The Department of Languages is one of the nine pioneer Departments in the College of Humanities, Glorious Vision University (Formerly Samuel Adegboyega University) which took off in November 2011. At the take-off stage, the academic programmes of the department were two degree options namely, B.A. English and B.A. French.
It presently offers courses leading to the award of Bachelor Degrees (B.A) in English. The English programme has full accreditation status of National Universities Commission (NUC) in 2015 and 2021 respectively. The National Universities Commission also gave full accreditation to the M.A and PhD programmes in the Department, 2024.
The general philosophy of the programme is to inculcate in the students the development of the artistic, intellectual, humanistic and empirical capacities to the fullest. In a country where English is an added language, a major official language, a lingua franca, and the language of instruction in the educational system, a high level of proficiency in it is usually expected from the graduates of higher institutions especially the universities. A higher level of competence and communicative (performative) skills are expected especially from the graduates of English.
This is why the Department sees the need to devote greater attention to the achievement of improved knowledge of English and the acquisition of adequate oral and written skills in it. English graduates from Nigerian universities should be clearly and positively identified with adequate proficiency in pronunciation, articulateness in speech, correctness of grammar and its usage, elegance and style in choice of diction and appropriate use of varieties of English in the various administrative and professional job opportunities available in the labour market in literary and creative writing domains and in post graduate studies in language and literature.
i. To train students to acquire adequate communicative competence in both the spoken and written varieties of the English Language, thereby giving them a good grounding and effective mastery of the Language in its various applications to achieve adequate self-expression and self-actualization.
ii. To equip the students with the knowledge of the forms and features of the varieties of English used in different professional domains such as business communication, legal communication, electronic broadcast media, print journalism advertising and sports commentaries, book publishing, and biography writing.
iii. To adequately prepare the students to pursue postgraduate studies in English Language, Linguistics, Literature, Communication and Theatre Arts, as well as Journalism and to take up teaching and research at the appropriate level of Education.
iv. To equip the students with adequate linguistic knowledge of the English Language through a detailed study of its sound system, its lexicon, its syntax, semantics and usage.
v. To orient students towards self – employment by a focus on skills such as writing (e.g. of articles in magazines, of speeches, designing and presenting special programs on radio or TV, designing and publishing magazines etc.), creative writing, and other kinds of original output through independent thoughts inventiveness and creativity.
vi. To enable students to overcome deficiencies in their English.
Admission into the Departmental of Languages is done in accordance with the guidelines of the National Universities Commission (NUC) from time to time.
This takes place at the beginning of every new academic session based purely on merit. There are two modes of admission into the B.A. (Hons) English: UTME and Direct Entry (DE).
To qualify for admission into the programme, a candidate must possess at least five (5) credit passes in SSCE or NECO (O’Level), obtained at not more than two sittings, which must include the following subjects: English, Literature, Government, French, History and any other social science subject.
The minimum number of years to be spent for the award of B.A degree in English is 4years and a student shall not spend more than 6 years in completing the programme. The minimum of 3 years for DE is required. That is, a minimum of (8) eight semesters of four (4) academic sessions for candidates who are admitted through UTME while Direct Entry candidates shall complete their programme of study within (6) semesters or (3) academic sessions.
A student shall qualify for the award of a degree of B.A. English when he/she has:
a) Completed and passed ALL the courses he/she registered for including all compulsory courses and required/elective courses as may be offered by the University/College.
b) Obtained a minimum CGPA specified by the University but not less than 1.5.
c) Earned the minimum credit units of not less than 120 for UME and 90 for DE candidates.
The Degree Classification for under-graduate English programme shall be as contained in the table below:
| Degree Class | CGPA |
| First class | 4.50-5.00 |
| Second class (upper) | 3.50-4.49 |
| Second class (lower) | 2.40-3.49 |
| Third class | 1.50-2.39 |
| Fail | Less than 1.50 |