English
Welcome to the Kodiak College Department of English
The programs offered by the Department of English provide an opportunity for a truly liberal education, one that encourages both self-discovery and an exploration of enduring ideas. The curriculum includes courses in composition, rhetoric, literature, linguistics, and critical-thinking strategies.
The Department also supervises the First-Year Composition Program, which fulfills
the university's General Education Requirement in written communication. The English
Department's mission is to prepare students to succeed in an increasingly diverse
world. The Department is devoted to an innovative curriculum that encourages lifelong
learning, critical thinking, and effective writing. We teach students to see textual
work as an engagement with history, convention, culture, and place so that they can
participate responsibly in a changing regional and challenging global environment.
In particular, the Department is concerned with Alaskan cultures, the North Pacific
Rim environment, and the intersection of networked technologies and forms of textuality.
At the undergraduate and graduate levels, the English Department also strives to familiarize students with a full range of literacies - written, digital, and visual - so that they may become active and well-equipped citizens.
Faculty
Dr. Jared Griffin
Information for potential adjuncts.