Having a temporary affiliation with the University of Kalyani in 2005, Lalgola College started its educational voyage in 2006, when English, as a subject, was taught as
part of the B.A. General course, in addition to being a compulsory subject for the students of the first year B.A. General. In 2008 English was introduced as a distinct department with
a student strength of thirty. Since then, the journey of the department continues and presently, it has an intake capacity of sixty students in the English Major discipline.
Mission & Vision:
‘My idea was that Education should be a part of Life itself and must mot be detected from it and be into something abstract’- Rabindranath Tagare. Fostering the very
idea of education, the Department of English of Lalgola College, endeavours to inculcate, in the students, the spirit of ‘being’ to ‘becoming’. It strives to formulate a path of teaching
literature through a mode tutoring which Friedrich Schiller would name ‘aesthetic education’.
Along with nurturing the abilities of critical thinking and analytical understanding in the students, the department forges interdisciplinary approach to study literature.
By expounding on diverse themes such as the construction of ‘nationalism', identity, racial categories, gender stereotypes along with the dynamics and politics of language and representation.
The department enables students to develop a holistic approach and engage with the socio-cultural praxis. Such engagement facilitates students, belonging to a minority section, under their
location and position vis-a-vis the larger content their ‘homeland’.
Aligned with the NEP model which values the merits interdisciplinarity and a pluralistic model, the department extends its offerings to include AECC, SEC, MDC. Being trained
through such pedagogic tools, students develop skills and knowledge to excel in various, domains. They emerge as experts in academics, public services, mass communication, administrative
services and entrepreneurship as well.
The career prospects of the students of the Department of English are varied. Graduate students from the department have been working as teachers and government officials.
Several students have also enrolled themselves for higher studies as institutions like Presidency University, Hyderabad Central University, West Bengal State University anda other
institutions of good repute.
The department organises annual events like Freshers' Welcome, Farewell and Reunion with a view to promote social integrity and cultural harmony.
To motivate students psychologically and academically during Covid, the department had arranged for essay writing competition in July 2020.
It also conducts community service programme at regular intervals to serve the underprivileged children of Lalgola, especially to those living at areas surrounding the
India-Bangladesh border.
In order to develop entrepreneurship skills in the students the department encouraged the students to set up a temporary food court at the college premises during the
college annual sports in 2019.
