Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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EDUCATION Dr. Phillip Amato, Chairman Dr |oyce Lancaster L i | The Department of Education offers a general elementary education program and specific area — concentration programs in speech and creative dra- matics and special education. The concentrations within the major are designed to provide the stu- dent with an area of basic expertise which will enhance the student ' s potential contribu tions to education on the elementary level. The Department is philosophically committed to the notion that education is a dynamic, ever-changing process and the teacher-education programs must provide the basis for helping students prepare for teaching ca- reers within contemporary educational systems and those of the future. Dr. Edna Ward Bert Malatesta I 29

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The Mother Directed By Larry Loonin

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ENGLISH Dr Charlotte Lindgren. Chairman The English Department is small, active, and flexible offering a B.A. degree in English l.iter- ature, a B F A degree in Creative Writing, and a BS degree training certification for teachers of Secondarv School English. There is also op- portunity to work in interdisciplinary fields such as Black Studies or American Studies. Many courses are designed for the student not con- centrating in English but fascinated with the role of women in literature, the nature of comedy or Man ' s search for self. Dr lames Randall The program in Creative Writing staffed by a rotating system of w riters-in-residence who have been successful in publishing has at- tracted a talented group of young writing stu- dents. The Emerson Review, one of the Col- lege ' s literary magazines, has been one of the top three winners in the National Literary Magazine Contest for the past three years. Recently, a neyv prose magazine Cobblestone has been added to the Department ' s publica- tions.