语言文学

Department of 语言文学

任务

Because words matter, the Department of 语言文学 is dedicated to engaging its students with the power of spoken and written words. 通过启发式教学 and scholarly and creative achievement, we foster critical thinking and an understanding and appreciation of how languages are foundational to cultures, and how literature illuminates and reflects those cultures. We work to strengthen cross-cultural literacy by showing that languages and literature play to and through each other, helping students locate their own voice and their own power.

教师 & 学习项目

One of the largest departments at the university, the Department of Languages and Literature offers students small classes and a diverse, experienced faculty including 许多获奖教师.

这个部门 provides composition, world literature, and world language classes for all students as components of the general education core curriculum. 这个部门 also offers majors in 英语 and 世界语言, and minors in 英语, Creative Writing, 英语 Writing, Film Studies, 语言学家ics, Professional Writing, French, German, Greek, Latin, Classical Languages, Classical Civilization, and Spanish. At the graduate level, we offer a Master of Arts in 英语 and graduate courses in Spanish for a master's degree in Education.

Our faculty and students also participate in a number of related programs including African- American Studies, Honors, 国际研究, Women's Studies, several study-abroad and exchange programs，和 Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. 这个部门 and the Center of Excellence regularly bring to campus major literary figures as lecturers, readers, and writers-in-residence. 尊敬的来宾 included Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Allen Ginsberg, Carolyn Forche, David Bradley, and Gary Snyder. Through the Center, the creative writing program also publishes a distinguished literary journal, 区3.

乔什·里斯

世界语言-西班牙语

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My professors at Austin Peay have always asked me to think about how I can take what I’m already good at and use that to help a bigger group of people than I have before.

麦迪逊霍布森

英语

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Being a Governor means so much more to me than a mascot; it means that I have the power to bring change and be change.

尼古拉斯•李

英语

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How can I make myself better and what kind of person do I want to be in 10 years? It’s not about what things will I have, but what kind of person do I want to be?

学习环境

这个部门 is located in Harned Hall, the oldest building on campus, which in 1988 was saved from the wrecking ball by a concerted effort of faculty, students, 和市民. Formerly a women's dormitory, Harned was converted into a state-of-the-art showpiece brimming with the newest technologies.