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English (ENGL) ENGLISH ENGL College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English John Roach Center for the Liberal Arts (JRC) 333, (651) 962-5600 Scheiber (chair), An, Ba , Bouwman, Callaway, Chowdhury, Cra -Fairchild, Easley, Garritano, Herrera, Hill, James, Jordan, Larson, Lawrence, Li, MacKenzie, Mikolajczak, Miller, Muse, O o, Pawlowski, Piorkowski, Powell, Scheurer, Warren, Wilkinson The mission of the University of St. Thomas English Department is to foster empathy and imagina on, cri cal insight, power of expression, and apprecia on for the variety of human experience. We strive to create a community of readers and writers who value both tradi on and innova on, and who understand literary art as a medium of moral refl ec on as well as aesthe c pleasure. The Department of English off ers three emphases. 1. The general major that allows students to take a variety of literature courses and to incorporate wri ng and cultural studies into their programs. 2. The wri ng emphasis that combines a founda on of literary study with a sequence of wri ng courses focused on poetry, fi c on, and literary nonfi c on. 3. The Minnesota teacher licensure program in Communica on Arts and Literature that prepares students for teaching middle and secondary school. This program requires courses in linguis cs, literature, wri ng, and wri ng pedagogy. It requires, therefore, early and careful planning. Students comple ng this program may complete a major in English. The study of English helps students develop a broad range of prac ces that are valuable for a variety of career paths and life aspira- ons. Students gradua ng with a major in English will be able to write though ully about literature and life, in forms that range from engaged responses, to close readings of primary texts, to cri cal papers using s