Description and Requirements

English studies help students sharpen their understanding, enhance their enjoyment, and heighten their awareness of themselves and their changing multi-cultural world. Designed for a variety of students, including those who are seeking personal enrichment, English studies are appropriate as preparation for careers in education, law, business, or human relations, and for graduate study in literature. The approach is through a close study of language and literature as a discourse upon and communication of human concerns and values, with emphasis as well on the distinctive imaginative and aesthetic qualities of literary texts.

To complete an English major a student must demonstrate the ability to read and analyze critically the major genres, to write clearly and coherently, to understand and use basic linguistic concepts, to employ intelligently the vocabulary of literary study, and to be able to relate major events in literary history to the world at large.

The English major requires 52 units; the Single Subject Waiver (for high school teaching) requires additional units. See the Department Chairperson for details.

Core Requirements:

Electives:

A minimum of 18 semester hours in upper-division ENG courses.