I would like to do B.A. in Cultural Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University so I want to get idea about its Teaching faculty . Would you please provide me detailed information of School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies at JNU so I will check for Education Quality that it imparts ?

The School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies was established in 1969 and has come out in India and abroad as a major centre for teaching and research in Languages, Literatures and Cultures of India, Asia and Europe.

The school first initiated the study of mainly European and some Asian languages in its 5 year integrated B.A./M.A. programmes and part-time Certificate and Diploma courses.

Now, there are two-year post graduate and research programmes in English, Hindi, Linguistics, and Urdu. Besides, research programmes are available in philosophy and semiotics.

In major modern European languages French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Persian and Arabic-the school offers under graduate, post-graduate and research programmes focussing on languages, Literatures, translation, interpretation and culture studies.

There are post graduate and research programmes in English, in Linguistics, in Hindi and in Urdu and research facilities in Semiotics. It also organises Certificate and Diploma programmes in some foreign languages such as Italian, Mongoiian, Portuguese, Bhasa Indoneasia, Pushtu and Urdu.

It is the only school in India that offers a B.A. programme in Korean language. Besides the foreign languages and literatures, study and research in Indian languages and literatures, including English is also major focus.

At present these programmes exist only in English, Hindi and Urdu, but it likes to add other Indian languages in a phased manner, perhaps beginning with Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil and Marathi.

Its academic and research activities is provided by the Group of Philosophy which focuses in its programmes on the origin and development of philosophy within the framework of specific socio-historical contexts and conditions.

It has its own journal, "Journal of the School of Languages" (JSL), which has published significant research on literature's, languages, comparative studies, translation and semiotics on themes that cut across language boundaries and enable an exploration of the whole problematic of inter and intra cultural communication.

Contact Detail:
Centre of German Studies
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067