Mission Statement and Objectives
In accordance with the mission statement of Missouri Baptist University and the academic program, the English faculty seeks to maintain a curriculum that provides standard English skills, permits students to meet the requirements for professional certificates, and prepares English majors for the pursuit of advanced degrees.
- The student will demonstrate written and oral communication skills by presenting ideas in clear, coherent, correct, and mature style.
- The student will demonstrate critical thinking by identifying logical fallacies and by using inductive and deductive reasoning in essay writing and textual analysis.
- The student will demonstrate multi- and cross-cultural understanding by engaging in cultural enrichment events and then critically relating them to the themes and concerns of the course.
- The student will identity key literary terms, genres, and movements in British, American, and world literature and apply them to literary analysis.
- The student will effectively use research methods and technology to pose questions, synthesize knowledge, and create documents which meet professional standards.
- The student will analyze and critique literary texts from a Christian perspective, thereby demonstrating an integration of faith and learning.
