Philosophy is one of the Oldest Subject of Arts Department. This Subject is taught in all the Colleges under Vidyasagar University. Philosophy is taught as a General Course since the inception of our College. There are many branches in the subject, such as Cosmology, Ontology, Philosophy of mind, epistemology and axiology, by studying these branches well, students gain Comprehensive knowledge about the world and life. Attempts to realize the manifestation, from and ideal of the whole being. Makes a logical inquiry into the world and in life.

Keeping the above view in mind our department try-

• To provide all information regarding the scope and opportunities of this
• To impart the lessons in such a way that the students feel they always surrounded by economic phenomenon in their day-to-day life.
• To make students more equipped with this subject by taking class seminars, class test and by completion of syllabus in due time.
• To make the knowledge perfect and matured and attain finality
• To work as consultants/mentors by the teachers to help the students to fulfill their dream and to motivate them to become ideal human being.
• To make the students more disciplined and punctual, the teachers act as friend, philosopher and
• To encourage students to take part in extracurricular activities such as sports, NSS, fine arts, music and other cultural competitions.

Though the admission in the department is done on merit basis, but keeping in view the concept of globalization, the age of electronic media, the best utilization of human resources and social need of the day, students hailed from underprivileged class of this district, have been given special consideration during admission. Apart from this, students having distinction in sports, fine arts, music and students hailing from the adjoining area of the locality of the college, get opportunity to take higher education in this college. The complete admission procedure is online and it adheres to the rules and regulations of Vidyasgar University and the Higher Education Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.

The infrastructure facilities of our department is presented below

• No separate departmental class room for lack of space.
• One ICT enabled class room
• No separate departmental library but central library caters to the needs of the students.

Year wise Student enrolment (General) during 2019-20 to 2023-24

Academic Performance of the Students:

The performance of the students in final examination for the last five years is given in the following table–

For teaching purpose, the most common method, used by the departmental teachers, is chalk and talk. The departmental teachers use power point presentations, arrange movie and documentary shows. We have one smart class room and other class rooms. Apart from delivering lectures and distributing class notes, students are given different web links to collect study materials (YouTube, Digital Library & Google Classroom). Department prepares a semester wise lesson plan for proper teaching and to complete the allotted syllabus in due time. Students are also encouraged to participate in class seminar and group discussions on a regular basis. As a part of Internal Assessment (10 mark for each Honours & General paper) we take 2 class tests for each honours paper and 2 class test for each General paper.

The Students of this Stream would be enlightened and enriched themselves after completion of the above said course by exercising their rationality by the learners.

• May develop their thinking ability or thought or reasoning.
• To have an overview of the current state of knowledge in a given field and to look for the solution to philosophical problems in Contemporary time.
•  To have analytical and critical thinking skills.
•  To understand the nature of mind matter, language, knowledge and reality.
•  To know own self and the factual world as in true sense.

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Students pursuing Ph.D./completed Ph.D. from different Institutions

Students Qualified NET/SET

Student Progression in Higher Education

Employment of students

All teachers regularly participate and present papers in different national and international seminars and conferences. They also regularly publish their research paper in various journals or book chapters. Students are also encouraged to publish their papers in reputed journals.

Teachers Pursuing PhD

Teachers Publication

Involvement of teachers in different sub-committees

Our department occasionally organise national and state level seminar/webinar. The details ofcurrently organised State level webinar is given below.

1. Commencement of honours
2. To open departmental
3. To introduce student exchange programme with other
4. We are planning to organize seminars, extended lectures, excursions.

1. Strength: Disciplined and sincere students.
2. Weakness: Less student strength, insufficient fulltime faculty,
3. Opportunity: Equipped computer lab, ICT class room and good collaboration with the faculty of other institutions.
4. Challenge: To fill up full intake capacity, to orient them to get placed in the right position in the society