• The English major has been designed by the English department faculty with three purposes in mind to give students an overview of the history and variety of literature written in English to use the critical study of language and literature to help students think carefully and express themselves well and to introduce students to the debates about literature and culture that shape the intellectual lives and our national and global conversations.
  • The hope is that the graduates will enter the world with the sophistication, critical acumen, and sympathy born of wide reading and the skills needed to carry their convictions into action, no matter what line of work they pursue.