Department of Urdu is a major Department, of Govt. College Malappuram. The Dept. is established on 1972.The Dept. is offering BA degree program in Urdu language and literature. It is a course in arts stream and aims at equipping the learners linguistically competent to meet their personal, Professional and academic needs. The main objective of the course is to provide the learners ample exposure to the functional side of different aspects of the Urdu Language which helps the students to acquire a commendable level of the mastery over language. During the program the department is giving training to the students to develop their language skills. Department also encourages our students to participate extracurricular Activities. We do give emphasis to presentation skills, writing skills and encourage students appearing for state and national level examinations. In addition to it we encourage and help the students of other departments to study the Urdu Language as a new one, such as open course, Common Course. The Dept. supports the students to enhance their skills in interactive programs and their professionalism, personality and creativity and extensive academic enrichment. The Department observes the important days like World Urdu day on the occasion of birth day of famous Poet Dr. Allama Muhammed Iqbal and Sarvar Day on the birth day of Famous Urdu poet of Kerala Syed Muhammed sarvar in every year. The
Department also conducts cultural Programmes, Seminars, workshops etc. with the support of national and state level agencies or organizations.
Vision
Urdu is one of the prolific and creative languages of India and the department of Urdu, Govt. college Malappuram has always been active for the development and progress of Urdu as a language and literature in Kerala .the department aims at offering highest standards in Urdu.
Mission
• To inculcate positive human values through the study of Urdu literature
• To create awareness our valuable and rich literary heritage
• To give an insight into the unity of mankind on emotional level
• To provide quality education at comparatively lower expense
• To create deep commitment to society
• To enable them to communicative effectively in Urdu in all situations.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT
- The Department giving emphasis in to the Inter language translation works and studies. In every year we assign some literary works of other language to translate in to Urdu. On the behalf of the department, we translated more than200 selected Malayalam short stories in to Urdu. The Department aims to publish with the financial support of any national or state agencies.
- Majority of the students are already got admission in many central and state Universities of different states for higher studies.
- Majority of the students are placed govt. and non-government institution as assistant professors, higher secondary teachers, high school assistants, primary teachers, journalist, technical assistants etc.