The Department of English of H P B Girls’ College, Golaghat has the same year of inception as H. P. B. Girls’ College, the sole college for women in the greater Golaghat region. The Department provides intensive monitoring to the students both in and beyond the classroom. The department is impeccably striving hard for enrichment of English Studies and nourishing the students with deep knowledge and aesthetic attitude. All the faculty members of the department teach with eagerness to appreciate the language in its ingenuity to the students who come here to avail themselves of the course. In the near future the department is hoping to think beyond the pedagogic line by establishing link with other disciplines.

Presently, the Department is run by four faculty members with a good quantity of students both in Honours and Non-honours courses.

Sl No	Course Title	Course Code	Course Outcome
1	Indian Classical Literature	ENGH101	Appreciate the richness of Sanskrit literature. Identify various genres such as epic, drama.
2	European Classical Literature	ENGH102	Appreciate the richness of European literature in translation. Identify the diversity and plurality of European Literature.
3	English Communication	AECC1.1	Use English for effective writing. Read and Interpret Texts. Enhance vocabulary.
4	Language, Literature  and Society	GE 1	Learn the basics of Linguistics. Get acquainted with the genre of short story Learn the connection between language and society.
5	Indian Writing in English	ENGH201	Introduce legendary Indian writers writings in English and their works. Read and understand Indian Writing through a detailed study of specific literary texts.
6	British Poetry and Drama 14th to 17th Century	ENGH202	Introduce Canonical British Writers. Get acquainted with important British Dramatists.
7	Media and Communication Skills	GE 2	Get an overview of Mass Communication. Acquire Communication Skills required to become Jockeys Learn to create concept based content for shows Acquire Interviewing and Presentation skills
8	American Literature	ENGH 301	Acquainted with various periods of the history of American literature. Learn various socio-political-cultural contexts such as colonisation, American Revolution, Great Depression, Gold Rush, Great American Dream, and Slavery. Realize the richness of American literature through in-depth reading of some canonical literary texts of American Literature.
9	Popular Literature	ENGH 302	Get acquainted with popular literature, such as crime thriller, graphic fiction, children’s literature. The students will gain a comparative knowledge between popular and classic literature. They will be able to assess the impact of popular literature on common reader.  * Budding student writers will be able to gain knowledge about the factors that have made such texts so popular.
10	British Poetry and Drama 17th and 18th Century	ENGH 303	Display a in-depth knowledge of the history of British Poetry and Drama Analyze canonical literary works, watershed events, movements, and genres. Familiarity with a wide range of socio-political-cultural-historical contexts of England
11	Language and Linguistics	GE 3	Introduce the students with the basic concepts of language, its characteristics its structure and how it functions. Familiarize the students how language is influenced by the socio-political-economic cultural realities of the society. Acquaint the students about the relation between language and literature
12	British Literature: 18th Century	ENGH 401	Display a in-depth knowledge of the history of British literature of 18th century Identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of British literature f Analyze canonical literary works, watershed events, movements, and genres. Familiarity with a wide range of socio-political-cultural-historical contexts of England
13	British Romantic Literature	ENGH 402	Display a in-depth knowledge of the history of British literature of the Romantic Period. Identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of British Romantic literature. Analyze canonical literary works, watershed events, movements, and genres. Familiarity with a wide range of socio-political-cultural-historical contexts of England
14	British Literature: 19th Century	ENGH 403	Display a in-depth knowledge of the history of British literature of 19th century. Identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of British literature in 19th Century. Analyze canonical literary works, watershed events, movements, and genres. Familiarity with a wide range of socio-political-cultural-historical contexts of England.
15	Text and Performance	GE 3	Understand the link between texts and the contexts against which they are created. Help students be acquainted with the technical aspects of performance. Enable them to appreciate the significance of adaptations of literacy of a particular social milieu.
16	Reading Drama	ENGM501	Display in-depth knowledge of the Drama as a literary genre Identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of the drama form Analyze drama  for their structure and meaning, using correct terminology
17	Criticism I	ENGM502	Display a sound knowledge of literary criticism and theory from Plato to Johnson. Analyze the contribution of various literary theorists of that phase. Analyze some canonical theoretical texts.
18	Great European Thinkers	ENGM503	To acquire basic understanding of Philosophy. To acquaint with the philosophical concepts of eminent thinkers. To discover interdisciplinary nature of Philosophy. To apply philosophy on literary texts.
19	Indian Writing in English	ENGM504	Introduce to Indian Writing in English from the colonial to the postcolonial period. Delve into Issues such as colonization, decolonization, politics of language, cultural imperialism, identity politics, gendered differences, home, dislocation, language among others. Understand the diversity, plurality of Indian culture and tradition across spatiality. Realize the richness of Indian Writings in English through in-depth reading of some canonical literary texts written in English.
20	Criticism II	ENGM601	Display a sound knowledge of literary criticism and theory from Wordsworth to Empson. Analyze the contribution of various literary theorists of that phase. Analyze some canonical theoretical texts.
21	Literature of the USA	ENGM602	To acquaint with various periods of the history of American literature. To learn various socio-political-cultural contexts such as colonization, American Revolution, Great Depression, Gold Rush, Great American Dream, Slavery. To realize the richness of American literature through in-depth reading of some canonical literary texts of American Literature.
22	Literature in the Postcolonial World	ENGM603	To interpret the representation of colonialism in literature. To apply various issues of postcolonial theory to engage critically with texts within a postcolonial framework. To look at various dimensions of post-colonialism.
23	Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics	ENGM604