- The Faculty offers three- and four-year majors and a minor in English. These programs engage students in the study of literature and cultural artefacts written in or translated into English.
- English is a discipline in the Humanities, which is the history and transmission of knowledge, including consideration of ideas and their aesthetic, intellectual and moral dimensions.
- In the discipline of English, the focus is on the expression of human thought and culture in written form, some of which may originally have been expressed in oral forms.
- Studies in English create awareness of methods and theories of literary and cultural analysis while enhancing overall competencies in critical thinking, reading, and writing.