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Department
Mission
Program Competencies
Do you know about the
3-2 program
for teachers?One of the premier programs in literary and rhetorical studies in the southwest, the Department of English offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
With twenty-four outstanding full-time faculty, including three endowed positions, the department is dedicated to fostering excellence in all areas of teaching, research, and service.
As more people turn from the printed page to the computer screen, the study of English is more vital than ever. We teach students how to read and write effectively in a world of constant messages and messaging. At all levels students gain invaluable experience deciphering texts and producing their own.
We are dedicated to providing our students with such skills as knowing how to
- communicate clearly
- read and analyze documents carefully
- research issues and subjects
- formulate an opinion or argument
- understand the assumptions embedded in texts
- write persuasively
This website introduces our programs and people, but if you have questions, please contact us or stop by the English Office at Reed Hall 314.
Announcements
Last updated: May 4, 2008Congratulations!
. . . to Dr. Bonnie Blackwell, who has received the 2008 Wise Woman Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring in the Women's Studies program.
. . . to our Department of English Award Winners: Jack Downs (Composition Program Teacher of the Year), Angela Bullard and April Patrick (Graduate Student of the Year), Moriah McCracken (Tate Prize in Composition), Dr. Ann George (Graduate Faculty Member of the Year), Dr. Karen Steele (Research), Dr. Bonnie Blackwell (Teaching), Dr. Theresa Gaul (Service).
. . . to Jeramey Kraatz for winning the 2008 Boller Award for the Outstanding Senior Honors Presentation: "The Nature of Rodents and Other Essays." Kraatz was recently accepted—with funding—into the extremely competitive MFA program at Columbia University.
. . . to Shannon Hardwick (B.A. English, 2007) has been accepted into the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence.
. . . to Brandon Chasteen, who has accepted an offer to begin graduate studies, with a Departmental Fellowship, at Indiana University at Bloomington.
. . . to Douglas Lucas, who has been admitted to the highly competitive Clarion West Writer’s Workshop for Summer 2008.
. . . to Ben Barnes, who will be attending the University of Texas Law School in Fall 2008.
. . . to PhD candidate Kristi Serrano, who won the 2008 Nokia Research Award for her dissertation project, The Non-‘Issued’ Voice in Whispers: Examining the Rhetorical Space of Wives in the Military Community.
[Have an announcement? Email b.e.lucas2@tcu.edu]
We are pleased to announce our new Writing Major and Writing Minor.
>> Details in the TCU Catalog
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Summer/Fall 2008 (PDF)
Reed
The English Newsletter
2006 (PDF)
2005 (PDF)
2004 (PDF)
an undergraduate journal of the written and visual arts
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