BS Bachelors of Studies in English

Course Outline

Program Objectives

BS in English program has been designed with a view to cater to the needs of Pakistani students who have the desire to excel in the fields on language and literature. The program helps students develop necessary critical ability and insight so that they may learn how to decipher a language specimen or a performance. The program provides students with a vast panorama of literary texts from around the world so that they may enhance their capacity to think critically and evaluate discourses produced in alien or unfamiliar cultural surroundings. The program also encourages the students to write for a variety of professional and social settings with grammatical accuracy, stylistic clarity and pragmatic awareness; appraising the diversity of literary and social voices within the major traditions of literature and culture.

 

Program Description

Under the visionary guidance of Dr. Surriya Shaffi Mir who has chaired the department of English at GIFT University since its inception, BS in English program is run under two intertwined tracks: literature and linguistics. The program has been designed with the view that both literature and linguistics are organically linked. In the final year, however, the students have the opportunity to opt either for literature or linguistics as their preference. The practice of early narrow specialization has been avoided and open disciplinary spaces have been created through a variety of subject combinations. The combinations of subjects offered at undergraduate level fulfill the academic and intellectual need of the students with diverse aptitudes and varied plans for the future. BS in English is a broad based graduate level program with an essentially modern outlook. It equips the students with a vast array of skills vital for future professional success.

 

Career Opportunities

BS in English will fetch jobs to its students in government offices, embassies, academic institutions and policy and cultural research institutes as translators, officers, managers, teachers, customer relation officers and researchers. The graduates of BS in English program will have the capacity for freelance work like editing, translation, proof reading, data processing etc. Another possible employment option is journalism where English language and literature graduates are often employed. Students can actually do the reporting and writing for newspapers, magazines, and books, or they can find positions in content/blog writing and critiquing. If someone loves to write, he/she could be an author.

 

Eligibility Criteria

The University welcomes application from students who have successfully completed their Intermediate or equivalent examinations with at least 2nd division. More specific admission criteria is as follows

Intermediate or equivalent with a minimum of 45% marks or 2nd division

The prospective students will have to appear in a written admission test. The prospective students must clear the written test.

The students who clear the written admission test will have to appear before a departmental committee for oral interview.

Only those who meet the minimum eligibility criteria and clear written and oral tests are recommended for admission.

Source

http://www.gift.edu.pk/page/bachelor-studies-in-english-bs-