Department of Reading and Language Arts

485K Pawley Hall (248) 370-3065
Fax: (248) 370-4367

Chairperson: James F. Cipielewski

Professors emeriti: Richard F. Barron, Jane Bingham, Gloria T. Blatt, Robert J. Christina, George E. Coon

Distinguished professor: Ronald L. Cramer

Professors: John E. McEneaney, Robert M. Schwartz, Toni S. Walters

Associate professors: James F. Cipielewski, Ledong Li, Mary K. Lose, Gwendolyn M. McMillon, Linda M.Pavonetti, Anne E. Porte

Assistant professors: Tanya M. Christ, S. Rebecca Leigh

Visiting assistant professor: Linda Ayres

Special instructor: Annette Osborne

As a department within the School of Education and Human Services, the instructional staff of the Reading and Language Arts Department offers courses in reading, language arts, instructional systems technology and children’s literature at the undergraduate level for students pursuing a career in teaching. The department offers a master’s degree program in reading and language arts, certificate programs in microcomputer applications, postmaster’s certificate programs, K-12 reading endorsements, a master’s degree program combined with the early childhood endorsement and a doctor of philosophy degree in reading.