Excellence in the field of rhetorical, critical, and comparative studies, through combining the authenticity of heritage with an awareness of modernity, and employing scientific curriculum in reading and analyzing texts, with the aim of developing aesthetic taste, developing critical thought, and keeping pace with cultural and artistic transformations locally and globally, while consolidating Arab identity and openness to civilizational dialogue.
The department works to prepare a graduate who possesses the tools of rhetorical and critical analysis, capable of reading literary texts with a scientific and aesthetic vision, combining a deep understanding of the arts of expression, the ability to create and innovate, and benefiting from modern methods and theories in studying and analyzing the text, with an interest in comparative studies as a means of understanding the self through the other, and revealing the points of convergence and divergence between literatures and cultures.
- Developing students’ literary and critical sensibility as a means of understanding texts and fostering cultural and aesthetic awareness.
- Equipping students with the skills of Arabic rhetoric and employing it in analyzing literary texts and uncovering their artistic and intellectual values.
- Preparing researchers who possess the tools of the scientific method and contribute to the fields of research, critical and cultural writing.
- Presenting criticism as a living, interactive act connected to taste and creativity, rather than as a rigid or didactic science.
- Employing modern rhetorical and critical approaches in reading texts and analyzing literary phenomena in a disciplined scientific language.
- Supporting comparative studies that highlight the paths of influence and interaction among literatures, contributing to the development of an open civilizational awareness.
- Monitoring the development of literary genres and following their stylistic and aesthetic transformations throughout ages.
- Identifying students’ literary and critical talents, refining them, and encouraging creativity and innovation.
- Contributing to community service through cultural and critical activities that help shape public taste and elevate literary thought.