Languages and Literature
Chairperson: Deborah Goodwyn, Box 9072, Room 300T Colson Hall, Phone: 524-5489
English Faculty
Professors: Rita Dandridge, Sheikh Kamarah, Osayimwense Osa, Maxine Sample, Freddy Thomas
Associate Professors: Diann Baecker, Lillie Bailey, Bennis Blue, M. Lynn Byrd, Donna Crawford, Rodger Doss, Deborah Goodwyn, Kay Heath, John R. Holmes, Gary MacDonald, Michael McClure
Assistant Professors: Aishia Bailey, Willie Hobbs, Pamela Reed
Languages Faculty
Professor: Carl Garrott
Associate Professors: Shaheed Coovadia, Mohamed S. Kabia, Hildegard Rissel, Sylviane Townsel
Description of the Department
The Department offers a wide range of writing, language-study, and literature courses in the fields of English, English Education, French, Spanish, and German; and courses in Drama and Speech. The Department offers undergraduate programs of study that lead to the Bachelor of Arts degree in English or the Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a teaching endorsement, and a graduate program of study that leads to the Master of Arts degree in English. The Department also offers minors in Africana Studies, English, Writing, Literature through Film, Spanish, French and German.
Mission of Department
The Department of Languages and Literature's programs and functions support the University's mission by welcoming and extending Department resources to all who strive for academic excellence, whatever their national, racial, ethnic or religious affiliation. The Department, in conjunction with the University, is ultimately dedicated to the promotion of knowledgeable, perceptive, and humane citizens secure in their self-awareness, equipped for personal fulfilment, sensitive to the needs of others, and committed to assuming productive roles in a challenging and ever changing global society.
Department programs and courses provide particular support for Mission principles concerned with advanced scholarship in the discipline of English, the African-American heritage, globally oriented studies, and students who are diversely prepared in communication skills.
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To develop students’ competence in language skills, especially writing and speaking effectively
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To develop students' knowledge about language, the literature of various periods and peoples, and the processes of critical thinking and writing.
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To prepare students for teaching, further study and research, and other careers involving analytical, critical, and communicative proficiencies.
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