The English Department is committed in forming students to be eloquent, creative, and critical thinkers, speakers, and writers. The teaching of rhetoric allows students to skillfully and creatively use the English language as a means for self-expression and communication. The study of literature immerses the students and opens them up to a time and culture seemingly apart, yet fundamentally similar, to their own reality. It is the goal of the department that, with its instruction, students are able to express themselves evidencing sound logic, clear rhetoric, and a firm ground in humanistic values. Thus, the students are in the process of living up to the Jesuit ideal of eloquentia perfecta.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The English Department is committed in
forming students to be eloquent, creative, and critical thinkers, speakers, and
writers. The teaching of rhetoric allows students to skillfully and creatively
use the English language as a means for self-expression and communication. The
study of literature immerses the students and opens them up to a time and
culture seemingly apart, yet fundamentally similar, to their own reality. It is
the goal of the department that, with its instruction, students are able to
express themselves evidencing sound logic, clear rhetoric, and a firm ground in
humanistic values. Thus, the students are in the process of living up to the
Jesuit ideal of eloquentia perfecta.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

As part of a Filipino University, the English Department aims:

1. to develop and cultivate among the students desirable values of the Filipino cultural heritage and to arouse in them the love for beauty; and

2. to develop the appreciation and respect for other cultures and thus enable them to appreciate the richness of their own heritage.

As part of a Secondary Preparatory School, the English Department aims:

1. to develop in the learners the listening, speaking, reading, and writing competencies which are important aspects of communication;

2. to train the child the ability to think, to judge, to make decision, to speak, and to write correctly and effectively;

3. to broaden and improve interest and taste in reading; and

4. to encourage critical analysis of ideas.

As part of a Catholic University, the English Department aims:

1. to cultivate in the students concern for others and the practice of generosity to their fellowmen as well as to manifest their commitment to social justice through the integration of values in the reading subjects and in the theme writing;

2. to develop in the students the traditional skills in speaking and writing (eloquentia perfecta) through varied activities that include elocution (choral and individual), discussions, role playing, paragraph development and other writing exercise;

3. to sharpen their abilities and communicative skills in order to respond creatively and function effectively as instruments of God in the service of others; and to make students realize that the world is basically good because God created it and they can make it a better place because God is working through them.