The DSCs are the main focus for students enrolled in an Honours Programme and their academic performance in these courses will depend on their ability to meet stringent standards of reading and interpretative analysis coupled with awareness of genres, literary traditions and cultural movements. DSCs cover a vast range of Ancient and Modern Indian Literatures in Translation and all the significant historical periods of English and American Literature. The DSCs form the Core Component of the Honours Programme and, hence, are compulsory.
Students who choose to graduate with an Honours Degree in English at the end of 3 years will have to complete 18 DSCs (total 72 DSC credits) with 3 DSC papers in each of the 6 semesters. Students who extend their Programme to YEAR 4 to obtain a Research Degree with Honours or an Honours Degree with Minor Specialisation will be required to do 2 additional DSCs with the total count going up to 20 (total 80 DSC credits).

Alongside the DSCs, the DSE courses are included in the Honours component. They form some of the most academically rigorous and complex papers taught to Honours students of English. The DSE courses offered by our College each semester are extremely limited in number and determined on the basis of available faculty expertise and number of classrooms allotted. However, every care is taken by the English Department to ensure that students have the opportunity to explore new areas of the discipline and nurture the creativity required for research. DSEs are crucial in pointing students towards research areas that can be explored in YEAR 4. Forms of Popular Literature, Dystopian Fiction, Literary Theory, French and Russian novels etc. are included in the wide range of DSEs offered by the English Department.

These Elective papers are offered from the 3rd semester onwards. For students who choose to graduate after YEAR 3 with Honours, the requirement of Elective courses is 3 (one in each semester starting from the 3rd or 4th semester,  students have the choice to do either a GE or a DSE in the 3 rdsemester). Students who extend their Programme up to YEAR 4 to obtain an Research Degree with Honours will be required to do an additional 6 DSE courses (3 in 7 th semester and 3 in 8 th semester) alongside a Research Dissertation. One of
these DSE courses in the 7th semester will compulsorily be a Research Methodology course.

GE courses are Interdisciplinary courses offered by each department to students enrolled in disciplines other than their own. These course cover areas that are not covered within the Honours component; yet they open interesting fields of study and research that are at par with the areas taught within the Honours component. GE courses usually have an interface between two or more disciplines. For instance, a typical GE course offered by the English Department will have an interface between Literature and History or Literature, Political Theory and Sociology. Hence, they are courses that will appeal to students enrolled in disciplines like History, Political Science or Sociology. An English Honours student is expected to opt for a GE course offered by any department other than English. The English GE courses are not available to a student of English Honours. An English Honours student may opt for GE courses offered by History/Pol. Science/Economics/Commerce/Hindi/Punjabi or any Science department like Physics/Computer Science/ Electronics/ Chemistry/ Botany or Zoology. There is no limit imposed by the stream that a student may have studied in school. The completion of minimum 7 GE courses in a specific discipline will result in a Minor Specialisation in that particular discipline. The student is then free to pursue a Masters degree Programme in the Minor discipline as well. For example, if a student of English Honours completes minimum 7 GE courses with the Computer Science department, they will be awarded a Minor Specialisation in Computer Science.

The Undergraduate Programme requires a student to complete 6 SEC courses spread across the first 6 semesters (till the completion of YEAR 3). Starting from the 1st semester, a student will be required to do one SEC each semester up to the end of the 6 th semester. The SEC Menu includes a diverse range of applied subjects and disciplines (eg. courses in Communication, Finance, Legal Literacy, Computer Programming and Coding, Data Analysis, Media Studies etc.). An English Honours student can opt for SEC courses offered by the English Department or any other department of their choice. Each SEC course is designed to promote proficiency in a practical set of skills connected to professional life. Hence, every such course involves a great deal of practical activity (in class and occasionally, at home). Students are required to maintain thorough records of their practical exercises (the form will be explained by the teacher concerned) and will be evaluated + graded on this basis.

These Value-Added Courses are designed to sensitise students to diverse facets of Indian Culture and Heritage. Some of them can also aid students in dealing with their troubling emotions and expectations. These courses are expected to orient students to enjoy socially responsible and emotionally healthy, energetic and balanced college life. Entire assessment (IA, CA and final exam) will be marked by the teacher responsible for teaching the course. 4 VAC courses will have to be completed across the four semesters in the first two years of the Programme. Hence, a VAC course will have to be done each semester for the first two years.