SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES

The School of Languages is not a 'School' on the model of the interdisciplinary Schools in the University. It is a facility in the Faculty of Arts providing for language courses (Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma) in a number of Indian and foreign languages.

Classes are held in the evening, in the premises of the Arts Building. This ensures maximum utilisation of space and resources, and allows students and staff to acquire knowledge of various languages as ancillary training.

The courses being offered at present are as follows:

Certificate Courses:

Indian Languages: Bengali, Sanskrit.
Courses in Tamil and Telugu are also available.
European Languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian

Diploma Courses:

Indian Languages: Bengali
European Languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese
Others: Japanese

Advanced Diploma:

Bengali

Course are conducted by part-time teachers, some of whom are, however, members of the regular faculty of the University in various departments.
Teachers of French and Italian are provided by the consulates of France (under the Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme) and Italy. The services of the Italian teacher are supported by the Italian Consulate.

The full list of teachers is as follows:

Bengali: Dr Rekha Moitra, Shri Amitava Das

French: Sm. Frederique Wittmer

German: Sm. Kana Chattopadhyay

Italian: Shri Angelo Pugliese

Japanese: Shri Abhijit Mukherjee

Portuguese: Sm. Arundhati Roy Chowdhury

Russian: Sm. Lily Banerjee

Sanskrit: Dr Prodyot Datta

The number of students in the various courses is as follows:

Bengali: Certificate 17, Diploma 1, Advanced Diploma 6

French: Certificate 30, Diploma 2

German: Certificate 25, Diploma 3

Italian: Certificate 8, Diploma 9

Japanese: Diploma 12

Portuguese: Certificate 7, Diploma 3

Russian: Certificate 18

Sanskrit: Certificate 3