ENG - English
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Program Code
ENG
Program Attributes
Major, Minor
Program Description
Studying English is tremendously rewarding and has much to offer both the practical and the inquiring student. Students focus on the essential human endeavors of reading, analysis, interpretation, and writing. English study enhances aesthetic perception and engages us vicariously through literature. By studying perennial themes and questions of the human condition, students gain an understanding of their own lives in today’s world. Students study literary and other texts in generic, aesthetic, historical, religious and other contexts, including the theoretical and interdisciplinary contexts the faculty bring to the courses they teach. The English major prepares the student for any career that requires perceptive reading, orderly and clear thinking, and persuasive and graceful oral and written expression. For example, careers such as law, medicine, education, business, organizational management, writing, and publishing and editing rely heavily on skills developed in the English major. Opportunities for the English major are found in careers as diverse as teaching, business and industry, professional and technical writing, journalism, editing, personnel work, sales, government service, advertising, script writing, and public information. English study supports lifelong personal enrichment, moral citizenship, and family life.
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Ability to read a variety of literary and non-literary texts closely, recognizing subtle and complex differences in language use and literary genre.
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Ability to write clear, persuasive analytical essays driven by arguments based on the texts using appropriate literary terminology and the cultural and aesthetic values relevant to these texts.
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Ability to research literary works, authors, and contexts, ably utilizing library resources, incorporating and documenting research appropriately, and adhering to the highest standards of intellectual integrity.
Objective
Broad knowledge of key authors, major traditions and movements, and literary and cultural history.
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close reading, English
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close reading, English
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Ability to read a variety of literary and non-literary texts closely, recognizing subtle and complex differences in language use and literary genre.
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analytical writing, English
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analytical writing, English
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Ability to write clear, persuasive analytical essays driven by arguments based on the texts using appropriate literary terminology and the cultural and aesthetic values relevant to these texts.
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thorough research, English
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thorough research, English
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Ability to research literary works, authors, and contexts, ably utilizing library resources, incorporating and documenting research appropriately, and adhering to the highest standards of intellectual integrity.
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literary knowledge, English
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literary knowledge, English
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Broad knowledge of key authors, major traditions and movements, and literary and cultural history.