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DEPARTMENT OF English

Welcome to Department of English

Impressions

The Department of English is one of the pioneering departments of the college which started functioning along with the college in the year 1955.Initially under the University of Madras it was later on affiliated to the University of Kerala. Now this department functions under the Univrsity of Calicut.We have2 U.G courses (i ) BA English Language and Literature,(ii) BA Functional English,2 P.G.courses (i)MA English Language and Literature,(ii) MA Multimedia and 1 Diploma course (i) PG Diploma in Virtual Communication under the canopy of this colossal department. The department has been consistently producing excellent and ambitious students who adorn exalted positions in the society.About 50 students have cleared the UGC NET competetive exam and many more are moulding the society as lawyers ,politicians ,teachers ,profesionals .Our students are chiselled to be competitive, caring and motivated to be the proficient stake holders of the future society . We provide adequate ambience for our students to be excellent aspirers both as talented academicians and as strong and reliable women of the times. We do not encourage dropouts due to early marriages and an awareness is created among the parents about this menace.

The department of English is instrumental in conducting various departmental and inter deparmental competetions to continously assess and evaluate the advancement of the students and to motivate them. The students put their heads and hearts together to participate actively in all the curricular, extra curricular and extension activities. The department has been credited with a considerable number of prizes and recognition each year.

We have 8 permanent staff and 6 guest faculty.

Vision

We aspire to mould generations that excel in all facets of life, exude confidence and scholarship andare committed to the service of fellow men.

Mission

To enrich the society through generations of empowered women armed with communicative proficiency.

Motto

Let us soar the vistas of aesthetic erudition.

Facilities

Reference book collection
Language lab
Computers with printers and internet facility.
Multimedia Studio
Smart Class Room
Virtual Class Room
Language specific e board

Faculty Member

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Dr.Sr.Thressiamma Dominic

Associate Professor, Department Of English

Little Flower College, Guruvayoor

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Profile

Dr.Sr.Thresiamma Dominic M is working as associate Professor in English literature and Journalism & Multimedia in Little Flower College since 1986. Post graduate in English language and literature from Calicut University. M.phil in English Lanuage Teaching and Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Pondicherry University.She has PG Diploma in Journalisam and Masscommunication,PG Certificate in English Language Teaching from CIEFL Hyderabad. She has completed UGC Major Research Project Title from Effective Communicators to World Leaders: in depth study of English Language Fluency of the graduates of Kerala.

Educational Qualification

M.phil and PhD from Pondicherry University
Postgraduate in English language and literature from Calicut University.
PG Diploma in Journalisam and Mass Communication from Bharathya Vidhya Bhavan
PG Certificate in English Language Teaching from CIEFL Hyderabad

Work Experience

Joined Little Flower College in 1986 and has been working here till date. Possesses 26 years of teaching experience .

Area of Interest

English Language Teaching
Multimedia
Journalism
Drama

Research Projects

1. FIP for M.Phil in English Language Teaching

2. FIP for PhD in Comparative Literature

3. UGC Major Research Project Grant - From Effective Communicators to World Leaders: in depth study of English Language Fluency of the Graduates of Kerala

Publication & Paper Presentation

Books : 1.Fictional Reconstruction of Jesus Christ O.V Vijayan and William Faulkner

2. Discipleship And Identification With Jesus Christ In Kazantzakia And Jayakanthan

DVDs : 1. Living In Harmony: Communication Through Personality Development

2. Kripayude Padavukal

3. Janmasaphaliam

4. Madehurami Bali

5. Snehapookkal

6. Chirakukal

7. Kripatheertham

Invited Talks

English Association Inauguration –VHSC Vemenade
English Association Inauguration –ANSAR College Perumbilave
Valedictory Address –NSS Camp Little Flower College Guruvayoor
Valedictory Address –National Seminar on Folklore, Little Flower College Guruvayoor
Personality Development and Communication Training –Nursing School Jubilee Mission Hospital Thrissur
Personality Development and Communication Training –Seraphic Convent Girls High School Perigotukara
NAAC seminar on Governance and quality enhancement 27-28 March 2012 at St.Thomas College Thrissur
NAAC seminar on quality evaluation in higher education St.Thomas College Pala on 1st and 2nd March 2010
Workshop on curriculam design at Calicut University 16-20 March 2009

