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The Pacific Union College Department of English is home to students who love language, books, and drama. It helps to prepare students for many careers, including teaching in high school and college, writing for businesses and newspapers, and attending graduate and professional schools.
Fast Facts
- English graduates have a high success rate in the credential program and in graduate and professional schools.
- For students who qualify, the department offers membership in Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society.
- English majors are frequently involved in dramatic productions on campus, with the drama program sponsoring a student group called the Dramatic Arts Society.
English
Pacific Union College
One Angwin Avenue
Angwin, CA 94508
Phone: (707) 965-7550
Fax: (707) 965-7559
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- Herber Grantee Studies Japanese Literature If you grew up watching
Ultraman and Ampanman, you might be Japanese. If you think Ichiro Suzuki is
Superman, you might be Japanese. If you can identify a literary work on a wall
and immediately converse about its significance to history, culture and
society, you might be Japanese.
- Teacher Studies at La Mama For two weeks, Mei Ann Teo lived in an old stone mansion in Umbria, the Green Heart of Italy. On a huge stage overlooking the Umbrian countryside, she learned things that "pretty much completely exploded everything I thought I knew about theatre."
- Department Update After traveling in Serbia/Bosnia/England/France/Italy, Mei Ann Teo ended the summer with a most interesting country — Canada. She was in Montreal at the end of August for the Montreal World Film Festival, where her short film NOT HERE screened to standing-room-only cinemas.
- Department Update This month (and half of September), Janet Borisevich Mezenov is in Russia on several missions. She's visiting her relatives in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, once again, this time to see the new Borisevich clan member named after Janet's father, Sergey. She's teaching at the Archangelsk State Technical University, polishing the English skills of professors and graduate students. She's havingprivate tutoring in Russian by one of the University's professors. And she's continuing her data collection for research on the Linguistic Features of Physician-Patient Communication in Northwest Russia.
- Department Update The last weekend in May, resident artist Mei Ann Teo and enrollment counselor Cambria Wheeler presented a screening of Red Books to the Seattle chapter of Adventist Forum, and hosted the talkback session.