HOD Message

Dr. Ambreen Tabassum

The Department of Urdu Language & Literature is committed to the promotion and development of the Urdu language and its literature. We are actively contributing to Urdu language and literature education in Pakistan while striving to further enhance our teaching and research standards and establish NUML as an outstanding model of a “University of Languages” in the region. The Department comprises 21 teaching and research faculty members. We offer a number of academic programs, including the newly introduced Bachelor of Science (BS Urdu) program in Urdu Studies. On the research front, the faculty continues its efforts to strengthen research in Urdu language, literature, and applied linguistics. In addition, the Department is devoted to promoting quality academic research in the fields of language and literature. Through the establishment of faculty-level research initiatives, the Department works in coordination with university-level research bodies to develop research teams and strengthen academic publications, with the aim of advancing Pakistan’s national language through high-quality scholarly research. The Department also publishes an Urdu research journal, Daryaft, which was established in 2002. The journal has been included in the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan approved journal list since 2005. Over the years, Daryaft has earned recognition for its academic quality and scholarly contribution to Urdu language and literature research. The journal is indexed in several prestigious national and international databases and indexing services, including DOAJ, Crossref, EBSCO, ISSN, and the Index of Urdu Journals.

Overview

The Department of Urdu Language & Literature has been committed to promote and development of Urdu. We are contributing to the Urdu Language and Literature education in Pakistan. To further enhance our teaching and research standards and establish the NUML as an outstanding model of "university of languages" in the region. We teach a number of programs. The Urdu department provides foreigners students of Functional and BS with different levels of Urdu courses as well. On the research front, the Faculty, in addition to its continued effort in consolidating research strengths in Urdu language and literature and applied linguistics, has been devoting every effort in developing academic research in language and literature with the establishment of the faculty level research, the faculty works with the Universal-level research, pulling together research teams and strengthening academic research. We also publish one Urdu research journal Daryaft. This journals is included in the list of approved research journals of HEC in "Y" category and International database and indexing agencies i.e. MLA directory of periodicals, Ulrich web ProQuest.