The mission of the English Language and Literature program is to encourage graduates to recognize the rights and responsibilities of human citizenship and to prepare them for meaningful and successful twenty-first century lives. By leading students to read, think, analyze, speak and write at higher levels of sophistication and effectiveness, the program provides them with the necessary skills for excellence and leadership.

The objectives of the program are to

offer an English Language and Literature (ELL) major that can become the definitive ELL program in the Gulf and that will produce graduates who are not only highly employable but able to advance the cultural development of the United Arab Emirates;

offer a selection of appropriate General Education courses, primarily in the Humanities domain; and,

serve other majors in ZU through the promotion of reading, writing and argumentation