English Studies Concentration

You’ll increase your powers of reading comprehension, analysis, interpretation, research, synthesis, and writing.

Many of the classes you’ll take ask you to read complex texts (classic and contemporary literary works, works on theories and methods in linguistics or rhetoric) and to write in ways that synthesize and build on their ideas. These skills, you will find, are essential in your other course work and in the professional world you enter when you graduate.

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You’ll build knowledge in close collaboration with your classmates and faculty members who are innovative teachers and respected, published scholars. Your professors bring to the classroom the excitement and curiosity with which they conduct their own research and mentor students in the goals, methods, and practices of their fields.

Because this concentration draws upon all the subdisciplines in English, you might work with any member of our faculty.

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You’ll turn your analytical and writing skills toward the kind of activities you’ll pursue in the workplace after graduation.

Just a couple of the ways we do this include:

• immersive learning projects—many of them
• internships and other professional work opportunities

You’ll gain a broad grounding in the multiple sub-disciplines of English:

• Literature
• Rhetoric and Writing
• Creative Writing
• Linguistics

You will also pursue nine credits of electives, which will give you the chance to pursue your own interests.