2023-2024 Academic Catalog
Department of English
|
|
The Department of English is dedicated to providing you with the learning experiences necessary to explore your artistic side while also honing your critical thinking and communication skills to find that job that will allow you to put your passion for words to work for you.
With a degree in English, you will become an incisive, culturally responsive writer and critical thinker. You’ll learn how to effectively communicate with different audiences by skillfully interpreting language and producing engaging content. With options for specialized concentrations or a broad approach, you can tailor the major to your career goals.
This degree builds flexible, highly valued skills that you can use across industries like Arts & Entertainment, Data Analysis, Education, Editing & Publishing, Healthcare, Information Technology, Journalism, Legal Services, Marketing, Nonprofit Administration, and Public Relations.
The field of English covers a range of disciplines: creative writing, cultural studies, film studies, linguistics, literature, professional & technical writing, and rhetoric & composition. Many of our classes are offered both online and face-to-face.
Come work one-on-one with a world-class faculty of nationally and internationally known teachers committed to academic excellence, innovative instruction, cultural inclusivity, and collaborative service to the community. We prioritize individual mentoring, career preparation, and networking opportunities to help you succeed.
Undergraduate
The English BA program is structured so that you are first introduced to the most important activities we do in our various fields. Then you practice those activities, honing your skills and applying them in various situations. Finally, you get a chance to show how well you’ve mastered those activities.
We call those most important activities Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), and there are four of them.
By the time you’re graduated with a BA in English, you should be able to:
-
Analyze and interpret a variety of texts in their historical/cultural/genre contexts, considering the relationship between language form and meaning, using discipline-specific analytic tools.
-
Synthesize multiple voices in your work through the ethical incorporation of external sources, following genre-specific conventions.
-
Create your own clear, precise, well-developed, and highly-organized texts, addressing particular purposes and audiences.
-
Revise your written work through a reflective and iterative process that fulfills disciplinary, professional, or field expectations.
Graduate
The Master of Arts Program in English leads students to the M.A. in English degree by providing in-depth and focused post-baccalaureate seminars and workshops in English and its many subdisciplines. Within the Program, students can particularize their individual academic paths and can choose to focus on a number of specialties, such as literary studies, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and linguistics. We aim to prepare graduates for a variety of careers in fields such as secondary and higher education, writing and editing, marketing, research, public service, and public relations, as well as for further study at the doctoral level.
In keeping with the broader institutional vision:
-
We create collaborative learning experiences of the highest quality, informed by our diverse scholarly practices, research, and creative activities.
-
We strive to offer an open, inclusive, diverse, caring, and respectful student-centered environment enhanced by technology and transcultural experiences.
-
We prepare our students to achieve academic excellence, develop their analytic and critical thinking skills, enhance their creativity, and embrace their responsibilities as citizens of their communities, their nations, and the world.
ProgramsUndergraduate Program(s)Undergraduate Minor(s)Master’s Program(s)Graduate Certificate(s)
|
