Requirements for a major in English

The English Program serves students by leading them to discover the practical importance of our cultural inheritance; honing analytical, critical, and communication skills, and advancing the University's overarching mission of knowledge, service and sound value judgment.
By learning to identify and analyze details, as well as recognize and interpret larger patterns, students who major or minor in English prepare themselves for careers in law, media, marketing, advocacy, social services, diplomacy, human resources, professional writing, fundraising, health services and global communications. Students also can prepare for the traditional fields of secondary and higher education.

The major requires students to take 35 semester hours of English (12 courses), nine of which - three classes - are General Education Requirements. Students are encouraged to augment their English classes with outside studies.

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