The Department of Postgraduate Social Work is established in the year 2013 with a vision of crafting professional social workers who are dedicated to the service of their fellow human beings and achieve excellence in their walks of life’s through which the mission of Nanjil Catholic College of Arts and Science, Kaliyakkavilai, become more visibly accomplished. Social work Department has expanded its horizons of training by starting with Pre-Doctoral Course in the year 2017 and Doctoral programme in the year 2018 with respectively.
The goal of the social work programme is to educate students in advanced social work practice and leadership roles. The department has adopted villages continuously in collaboration with NGO’s and industries for community development. The department focuses on strengthening social work research and community extension work. It is started with an initial strength of two faculty members, two guest faculty members and 8 students. The Masters of Social Work course is a program of two years of full-time university-level study. It aims to prepare students for effective professional practice as social workers in the social and community services sector. The department of social work focuses on two specializations namely Human Resource Management and Medical and Psychiatry.
The department of social work has always tried to enhance the zeal of competence among the faculty by encouraging them to undergo training, workshops and publish research work at national and international level. Besides it has incorporated innovative teaching and learning practices (Pedagogic) along with improving the didactic classroom teaching, in the form of supplementary field visits, guest lectures, conclaves, summit, seminars, workshop and symposium, whereby stalwarts in social science and field practitioners have been invited to interact. At present Department has four full-time faculty members and one guest lecturer out of which one faculty member has approved as a Research Guide by MSU for social work discipline.
Now student’s strength is 29 in I MSW, 20 in II MSW, 6 in M.phil and 8 in PhD. The Department has produced four gold medals out of the five batches in the university examinations. Department has plans to start a certificate course in Counseling and Career Guidance in the near future.
Social Work practicum prepares students for professional Social Work practice in various settings such as Communities, Hospitals, Clinics, Counseling centres, Non-Government Organisations, industries and the Government departments concerned with welfare and development (social welfare, rural development, urban development, women and child development and local self-governance). It prepares students to work in individuals, groups and communities by performing roles of counselors, facilitators and activists. It also seeks to equip them with knowledge and experience to undertake advocacy and networking to promote change in social policy. The Personnel Management and Industrial Relations program with its basic grounding in social work aims at preparing candidates to perform the human relations functions within the corporate and civil society organisations with a more humane face.
Department of UG Mathematics is established in the year 2012. M.Sc established in the year 2014 and Mphil is established in the year 2017. The vision of the department is “Strives to work towards a holistic empowerment of students via education to achieve a society of equal status between poor and rich pupils”. The mission of the department is ”To promote students education at all levels, to impart education of international standard”. At present, the department has 8 members as the teaching faculty.
The Department of Mathematics is one of the important departments in the college. It has a fully equipped department, with a library that has a collection of about 150 books and it subscribes 3 mathematical journals. The department strives to develop itself into a centre of excellence in mathematical teaching and research. Department faculty members have presented twenty research papers in various national/ international conferences and they have published twenty research papers in international journals. Six students got government placement after completing their undergraduate degrees. We, motivate our students by conducting various activities and year wise national conference and workshops. Quiz programme and debate is also conducted to improve the overall development. Year-wise exposure and extension activities refresh the minds of students before the university examinations. Mentoring and counseling for advanced learners and remedial teaching for slow learners help the students to achieve their goal. Parents meetings ensure the support of the parents to enhance student development and enrich the faculties involvement to develop their abilities.
The Department of Malayalam is established in the year of 2012 The Department of Malayalam handle Part I Malayalam for more than 150 students of 1st and 2nd year in Science, Commerce and Arts groups. Within a short period of 8 years, the department has brought several academic and cultural achievements.
The classroom teaching is made lively through, ICT, Group discussion, peer teaching, discussions, and teacher-student interaction. Intensive coaching and training for advanced learners, remedial coaching for slow learners and continues evaluation examinations were arranged exclusively for students to prepare them for university ranks.
Intimate relationship exists between students and teachers. The tutorial hours are effectively used for guidance and counselling, as the majority of the students come from socially and financially backward sector. On the whole, the activities of the Malayalam Department are intended to make learning and teaching as an interesting experience to the students and the faculty. The success of these efforts is truly reflected in the excellent academic results.