The program at Sonoma State University?offers options of completing your degree with an emphasis in literary criticism, creative writing, and rhetoric/English education. As a whole, we seek to foster scholars and writers who are engaged in dialogue across their discipline-specific course of study.?

Skills

• The ability to read texts closely and to articulate the value of close reading in the study of literature and rhetoric.
• The ability to explicate texts written in a wide variety of forms, styles, structures, and modes.
• The ability to recognize and appreciate the importance of major literary genres, subgenres, and periods.
• The ability to respond imaginatively to the content and style of texts.
• The ability to write clearly, effectively, and imaginatively, and to accommodate writing style to the content and nature of the subject.
• The ability to develop and carry out research projects and to articulate them within appropriate conceptual and methodological frameworks.