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School of Management - NorthCap University
About
The BA English Hons Literature course from The NorthCap University is the Best in Gurugram/ Haryana and will help students become experts in reading, analysing, and discussing written works that inspire them, for a secure and bright career ahead in the domain of Humanities. The aspirants will emerge with a skill set that’s sought after for careers in the arts, publishing, and media. Also, this BA English program will prepare students to develop an international perspective and bring them to par with English Literature students across the globe as they will be able to connect courses in liberal studies disciplines together in unique ways to create an integrated interdisciplinary education. The English Literature element of the course spans hundreds of years of inspiration, from the English Renaissance of the 16th century right up to the present day. Based on the UGC guideline the curriculum covers the cultural, social, historical, and political dimensions of key events and eras that have had a huge impact on today’s civilization. As they complete their Bachelor of Arts degree from NCU, ranked among the top Management Colleges in Delhi NCR, students will be able to study conflicts, empires, disasters, and more, from the medieval period right through to contemporary society.
Objectives
BA (Hons) English program aims to help students to:
- Develop awareness about different cultures, attitudes across various ethnicities through different forms of literature.
- Understand the literatures belonging to various ages and to be able to analyze and interpret the same.
- Acquire sensitivity and creativity in students through study of major genres, styles, forms of literature.
- Focus on developing linguistic skills of students so that they could become efficient copywriters, translators and content writers.
- Enhance research and analytical skills of students which help them to excel at the professional level.
- Prepare students to focus equally on their academics and extra-curricular activities.
Highlights
- The course aims at developing an understanding of the growing discipline of English and promoting skill based education.
- An important goal is to facilitate self-discovery in the students and ensure their enthusiastic and effective participation in responding to the needs and challenges of society.
- The course intends to enable students in developing knowledge and skills to meet day-to-day challenges and work on career opportunities.
- The syllabus has been created keeping in mind the changing nature of the society, educational institutions and the workplace and inculcate the required competencies in students.
- The curriculum complies to the regulatory requirement of UGC.
Programme Outcomes (POs)
- Upon completion of B.A. (Hons), a student will acquire knowledge and skills necessary to obtain a professional position or pursue a post-graduate degree in a variety of fields such as English Literature, Mass Communication, Journalism, Media studies etc. Students will enhance their career prospects by integrating an awareness of sustainability solutions with their domain of specific knowledge.
- The Program will also help the students to:Formulate effective responses to specific interdisciplinary problems.
Connect their personal beliefs to their professional practice.
Prepare themselves for multiple careers and learn other careers not aware of before.
Be Industry ready.
Write and speak professionally for diverse audiences.
Develop key critical thinking skills.
Enhance their creativity level.
Scheme 2022-2023
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Scheme 2021-2024
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Minimum Eligibility Criteria
Bachelor of Arts (BA) – English(Hons.)
10+2 (English Medium) examination conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education or equivalent examination from a recognized board with an overall aggregate 50% and minimum 50% in English.
Seats
| Programme | Seats |
| Bachelor of Arts (BA) – English(Hons.) | 50 |
Financial Assistance
Programme Fee
Bachelor of Arts (BA) – English (Hons.)
For Year 2024-25
Fee Concession cum Scholarship
| % of Scholarship on Tuition Fee | Eligibility (For CBSE as per percentage score in applicable subjects by programme. Normalised Scores will be taken for other Boards with respect to CBSE) |
| 35% | CBSE: 95% and above |
| 25% | CBSE: 90%<= 94.99% |
- Aggregate marks of Best 5 subjects in class XIIth examination conducted by CBSE or equivalent examination from a recognised board will be considered for Scholarship criteria. For Boards other than CBSE, normalised scores as decided by the Admission & Scholarship Committee will be considered for Scholarship criteria.
- Scholarships to be announced and reimbursed only after completion of admissions for AY 2024-25, Students who apply by the cut off date will only be eligible for scholarships. Cut off date will be announced during the admission process.
- There are a limited number of scholarships that will be served only on the basis of merit. If there are higher numbers of students in a particular scholarship bracket, the students in the order of merit will be shifted to the immediately lower bracket.
- Scholarship seats will be reduced on a pro-rata basis of actual enrolment.
- Scholarship not to be offered for any programme with less than 30 enrolments.
- At any point of time during an academic year, a student can avail benefit from one scholarship plan only. Students who once avail any scholarship will not be eligible for any other scholarship.
- The management reserves the right to change the scholarship policy as per their discretion.
- The scholarship will be awarded based on the above criteria at the sole discretion of the Admission and Scholarship Committee.
- 9. Continuation of Admission Scholarship is subject to obtaining CGPA of 8.50 and above on a scale of 10, having no backlog and no case of indiscipline being recorded against the student. Applicable to merit basis students only.
- Students applying with 12th scores of exams held prior to 2024 are not eligible for scholarship.
- Candidates must enrol for the programme by depositing the tuition fee by the given due date in the admission Offer Letter. Should a candidate fail to do so, the candidate shall have no claim over the scholarship. The Scholarship thereafter, shall be passed on to the next eligible candidate.
Other Scholarships
- The Staff must be a confirmed regular employee of The NorthCap University and only two children of Staff can be benefited out of this concession.
- A minimum CGPA of 6.0 and no active backlogs should be there at the time of renewal of this concession.
- In case of backlog courses, the concession will be discontinued for the semester in which students have a pending backlog. The concession can be restarted once the backlog courses are cleared.
- All renewals 2024-25 onwards, will be at 25% Scholarship/ Concession on the Tuition Fee (Also applicable to the existing students of non first year batch)
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FAQs
BA English Honours graduates can find a variety of career opportunities where critical thinking and communication skills which are highly valued. Below listed are some of the BA English Honours Job opportunities:
- Media and Journalism
- Teaching & Research
- Publishing Industry
- HR/ Administration
- Hospitality Industry
- Translators
- Technical Writers
- Civil Services
- Content Developers