Kannada

Brief History of the Department

The department of Kannada established in the year 1968, ever since the beginning of this college. The historical development of this department have crossed more than four decades and with the innumerable academic scholars have served and nurtured this dept. through the ages. We are deeply involved in promoting the Kannada language and literature through different academic activities. The main vision of this department is to induce language and literary sensibilities in our students were mainly from rural environment. The faculty members are working hard for the developments of academic excellence of the students. In order to comply with our main intention of imparting knowledge and overall personality development of the students, organizing seminars, guest lectures by scholars, group discussions, discourses regularly as a result of this endeavor department awarded with good results in every examinations conducted by University of Mysore.

 
It may be right context to remember a few faculty members who has served in this department and paved the way for its significant achievements, for the past five years; Dr. Sarojammanni, Prof. H.P. Gangadharaswamy, Dr. A. Gayathri, Sri. Krishnappa, Sri. Mahendra Murthy, Gulappaswamy, Shwetha G M, Sowmya G M, Poornimal S and Pushpalatha J.

 

VISION

Inculcate language and literary sensibility and enhance the knowledge of the students.

 

MISSION

• To teach the values of great poets and literary
• To inculcate   the   values   of   life   and   make   students responsible citizen of society
• To enhance students’ knowledge for overall social and educational

 

About the Department

1	Name of the department	KANNADA
2	Year of establishment	1968
3	Names of Programs/Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.)	UG
4	Name of interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved	Nil
5	Annual/semester/choice based credit system(program wise)	SEMESTER
6	Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments	Arts, Science & Commerce
7	Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institution, etc.	Nil
8	Details of courses/programs discontinued (if any)with reasons	Nil

9. Number of Teaching Posts

	Sanctioned	Filled
Professors
Associate Professors
Asst. Professors	2	1

 

10	Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled(programme wise) by temporary faculty	70%
11	Student-Teacher Ratio(programme wise)	132:01
12	Number of academic support staff(technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled	NIL
13	Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/D.litt/Ph.D/MPhil/PG.	PG-1 Ph.D.-1
14	Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received.	–
15	How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense Services, etc.	–

 

16. Student progression

Student progression	Against % enrolled
UG to PG	25%
PG to M.Phil.	–
PG to Ph.D.	7%
Entrepreneurship/self-employment	10%

 

17	Details of Infrastructural facilities a)   Library b)   Internet facilities for Staff & Students c)   Class rooms with ICT facility d)   Laboratories	YES YES YES YES
18	Endowment Prize instituted in the department of Kannada.	Merit prize in language section: 04 Optional Kannada merit prize: 01 1. Prof. M.G. Renukaprasanna and Prof. B. Somashekar Endowment prize. 2. Faculty members, Dept. of Kannada, JSS College Nanjangud, Cash prize.
19	Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning	Group discussions, Students Seminars, unit tests , debates, Quiz, assignments
20	Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities	NSS and NCC activities

 

Department Library:-

The department of Kannada has maintained its own library with 100 titles other than in the general library of the college. There are more than 7560 titles in general library of the college. The books on the stack are of different genres of Kannada literature, and linguistics. The Department also procures academic journals and literary magazines 17 in nos. for the purpose of updating knowledge of our students.

COURSE OFFERED

UG –CBCS Syllabus
https://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/ug-year-wise-syllabus-2018-19
The department offers Language Kannada for B.A (H.E.P, K.E.G), B.Sc (P.C.M, P.M.Cs), B.Com and B.B.A Courses and Optional Kannada for I B.A (K.E.G).

 

I Year:

I Semester – Language Kannada, Modern Kannada Poetry, Essays, Official Kannada.

II Semester – Modern Kannada Poetry, Short Stories, Official Kannada.

 

II Year:

III Semester – Medieval Kannada Poetry, Novel, Official Kannada.
IV Semester – Old Kannada Poetry, Old drama, Official Kannada.

 

I Year Optional Kannada:

I and II Semester – History of Kannada Literature, Modern Poetry and Modern Drama.

 

II Year Optional Kannada:

III and IV Semester – Old Kannada Grammar, Shabdhamani Dharpanam and Medieval Poetry.

 

III Year Optional Kannada:

V and VI Semester – Old Kannada Texts, Indian poetics and critics,
Kannada Bhasha Charithre, Chandassu. (Note: Syllabus as per the University of Mysore)

 

Academic and Extra Curricular Activities of the Faculty

Apart from classroom teaching students are motivated to participate in the programs like symposium, Special lecturers etc., for the enrichment of their Knowledge. Special lectures have been arranged for the students by various resource persons. Faculty members also participated in several programs as representatives.

 

S.N. Nirmaladevi, H.O.D.

• Member, Board of Examination, University of Mysore – 2011-12, 2017-18 & 2019-20
• Member, Board of Examination, JSS Autonomous College, Ooty road Mysore, 2013 -20
• Participated in setting question papers for examination of under graduation.
• Worked as a cultural forum coordinator, 2012-14.
• Actively participated in many workshops, national & state level seminars and
• Editor of the college magazine, 2010-12, 2015-16, 2019-20.

 

Dr. A. Gayathri, Asst. Prof.

• D Awarded in 2002 “Kannada Vachanagarathiyaru”.
• Member of BOE, University of Mysore.2014-15, 2016-17
• Worked as question paper setter for University of Mysore and JSS Autonomous College,
• Actively participated in many workshops, national & state level seminars and
• D awarded thesis, “Kannada Vachanagarathiyaru” has been released in kannada sahithya sammelana 2014 at Bannor.

 

Activities of the Department:- 

In every academic year a charitable guest lecturer and also a special lecture, Workshops on appreciation of literary works, Young students Poets meet will be organized every year. To encourage the students writing efficiency and their expressions organized the special lecture, student’s seminar and quiz competitions are organized. To educate, enrich knowledge and to explore the creativity of the student’s wall magazine is in use from many years. Award of cash prize also instituted to encourage the meritorious students who have scored highest percentage of marks both in language and literature.

A Special program has organized by the department with the collaboration of Kannada Pustaka Pradikara, Bangalore “Nanna Mechina Pustaka” on 11-01-2020. Dr.

H.R. Ravikumar, Govt. First Grade College, Gundlupete was the Judge for the program.

 

Special Lecture organized by the department:

Sl No	Date	Name of Academician	Desig.	Institution	Topic
1	23-04-2016	Dr. Prabhuswamy	Prof. PG Center	JSS PG Center	Taledanda – Girish Karnad
2	2017	Dr. N. Shekhar	Prof.	Govt. First grade college, Kuvempunagar, Mysuru	Shudrathapasvi – Kuvempu
3	07-03-2018	Dr. C.G. Ushadevi	Rtd. Prof.	Vidyodaya First grade college, T.Narasipura	Gadhayudda – Ranna
4	27-02-2019	Prof. Morabada Mallikarjuna	Director, College Section	JSS Mahavidyapeeta, Mysuru	Smashana kurukshethra and Shudrathapasvi – Kuvempu
5	26-02-2020	Dr. K. Sathish chandra	Asst. Prof.	Govt. First grade college, K.R. Nagara	Yekalavya – G.S. Siddalingaiah

 

DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES PHOTOS

 

 

Future Plan

• G course in Kannada
• Diploma course in Kannada
• Certificate course in translation and proof reading

Faculty Details

Meenakshi
M.A., Pursuing PhD,
Asst. Professor

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Dr. A. Gayathri
M.A., PhD
Head & Asst.Professor
Department of Kannada