About Discourse

Mission Statement
By creating an e-journal with rigorous standards, we endeavor to emphasize the diversity of SMU's academic community and to create a dialogue between the four undergraduate schools at SMU.

Vision Statement
We envision that the e-journal will create an institutional forum for academic discourse that will reciprocally lend respectability to and gain prestige from student work, all the while adapting to changes in media and electronic technology. The e-journal's ensuing competitiveness with comparable journals at benchmark universities will raise awareness of SMU's academic community to parties outside of the university.

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Editorial Board
Each year, new members of the Discourse Ed Board are selected through an application process by returning Ed Board members.

Contact Information
Questions and comments regarding the content of the eJournal, the submission process, or the Editorial Board application process should be addressed to our Managing Editor.

Questions, comments, and error reports regarding the Discourse web page itself should be directed to the webmaster, Melissa Dempsey.