Business Technologies Department

MISSION: The Languages, Literature, and Fine Arts Department serves students from the Birmingham area in providing components of a liberal arts education degree. College writing, speaking, foreign language, speech, humanities, art and music are available for courses as well as degrees for concentration in a two-year transfer program. The Department assists students in achieving their educational goals through mastery of academics as well as the arts. Through the service-oriented philosophy of the department, students are provided the experiences of on-site learning, as well as performance-oriented achievement ideals through community service.

LONG-RANGE GOALS

To increase the variety and availability of courses offered in the department.
To develop and implement a comprehensive program for staff development based on identified needs and current research in the area of Languages, Literature, and Fine Arts.
To expose students to diversity through Language, Literature, and Fine Arts.
To support the General Educational Program of the institution through implementation of requirements throughout the department.
To recruit and maintain full-time and adjunct faculty to meet the needs of the department.

The Department of Language, Literature, and Fine Arts is designed to provide opportunities for students to:

Develop knowledge and understanding of art.
Help students develop the ability to read, think, and write clearly, and critically.
Help students understand and appreciate good writing and literature.
Help students become aware of the truth, beauty, and wisdom of our culture to the extent that they are able to make value judgments about the society in which they live.
Teach the fundamental skills of speaking, reading, and writing in a foreign language.
Help students develop an understanding of and a respect for another culture.
Give the student an awareness and appreciation of the aesthetic and intellectual history of the target culture and of its present day manifestations.
Help students comprehend, analyze and explicate literary works in a foreign language.
To preserve, appreciate and transmit knowledge of the past and to provide a comprehensive understanding of the human experience.
To increase understanding of a multi-cultural world and demonstrate the ability and diversity of human experience.
To improve the understanding of students' own culture.
To help remove myths and stereotypes.
To develop critical thinking.

Students who plan to receive an Associate in Arts Degree are able to transfer to a four-year institution and pursue a bachelor’s degree in related fields.