Tamil Department

   Instituted in 1972, this was the first department to offer bachelor’s degree in Tamil and General foundation Tamil in Chellammal Women’s College. In the year 1979, master’s degree was also started. The research degree , M Phil was offered from the year 2000. Qualified staff members guide students for their doctoral degree. This is the largest department of the college in terms of student and staff strength. The sanctioned strength of students in the UG classes in 70 , 40 in the PG and 12 in M.Phil. The Ph. D programme in Tamil has been available since 2001 under the part time mode and from the year 2017 the department has also been offering Ph.D. programme in full – time mode.

   The sanctioned strength of teaching staff is 14 with presently 13 permanent professors and one temporary professor. The department library functions in an adjoining room to the Tamil department with a total number of 7000 books purchased with funds from UGC.

   Both in the master’s degree and in the bachelor’s degree, students from the department have been regularly securing the first place in the university examinations. So far 93 PG students and 57 UG students have secured university ranks . During the 22 years Since the inception of the M. Phil Programmes the dissertations of 205 students have been ‘Highly commended’ and 6 students have been awarded Ph.D degree . Presently the department has 24 candidates registered for the Ph.D. programmed under 7 Ph.D. Supervisors of the department.