply their knowledge and love of popular culture in an enjoyable and visually appealing event. This event has been covered extensively in Goan dailies.

Study Tours/Field Trips

The department annually organized fieldtrips, and study tours to Mumbai, Jaipur, and within Goa itself. These provide opportunities to the learners to test their in-class learning in real life situations as well as to understand the functional diversity in learning spaces. We have visited Jaipur Literary Festival, Kala Ghoda Arts and Literary Festival, Mumbai, Goa Arts and Literary Festival, Serendipity Festival, Goa, Museum of Goa, Mumbai ComicCon, etc.  During  the study tour to Mumbai for  Kala Ghoda , ComicCon, and field trip to the GALF festival, the students are encouraged to attend as many events as they can from a number of areas like Art, Literature, Theatre, Stand-up, Music and Film. This allows the students to be independent while on tour, developing people-skills and networking opportunities, broadening the students perception of arts and literature. During the fieldtrip the students are able to meet and interact with authors, poets, critics, publishers and curators from various fields from India and abroad.

The book.ish (aka Ignite) Book Chats

As an extension activity by the MA English students and faculty of the English Language & Literature Teaching course, a book club was conceived. Through the period of COVID-19 pandemic induced lockdown, the club has held 15 sessions on books from various genres like Indian, American, Visual and Diasporic literature, and include authors like Gillian Flynn, Agatha Christie, Yaa Giasi, Gene Luen Yang, Jerry Pinto and Khaled Hosseini. [05, 09, 12 Mar] [08, 13, 17, 26, 31 May] [06, 21,27 Jun] [04, 11, 19, 26 Jul], 2020

CELEBRATING DAYS

Goan Day, Latin American Day, Comix Day, World Literature Day

An offshoot of our evaluation method, using a modified version of a gallery walk, we have created these days to celebrate the knowledge gathered and learnt in the courses. These also provide an insight to others to what goes in in the classes. Students of the department itself gain insights, which they use in their reports. This also allows for multi-disciplinary synthesis of knowledge as students from various departments interact with each other.

etc. (english tygers club)

This is an umbrella club under our students organize and participate in various clubs of their creation including book.ish book club, carpe diem (poets and writers club), Zeitgeist movie club etc. Students take leadership roles, along with management and organizational roles in the club and its various activities