Seminar /Workshops / Refresher / Training Attended

Principals’ Council Meeting –St.Theresas College Ernamkulam
Principals and Managers Meet- St.Theresas College Ernamkulam
Syndicate and Principals Meet-University of Calicut

Professional Membership & Certification

Best Docufiction Award to Kripayude Padavukal from Kerala Government
Best Home Cinema Award to Janmasaphaliam from Kerala Film Audience Council.
Best Second Documentary Award to Kripatheertham from Kerala Film Audience Council.
Special Jury Award to Snehapookkal from Kerala Film Audience Council.

Courses

1. B.A. English

2. M A In English Language And Literature(Self Financing)

Innovative Programs

1. Virtual Communication

Activities

Interdepartmental competetions like public speaking, literature quiz, reading competetions and debates are conducted very year by the department.Faculty members continously take part and make presentations in various national and international seminars and competetions.Most of them also have publications in reputed peer reviewed/referred national and international journals.At present, 5 of the faculty are working on major and minor projects funded by the U G C XIIth plan

ACTIVITIES 2010-11

Association inauguration was held on 20/9/2010 by Mr. Ravikrishnan Associate prof of English, Sri Kerala Varma College.
Interdepartmental competetions for the Rolling trophy of thr Rotary clib was held andboth 1st and 2nd positions were bagged by the department
Literary quiz was conducted
word power competetion
Three day International seminar on film" Flashes tp frames, exploring the dialectics of films" was held on 14, 15 & 16 January 2011
Degree students were taken for a studty tour to Kodaikanal

ACTIVITIES 2011-12

The English Association was inaugurated by Prof. Shanmugadas on 11/11/2011
Competetion on public speaking and a departmental quiz were held

Seminars and Paper presentations

Reely Raphael presented a paper " From opression to resistance- the shifting paradigms in Dalit Literature."
Dr. Kamala K has her work Language and Linguistics accepted as text book for V semester B A English of Cal;icut University
Gamaya K P of VI sem presented a paper " Environmental Issues and their Remedies" At a summit conducted by" Kerala Environment."

Awards and Recognitions

Vijayalakshmi C S of I sem BA won first position in a nomber of competetions held at the Keralolsavam programme organised by the Govt. of Kerala
Theresa J Heloise of IV sem PG won second place in the All India Essay Writing competetion organised by Sri Ramchandra Mission and United Nations information centre for India and Bhutan
Vidya P G of II sem won third place in the District level quiz competetion on 30/9/2011

ACTIVITIES 2012-13

The English Literary Association was inaugurated by Dr. Anto Thomas C on 23/1/2013
Manusript prepared by III year U G students were launched at the inaugural session.
Kala Krishnan and Aswathy were elected as Secretaties of the Department association
Interdepartmental quiz competetion and publicspeaking were conducted under the auspicious of the Department Association
Best Readers Contest was held on 22nd January 2013.
A research forum was inaugurated to help students come up with research papers.

Seminars and Paper presentations

Reely Raphael presented papers

"Rereading of Thenali Raman Folk Tales" at the National seminar hosted by the Malayalam Dept. of Little Flower College on 29th nd 30th November 2012.
" From an expatriate to an immigrant: The Indian diaspora in Bharathi Mukherjee's Jasmine at the National Seminar at Alosius College Elthuruth on 22nd and 23rd February 2013.
" The process of transcreation : From gendered subalterns to the empowered selves." at the Golden Jubilee celebration of Victoria College Palakad on 4th January 2013

Smt Julie Dominic presented a paper at the International Seminar hosted by St. Alosius College Elunthurth on 18th and 19th October 1012.

