Department of Languages of Literature Arts
The Department of Languages and Literature’s vision is to become a leading socio-cultural and linguistic empowerment service provider. Our mandate is to develop accomplished, competent and innovative graduates in a culturally and linguistically diverse world. We stand guided by values such as innovation, diversity and Unhu/Ubuntu.
Mission and Vison Statement
- The mission of the Department of Languages and Literature is to develop accomplished, competent and innovative graduates in a culturally and linguistically diverse global world.
- The vison of the Department is to become a leading socio-cultural and linguistic empowerment service provider to a diverse world.
- The values of the Department are: communication, Innovation, Diversity, Unhu/Ubuntu
Objectives
The department of Languages and Literature seeks to:
- Educate students to be global citizens with the ability and sensitivity to communicate with people of diverse cultures. Our focus is on academic, professional, and personal development through our courses, in line with the mission of the department as a whole. We aim to accomplish this through the study of languages, literatures, and civilisations.
- Create literary sensibility for appreciation in students and expose them to artistic and innovative use of language by writers and to various worldviews
- Instill values and develop human concern in students through exposure to literary texts
- Enhance literary and linguistic competence of students.
- Produce policy makers and leaders in language, literature and communication disciplines
- Produce experts and consultants that promote the growth and development of languages, literature, and communication at national, regional, and international levels.
- Train students to carry out critical analyses of linguistic and literary texts and to place them in their historical, philosophical, cultural, social, and global context.
- Produce graduates who are dedicated to excellence in research, community engagement, innovation, and industrialisation.
Graduates from the Department of Languages and Literature can work as Language and literature teaching and lecturers, course designers, authors, poets, novelists and critical analysts; communication officers/ directors in NGOs, Public and Private Sectors; public relations officers/ directors in NGOs, Public and Private sectors; interpreters in courts and other public fora, translators in courts and other public for a, translators of written texts into the various indigenous languages in Zimbabwe, lexicographers, language planners, film directors, producers, editors and script writers; career diplomats and language and literature researchers among others.
Department Chairperson
