University of Calcutta Reviews on Placements, Faculty and Facilities

So, we read great authors like Mulvey, Kafka, Eliot, Plath, Toni Morisson amongst others. The works provided a deep insight on the working of the world, how brutal and harsh the reality is and how we can overcome these. The course helped the students in the humanitarian understanding of human and emotions which I guess is lacking in today's world. The exams were held after 3-4 months for the semester

There are no campus placement in our college. The employability rate of our college is not that much great and my plans after completing the course is get accounted for the education facility of certain primary school or high schools.

The university is considered as one of the best choice for scholars who wants to get knowledge from the best of the best professors and lecturers out there. The professors use even extra classes as much as students need to get them properly ready for the semester exams. They do take internal exams around 1 month before the main exam. It holds 10 point that is texted through MCQ. While another 10 marks is given as per the attendance percentage.

The course syllabus covers wide aspects of English literature. Thus, making it easier for students to access the academia in future. The teaching methods are very school-ish often making it hard for students to adjust and the teaching is rigorous and requires continuous preparation from the students. The timings of the exams can make ot hard for students to cope up, as the exams always seems to happen back to back. Thus, the students are in constant pressure of studying.

The college has a lot of co curriculum opportunities and also has new computers for spoken and verbal co curriculum. The teachers are really nice and helpful and the exams are pretty decent and doable.

I love literature that's why I took up this course. This course is not limited to just literature, we also learn about history, philosophy, psychology and linguistics. This course has so much potential but all are wasted as nobody teaches us how to apply it in real life. There are no active journals in the department that we could publish our papers in. Hardly any seminars. We are not required to write a thesis of any kind. We are just not taught how to go forward with this. Our classrooms are big but that doesn't mean we would all sit in the same classroom in 40° C. We have separate sections but are told to sit in the same room. We also could use projectors. Semesters are reduced to trimesters. No time to study. And they don't want to give you marks, the highest cgpa you can get is 7.

Course is at par with the industry standard and the curriculum is set by Calcutta University. Course is well co-ordinated and attendance is also strictly maintained. There is access to a language lab which offers multimedia opportunities for a wholistic education.

There were no official placements notices for our department as we are Literature students. But for others they provide good placements with good packages. For us the college provides NET and other government examinations classes for the aspirants.

I always loved English and literature, so the faculty and University really provided me with that effeciency with great effectiveness which influences me still to further my career in English . The difficulty is to be taken with care and seriousness. It is not at all an easy course as most people think it is. Literature in English is tough. You have to remain connected with various kind of books and read tons of articles and journals and research papers for good answers. Also take the notes of your lecture very well else it will affect your marks.

The course curriculum is unfortunately a little back dated. Calcutta University hasn't made any significant changes to its linguistic syllabus. Many important fields are not taught. Like in our syllabus we haven't learnt a thing about Computational Linguistics, and Acoustic phonetics. All because of lack of professors who are expert in such fields. And also because of lack of recruitments. Overall the course is good the only major thing it lacks is computational linguistics.