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The English Department is located in the McDonald building.
The Department Chair is Dr. Sue Bennett.
Office: MCDON 213 Phone: 652-7925 Email: bennett@dixie.edu
The Director of the Writing Program is Dr. Brad Barry.
Office: MCDON 222 Phone: 652-7819 Email: barry@dixie.edu
The English Department at Dixie State College seeks to instill in students an appreciation for the centrality of language and literature in human life, particularly as they function in personal, social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. Our programs cultivate intellectual inquiry, critical analysis and evaluation, and fluency in writing and speaking. Students master skills in analyzing, evaluating, and responding to texts and other media, and in formulating and organizing ideas into focused, developed, articulate, and persuasive essays.
- Our literature program seeks to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of the unique value of literary expression as an aesthetic form that challenges the senses, the intellect, and the imagination as it offers insight into human values and identity. Students learn to appreciate the complex relationship between the aesthetic and intellectual aspects of literature and the culture and time in which it is produced.
- Our writing program instructs students in the standards and effective use of written and verbal communication in academia as well as professional vocations such as business, technology, and medicine.
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