SPRING 2023 DEH CURRICULUM INTEGRATION SHOWCASE
On April 13, 2023, the Department of English and Humanities, ULAB, held the Spring 2023 Curriculum Integration (CI) Program Showcase. The main objective of this event was to showcase the best projects selected by the faculty members of the participating courses. These projects were thoroughly evaluated by the judges of the event, who then announced three winners towards the end of the program.
The event with welcome speeches from Professor Shamsad Mortuza, Special Advisor to the Board of Trustees, and Professor Kaiser Haq, Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, who shared their remarkable words of experience and wisdom as encouragement to the participants. After that, all the submitted projects were showcased. The projects were quite varied in nature, from scrapbook projects and video projects to presentations and paintings. Each held excellent significance in relation to the theme of the semester, “The Production, Representation, and Reimagining of Spaces in Language and Literature.”
The judges for the day, Professor Kaiser Haq, Ms. Nadia Rahman, Assistant Professor, and Mr. Sheikh Nahiyan, Lecturer, skillfully evaluated each project to shortlist the winners. As the program approached its end, the emcee invited Ms. Arifa Ghani Rahman, Associate Professor and Head of the Department, who shared her words of appreciation for all the participants as well as the coordinators of the event, Ms. Mehek Chowdhury and Mr. Sheikh Nahiyan, Lecturers, DEH. Following this, the judges announced the winners of the Spring 2023 CI program. The winners received monetary prizes for their projects and hard work.
The winning team comprised Joye Florence Rozario (Batch 222) and Rushda Humaira (Batch 222) for their project on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” from the course, “Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction” (Section 2). The course teacher was Ms. Samirah Tabassum, Lecturer, DEH.
The first runner up team comprised Rowjatun Jannat (Batch 212), Rabeya Rahman (Batch 183), Faiza Imam Hridika (Batch 212), Nafisa Tasnim (Batch 212), Lamia Faiza (Batch 212), Bushra Binte Zahed (Batch 191), Roksana Akter (Batch 193), and Saika Bintey Reza (Batch 212) for their project, “Dhaka” as a parody of Blake’s “London” from the course, “Romantic Poetry.” The course teacher was Prof. Shamsad Mortuza.
The second runner up was Md. Sorif Hossain (Batch 201) for his original research on curse words from the course “Sociolinguistics” taught by Dr. Rafi Saleh.
The event was hosted by Mubashshira Tasnim Mahmud (Batch 193).
Report by Sajia Afroza Khan (201013057)
