Programme Outcomes (PO) of Kannur University

PO 1.Critical Thinking:

• Acquire the ability to apply the basic tenets of logic and science to thoughts, actions and interventions.
• Develop the ability to chart out a progressive direction for actions and interventions by learning to recognize the presence of hegemonic ideology within certain dominant notions.
• Develop self-critical abilities and also the ability to view positions, problems and social issues from plural perspectives.

PO 2.Effective Citizenship:

• Learn to participate in nation building by adhering to the principles of sovereignty of the nation, socialism, secularism, democracy and the values that guide a republic.
• Develop and practice gender sensitive attitudes, environmental awareness,empathetic social awareness about various kinds of marginalisation and the ability to understand and resist various kinds of discriminations.
• Internalise certain highlights of the nation’s and region’s history. Especially of the freedom movement, the renaissance within native societies and the project of modernisation of the post-colonial society.

PO 3.Effective Communication:

• Acquire the ability to speak, write, read and listen clearly in person and through electronic media in both English and in one Modern Indian Language
• Learn to articulate, analyse, synthesise, and evaluate ideas and situations in a well informed manner.
• Generate hypotheses and articulate assent or dissent by employing both reason and creative thinking.

PO 4.Interdisciplinarity:

• Perceive knowledge as an organic, comprehensive, interrelated and integrated faculty of the human mind.
• Understand the issues of environmental contexts and sustainable development as a basic interdisciplinary concern of all disciplines.
• Develop aesthetic, social, humanistic and artistic sensibilities for problem solving and evolving a comprehensive perspective.

Programme Specific Outcomes for B.A. in English Language and Literature

PSO 1:

Understand the historical contexts behind the origin and development of English literature with a special focus on various movements and the important works belonging to such movements.

PSO 2:

Understand the current methodological issues in the study of literature and apply various reading strategies employed to selected literary as well as cultural texts.

PSO 3:

Understand and apply the extended meaning of “English Literature” to various post-colonial and other writings in English.

PSO 4:

Understand the basics of disciplines like Film Studies, Culture Studies, Fine Arts, Women’s Writing, Dalit Writings, Post-colonial writing, Indian writing in English, Malayalam Literature and Literatures in Translation.

PSO 5:

Understand and appreciate the interdisciplinary links that literary studies have with disciplines like Philosophy, History, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology and the Sciences.