The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Writing & Language Studies College of Liberal Arts
A Message From Our Chair
Engagement. That’s what you should know about WLS. We have a bunch of faculty, teaching assistants, and staff focused on engaging you—our potential and current students. Every day, over 100 of us get to work trying to figure out how to put students at the center of our jobs. With experiential learning opportunities that immerse students in living research, we’re looking at how language and writing make things happen in the world. With many award-winning teachers and innovative programs, we’re building classroom spaces that buzz with collaboration and communication. And with energetic researchers and community partners in all our areas (Linguistics, Rhetoric & Composition, Spanish, Asian Studies, English as a Second Language, French, and more), we are creating new knowledge with our colleagues and our students.
Our degrees and minors may have traditional names, but our department is building a new identity we’d love to explore with you. We’re multilingual, we’re invested in social impact, and we’re here to help you design the world through writing and language. Below, you’ll find quick links to the degrees that will help you DESIGN your future with writing, the programs that will help you EXPLORE through language, and the WLS events and partners that will CONNECT us in our work and play.
So welcome to WLS, where we like to think that are many doors and una llave. Let’s do this!
Colin Charlton, PhD
WLS Department Chair
