The Center for Literacy, Education and Employment (CLEE) was founded by The University of Tennessee in 1988, in order to bring the strengths of multiple disciplines to the issues of literacy. Since its inception, CLEE has worked to link theory and practice through research, evaluation, professional development, partnerships and building and sharing the knowledge of [...]
The Center on Deafness (COD) is committed to preparing professionals who value and are committed to modeling, supporting, and securing equity for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH). Established in June 1998, the COD provides an array of research and collaborative partnership opportunities related to deafness and disability issues. The center focuses on [...]
We are a diverse department with a diverse mission. We teach First-Year Composition to all the students at the University of Tennessee, and we teach literature to a sizable percentage of that total. We have an undergraduate major with four concentrations: creative writing, literature, rhetoric and writing, and technical communication. We offer an MA and [...]
The Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Linguistics is an interdisciplinary research and educational unit promoting research, teaching, study abroad, and outreach on language, linguistics, and language-related topics. The IDP includes faculty from eight departments and two colleges across the university. Disciplines / Departments Anthropology Classics Educational Psychology and Counseling English Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Theory [...]
Teachers Investigating Adult Numeracy (TIAN) is a collaborative project of the Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee and TERC, a nonprofit educational research center in Cambridge, Mass., and is funded primarily by a grant from the National Science Foundation. TIAN is developing and testing a model for in-service professional learning that engages [...]
Faculty in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education work with pre-service and in-service teachers and interpreters at all levels. TPTE faculty members work with an array of partners at state and local education agencies to improve and study teacher development. Some of our work focuses on teaching in particular areas such as [...]