Smt. Esther Mani presented a paper titled "The Eco critical Reading of Chemeen"

Orientation Courses

Smt Esther Mani attended the Orientatin Programme at John Mathai's Centre from 16th Jan 2013 to 13th February 2013

Awards and Recognitions

Anu P Abraham of I BA won the 2nd prize in the essay writing competetion held by All India Senior Citizens Organisation on 3/11/1012
Anaswara V and Hiba N K bagged the 1st and 2nd prizes in the reading competetion.
Kavya P G of I U G bagged 1st palce in the College level short story writing competetion
Anu Abraham won first place in the English Essay Writing Competetion held by All India Bank Emloyees Federation 2013

ACTIVITIES 2013-14

Faculty Research Programmes 2013-14

Major and Minor Projects

Dr. Thressiamma Dominic is working on a major project entitled " Effective Ccmmunicators to the World Leaders: an Indepth Study of the Communicative Levels of the College Students of Kerala with Suggestions to Improve the Situation."
Smt. Julie Dominic A is working on a minor project entitled " Ecological pertinence on the psycho social countour of young learners: transcending rural and urban domain.
Smt . Reely Raphael has a minor project on"The representation of Women in social and Ethnic Relationship in the context of Globalisatiopn."
Smt. Esther Mani works on " Socio cultural changes through women empowerment: a rural scenario."
Smt. Silpa Anand works on a minor project " Confronting Cultural Erasure: Reinstating the Lost into the Psyche of Kerala."

Courses and Seminars

Smt Reely Raphael and Smt. Julie Dominic participated in the orientation course conducted by the University of Calicut from 27/11/2013 to
Dr. Kamala K felicitated the National Seminar on "Folk Elements in Malayalam Language and Culture" conducted by the Dept. of Malayalam. She also chaired a session in the same seminar.
Dr. Kamala K presented a paper on "Semiotics in Translation" and chaired a session in a seminar on translation held by the Govt. College, Chalakudy on 31/12/2013 and 1/1/2014.
Smt. Prasanthi P presented a paper on "Sonali Deraniyagala's Wave through the lengths of Existentialism." held by the Dept. of English, St. Thomas College, Kozenchery
Smt. Prasanthi P made a presentation on " The Kaleidoscopic View of N. Prabakaran's Pulijanmam." held at the college by the Dept. of Malayalam on 24/1/2014
Smt. Prasanthi P presented a paper on " Oral Tradition in A K Ramanujan's Folklore" in a national seminar held by the Dept. of Malayalam
Smt. Julie Dominic attended the International Seminar held by Vimala College, Thrissur on 9th and 10th January 2014.
Smt. Julie Dominic presented a paper " Demythification of Virulent Archytype "NAGA" stimulating the construction of pronounced womanhood in the film "Anandabhadram"
Smt. Reely Raphael presented a paper entitled " Humour and Children's World: The Unrestrainable Laughter in Dany Devito's film Matilda" at the International Conference organised by Litcritt Trivandrum on 6, 7 and 8th December 2013.

Departmental Activities

The Literary Association was inaugurated on 2/01/2014 by Dr. Babu P K, Associate Professor of English, Unity Women's College, Manjery. The inauguration was followed by a seminar on " Communication Skills for the Future."
Kavys P G and Farsana were elected as the secretaries of literary association.
Inter departmental quiz on "Literature and Contemporaray Issues" was held on 17/ 11/2013
Competetion on public speaking was held on 16/12/1013

Awards and Recognitions

Anu P Abrahham of B A English got her poem "Kanalvelicham" published in "Heartbeats" by the Human Welfare Council in September 2013.
Kavya P G of Under Graduate class won the second place in the essay writing competetion organised by the Sahithya Academy at Thrissur on the 7th of January on Corruption and Power.
Anitta S Cheeran and Kala Krishnan won the 1st and 2nd prizes respectively in the Interdepartmental Quiz Competetion.
Anaswara V and Kala Krishnan on U G English bagged the first and Greeshma N of Functional English got the 2nd prize for the Public Speaking Competetion.
ACTIVITIES 2014-15

