The Department of Humanities at Michigan Tech engages in teaching and research across language, culture, and technology. Our scope is international, our approach interdisciplinary. We work at the intersections of communication, composition, literature, modern languages, philosophy, rhetoric, visual studies, linguistics, gender studies, and technical communication. Emerging areas of emphasis include media, global studies, and diversity. In learning and scholarship, students and faculty work to cultivate the whole human being. We help students develop the communicative, analytic, and cultural knowledge to thrive in all aspects of their future lives. Masters and Doctoral students earn degrees in Rhetoric and Technical Communication. Undergraduates major in Scientific and Technical Communication, Liberal Arts, and Communication and Culture Studies. The Department also plays an important role in the General Education program of the University and helps prepare international students for their academic work through offering English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. The Humanities Department offers not only the nationally recognized, interdisciplinary graduate program in Rhetoric and Technical Communication (RTC), but a new Peace Corps Master’s International Program in RTC. The Humanities Department at Michigan Tech is the only department in the nation to earn three Program of Excellence Certificates from the Conference on College Composition and Communication for our undergraduate program in Scientific and Technical Communication, our Second-year Writing Program, and our nationally recognized Writing Center. The Department of Humanities is home to two national journals: The Community Literacy Journal, and Pank: A Review of New Writing and Art.. It also hosts Michigan Tech’s Summer Reading Program, the only such program at a technological university in the United States. In 2005, the Department sponsored the Fifth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference: Affirming Diversity, attended by approximately 350 people from all over the United States, Canada, the Middle East, and Mexico (excerpted http://www.hu.mtu.edu/; accessed Nov. 2009).