M.Phil Urdu

MPhil in Urdu, at the ISP Multan, is a 02-year program specifically designed to upskill the students who harbor a passion for Urdu Language, Literature, and Linguistics. The program follows the mission to encourage the learners to read and analyze a wide range of creative and critical texts critically. Being highly interdisciplinary in nature, the program enables students to connect their knowledge of Urdu language, literature, and linguistics with several areas of social sciences such as philosophy, psychology, globalization, sociology, etc. The MPhil Urdu allows the students a considerable degree of choice, both in pursuing their area of interest and in selecting a topic of their curiosity for writing their dissertations in the final semesters. Thus, the intensive and extensive focused learning and practice that the students experience during their two-year stay at the Department fully concoct them for pursuing advanced studies and an array of professions and career opportunities. MPhil Urdu aims to investigate a wide range of issues around language in contemporary society. Among these, the most prominent issues include second and foreign language education. The students are encouraged to work in the areas of corpus linguistics, bilingualism, and multilingualism, child language development, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, intercultural communication, language teaching, the effectiveness of A/V Aids in classroom teaching and learning, trends in post-modern Literature, critical theories to be applied on text, neo-classicism, and translational studies.