Bachelors in English

The English department encourages and develops students' potential as readers and writers, creators and critics. With a shared goal of practicing and refining close-reading skills, together students and faculty explore the varied and changing worlds of fiction, essays, poetry, drama, film, and language itself. Students in English ---thus solidly based in literature, writing, and language, cross borders of geography, history, and genre, creating and responding --- on paper and on screen -- to a variety of texts in verbal and visual modes. With added experience in the department's literary and humor magazines, college newspaper, focused independent studies, internships, and honor society, English students are well prepared for graduate work in many fields and for careers in business, teaching, and law.