The objectives of the Department of English Literature and Humanities are to promote all aspects of the Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Studies as the necessary basis of a holistic, liberal education. Its goals are to produce students who are critical and analytical thinkers, readers and writers, and thoroughly cognizant of historical and contemporary issues in literature, aesthetics, the media, philosophy, politics, and gender studies. Moreover, the interdisciplinary and intercultural nature of the Department of English Literature and Humanities focuses on education as a collaborative and dynamic enterprise between diverse bodies of knowledge and systems of thought, as well as the multicultural dimension of our present world. Overall, the Department of English Literature and Humanities objectives are to encourage its students to be socially aware, intellectual individuals who are capable of making independent, balanced and just assessments of themselves and their wider communities; to teach students to recognize the functions of ideology through language, and to stress the significance of literature, the Arts, and the Humanities not as isolated aesthetic categories, but as politically powerful tools for social awareness and change.
The Department of English Literature and Humanities is unique, particularly in the region, in its intellectually driven curriculum which incorporates the most imaginative and contemporary ideas in the discipline. In this sense, it is in the forefront of other regional departments and is frequently referred to as a model for creative education in English Literature and Humanities. The Department of English Literature and Humanities is comparable to many reputable institutions and departments in Europe and North America. Similarly, the departments highly professional teaching staff have a reputation for their specialist, scholarly activity, unique and imaginative methods of pedagogy, and a department ethos which illustrates the department as a close, cooperative community of students and teachers.
Statistics
- Full-time staff:
- 6
- Part-time staff:
- 0
- Research assistants:
- 2
- Undergraduate programs:
- 1
- Graduate programs:
- 1
- Courses:
- 39
