The Department of English offers a wide range of courses in British, American, and world literatures in English; film; literary theory; and creative writing. We encourage all students majoring in English to explore the full historical range of offerings; to investigate the spectrum of textual differences to be found in the study of Anglophone literatures, film, and oral traditions; and to include exposure to recent approaches in English studies, such as women's studies, literary theory, historical materialism, and cultural studies.

Students graduating with a major in English will have developed:

• An appreciation for the aesthetic, intellectual, and ideological complexity of literary and cultural texts;
• A capacity for critical thinking through immersion in close reading, rhetorical analysis, and historical contextualization;
• An ability to produce original questions for scholarly research or creative production and the skills necessary to carry that research, critical analysis, or creative project to completion with rigor and style.