Humanities & Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Language Laboratory at IIT Kanpur is a pedagogy driven laboratory which supports various kinds of language teaching activities at the institute.

Of the various language teaching activities conducted in the laboratory, the most important is the Communication Skills course taught at the IIIrd year undergraduate level. The remedial English language course taught at the Ist year level is also partially conducted in the language laboratory. Apart from these courses from the undergraduate curriculum, the laboratory also supports the institute's Foreign Languages Programme. Currently, the programme runs six courses in French, German and Japanese. All the tutorial activities associated with these courses are held in the language laboratory. The laboratory also facilitates the English Conversation classes conducted by the Counselling Service for IIT Kanpur students. The laboratory infrastructure comprises a state-of-the-art Robotel New Smart Class Digital technology housed in the New Core Lab building. The set up provides an advanced language laboratory teaching/learning experience. The Smart Class has fifty six booths for students and a teacher console. The teacher's Control Unit enables the teacher to direct the video, audio, keyboard and mouse signal to any booth. The Students' Terminals allow the students to interact with the teacher.

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New Core Lab 309
Phone: 0512-2596369/6200

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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was established in 1960 along with other departments of Science and Engineering. With an intent to sharpen the creative talents of the students and to help them evolve as better leaders and decision- makers, the institute allocated more than fifteen percent of the total UG course credits to HSS courses.
The Department has twenty-nine faculty members who teach a range of courses in English, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Many faculty members of HSS actively participate in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Design (M. Des.) and co-supervise students of other departments as well. Besides teaching, the faculty members are involved in thesis supervision of Ph.D. scholars working in different areas...

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-Prof. Mini Chandran

Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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