LLSS - Our Mission

Our Mission

Within the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, we seek to:

Create an academic community within the college in which democratic governance, open dialogue, authentic collegiality, and collaboration within and without the college are fostered. This community will create an intellectual culture conducive to maintaining and enhancing faculty vitality, productivity, and adherence to professional and ethical standards of conduct. We are also committed to the recruitment and retention of minority students and faculty.

Identify and address the educational needs of a community that contains wide diversity with regard to class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and age, by providing leadership, resources, and expertise necessary to create programs that foster the collaborative creation and sharing of new knowledge, pedagogies, and programs.

Facilitate the study of culture, language and literacy in conjunction with the study of cultural, social, and political context in which educational events and practices are embedded.

Provide courses and pursue scholarly inquiry in both traditional and anticipatory areas of foundational study. This includes historical, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological examinations of power, knowledge, technology, the media, and new cultural intermediaries and their impact on educational processes and institutions.

Create a community of educators who will link effort in multicultural education to social action efforts which promote social reform in the wider community. These efforts would be driven by the wider community and result in empowerment and change in both the college and the community.

Begin a dialogue with other COE programs on the impact of language and culture on the varied fields represented in the College of Education, such as health, technology, leadership, policy, families and communities, etc.

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Last Update 28 June 2003