J. Mark Baggett
Associate Professor of English & Law
Department of English
jmbagget@samford.edu
205-726-2309 (English) and 726-4129 (Law)
205-726-2112 (fax)

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COURSES
English 210
American Literature

English 410
Senior Thesis

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UCCP 101

UCCP 102

JMC 404
Law of Mass Media

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English 309


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A native of Birmingham, Mark Baggett joined the Samford faculty in 1987, working in both the Department of English and the Cumberland School of Law. He served as prelaw advisor from 1990 until 2004 and continues to advise prelaw students.

In the Department of English, he has taught American literature courses, as well as History of the Language and The Novel. This fall (2004), he will teach Senior Thesis, Engl 410.01W. He also teaches UCCP (Cultural Perspectives 101 in the fall and 102 in the spring), as well as the University's first-year orientation course, Horizons. He has also taught the University's Honors Seminar and Law of Mass Media in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In the Cumberland School of Law, he teaches in the first-year legal research and writing course, "Lawyering and Legal Reasoning" and also teaches a seminar course in Advanced Issues in Legal Writing.

Baggett has an undergraduate degree in Communication from the University of Alabama and a Master's degree in English from Alabama. In 1979, he received a J.D. degree from Alabama and practiced law in Tuscaloosa for two years.

He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in American literature and language, writing his dissertation on Mark Twain: "Verbal Humor in Nineteenth Century American Literature."

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