Course Outcome

Program Outcomes- PO

PO1: Familiarization with literature: Acquire a thorough knowledge of English literature and language and apply the acquired knowledge to appreciate the elements that go into the making of literature.

PO2: Literary analysis: Read and analyze literary works of various Ages and formulate the basic skills for appreciating them. Examine the basic literary theories and linguistic concepts.

PO3: Constructing necessary strategies: Construct a cluster of strategies to learn the culture of different countries, various social, political and religious festivals and learning the native tradition.

PO4: Develop the ability to wield English as a tool to understand and interpret the world.

PO5: Higher education and employment: Increase and ensure the scope for higher and professional education and employment.

PO6: Contribution to learning and teaching: Contribute to learning by participating in the classroom interactional activities and contribute to teaching by delivering talks on the subject.

Program Specific Outcome -PSO

PSO1: Understand the literature in English and acquire competence in English language.

PSO2: Understand the communicative aspect of English and develop an insight into literary aspects.

PSO3: Ascertain the literary trends and movements and schools. Perceive the division of literary Ages.

PSO4: Interlink the Social History, Political Economy, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology with literature. Attain the ability to ascertain how humanities and science influence literary works.

PSO5: Compare literatures of the world. Study of comparative literature and literature in translation.

PSO6: Acquire the necessary linguistic competence and develop the ability to perform well in all contexts.

PSO7: Effectively communicate ideas related to the literature in both personal and professional contexts.

Course Outcomes -CO

CO1: Enumerate the literary forms and functions.

CO2: Describe the grammatical features such as words, sentences, pronunciation and spelling.

CO3: Write and speak comprehensible English.

CO4: Use English language in day-to-day situations.

CO5: Accumulate the necessary tools such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesaurus. Become familiar with using the dictionary of literary terms, glossary of phrasal verbs and idioms and phrases.

CO6: Become a cub in Journalism; achieve proficiency and tertiary level competence and performance.

Measuring the attainment of PO, PSO and CO

Distribution of measurement in terms of marks to the maximum of 75

Objective type –understanding - 10 marks (no choice) (10X1=10)

Objective type –appreciation - 10 marks (no choice) (10X1=10)

Paragraph answers - 25 marks (5 out of 7) (5X5=25)

Exhaustive enumeration - 30 marks (3 out of 5) (3X10=30)

Feedback is obtained from the students regarding the syllabus content. Item analysis is carried out for the class tests. The scores are tabulated item wise and the weakness and strength of the students’ are analyzed. This tabulation highlights the item difficulty which is measured by the proportion of correct and incorrect answers. It is necessary to illustrate the item analysis of a test paper.

The tabulation highlights that the learner has specific difficulty with the objective type questions. As a remedy, the student is exposed more to the objective aspects of the subject and the question paper. A bridge course is constructed and offered to the students. However, if majority of the students have scored below average in any one item, the reason for the items difficulty is identified and is taken to the knowledge of the University of Madras. The value of difficulty is viewed seriously. Item analysis is useful to direct the attention of the learners to the area of weakness. Item analysis has a high expository and directional value. This micro analysis and interpretation is supportive in measuring the attainment of PO, PSO and CO.

Level of attainment of PO, PSO and CO

PO: The students benefit socially, personally and academically. They optimize their potentials as individuals and members of society.

PSO: The world has become a village because of internet and English is the language of internet. The students become so communicative that they can communicate with the citizens of the world.

CO: The students become proficient in ‘structuring’ ‘restructuring’, ‘analyzing’ and ‘interpreting’ literature. They go to higher education or find employment in language and communication industry.