Brief history
The department of English was established concurrently with the College of Arts establishment in 1964 – 1965, while the establishment of the department of European Languages was in 1970 – 1971. It was the sole department belonging to this department. In 1977 – 1978, the department of European Languages was cancelled to be replaced by the department of English. The department aims at preparing students majoring in English via teaching them the various linguistic skills and their performance, which lead them to represent a cultural window to the world.
Large number of generations have been graduating from this department especially those who contributed in elevating the standard of the English Language and its spread in the local market. Those include teachers, literati, and translators as well as teachers in the Iraqi and other universities such as Mr. Abdul – Sahib Al-Sheikh, the late Dr. Ghalib Baqir, Dr. Shihab Ahmed and others.
Vision
An academic body specialized in supporting educational institutions towards excellence, quality, and competitiveness locally, regionally and internationally.
Message
A governmental academic body provides a scientific, administrative , and technical support in areas of quality for the educational institutions specialized in human sciences so as to be more creative and innovative via preparing efficient outputs matching the needs of work market, harnessing scientific research, and consultations to serve the society and its different institutions according to international criteria.
Goals
1- Supporting the academic institutions to escalate the educational service and to renew the programs and curricula to match the regional and international developments.
2- Supporting academic research for the teaching staff and postgraduate students to serve society and finding solutions for encountered problems.
3- Sharing future shaping with academic institutions and supporting them via adopting strategies and effective and verifiable future plans.
4- Assisting the role of consultative services and making them a center for the cultural and scientific support for the society.
5- Continuous improvement of faculty members and focusing on the necessity of mastering English and Computer and activating the international criteria regarding the number of the teaching staff in relation to that of the students.
6- Overcoming the difficulties for academic institutions to enter international classifications and obtain accreditation from various accreditation bodies.
7- Supporting the scientific labs to obtain ISO 17025.
8- Directing academic institutions to follow health and safety methods for the faculty, staff and students by adopting international standards to ensure healthy and sound environment.
9- Strengthening academic administration to achieve academic reputation and escalating its competitive spirit in all fields.
10- The vision adopted is an educational and of high quality environment which enjoys international academic standards.
11- Providing international staff for the academic institutions via direct teaching or distant one via the modern communicative means.
12- Encouraging academic institutions on holding international agreements and cooperation among symmetrical sober foundations in the world.
13- Showing the scientific image of the Iraqi researcher by supporting him in publishing in scientific journals and participating in international conferences.
14- Scaffolding the interrelationships among the various academic institutions.
15- Directing the governmental institutions in maintaining the originality of the Iraqi society via consolidating the citizenship spirit.