Indian Institute of Technology-MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Winter School 2010-Kharagpur
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is going to hold MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Winter School on Critical Thinking, Reading & Writing Skills: Learning to Think, Read and Write the Modernist Way for the year 2010
This course aims to enhance the existing critical thinking, reading and writing skills of the faculty of English in various AICTE sponsored Engineering colleges and other Institutes of excellence across India by enabling them to explore the unique fashion of thinking, reading and writing practiced by the modern continental thinkers. These explorations shall yield new insights, which shall open up exciting horizons in Literary and Communication Studies enabling the faculty of English/Humanities from various Institutes to reorient their current strategies of knowledge-dissemination
In order to open up new sites in thinking, reading and writing, this course has been divided into four sections. The first section shall make an attempt to enable the participants to re-locate the genesis of critical thinking within and across significant historical events. The second section intends to interrogate contemporary issues through the lens of modern critical thinking. The third section intends to provide reading exercises from modernist perspectives, and the final section explores new possibilities in modern critical writing.
Date:
18-24 February 2010
Venue:
IIT Kharagpur
Eligibility of the participants:
This is a highly specialized course meant for faculty from various AICTE approved technical and Management institutes, and for other institutes across India
Note: The course aims to accommodate approximately 50 participants
How to Apply:
Interested participants should download the completed application form and submit the hard copy to the coordinator at the mailing address mentioned below.
Dr Saswat. S. Das, Coordinator
STC on Literary and Critical Theory
Dept. of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur-721302, West-Bengal, India.
Tel: 03222-283611 (O), 03222-283610 (Res.)
Mobile: 09434019044
Fax: 03222-255303/282280
Email: Saswat2001@yahoo.com
Important Dates:
- Last date for receiving applications: 1 February 2010
- Intimation to participants: 7 February 2010
- Course Dates: 18-24 February 2010
Source:
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/news/showannouncedescr.php?newsid=425
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