The English Department seeks to create culturally literate students who value academic as well as artistic literature; effective fluent readers that read with comprehension, analysis, and synthesis; strong writers and speakers who are clear, concise, and appeal to their audience; and active listeners and critical thinkers who research and evaluate information carefully.
By graduation, students should be able to:
- understand that communication skills developed in English are equal to and interconnected with communication inherent in the visual/media/performing arts.
- appreciate and understand the power of language and use its craft (both in writing and orally) to argue, persuade, inform, and entertain.
- be confident in ability to think, read, write, and discuss a variety of topics and issues (including the visual/media/performing arts).
- read, understand, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and cite information from a variety of texts (functional, prose, poetry, and drama).
- write process and on-demand pieces in a variety of forms and structures that are authentic, creative, and structurally correct.
