English

Department of English

About the Department

Department of English

The department of English offers BS 4 Years Program in English literature and linguistics in evening shift. The department has PhD and M.Phil qualified and experienced faculty members including 1 Associate Professor 6 Assistant Professors and 3 lecturers. The faculty maintains an identical nature of the BS program through the equal distribution of courses accordingly HEC approved credit hours.

Message from Head of Department (HoD)

The Department of English offers an exciting program with dedicated, well qualified, and experienced faculty to facilitate in studying English Literature and Linguistics with updated courses on literary and linguistic authors to our students as they would reflect their involvement with the study of English in global contexts and compete in their future.  Our classrooms offer opportunities to use multiple modalities, genres, and theoretical frameworks to read critically the word and the world around us.

Our Mission

The Department of English is dedicated to upcoming future of English with an era of technology and transfers intellectual and cultural perspectives of its enrolled students. Through quality teaching methods and equality approaches, it endeavors to endure critical and creative thinking about literature, linguistics, and language. It encourages and produces the graduates well prepared for pursuing their careers in education, research, business, law, government, and publication.

Our Vision

To provide applicable present and future mentoring, quality education environment, experienced faculty, well equipped classrooms, and technological learning resources which will lead a student’s success as well as a challenging survive. To produce students see themselves as specialists with new skills after their education in teaching English, attempting competitive exams, or pursuing higher education abroad. To assure that students meet creativity essential to English studies through readings by professional writers, and their own creative and critical production.

INTRODUCTION

The Department of English was established at Govt. Islamia Arts & Commerce and Post Graduate Center in  19…………… and has been progressed in 2024 as a department, it is the first and only college in Sukkur city which offers BS 4 years program in English with the affiliation of Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur under collaboration of Govt. of Sindh . It is one of the oldest and top- rated department of the other public colleges of Sukkur. Since its beginning, the department has been providing a quality learning and studying of English Literature and now Linguistics  11 faculty members who teach across the whole from English literature to modern Linguistics.

The faculty struggle to provide students with motivating and challenging environment in which they can grow their competence and skills in all areas of English Linguistics and Literature. Thus, to make them succeed in sundry challenges of their personal, practical and professional life fairly effectively and efficiently.

The department provides passionate observing to the students both in and outside of the classroom teaching and learning in a wide variety of forums for instance lectures, workshops, writing competitions and debates. The faculty of the department feel pride that their students are taught with great respect, and care.

Head of Department

Prof. Zamir Hussain Memon

Associate Professor & Head, Department of English

Qualification: M.A in English Literature

Specialization: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Folklore & Cultural Studies

Prof. Zamir Hussain Memon is a scholar of Sindhi literature with teaching and research interests in classical and modern Sindhi literature, literary criticism, folklore, culture and linguistics.

Our Faculty Members

Prof. Wali Muhammad Channa

Assistant Professor

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Imtiaz Ali Mahar

Assistant Professor

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Niaz Ahmed Memon

Assistant Professor

Lecturer

Prof. Khalid Mehmood Mirani

Lecturer

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Muhammad Kashif Mughal

Lecturer

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Abdul Salam Ansari

Assistant Professor

Lecturer

Prof. Mumtaz Ali Dayo

Lecturer

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Yahya Chachar

Lecturer

Department of Sindhi

Prof. Naresh Kumar

Assistant Professor

Lecturer

Department Activities and Academics

Academic Programs

BS (Four-Year) in English (Linguistics and Literature) (Evening Program)

Research & Publications

Research, literary criticism, scholarly publications and conference participation.

Literary Activities

Seminars, conferences, literary events and cultural activities for students.

Department of Sindhi

2nd Floor, Academic Block

Government Islamia Arts & Commerce College and Post Graduate Studies Centre, Sukkur

Email: department@giaccsuk.edu.pk   |   Phone: +92-333-7146119