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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Hattiesburg, Miss., April 25, 2013 - William Carey University’s Pam Shearer, administrative assistant to the office for advancement and curator of the Sarah Ellen Gillespie Museum of Art, recently had her paper titled, “Take the Key and Lock her Up: Symbols of Control in Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s ‘Big Mama’s Funeral’” published in The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1.

The aims of the English courses are to help the student learn to write with a high level of accuracy, effectiveness, and fluency; to give emphasis to research techniques, particularly for prospective graduate students in English; and to help the student to develop the ability to read critically and appreciatively the best of English, American, and continental literature.

The aims of the foreign language courses are to develop foreign language skills which enable the student to engage in oral and written communication with other peoples of the world and provide an auxiliary skill in professions; to develop in students a linguistic sense  sufficient for students to be able to compare a native tongue with other languages; to give the student through  readings in foreign language a background of culture of the nations using this language; to enable the student to read scientific, literary, and other texts in a foreign language.