English Department Mission Statement
The English Department at Saint
Vincent College provides an atmosphere and a setting for professors and
students to continue the 2500-year-old conversation about language,
creativity, imagination, and text. With literature at the center
of
the conversation, class discussions and lectures pursue focused
intra-textual
reading and apply wider insights that cross national, historical,
critical, and
disciplinary boundaries. As a result, students think and write
more fluently about the canon as well as popular culture, the perennial
investigation of beauty and truth, the elasticity and fixity of
language, the moral valences of scriptural and non-scriptural books,
the complexities of gender, and the quest for self through the ideas of
others. Giving direction and resonance to these departmental
endeavors are the Benedictine values of community, hospitality,
stewardship, and care and concern for the individual. Ultimately,
the person graduating with a degree in English will comprehend language
both as a tool and an art, having explored the felicitous tension
between creative impulse and traditional form.
English Department Learning Objectives
- To write essays in a variety of discourse modes, that reflect a mastery of the Six Principles of Good Writing.
- To classify and critically read primary literary texts.
- To apply and understand literary theory.
- To prepare, compose, and responsibility document a literary research paper.
- To make substantial connections between literature and the world, seeing ones self and others in light of the ideas, characters, and situations created in the literary works.
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