The Department of English believes that besides studies students should also be involved in extra -curricular activities which will enhance their natural skills. With this vision in mind the department has different clubs. Each club is headed by a General Secretary and consists of a convener in each supported by some members along with an advisory council. The Department of English, UAP encourages a broad range of academic and non-academic activities to enhance students’ life-long skills.
Apart From the Central Clubs monitored by DSW, the Department of English also monitors, organize and coordinate various students’ activities through the following Department Clubs:
Language and Literary Club
Cultural Club
Drama Club
Debate Club
Sports Club
"My creativity is my revolution" - is the motto or slogan of UAPs literary club. A group of young students of UAP who are deeply enthusiastic about literature and literary persona takes part it in its regular activities which include regular reading sessions, study circle, wall magazine and tour to various art galleries and exhibitions. Besides, the club arranges a study tour once in a semester. The club also arranges events on Vocabulary Test, Spelling Test, Reading Test, Essay Writing Competition, Film Review, and Public Speaking Workshop.
Faculty Advisor: Takad Ahmed Chowdhury (advisor), Asst. Professor
The cultural club has already organized several festive occasions comprising of a comedy show, a short play, a news parody, songs, dance performances, mime, poetry recitations through Bashsanto Boron, Farewell Programs of the graduating batch, etc.
Faculty Advisor: Keya Chakrobarty (adviser), Asst. Professor, Mobile:01726844511
To encourage students’ creativity, the Department of English started to patron a drama club since Fall 2016 with the belief that drama is the strong form of communicative art. Students are invited to produce innovative scripts or adaptions from classical texts to perform on stage. Students are rewarded on several criteria such as: best script, best play, best director, best stage planner and best costume design. The program is usually evaluated by the panel of experienced adjudicators. Drama performances provide space for students’ interaction, team work and other self development practices.
Debates are a constructive form of act and participation in these involves expert handling of ideas, knowledge, information, logic, strategy and the use of appropriate language. Students at the Department of English, UAP, are encouraged to participate in English Debate Competitions organized by the Department of English. Recently the DSW also organized debates every semester as a measure to train them to attain fluency of speech and appropriateness of expressions. Students get the opportunity to develop their finer skills of being witty, humorous, satirical and other critical growth through their keen interest to argue gracefully and with learned opinions. The debate topics include burning national/international issues, critical and contemporary issues of practical life, ideological questions, socio-economic, cultural and political matters. These topics are reviewed and discussed with examples, statistical data and commonsense too. Each batch has a representative team of debaters and all the teams participate in several rounds of debate matches fixed by the department.
Faculty Advisors: NellufarYeasmin, Assistant Professor and Md. Abu Shahid Abdullah, Lecturer, Mobile: 01711263219
Keeping in mind that physical education is no less important than intellectual and moral one, the department, under the DSW office, has a club named “An Executive Committee of English Department Sports Club (EDSC)” that organizes different indoor and outdoor games, such as cricket, football, carom board, chess, table-tennis, darts etc. on a regular basis. A Prize Awarding Program is followed where the students are awarded on the basis of their performances. Meetings of the sports subcommittee including Organizing Committee, Games
Co-ordination Sub-committee, Result Sub-committee, Prize Distribution Sub-committee, Anchoring and Banner Sub-committee, Refreshment Sub-committee are held regularly with a vision to arranging needful events, venues and time.
Faculty Advisor: Kazi Amzad Hossain, Lecturer, Mobile: 01723649901