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The University of North Carolina Pembroke 2015-2016 Catalog 
    
The University of North Carolina Pembroke 2015-2016 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Department of English, Theatre, and Foreign Languages


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Chair: Wendy P. Miller

Faculty: Raquel Alfaro, Michael J. Berntsen5, Sara Boissonneau, Monika Brown, Susan Cannata, Youngsuk Chae9, Polina Chemishanova3, Teagan E. Decker8, Jonathan W. Drahos4, Michele Fazio, Denise Feikema6, Virginia Garnett, Anita R. Guynn, Holden Hansen, Steven Hedgpeth, Thomas C. Heffernan, James Helgeson, Karen Helgeson, Brian Scott Hicks, Eun Hee Jeon, Deana Johnson2, Chester I. Jordan, Brigitte Knight, Roger A. Ladd7, Ana Cecilia Lara12, Autumn Lauzon, Walter E. Lewallen, Milagros López-Fred, Abigail Mann, Cynthia Miecznikowski, Sara Oswald, Catherine Parisian, Jesse Peters, Jessica A. Pitchford10, Enrique J. Porrúa, Therese Rizzo, Lauren T. Roark, Melissa Schaub1, Natalie Smith, Robin L. Snead, Charles Tita11, Emily Tobey, David Underwood, Richard R. Vela, Amy Williams

1Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Enrollment 7Director of Graduate English Education Licensure
2Director of College Opportunity Program 8Assistant Dean, Maynor Honors College
3Director of Composition 9Assistant Chair
4Director of Theatre 10Editor of Pembroke Magazine
5Interim Director of University Writing Center 11Director of Distance Education
6Coordinator of Undergraduate English Education 12Director of Foreign Languages/Spanish Licensure
   

 

The Department of English, Theatre, and Foreign Languages educates students and serves the region and the academy through teaching and research in the liberal arts. The Department cultivates insightful readers, articulate writers and speakers, expressive performers, and critical thinkers. Department faculty work to improve literacy, to develop innovative pedagogy, to enhance and showcase creative work, and to expand and transmit disciplinary knowledge.

Through sustained development of students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing, the General Education composition sequence lays the foundation for future success. Offerings in literature, foreign languages, and performance broaden and enrich students’ perspectives. Graduates of our programs become successful as professionals, graduate students, citizens, leaders, and life-long learners in a diverse global community.

The Department offers majors in English, English Education, Spanish, and Theatre and related minors and concentrations. Undergraduate majors prepare students for North Carolina Teacher Licensure in Secondary English, Middle Grades Language Arts 6-9, Spanish K-12, and add-on licensure in English as a Second Language. Graduate Programs in English prepare students for advanced licensure and other professional endeavors.

The Department offers distinctive, realistically conceived, and well‑executed programs for (1) the English major; (2) the student seeking North Carolina Teacher Licensure in English, Secondary Education 9‑12 (program approved by NCTE), Middle Grades Language Arts Education 6-9, Spanish Licensure K-12, or ESL Add-On Licensure; (3) the Theatre major; (4) the Spanish major; (5) the General Education student, served by a strong Composition program and a wide choice of courses; (6) the Education major seeking an academic concentration in English, Spanish, or Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL); (7) the student majoring in another subject who wishes to develop a minor in an area of English, foreign languages, or theatre or simply to choose an elective or two; and (8) the in‑service teacher, or college graduate with a background in English or a related discipline, seeking post‑graduate work in English Education. The Department recognizes that each program has a distinctive philosophy and specific objectives, which are made clear to students involved in each program.

The Department office offers information about advisement and screening procedures for English majors, teacher licensure candidates in English and Spanish, Spanish majors, and Theatre majors. Also available is information about the academic concentrations in English, Spanish, and TESL and minors in Creative Writing, English, French, Literature, Spanish, Speech, TESOL, Theatre, and Rhetoric and Professional Writing. These are offered to all students enrolled at the University.

Pembroke Magazine, housed in the Department and founded in 1969 by the late Norman Macleod while he was at UNC Pembroke, focuses on North Carolina, national, and international writers. It publishes both beginning and established writers.

The University Theatre, a performance program housed in the Givens Performing Arts Center, provides a practical laboratory for the theoretical and artistic components of the Theatre Program of the Department.

The Department recommends that all of its majors study a foreign language throughout their college careers; six semester hours (or equivalent competency) are required for English, English Education, and Middle Grades Language Arts majors.

A grade of C (2.0) in ENG 1050  (Composition I) is prerequisite to all literature and language courses at the 2000 level and above except for THE 2500  (Introduction to Theatre). All full‑time students enroll in Composition I during their first semester of full‑time study and continue consecutively thereafter until they successfully complete both ENG 1050  and ENG 1060 .

Programs

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