Department of English Language and Literature

Overview

The Department of English at Al Buraimi College   has set for itself a number of humanistic and pedagogically sound academic goals to satisfy the needs of the students who choose English language and literature as their major. These goals challenge the four areas which are the basic components of the BA degree, namely, language,   linguistics, literature and translation. They come together to give the students the chance to understand and appreciate English language and its literature and history. The English Department aims at acquainting the students with the main patterns of Western civilization and literature with special emphasis on English. Consequently, we try to refine their aesthetic sense and widen their intellectual scope.

Goals

Our goals can be summed up as follows:

1. Raising the students’ level of competency of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. This is achieved through the certain language courses required of each student during the first two years.

2. Giving the students a firm ground in English literature and trying to develop their critical and aesthetic abilities.

3. Familiarizing the students with the research methods to be able to conduct a kind of serious research in any area of their study.

4. Developing the students’ understanding and appreciation of the literary and pragmatic uses of language.

5. Familiarizing the students with major theories and trends of linguistics and their applications in different areas related to language.

6. Creating in the students an awareness of the principles of translation and encouraging them to have a kind of practice in that field.