Surendranath College

About

Surendranath College is an undergraduate college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1884 by the nationalist leader and scholar Surendranath Banerjee. For much of its history it was known as Ripon College, named for the British Viceroy Lord Ripon, but in 1948-1949 it was renamed for its founder. Swami Vivekananda delivered his first address in Calcutta from the rostrum of this college on his return from Chicago after his famous deliverance at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. The Journey of Department of Zoology dates back to the year 1959. One of the pioneer departments in this college to have an honours course.

Departmental Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/snczoology/home

Distinctiveness

1. The Journey of Department of Zoology dates back to the year 1959.
2. One of the pioneer departments in this college to have an honours course.
3. It’s a DBT star department.
4. Department receives funding from both BOOST and STAR in a single academic year.
5. Collaboration with IIT BOMBAY.
6. A well-furnished animal specimen museum having a diverse collection of animal species from different ecological habitats, several preserved rare specimens, skeletal structures, corals and taxidermy collections, providing the students an opportunity to know about the animal kingdom through a visionary learning and understanding of the different animal species.
7. A spacious Department having 3 laboratories, 3 classrooms (out of them, 2 ICT enabled air conditioned) , 1 seminar room, 1 seminar library,1instrument room ,1store room , 1 Teacher’s room and an office for HOD. Two digitally smart classrooms with well-equipped infrastructure for imparting better, detailed and picturesque illustration of the academic/curricular topics to the students. An instrument room with all the required instruments for the demonstration and illustration of practical academic/curricular topics to the students, providing them with a hand-on experience in the operation of the instruments. The instruments present in the instrument room are – Binocular microscope, Incubator, Compound microscopes, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis apparatus, Protein Gel Electrophoresis apparatus (SDS-PAGE), Histological staining apparatus (Vials, Trays, Hematoxylin, Eosin ), Instruments for the Ecological experiments (burettes, conical flasks, beakers, pipettes, BOD bottles).
8. Study tour and Field trips conducted by the department for the exposure of students to the diverse animal species and their ecological habitats in nature.
9. A departmental library for the students to have a good collection of books to read and borrow to enrich themselves with the academic/curricular topics to enhance their subject concepts and dept.
10. Involving students in different extra-curricular activities like – Student’s Seminar programs, Writing of Review articles, publishing departmental e-Magazine to encourage students to write and publish articles of their topic of interest, organizing Intra/Inter departmental Quiz competitions among the students to exercise and widen their horizon of knowledge and thinking.