The program prepares students seeking entry into post-baccalaureate degree programs, as well as careers that require language and writing expertise, such as law, business, teaching, technology, and the sciences.

The undergraduate English program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi offers a major in English, curricula for secondary English certification, and minors in English and Creative Writing. It also participates in the interdisciplinary minors of Technical and Professional Writing, Journalism, and Women and Gender Studies (see descriptions under ?Interdisciplinary Minors?).

Upper-level courses in composition and rhetoric, linguistics, and literature may satisfy requirements for other disciplines and serve as electives for non-majors who wish to improve their analytic, writing, and technical skills and to broaden their experiences in the liberal arts.

Student Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the program, students will be able to:

• Analyze written texts in English from appropriate historical, social, and theoretical perspectives;

• Respond analytically to literary works using appropriate critical terminology;

• Analyze characteristics of one?s own writing in terms of discourse genres;

• Produce academic research papers that effectively synthesize sources into coherent arguments; and

• Produce academic research papers that illustrate appropriate documentation skills.