Languages and Literature

Chairperson: Deborah Goodwyn, Box 9072, Room 300T Colson Hall, Phone: 524-5489

Description of the Department

The Department offers a wide range of courses in the fields of English, English Education, Foreign Languages, Drama, and Speech. The Department offers an undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in English. For the English major, there is also a minor in Secondary Education that may lead to a teaching endorsement. In addition, the Department offers minors in Africana Studies, Drama, English, Film Studies, Writing, Spanish, French, and German.

Mission of Department

The Department of Languages and Literature’s programs support the University’s mission by extending Department resources to all who strive for academic excellence. The Department is dedicated to the promotion of knowledgeable, perceptive, and humane citizens secure in their self-awareness, equipped for personal fulfillment, sensitive to the needs of others, and committed to assuming productive roles in a challenging global society.

Department programs and courses provide opportunities for scholarship in the discipline of English, African American heritage, and global studies, as well as for students who are diversely prepared in communication skills. 

• To develop students’ competence in language skills, especially writing and speaking effectively

• To develop students' knowledge about language, the literature of various periods and peoples, and the processes of critical thinking and writing.

• To prepare students for teaching, further study and research, and other careers involving analytical, critical, and communicative proficiencies.

• To provide students the broad intellectual background necessary for personal enrichment and engaged citizenship.

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