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| Mission Statement |
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| The Department of English has the responsibility for one of the widest ranges of programs and levels of instruction of any department within the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The Department seeks to fulfill its mission through a balanced and integrated approach to the advancement of knowledge, its dissemination to diverse audiences, and the articulation of knowledge’s place in encouraging individuals to pursue their fullest potential. In our Department, individuals become astute critical thinkers, effective communicators, and sensitive and insightful interpreters of all kinds of texts. |
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| The undergraduate and graduate programs of the Department are intentionally broad to expose individuals to the breadth of fields within the domain of English studies. The emphasis upon critical thinking, creative and analytical forms of writing, and research is essential for all undergraduates as they encounter other disciplines. The Department of English features an extensive range of courses in a variety of genres and styles. Course offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate level include historical periods, authors and genres, language and linguistics, creative writing, folklore studies, rhetoric, literary theory, and cultural studies. The Department is committed to maintaining and developing a strong curriculum that encourages interdisciplinary approaches. As a department in a university within an active community, we also recognize our vital role in outreach, and we do so as visiting scholars in schools, as participants in community projects, and as hosts for a range of events to which the community is invited. In particular, we host the annual Deep South Writers Festival and sponsor the Louisiana Voices Folklife in Education Institute. |
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As a department, our goals are:
- To support a general education program that promotes literacy for the general student body and that encourages students to read and write with understanding about a wide range of texts.
- To support an undergraduate program that exposes students to complex texts of literary and cultural variety and that leads them to discover the power of language to teach and delight.
- To support a graduate program that offers both an M.A. and a Ph. D. in English with emphases in British and American Literature, creative writing, folklore studies, linguistics,or rhetoric and that responsibly trains professionals for careers in teaching, research, and leadership in higher education related fields;
- To support research and publication of original scholarship in language, lore, and literature.
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