Capacity Building
Mission
The Department aims to provide opportunities for experiential learning which entails a hands-on approach to learning alongside class room teaching. Experiential learning makes learning an interactive experience that moves beyond the classroom and strives to bring more involved ways of learning.
With this objective, several initiatives have been taken by the Department:
- The Department organises visits to the museums where the students can observe and appreciate the cultural heritage of our country. The students participated in ‘March to Freedom,’ which was a special event organised by DAĞ within the campus of the Indian museum which displayed through rare posters and photographs, stages in our country’s struggle for independence.
- Students’ seminars are organised every year on varied themes that help the students to delve deeper into subjects beyond the syllabus, initiating in them analytical skills, develop confidence and help improve their communication skills.
- The Department encourages Walks that gives students a closer understanding of local history. It enables students to understand and appreciate our colonial heritage and kindle interest in unexplored histories that lie embedded in almost every nook and corner of a city as old as Kolkata.
Vision
The Department believes that experiential learning enables students to read closely varied aspects of history which eventually will help them to build an analytical mind to understand and appreciate history. This would encourage them to pursue further research on local histories or themes of interest and thus prepare them for higher studies.
Reports are arranged below in a chronological order.
