Associate in Arts or Associate Degree for Transfer - English

The English Department at Ohlone College is dedicated to inspiring and empowering students in their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. They strive to design courses and programs with culturally relevant themes and readings that represent a diverse chorus of voices. University's goal is for students to broaden their ideas of what is possible in their own reading and writing and in their educational goals as a whole. To this end, faculty and staff in the English Department have renewed their commitment to empowering students in the following ways as they are: • Committed to reviewing the course offerings to ensure cultural relevance. • Committed to developing new course offerings on socially and culturally relevant themes. • Committed to reviewing texts, themes, and activities in all courses to ensure cultural diversity and cultural relevance. • Committed to working towards hiring a more diverse group of faculty within the department. • Committed to engaging in ongoing training in equity, inclusion, and anti-bias/ anti racist classroom strategies. • Committed to continuing professional development through regular and ongoing conference attendance, workshops, seminars, and retreats. • Committed to treating all students with respect in all classroom and lab settings. • Committed to regularly surveying the students on their classroom experiences and to gain insight and suggestions for ways to improve the courses and programs.