Undergraduate Program
When you apply to become an undergraduate English major, you'll have the opportunity to explore
- Literature and Criticism
- Writing, Communications, and Rhetoric
- Drama, Film, and Media
Take the Literature and Criticism option and you will learn to:
- Identify authors, periods, themes, purposes, and forms of works of English, American, and World literatures and literary criticisms
- Identify and analyze formal attributes that distinguish literary genres and major schools of literary criticism
- Employ traditional and contemporary literary critical terms, techniques, and theories in analyzing and explaining, both orally and in writing, the forms, themes, arguments, audiences, purposes, and effects of works of literature
- Read critically across literary genres and works of literary criticism and history
Take the Writing, Communications and Rhetoric option and you will learn to:
- Analyze audiences to develop standards of appropriateness and strategies of effectiveness
- Develop and sustain an effective argument, including the appropriate documentation of evidence
- Write clearly and concisely, employing effective tone and diction
- Apply appropriate principles of visual rhetoric and document design
Take Drama, Film and Media Studies and you will learn to:
- Identify the artists, periods, themes, purposes, and forms of major works of drama and film in English, American, and World traditions
- Identify and analyze formal attributes that distinguish literary genres and major schools of literary criticism, particularly as they apply to drama and film studies
- Employ traditional and contemporary critical terms, techniques, and theories in analyzing and explaining, both orally and in writing, the forms, themes, arguments, audiences, purposes, and effects of works of drama and film
- Read and review critically major works of drama and film and works of literary criticism as they apply to drama and film studies
- Write and speak effectively in formats including literary/film analysis, reviews, persuasive argument, and critical exposition
Learn more about our undergraduate degree options:
- Literature and Criticism
- Writing, Communications, and Rhetoric
- Drama, Film, and Media
