English  

The UAS Ketchikan English Department offers courses that support students seeking certificates, associate degrees and bachelor degree programs. Courses are offered both locally and by distance mechanisms including audio-conference and web-based.

Rod Landis, Associate Professor of English, has oversight for Humanities and Arts courses offered by UAS Ketchikan.

Professor Landis holds a Bachelor of Sciences in communication theory, a Master of Arts in English, and a Master of Letters in Victorian Literature from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. His accomplishments & honors include:

• Founder of Ketchikan Humanities Conference
• Published poet, presented new poems at Nye Beach Writer’s Conference, 2000
• Outstanding UAS Humanities Faculty 2005-2006 award
• "Writing Across the Curriculum" - professional development workshop presented for adjunct faculty
• Coordination & Presentation of Tom Stoppard's play,  The Real Thing, at the Juneau Humanities Conference.
• Producer of and actor in  the local play, Bed Sheets, performed in Ketchikan and at Juneau’s Pacific Rim Forum, and studied in classes across the regional campus
• Founder of UAS’ former film series, VideoVersity
• Member - Association of Literary Scholars & Critics
• Member - Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
• Integrating Spoken & Written Communication on the Small Campus - An Alternative Approach,"- paper presented at Atlanta Conference on College Composition and Communication 1999

For more information, contact Rod Landis, Associate Professor of English, at 907-228-4547.