Bachelor's Degree in English - Literature

The Literature Emphasis of the B.A. English Program provides students with a broad scope of knowledge in the survey classes and a deep dive into particular subjects in the seminars, preparing them for graduate work in fields such as literature, composition, English education, communication, journalism, library science, and linguistics; or for a career in various fields such as publishing, editing, marketing, broadcasting/journalism, or writing. This degree program further serves as an appropriate pre-professional major for a student who plans to seek a higher degree in a field such as law, medicine, ministry, or mental health, especially when combined with a second major or minor pertinent to that field (for example, history, politial science, business, biology, philosophy , psychology, etc.). Regardless of career path chosen, through reading works of literature students will be able to better understand how literature both reflects and comments on society and humanity, enabling them to better understand their world. The reading and writing required in this major will also prepare students to be close and critical readers of their world, as well as effective communicators.