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Master of Arts (MA) in English
When it comes to pursuing your Master of Arts (MA) degree, the choice of institution can shape your academic journey profoundly. Kathmandu Model College (KMC) offers a unique blend of advantages that make it an exceptional choice for MA aspirants.
Our MA program stands out for its comprehensive curriculum, encompassing diverse fields like world literature, language, history, culture, sociology, psychology, international relations, and environmental studies. Beyond the core courses, KMC provides the flexibility to customize your academic path, with options in language, literature, rhetoric, and humanities. This curriculum is firmly rooted in the enduring principles of humanities education, nurturing not only humanistic values but also critical thinking and essential communication skills, vital for both academic and professional success.
Furthermore, our program places a strong emphasis on writing, explores the intricacies of literary genres, delves into interpretive and cultural theories, and encourages interdisciplinary and comparative study. These distinctive features enrich your academic experience and equip you with a versatile skill set adaptable to a dynamic world.
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Program Objective
The primary objective of the Master of Arts (MA) in English program is to provide students with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary education in the fields of literature, language, culture, and critical thinking. This program aims to:
Foster Critical Thinking
To cultivate in students the ability to think critically, question assumptions, and analyze ideas, texts, and cultural phenomena with depth and nuance.
Develop Effective Communication Skills
To enhance students’ written and verbal communication skills, enabling them to express their thoughts and ideas clearly and persuasively in various contexts.
Promote Interdisciplinary Exploration
To encourage students to explore connections between English literature, language, and culture with other disciplines, fostering a holistic understanding of the world.
Offer Customization and Specialization
To provide students with the flexibility to customize their education by offering a wide range of elective courses, allowing them to specialize in areas of their interest.
Emphasize Writing Proficiency
To focus on writing as a core skill, guiding students in academic and creative writing, and ensuring they can effectively convey their ideas through the written word.
Expose Students to Global Perspectives
To introduce students to diverse cultural traditions, texts, and authors, fostering a global perspective on English language and literature.
Prepare Graduates for Multifaceted Careers
To equip graduates with transferable skills that are applicable across various professions, including academia, publishing, journalism, communications, and more.
Encourage Interdisciplinary and Comparative Study
To train students to approach complex issues with an interdisciplinary and comparative mindset, preparing them to tackle real-world challenges that transcend traditional academic boundaries.
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- English
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Facilities
Some of our facilities:
State-of-the-art physical and IT-infrastructure of the College provide an important platform for all academic endeavour. The working environment needs to offer appropriate facilities and equipment for vital teaching and research, whilst also providing the opportunity for engagement, interaction and inspiration. The Kathmandu Model College Complex is at Bagbazzar, in the heart of Kathmandu. It consists of a 12-storey main building and basketball court. It is in close proximity to other KMC institutions and an abundance of easy transportation and shopping options. Kathmandu Model College has … classrooms with a seating capacity of ……. All of the classrooms are fully equipped to provide the faculty with presentation requirements. Our library contains a huge collection of text-books, reference books, newspapers, magazines, new releases, and popular books from national and international publishers. Student also get access to an international e-library free-of-cost. We have an IT lab that provides students and faculty with computers set up for a wide variety of IT-related projects and practicals. Printing and scanning facilities are also available. Additionally, there are over … public PC workstations, located in our Library and elsewhere on the campus, are available to the KMC community, and wireless connectivity is available throughout most of the complex. KMC also includes .. air-conditioned faculty rooms, … conference rooms, .. auditoriums, innovation lab space and spacious roof-top cafeteria. The College has a huge parking facility that strives to meet the parking needs of faculty, staff and visitors. KMC takes the safety and security of its students very seriously and has a CCTV surveillance system installed.
KMC innovation lab is an innovation centre located in the heart of KMC building. Innovation lab provides a collaborative working environment to ideate, test, prototype, and scale breakthrough solutions for humanitarian and developmental challenges. Innovations that are born in Lab are intentionally co-created with the end users.
As educators, we value research and innovation as an integral part of learning. At KMC, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and spawning viable solutions is our core mission. Through our research programs and innovation lab, all of our undergraduates enrich their education through engaging in research and innovation. We aim at becoming a leading research-focused college in Nepal that has a robust research community which explores new intellectual frontiers and benefits society. Research and innovation flourishes in our … departments across the college as in labs, and programs
A centralized and comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS) allows KMC students to personalize and have a satisfying learning experience. It allows for 24/7 access to course materials, evaluation of a student’s academic goals and reporting, collecting, analyzing, storing and archiving data for the College. LMS provides countless ways for faculty members to create engaging lessons and resources, makes teacher-student collaboration and sharing of materials easy, and it automates routine tasks so our lecturers have more time to focus on teaching-learning activities.
Libraries open up windows to the world and inspire students to explore new horizon of knowledge and lend a hand to accomplish the acme of success. At KMC, every student is exposed to the immeasurable world of books to instill the reading habit. Our library is equipped with copious array of bountiful books to gratify the unending quest for knowledge.
The college has a well equipped seminar hall with the capacity of 200 seats with the latest audio and visual aids. The seminar hall is a pivotal space for housing a series of significant educational events, trainings, meetings and workshops.
The college has a well equipped auditorium hall with the capacity of 200 seats with the latest audio and visual aids. The auditorium hall is a pivotal space for housing a series of significant educational events, trainings, meetings and workshops.
