Mission
1. To provide appropriate pedagogies and environments for better teaching-learning environment.
2. To help students see themselves as professionals with skills and abilities valuable in the teaching,
publishing and any other professional or personal life.
3. To give students a sense of themselves as citizens of a larger community by encouraging participation
in service learning and in diverse and international context.
4. To assure that students encounter creativity crucial to English studies through theater productions,
readings by professional writers, and their own creative and critical production and presentation.
5. To balance the needs of general education - communication, diversity, global perspectives,
interdisciplinary studies.
6. To acquire adequate funding to support the department's contributions to general education and the
liberal arts.