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Show UNIVERSITY PREVIEW• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • FALL 1997 ~ Admissions, School Relations make it easy Students begin their SUU careers on the right track- even before they get here you must turn your application into the Office of Admissions by February 1, 1998. Welcome to the campus of Southern Utah University! Th e Offices of Admissions Although this deadline seems far away, the time to prepare is now. Scholarships are and School Relations hope to make your stay at SUU enjoyable and convenient. We highly competitive, so keep that grade point average high. perform several vital functions at Southern Utah, including admission acceptance, Finally, the Offices of Admissions and School Relations offer you the opportunity to scholarship processing, and recruitment programming. Since you are a new student on get involved directly in the leadership aspect of the recruiting process. The campus, we want to notify you of some extremely important deadlines and programs. Presidential Ambassadors, a student program designed to host dignitaries and special Before embarking upon anything at SUU, you must first gain admittance. The events on campus for procedure for new '=''1111!'1!11.l'Jl!ll:.!llmr, the Prcsi.dcnt's Office freshman is to submit and School Relations, is an application, along a highly presti.gious with high school OnJy a organization. transcripts, ACT scores handful of SUU's most and a $25 processing prominent students are fee. Transfer students selected to represent the must submi t an institution in the varied application, copies of and numerous hightranscripts and a $25 profile positions. (Sec application fee. All page 24 for more your paperwork must information on this be turned into the exciting organization.) Office of Admissions, We hope your located in the Sharwan on campus experience Smith Center room offers you the close and 166, by the following personal attention for dates: July 1 for fall which we arc noted. lf quarter, December l for you have any questions winter anti March l for or concerns about spring. Meeting these admissions procedures, deadlines is the first scholarship step to ensuring a requirements or the su ccessful college ADMISSIONS OFFICE Presidential career. 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Ambassadors, we have a lf you arc interested friendly and helpful staff in an academic or that is wi Uing to assist leadershjp scholarship at any time. Our phone for the 1998-99 number is 586-7740. academic school year, • I 1 ,,1 .t,, .• SUU's language and literature students excel The department's programs in French, German, and Spanish emphasize studies "When yo u talk about language and li terature, you' re talking about the Cadillac of which develop both fluen cy in reading and writing the target language an d the liberal arts degrees," sajd David Lee, head of the language and literature background knowledge of cultui:e and history. C lasses focus on the customs and department. manners of native speakers of th e languages as well as their literary, artistic, Staffing what has been ca lled one of the finest major courses of education i.n the philosophical, musical, and scientific contributions. Rocky Mountajn states, the 19 full-time and five adjunct faculty members compose A recent evaluation of the department praised the foreign language facu lty for a skilled, awa rd-winning, and dedicated corps of teachers committed to quality bringing "strong academic preparation, good instruction as well as professional and scholarly interpersonal skHls, and a variety of teaching development. Recently, an evaluation team al so praised strategies to the classroo m ." the department for the "personal nature of mentoring" Mjnors arc also available in English, Spanish, made possible by the size of the progra ms. Ge rman, and French and first and second-yea r Russian The number of departmenta l graduates has remained c lasses arc offered as well. fairl y constant over the past decade, with a sharp rise T he English program provides basic courses in occurring in the last five years. The quality of the writing fo r the entire university; fundamenta l courses students in the department has been demonstrated by in literature and the Engl ish language; a program of essentially 100 percent teacher placement, success in English, America n, and world literature (including graduate school, and acceptan ce by law and professional advanced courses in li terary history, genre, criti cal schools. Majors arc regularly chosen as valedictorians of theory, and major authors); courses in creative writing their classes and as recipients of the Pestalozzi Awa rd, from beginning to adva nced leve l; and "methods" which goes to the outstanding secondary education classes for t he teaching of language composition and student teacher of the year in the College of Education. literature. The facu lty me mbers in the department believe that Composition and writing courses a re an essential reading and writing- and will continue to be-essentia l clement in the English program of the department. At ski.Us in a changing world. Furthermore, the faculty this time, five writing courses and one writing maintain that critical reading and pertinent writing can met hodology course arc offered- all taught by only be fostered in the academic context of a broad practiced a nd publishing writers, many of whom have literary framework that encourages students to explore ' regional and national reputations. the seminal ideas and aesthetic theories of both Western "I like to think that we have some of the top and n on-Western traditions. teachers on campus- and we have outstanding The language and literature department offers a researching and writing professors, too, " Lee sa id. Bachelor of Arts degree in literature, foreign language, "There is no outside impetus for this work; this is creative writing or teaching with emphases in English, work our professors do for the ir own satisfaction and Spanish, German, or French. T he literature or fo reign reward." language emphasis is designed as undergraduate "If there is anything I take ultimate pride in from preparation for graduate and professional sch ools, law m y nearl y 25 years here at the university," said Lee, and business. In cooperation wit h the College of "it is in the assembling the quality of facul ty we have Education, the teaching emphasis is designed as last year's Distinguished Facu lty Honor Lecture at in this department and then just turning them loose to undergraduate preparation for a career in public SUU was delivered by S.S. Moorty of the language do their thing." and literature department. education. |