The Department was established in November 2005. At present it has two Professors and one Associate Professor. The Department is offering P.G.(M.A. Kannada), PhD programmes. The Department of Kannada Language and Translation Studies is the only one full pledged Department which exists in Andhra Pradesh and also outside Karnataka.

The Department of Kannada Language and Translation Studies wants to achieve excellence both in teaching and research. It is the cherished goal of the Department to break new grounds by designing innovative techniques in teaching and research which are hardly attempted elsewhere as the most of the students joining the courses come from rural backgrounds and from regional medium.

The  uniqueness of this University is to upheld by the Kannada Language and Translation Studies through its teaching and research programmes as well as other publication works.The M.A, and Ph.D Programmes of this Department have to have a Dravidian cultural content for which special core courses are being prepared.

It is to be noted that Kannada study is no more the age old study of Kannada language in a traditional sense. Hence here we have Classical Literature, Prosody, Grammar, Indian and Western Poetics, Folklore, Dravidian Linguistics, Tribal Studies, theatre, textual Criticism, Literary Criticism, Epigraphy, Religion, Linguistics, Manuscriptology along with Translation Studies, Dravidian Philosophy, Dravidian Literature, Dravidian culture, Research Methodology, Cultural Studies, Women Studies, Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, Postmodernism and so on.Therefore, the Programmes of the Department will contain Dravidian cultural content, special courses, which will form the core of the curriculum, are designed with the help of the Board of  Studies.

It is the obligation of the Department to provide the students with appropriate insights into these areas so that they will be successful in the present competitive world. The Department aims to provide comparative perspectives of learning by juxtaposing, comparing, contrasting literatures across cultures and languages.

One of the main objectives of the Department is to orient the students towards the regional and local cultures by incorporating Dravidian writing in translations without affecting the conventional canon.

It encourages the students to undertake translation of Indian texts into other languages as an attempt at reaching other corners of the world. Most importantly, as mentioned earlier the Department has to take up, and is willing to take up translation work on a regular basis with well-defined aims.

As it is well-known, the Dravidian University is established with an intention to create links among the Dravidian Languages. In fact, the eighth objective of the University is ‘to translate books of other languages into Dravidian languages and also to translate books from the Dravidian languages into other languages according to the needs’.In consonance with the objectives of the University, the Department, in the forthcoming years undertakes the responsibility of translation and publication of canonical Dravidian language texts into Kannada and Kannada text into other Dravidian languages.