Meg Departments - Loyola College

Prakriti foundation, Chennai, in association with the Department of English, Loyola College organized this Poetry festival. It was quite a good learningexperience where the students of post graduation got an exposure to poetry. Renowned poets across the nation and poets from Netherlands, Australia and Canadavisited the department and presented their poems. The students interacted with the poets, which made an added advantage in learning poetry writing.Budding Poet.The academic year 2011-2012 paved way to the growth of a budding poet form the Department of English. Ashwin Parameshwar, a final year under-graduatestudent has made the department proud with his victories in various poetry fests. He is well-versed in Tamil and English.His victories this year includes, Prakriti foundation’s “Poetry Slam”, poet Hunt by Suryan FM and Vairamuthu’s award and Alliance Françoise.“Akara” 2012 at MCC, Tambaram, Chennai.“Loyola has made it a habit”, these were the words by the professor’s at MCC. The students of English Literature, Loyola College have brought home the“Akara” rolling trophy for the third time. The students participated in all the events and were victorious in 08 competitions.FOREIGN LANGUAGESACTIVITIESThe Inauguration of the Association of Foreign Languages was held on 8 th July 2011. The function was presided by Jean Baptiste Suchet who is arepresentative of ICAM. Dr. Rebecca George, the Head of the Department, welcomed the gathering. Dr. Krishna Veni, the president of the Association introducedthe Chief Guest. The following students:Dessama kjeld Sreshth Sutan of third year B.A French.Fanis Hadrian of second year B.A FrenchKevin Thomas of first year Commerce were elected to the posts of the Department Secretary and Joint Secretaries for French and Lijo.P.J of the first yearCommerce was elected as Secretary for German. The event was followed by a small play done by the students of B.A French Literature.The Department conducted Forlafest- the intercollegiate competition on 10 th December 2011. Mr. Jean Baptiste Suchet was the Chief Guest. The Head of theDepartment Dr. Rebecca George emphasised on the importance of taking part in culturals for overall personality development.Several competitions like Quiz, Dub Charades, Cross Word, Jumbled Proverbs etc. Stella Maris won the First Prize and J.B.A.S the Second Prize.Dr. Krishna Veni published a book “ Les Paraboles de Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa” in December 2011. The department is conducting Prof. K. Candassamyendowment lecture on “ Job opportunities and Future Prospects in the field of French and German” on 23 rd February 2012 in MRF Hall.FOUNDATION STUDIES.Activity Based Learning (ABL) - an innovative, interesting and corroborated class room transaction programme is carried out by all the staff during thisacademic year for undergraduate students belonging to the first and second year. The worksheet model is a strategic design paper that spells out objectives,intermediate steps - positioning major activities to achieve behaviour change.An intensive staff training and orientation was carried out at the beginning of the academic year to equip staff for the new teaching process.Many interesting pedagogic experiments and projects were carried out during this academic year, which enhanced the following:- Students encouraged towards basic participatory approaches.- Campus audits and students projects were group assignments for students’ experimentation of real life situations documents creatively.The visually impaired students were encouraged to do their worksheets on brail and were appreciated for the same by the principal of the college andrewarded by the Mayor of Chennai on Human Rights Day celebrations.- Innovative teaching methods applied by the staff culminated with interactive presentations.One day training on NLP was conducted for the staff on 9.8.2011Evaluation of students in a continuous process culminating with evaluation of their work books towards the end of each semester.Ongoing trainings to staff were opportunities with an emphasis on individual skills and application of technical skill in their teaching profession. The staff hadB.A. . “French” (S-II)LOYOLA ANNUAL 2011-1251