English (B.A.)
Program Goals
- Literary canon: Students will demonstrate familiarity with a variety of literary texts from the Anglo-American canon including its multicultural, postcolonial, and gendered expansions; with philosophical, historical, political, economic, biographical, and cultural contexts; and with major critical approaches.
- Critical analysis: Students will apply interpretive and argumentative skills through reading and writing about texts in various discourses, genres, and media.
- Rhetorical literacy: Students will communicate effectively and ethically across multiple media platforms by attending to questions of context, audience, and purpose.
- Writing skills: Students will approach composition as a process of assessing the rhetorical situation, conducting research, evaluating resources, organizing ideas, and designing and revising texts for multiple contexts and purposes.
Degree Requirements
Core Courses (24 credits)
Beyond the core courses, to receive a General English Degree, students can choose the remaining 18 major elective credits from any upper-level ENG or HUM courses, plus the capstone course and/or internship (subject to consultation with advisor). Students can also specialize in literature by taking all 18 elective credits in literature and humanities plus the capstone course or specialize in professional writing by taking all 18 elective credits in ENG Professional Writing courses plus the internship.
The minimum grade of C is required in all major and minor courses. A student must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5 in major and minor courses.