Department of History
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of History has some of the most
distinguished faculty among the History teachers of the University of Calcutta.
Class room interactions are an occasion to cultivate a range of related skills
such as those of writing, critical thinking, as well as the ability to
discerningly wade through innumerable details and complex arguments. The
department implemented online teaching in face of COVID19 to facilitate
teaching-learning process; hopefully, in future online mode would complement
classroom experience. Learning Outcome-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF)
approach is employed to structure the teaching-learning experience in a more
student-centric manner. An attempt is made to engage students with multiple
perspectives on various historical themes and to enable them to analyse those
perspectives critically. The exploration of past issues and of historical
processes help students acquire necessary tools to tease out the underlying
socio-political significations of the present and the past, of the mundane as
well as the extraordinary.
Apart from having these specific academic objectives, the
broader aim of the Department is to help students to become socially-aware
citizens so that they can use the conceptual resources provided by the study of
the distant as well as proximate past (of India and of the wider world) to
better understand the universe around them, and to negotiate with that world in
a socially responsible manner, deploying, among other things, the analytical
techniques offered to them by classroom teaching and interactions. Pedagogic
methods followed in the Department are tailored to these broader civic
concerns.
History Honours graduates have made a mark in almost every
possible field in their careers. They have excelled in diverse fields such as
bureaucracy and management, theater, painting and dance, mass communication,
NGOs, higher studies and research, and a whole range of other activities in
India and abroad. But, in whatever capacity and career they might be, they have
made a reputation for being sensitive and thinking beings.
LIST OF
FACULTY MEMBERS:
1.
Mrs.
Jayasree Boler (Mukhopadhyay), Associate Professor, M.A., M.Phil, Head of the
Department
2.
Dr. Milan
Knati Das, Assistant Professor, M.A., PhD
3.
Miss. Priti
Sinha, Assistant Professor, M.A., M.Phil
4.
Miss Soma
Sarkar (Senior), SACT, M.A., M.Phil
5. Mr. Ananda Kr. Das, SACT, M.A.,
6. Mrs. Soma Sarkar (Junior), SACT, M.A
STRENGTH
1. Some faculty members are a part of important committees,
members of governing body, etc.
2. All courses taught by Department of History begin with
extensive reading lists
3. Lectures are frequently illustrated with maps and cartoons
4. Tutorial discussions often go beyond the syllabus into
interesting matters of historical importance and contemporary importance.
5. Students are expected to write tutorials and class
assignments through which their grasp of the subject can be examined.
6. Excellent rapport between students and faculty members
7. The number of students enrolled for Honours programme
increases every year
WEAKNESS
1.
The
Department could focus more on consultancy or consultative programmes as well
as MOUs with organizations like National Museums, etc under which students
could for summer courses
2.
More
statics and data of the students progression after graduating from the
department could be maintained.
3.
Heritage
walks could be conducted by the department. This practice could be developed
for spreading environmental consciousness among the students
4.
The
department could start a museum within the college that will benefit the
students and faculty members across all the disciplines.
FUTURE PLAN
1. The Department could focus more on consultancy or
consultative programmes as well as MOUs with organizations like National
Museums, etc under which students could for summer courses
2. More statics and data of the students progression after
graduating from the department could be maintained.
3. Heritage walks could be conducted by the department.
This practice could be developed for spreading environmental consciousness
among the students
4. The department could start a museum within the college
that will benefit the students and faculty members across all the disciplines.
5. To introduce interdisciplinary programmes
6. To introduce peer learning programme, where students
will help each other out.
7. To maintain a systematic diary of internal evaluation
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PREPARATION OF E-LEARNING MATERIALS/CONTENT
The department implemented online teaching in face of
COVID 19 to facilitate teaching-learning process. Since 23rd March
2020 all the faculty members of the department have been taking virtual classes
on Google Meet platform. WhatsApp groups have been created where study material
and audio messages are sent to the students.
Email Address
lalbabahistory2020@gmail.com