The college cafeteria is rather vivacious and tidy. Hygiene and cleanliness are the two most significant grounds on which the meals are prepared and continuously evaluated. The food menu is astutely set for different days across the week in order to best serve the students’ holistic needs for physical and mental growth and development, while carefully avoiding repetitiveness.
Living away from home sweet home is a daunting task for anyone but KM Censures the smooth transition of the students from home life to hostel life by endowing a natural and secure abode and providing a homely care to each students. Our hostel facilities encompass separate wings for boys and girls and are kept under supervision of dedicated and caring wardens for boys and girls respectively. We provide remarkable hostel facilities that ensure hygienic living conditions and cater to all round growth and development of students. Our hostel rooms are spacious, clean and comprises of all the modern facilities and amenities that helps in making the hostel environment jovial and compatible for the students. The hostellers are bound to follow a prescribed to-do list which is strictly adhered to bring about discipline in their daily routine and create a healthy routine for a lifetime. Along with regular academic classes the weekends are scheduled with unlimited fun and frolic with indoor and outdoor games, cinema, cultural programmes, adventure outings, picnics, leisure hours and so on.
Students must get a break from the monotony of regular classes and take part in sports to get healthy experiences outside the classroom. Sports teach life lessons like discipline, responsibility, self-confidence, accountability, and teamwork. Partaking in college sports keeps students physically and mentally fit and offers a means for students to more meaningfully engage with their education, increase academic performance. Playing sports helps the brain grow and makes it work better. KMC colleges offer the opportunity for every student to take part in sports. The college avails basketball table tennis chess and badminton during the break time. It also conducts regular sport competitions.
KMC Students can access to their academic result anywhere with in 4 days of result publication with a SMS service. We also alert Guardians about any emergency notices through SMS.
Today, nearly …… of KMC students pursue a degree in business management. The Student Development Centre (SDC) at KMC prepares our business management students before they start as a working professional. Embracing the functionalities of a Management Lab, SDC incubates would-be management professionals for the 21st-century job market. The center helps KMC students to have a profound educational experience and thrive through offering conferences, seminars, talkshows, workshops, campus development programs. We believe these signature learning experiences adequately prepare our students for successful careers. This uses innovative and interactive methods of learning to enhance the holistic development of students.”
The counseling classes at KMC aim to enable students to cope up any personal and emotional problems or study difficulties that may be affecting them. KMC conducts regular counseling classes to help students gain understanding and insight into any difficulties they may be experiencing, to develop emotional resilience and put into effect real change, enabling them to fulfill your academic and personal potential. KMC also provides motivational classes so as to enhance cognitive processing of students which lead to augmented effort and energy. Through guest speakers, motivational speakers and counselors we motivate our students to pursue a task with enthusiasm evading lackluster.
Admission Criteria
- Students seeking admission in Social Work must have secured at least D+ in all subjects in Grade 11 and Grade 12.
OR - Passed + 2 or Intermediate or PCL from TU or from any other institution recognized by TU with a minimum of 45% marks.
- Only those students who have passed the interview will be eligible for an admission
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Why MA at KMC?
We are aware of the difficulties involved in deciding on the best university-level program and the best location for study. To help you make an informed choice about your future, KMC gives you all the information you need. A few reasons to choose us are:
- Driven by aspiring young and business industry experienced professionals
- Interdisciplinary focus and world-class infrastructure
- Focus on practical business case studies with interactive sessions
- Strong business networking KMC community and placement chances
- Proud and long-standing reputation in the market and business community
- Inclusive and diverse student groups to build business leadership qualities
- Curriculum designed to create an ability to directly join the job market after completing studies
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What Does MA Degree Stand For?
A master’s degree comes in two primary forms: Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Science (MS), both offering advanced knowledge beyond a bachelor’s degree. The main distinction lies in their focus areas: MA emphasizes arts and humanities, whereas MS leans toward scientific and technical subjects.
What are the subjects for MA in Nepal?
Universities and colleges typically grant Master of Arts (MA) degrees in subjects such as Languages, History, Geography, Philosophy, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences. Interestingly, some of these subjects can also be offered as Master of Science (MS) degrees, resulting in an overlap between the two. This means that students may have the option to pursue a particular subject as either an M.A. or an M.Sc., depending on their academic interests and institution’s offerings.
How long is the MA course in Nepal?
To earn an MA degree in English, students must complete a total of 20 courses, with each course carrying 3 credits. These courses are spread across 4 semesters. The syllabus is structured into two categories: “required” and “electives.” While the “required” courses are mandatory, students have the flexibility to choose courses from the “elective” groups. Each semester, students are expected to complete 5 courses, amounting to a total of 15 credits.
What is the difference between Master of Arts and postgraduate?
A Postgraduate Diploma usually takes about a year for full-time students to finish, whereas a Master’s degree typically requires 18 to 24 months of full-time study. This extended duration for a Master’s program is because it covers a more extensive range of course modules compared to a Postgraduate Diploma, thus demanding a longer commitment from students.
How many years is a masters degree?
On average, most master’s degree programs span approximately two years from the beginning to completion, which is roughly half the duration of earning a bachelor’s degree.
What is the fee for MA in Nepal?
The cost of pursuing an MA in English program affiliated with Tribhuvan University (TU) at the Central Campus typically falls in the range of NRs. 50,000 to 60,000.
