An English and literature major allows students to practise specific interests within the wider range of literary study. Students in this major typically observe the relationship between literature and history, culture, and philosophy, offering diverse viewpoints and opportunities to learn fiction and verse, and practice scripting clear and concise expository prose. Scrupulous teaching in philosophy and writing is an asset for any vocation that a student may eventually pursue, making English a very appealing major for students learning to prepare for career goals in communications, medicine and law, marketing, or teaching English at some level.
Course Goals
Graduates must be able to:
- distinguish, analyze and understand intimately and essentially the use of language across a range of texts . poetry, drama and prose
- display understanding of key works, movements and types of English and American literature in their historical, cultural, and intellectual framework, and supposition of criticism
- write plain and convincing opinions with written proof and academic integrity
- conduct educated research and use and quote sources correctly
- create and communicate awareness in interactive settings
- recognize literary activity as a means of philosophy about and linking to the world and the complicated human experience
Course Details
As we are today surrounded by stories and words, from books, plays, films, websites, blogs, and tweets, the scholarly pursuit of literature is critically to seek the understanding of words and stories along with images they create. Students will learn to grasp how these texts of all kinds are created. Literature majors will read and analyze works that have circulated over more than 1,000 years of history and most of the global continents. The American and English lit major builds on centuries of history, from Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain, to recent published works by writers like Toni Morrison. The major is also designed to create essential skills at the core of the liberal arts education, which are informed thinking and reading, speaking and writing.
