DEPARTMENT OF SANSKRIT

Establishment:

idyāmcāvidyāmcayastadvedobhayamsaha/

Avidyayāmṛtyumtīrtvāvidyayāmṛtamaśnute.(Iśopaniṣad, verse. 11)

vidyā and avidyā to be performed by same person, crosses death by avidyā and attains immortality or divinity by vidyā

The Department of Sanskrit started its first academic session from 1970-71, since the inception of the college. Prof. Rajat Baran Dutta Roy was the first Head of the Department of Sanskrit. Prof Ramananda Acharya was a renowned scholar of this Department . The department is one of the largest departments of the college in terms of number of applicants every year.

Programmes Offered

The Department presently offers the following programmes under the affiliation of Kazi Nazrul University:

• B.A. Honours in Sanskrit (4 Year)
• B.A. in Sanskrit(3 Year)

Add on Courses

The Department has also started offering Add on Courses for students of all Departments since the academic session 2023-2024.

• Add on Course on “SANSKRITA BHASA PARICHAY, ANUBAD, PATHANKAUSAL, LIKHAN KAUSAL” (07/03/2024 to 30/05/2024)
• Add on Course on “ROOTS OF MEDICINE: A JOURNEY THROUGH SANSKRIT AND BOTANY” offered jointly by Department of Botany and Sanskrit (09-07-2024 to 30-09-2024)

Teaching, Learning and Evaluation

The Department adopts several strategic ways to engage students such as group talks, argumentative debates, students lecture, quiz, elocution in our teaching methods. Though the department mostly uses the chalk and talk method, for some courses such as grammar, linguistics, metrics etc. power-point presentations are prepared for better understanding of our students. Faculty members have also prepared E-content for uploading to the Knimbus Digital library of the institution to enable learning at any time at any pace. The evaluation methods involve using rubrics and also following bloom’s taxonomy to frame questions. The department also has an effective mentor-mentee mechanism to cater to the needs of the students as and when required.