The Bachelor of Arts in English allows considerable flexibility for students to choose their major classes. Students may choose the Literature option or the Professional Writing Option, both of which require a major core of literature and writing classes. 

In the Literature concentration, which includes courses and texts in American, British, and international literature, you will read a broad range of novels, plays, short stories, essays, and poems involving a variety of authors, periods, and intellectual currents. You will explore major authors and literary works, the relationship between the literature and its target audience, literary characters from a variety of different backgrounds, and the symbolic language of literature.

In the Professional Writing concentration, which spans ancient rhetoric to modern writing studies, you will learn theories, skills, and conventions related to academic, business, creative, journalistic, scientific, and technical writing. You will develop competence in rhetorical elements, professional communication, teaching of writing, creative writing, interpretation of texts and visuals, workplace genres, and editing and style. In addition, students in each concentration can take elective courses in the other, giving you the opportunity for a well-rounded education that prepares you for world citizenship and a promising career.

Graduates can find career opportunities such as:

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