The English, Speech & Foreign Language
Departmental Pages
The Department of
English, Speech & Foreign Languages draws on the resources of its
diverse faculty and staff to offer a variety of services to its
students. We offer a series of writing, literature, foreign
language, and other courses for non-majors and majors, as well as
English language courses for international students. In addition, we
offer several programs of study, including
minors in English and Spanish,
teacher certification,
Bachelor's and
Master's degrees in English, and a
Ph.D. in Rhetoric. Our activities in our classes,
in the
Write Site, and in our
organizations, reflect our commitment to
preparing and empowering students for active engagement in our
society's discourses.
Whether through the core
curriculum or through work towards the degrees offered by the
department, the courses and activities in our department are
designed to provide students with the opportunity to understand and
engage ethnically and culturally diverse discourses. We strive to
help our students develop skills in written and oral communication,
as well as in critical thinking,
so that they may effectively
and responsibly engage these discourses, not only in our courses,
but in all their university courses and beyond their time in
college. We challenge our students, even in our first year
composition courses, to recognize the value of their own voice and
to develop their abilities to exercise their right to use that voice
effectively and responsibly.
In this area of our site,
you will find information about the department itself, from a
history of the department, to contact information, to faculty pages,
and information about departmental courses, organizations, and
scholarships. These pages are our invitation to you to get to know
us, who we are, and what we're about. We want to thank you for taking
the time to drop by; we also want to invite you to
contact us if you need any additional
information. You may use our
Information Request Form to submit queries online.
