The
Department of English and Modern Languages emphasizes excellent
teaching in a variety of languages and literatures. The English
Department offers a full spectrum of literature courses: from
Shakespeare to Langston Hughes, from old and middle English to Texas
literature, from literary criticism to film criticism. The English
Department offers a variety of Writing Courses: technical writing,
fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and rhetoric. The English
Department also offers pedagogical courses in literature and
writing.
The department offers a Bachelors of Arts (with and
without teacher certification) and a Master of Arts degree in
English. The department now offers a Bachelors of Arts in English
with a Writing Concentration.
The department also offers
Bachelors degrees in French and Spanish, including teacher
certification, as well as two years of German. The 12-hour
supplementary certification in ESL is also available.
Philosophy is housed in this department, offering a minor. Minors
are also available in French, Spanish, and Writing.
Pulse, Review of Texas Books, and
The Lamar Journal of
the Humanities are housed in the Department.
The
Department and the Writing Center offer English and Modern Language majors jobs as tutors,
classroom assistants, proofreaders, and technical assistants.
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