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| Home | About Us | Degree Programs | Concentrations | Faculty & Staff | Students |
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| Mission Statement |
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| The Department of English offers one of the widest ranges of programs
available at The University of Louisiana
at Lafayette. The Department takes
a balanced and integrated approach to the advancement and wide dissemination
of knowledge. English majors are trained to become astute critical thinkers,
effective communicators, 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 diversity 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. At both the undergraduate and graduate levels,
the Department of English offers an extensive range of courses: historical
periods, authors and genres, language
and linguistics, creative
writing,
folklore
studies, women’s studies, rhetoric, literary
theory, and cultural studies. The Department is committed to maintaining and developing
a strong curriculum that encourages interdisciplinary approaches. |
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| 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 the Louisiana
Conference on Literature, Language,
and Culture; and we 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 guides students
through complex texts of literary and cultural variety, that inspires
them to discover the power of language to teach and delight, and
that prepares them to put their language skills to use in a variety
of professions.
- To support a graduate program that offers both an M.A. and
a Ph.D. in English with concentrations 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.
- To support faculty research and publication of original scholarship
in language, lore, and literature.
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