Mission of the Department:
Teaching Urdu (popular language of sub-continent) at different academic levels.Offering BA (4 years), M.A (1 year) M.Phil (2 Years) and Ph.D (3 years) programme in Urdu in order to promote comparative studies, research activities and awareness among the scholars.Teaching comparative studies of languages: Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Persian and English and the prominent poets and writers of Sub-continent.To enhance the skills of communication through writing and speaking among the students and to encourage them in participating research and analytical studies.To regularly arrange inter-year sports competition, debates, cultural program, seminar lectures program, workshop and other co-curricular and extra- curricular activities.
Vision of the Department
Language is the main source of communication and expression of ideas and thoughts of the people and literature is the most effective tool to disclose a person's emotions and feelings vastly that represents the environment and society around the person at large. This department wishes to develop and enhance language ability in the students and to promote literary interest in creating and expressing their feeling and emotions in their writings.The Department of Urdu, University of Dhaka teaches the students values, ethics, morality and humanity through Urdu literature.To develop linkage program with the Urdu Departments of various universities of Asia, Europe, Africa and America Continents.Formation of the Department to link with the national, international communities and neighbouring countries languages.Developing the skills of the students through relevant courses outside of the Department.