College of Arts

Vision

Enhancing the educational process via its sections in language, literature and linguistics, the department of English language aims to support the community with graduates who are well equipped with highly-improved skills and experiences for heading into the diverse fields of professionalism needed for making any possible contribution, specifically, in the area of teaching English as a foreign language by the use of modern trends and technology.

Mission

Promoting the university’s thrive to a better position locally and internationally, the department’s basic mission is to work with a modern academic strategy, depending on the best techniques in teaching English around the world, which would guarantee a better result and the success of the new methods in creative teaching of the basic sections of language, literature and linguistics. The department attempts to provide the students with a chance to develop their language skills, mainly listening, reading, writing and speaking that would bring about proper teaching and communicating capabilities, as well as a place in today’s world where English is used massively for communication and particularly within social media platforms which they might use for academic motivations as well.

The department also aims to improve student’s knowledge of English language and culture, to guarantee good-quality English speakers. The course is mainly designed to foster students’ use of English creatively and masterfully, in addition, to enhance their investigative and research skills. The educative atmosphere, that we try to provide, would be an appropriate one to offer the graduate what they need to be a productive individual in our community.

Objectives

The department aims to create graduates equipped with:

• Intercultural skills and flexibility to help them interact with others smoothly.

• The knowledge and linguistic competence so that they would make use of English to develop their academic level and be engaged in other branches of the world of business.

• A set of skills like conceptual, literacy and communication skills that can be, in return, transferred to others.

• The ability to accomplish an academic achievement depending on themselves.

• The sense that they commit themselves to develop their skills in speaking and reading English making use of this aspect for further development educationally, socially and culturally.

The aims of the department of English and the university in general go hand-in-hand. However, these aims show our discipline and our commitment to literature, language, and the arts. The quality of education can be increased if the students are directed to contact with scholarly-oriented people as well as their teacher.

In this respect, there are certain important purposes that we strictly look forward to as enabling the students to read well, speak well, teach well, and think well so that they gain good English proficiency. Particularly, we intend to graduate students with:

• The ability to read, teach and examine literature and culture throughout various eras.

• The efficiency to write and speak English fluently.

• Research skills which make possible for them to extend, from different aspects, their own readings of literature and the comprehension of language.

• Suitable knowledge of relevant domains within the discipline, involving literature, literary history, criticism, and theory; the language structures of modern English and the history of English language.

• Advanced appreciation and delight of literature and language.

The department of English encourages the inspiration of literature and the study of it. We have a number of writers who are nationally and internationally recognized as poets, short story writers, and essayists. We work side by side with the innovative writers in our country to provide our students innovative writing semesters.

The department intends to offer the opportunities to all students to reinforce their communications and critical thinking skills. The English major offers knowledge which is important to all students, involving students who want to study and seek careers in education, law, communications and business. Departmental offerings present the literary and writing background which is necessary for students who want to continue graduate study in English, literature, and in different interdisciplinary domains.

A student who completes English major is qualified to reveal critical thinking, particularly to analyze, synthesize and value ideas and texts ; undertake and comprehend the process of research through identifying, analyzing, synthesizing and documenting credible source material;

Consequently, the department aims at:

• Making the students able to master effective communications skills.

• Making students familiar with linguistics, its sub-branches, applications and relations to other disciplines.

• Enabling students to know the various literary genres of English in the historical, cultural, and artistic context.

• Developing students’ critical thinking skills and reinforcing their ability to present logical and well-structured arguments.