English Major, B.A.

The Department of English offers a variety of courses designed to expose the student to a wide range of literary texts and critical approaches. In English classes, students read, analyze, and write about literature from a number of historical periods. As a department, we encourage our students to think critically about the world around them and to consider the ways that race, gender, identity, sexuality, ability, class, ethnicity, and other intersectional aspects of identity shape the human experience, both in the classroom and beyond.

Requirements for the Major

Students will choose one of three concentrations: Literature, Creative Writing or Drama and Theatre. In each concentration, the student must fulfill requirements that involve historical breadth, literary genre, literary theory and criticism, and writers of significance; all concentrations culminate in the Senior Seminar (ENGL 470).