Future Plan
STRATEGIC GOALS
Rendering coaching for Competitive Examinations and conducting test on the basis of competitive examinations.
Encouraging the students to prepare Projects Under Graduate level.
Motivate the students to indulge themselves in Social service Activities
Maintain our Role as a State and National Leader in History Education
Establishment of P.G History / Research Centre.
Provide Members with Adequate Resources to Support their Professional Development
Expanding outreach to Alumni, the Community, and Former Faculty and Staff
STRATEGIC ACTIONS
I. Overall Program
Promote the Liberal Arts, emphasizing History’s role in them, stressing to students the value of their transferable skills, advocating for them among the administration, and fostering them through links to other departments.
Maintain and expand our commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration through participation in minors, the pursuit of additional minors such as Religious Studies and or Epigraphically Studies, Archaeology Studies. Monitor enrollment and gauge the necessity of enrollment management.
Determine the department’s proper role in the general education program.
Redesign departmental website so that all student and faculty information and forms are available online.
II. Undergraduate Program
Promote the idea of extracurricular experience related to internships, student teaching, volunteer work, or service learning
Engage in a “Wisdom of my Future with My History Major?” campaign.
Expand the department’s internship program.
Promote faculty and student participation in field study.
Explore ways to integrate public history into the curriculum.
Recruit students and highlight the visibility of our Honours Program
Encourage expert faculty participation in these courses and hold an annual “best practices” discussion.
Launch a departmental writing (Project) initiative.
Review curriculum for deletion of old courses and for identification of thematic, geographical and chronological order
Through recruitment of new faculty and encouragement of existing faculty, expand course offerings to reflect trends in the discipline and to cover new fields.
Work with Admissions to engage in recruitment efforts aimed at increasing the diversity and excellence of students admitted to our program.
Explore possibility of first year experience program
III. Teacher Education Program
Explore the advisability of world history in order to prepare future teachers.
Invite history faculties from local college to participate in departmental colloquia and events as colleagues.
Monitor, and possibly expand, the collaborative student teaching model.
Seek and write grant opportunities related to history education
IV. Graduate Program
Acquire proficiency in Language and Arts shall be equipped with ICT competencies including digital literacy.
Review and after three years do a systematic assessment of the recent, major changes to the graduate program.
Enhance the quality of our program through the targeted recruitment of excellent students from Alumni
Gain dexterity in communication skills and to apply the concepts and skills in a focused thematic area through sustained critical inquiry.
Get acquainted with lifelong learning process by exploring knowledge independently
Attain a good knowledge on viewing society in inspirational way and be the best and responsible citizens of the society
V. Faculty Recruitment and Professional Development
Encourage, reward, and publicize research productivity the pursuit of external funding, and teaching excellence.
Encourage and reward according to faculty participation in history projects. 3. Motivate them to apply for ICHR, ICSSR,UGC Minor and Major Projects.