Environment Day was organised on June 5^th 2015, by planting a sapling and an orientation class.
June 15^th2015, English Association Inauguration and Cultural Award Ceremony of Anganam.
Competition on Collection of Plastic waste - Interdepartmental, on 6 July 2015 winners of the competition were I prize III DC English and II prize II DC History
Power Point Presentation Competition on Soil Conservation on July 7^th 2015
Nature Photography Competition organised by the Department on 10^th July 2015
17^th July Visit to Old age Home at Kottapady by the students.
Sand Art Competititon was organised as a part of Sand Conservation Year on 21^st july 2015.
Eco Bag making Competition was organised as an Interdepartmental Competition on the 27^th of July 2015
Exhibition of Anti Plastic Home Made products in collaboration with NSS Unit 29^th July 2015.
Visit to Madhura Sandeepani by the Students of III DC English and Functional English on August 14^th 2015
10^th September 2015 Interdepartmental Poster Making Event to Campaign on Protection of Nature and Resources.
Nature Food Fest was conducted as a promotion for the National Seminar on 12^th September 2015.
September 17 and 18, 2015, UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Ecological Undertones in Literature and Popular Culture.
September 17 and 18 My Earth Film Festival.
Inter departmental Caption Writing Competition was organised on October 9^th 2015
Vigilance Awareness Programme was organised in collaboration with Canara Bank on 28^th October 2015
Interdepartmental Competition on Public Speaking was organised on February 24^th 2016
Interdepartmental Vocabulary Hunt Competition was organised on 25^th February 2016

Awards Received

1. Nandhana R received Best Short Story Award by Anganam Literary Association

2. Safa Hussain of II Year Functional English and Athira Shaji of III DC English received I place and III Place in Power Point Competition on Soil Conservation organised by St. mary’s College, Thrissur

3. Campus Edu Fest organised by John Mathai College,Sruthi Krishna of II DC English secured I place for Collage.

ACTIVITIES 2016-17

State Level PPT Competition

'The Petrichor' -- International Workshop On Poetry -- Department Of English

SWAP SHOP By The Dept Of English 27th June 2016

Neologic Ventures -- Department Of English

PPT Competition On Animal Trafficking And Wildlife Protection

'Fallen Flower' Nature Craft Competition

LIT ART

tHE DEPARTMENT OF eNGLISH HOSTED A NOVEL COMPETITION ENABLING THE STUDENTS TO EXPRESS THEIR CREATIVE AND LITERARY STRAIN ALIKE. THE LIT ART COMPETITION, WHICH INVOLVED MAKING A 3D IMAGE OF ANY SCENE FROM ANY LITERARY WORK GATHERED MUCH ATTENTION AND PARTICIPATION.

MEDIA AND I

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH HOSTED A DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND TALK SHOW FOR THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE IN RELATION TO SOCIAL MEDIA DAY ON 30-06-2016. THE PRPGRAME WAS DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENTS OF MULTIMEDIA AND FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH. THE DOCUMENTARY PREPARED BY THE STUDENTS FEATURED THE IDEAS OF VARIOUS PEOPLE IN THE CAMPUS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

THE DOCUMENTARY WAS LAUNCHED BY THE PRINCIPAL REV. SR.DR. THRESIAMMA DOMINIC. THE LAUNCHING WAS FOLLOWED BY A LIVELY AND ANIMATED TALKSHOW "MEDIA AND I". THE TALK SHOW HAD THE PARTICIPATION OF BOTH THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS.

Research

Major and Minor Research Projects

Ongoing Major Research Project

Dr. Thressiamma Dominic --Effective communicators to the world leaders: an indepth study of communicative levels of the college students of Kerala with suggestions to improve the situation.

Ongong Minor Research Projects

Smt. Julie Dopminic A -- " Ecological Pertinence on the psycho social contour of young learners: Transcending Rural and Urban Domain.
Smt Reely Raphael -- The Representation of Women in Social and Ethnic Relationship in the Context of Globalisation
Smt. Esther Mani -- Socio cultural changes through women empowerment: A rural scenario.
Smt. Silpa Anand S -- Confronting Cultural Erasure: Reinstating the Lost into the Psyche of Kerala.

News & Events

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Contact Details

Contact Person : Dr. Sr. Thressiamma Dominic

Phone : 914872556957

Email : mail@littleflowercollege.edu.in

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