Loreto College, Kolkata

Department of History

The Department of History, Loreto College is one of the oldest departments of this celebrated institution. The Department’s approach towards the discipline is very comprehensive with intensive and extensive emphasis on facts, historiography and analysis of India and the world. The Department is attuned to the changing needs of education and pedagogy and gives utmost importance to active learning in the form of discussions, presentations, seminars, talks by eminent professionals and academics.

Enhancing the research skills of the students and encouraging them to engage with issues of the past and their links to the present forms an important focus for the Department. The pedagogy of the department includes lectures, group and individual assignments, tutorials, extensive use of audio-visual aids, debates and panel discussions. Academic excursions are undertaken under the supervision of the faculty outside college hours to help engage the students with the curriculum in the material realm. Regular student evaluations are made on the basis of class and home assignments, tutorials, project work, quizzes as well as college and university examinations.

Courses offered by the Department comprise the 4 year Honours Degree Course and the 3 year Multidisciplinary Degree Course (under CCF 2022) of the University of Calcutta.

The Department has been organising an annual inter-collegiate academic event Historia since 2017. This comprises a keynote address by an eminent academician, student paper presentations followed by a debate on a selected theme. The Department also offers a Certificate Course on Heritage sensitising the students towards the need to sustain and preserve our tangible and intangible heritage. Such multifarious activities contribute to making the Department dynamic.