BA in English

Excel in the workplace by honing your critical skills in communication, analysis, and writing.

Objectives
The student who graduates with a major in English will be able to:

• Analyze significant literary works, primarily those written in English.
  
• Critically examine intellectual, moral, and ethical issues as they are presented or implied in works of literature.
  
• Apply techniques of literary research, including research that uses technology and fosters information literacy.
  
• Analyze genre, style, structure, and other textual features in a broad range of literary texts.
  
• Evaluate and apply a variety of critical theories of literary interpretation.
  
• Analyze the structure and development of the English language.
  
• Examine the contributions of major authors, including minority and women writers, in the context of the cultures within which these authors lived and wrote.
  
• Analyze literature from non-Western cultures.