English Major

The Arts and Humanities Department offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. The English program offers courses in approaches to literature, chronological surveys of U.S. and British literature, a study of the history and principles of the English language, as well as rhetorical approaches to composition. From this base, students select particular periods and genres as well as electives in creative writing and modern literature. Many of the program courses include reading in multicultural literature. The department also offers a minor degree program in English.

English Learning Outcomes

With the completion of this degree program, the following learning outcomes can be expected:

• Students will demonstrate the ability to perform a close reading in writing.
• Students will demonstrate language awareness.
• Students will demonstrate understanding of the formal elements of a work of a published work of literature, drama, or poetry.
• Students will demonstrate understanding of the formal elements of the student’s own creative work.
• Students will demonstrate application of critical theory to primary texts.
• Students will demonstrate ability to use scholarly articles in support of an argument.
• Students will demonstrate knowledge of and ability to use the research process.
• Students will demonstrate understanding of social responsibility through a cross-cultural, political, historical or economic analysis of texts.
• Students will demonstrate understanding individual responsibility through an ethical, moral, spiritual, or philosophical analysis of texts.