English Department

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Objectives

The English Department offers programs in literature and composition, English education, creative writing, linguistics, classics, and professional writing designed to create competent, analytic, and literate professionals for a variety of careers. Graduates in English are highly prized by business, government, and the professions. Women and men trained in communicating and knowledgeable about the central issues of human culture are well prepared to enter such fields as law, public service, medicine, business, and the social sciences because such graduates evince the ease, flexibility, confidence, and skills that make them effective communicators, thinkers, and problem solvers. English majors enter such professions as law, medicine, and commerce, and are prepared for careers in education, government service, and such private-sector areas as administration, advertising, buying, insurance, customer service, editing, journalism, management, personnel, public relations, publishing, sales, on-the-job training and instruction, and writing.

Requirements for the Majors

English: The English major includes thirteen courses (39 s.h.): an introductory course; a composition course; a critical theory course; a Shakespeare course; four survey or period courses; three 300-level courses drawn from departmental offerings in composition, creative writing, linguistics, and/or American, English, and world literatures; a multicultural literature course; and a seminar (capstone) course with a research-writing component.

Programs

• English, B.A.

• Classical Studies Minor
• Creative Writing Minor
• English Minor
• Linguistics Minor
• Professional Writing Minor

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