ABOUT US
Located at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, the English Department offers courses in American, British, Irish, and world literature, creative and expository writing, and linguistics.
The department offers the B.A. in English and the M.A. in English. Minors are offered in film studies, drama, and English. Two tracks lead to the B.A. in English: the basic major and the drama track. For those who major in English in the College of Education and Human Services, the Department offers courses toward certification at the secondary level.
No human community exists without language, and nowhere is language used more artfully, deliberately, and meaningfully than in literature. Every society possesses a wealth of stories, poems, and plays that serve to name, to celebrate, and to question the world. In an important sense, then, the student of literature is a student of culture as well as an investigator of language and art.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Department's mission is grounded in the conviction that a knowledge of literature and language and a mastery of interpretive skills are absolutely integral to a liberal education. Based on that conviction, and consonant with the goals and mission of the University of North Florida and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English strives to offer instruction of the highest quality in all areas of the curriculum within its purview. The Department's goal is to make a significant and indeed life-long contribution to the intellectual growth of each of its students.
Further, the Department offers students the opportunity to acquire specific professional skills and to become generally proficient in the use and analysis of language. Such training is solid preparation for virtually any profession that involves communication.