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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.
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