Vision & Mission
The ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ Department of English's mission is to provide exceptional programs that produce effective thinkers, readers, and writers who can address challenges of the new century.
All of our faculty are committed to innovative teaching, scholarship, and service that promote cultural awareness, diversity, and ethical responsibility through the study of literature, language, and rhetoric. The English Department is the largest department in the university, contributing in essential ways to our students' personal growth, knowledge, and critical thinking abilities. As part of a university situated on the U.S./Mexico border, the department's undergraduate and graduate programs offer unique opportunities for studying diverse literatures, aesthetics, and cultures; composition, professional writing, and rhetoric in digital formats; and teacher preparation in a bicultural environment. Our graduates go on to successful careers in education at all levels, research, professional writing and editing, publishing, arts administration, politics, business, and law.