Welcome to
Language, Literacy and Culture
The Department of Language, Literacy and Culture was created in 1998 as part of the College of Education reorganization. Faculty in LLC teach multicultural foundation courses and reading/writing courses in Multiple Subjects or Single Subjects Credential Programs or Masters Degree courses. MissionThe Department of Language, Literacy and Culture is committed to developing and supporting educators whose passion for teaching and learning nurtures within their students the capacity for critical literacy and joyful lifelong learning, along with a sense of respect and pride regarding human diversity and the desire to promote intercultural understanding. |
 Dr. Mary Jo Skillings Department Chair |
| We support professional collaboration among colleagues who together undertake the task of achieving full literacy and social justice, accompanied by equal access to, and opportunity for, quality education for all students. We believe that language, literacy and culture play a central, integrated role in understanding, communication, and respect needed to improve and transform education in local and global communities. The department's mission supports the university's goal of producing professional educators who will serve, enhance, and lead educational practices and policies in this area. We are dedicated to helping our students become advocates for a more inclusive society, as we work together to create literacy abilities for self empowerment within a full range of social, cultural, and linguistic contexts, defending and upholding human rights and striving toward personal, social, and intellectual growth. To that end we engage in reflective practice, promote reciprocal teaching/learning relationships, support collaborative teaching efforts, develop pedagogical knowledge that is socio-culturally based, and honor in ourselves and others that diversity in culture, language, social economic status, and talents that makes us all uniquely human. | |
