English and Writing Major

We offer a combined major in English and Writing and minors in English, Creative Writing and Professional Writing. See sample four year plan.

The English and Writing major also serves as a valuable and practical double major with any program including the health sciences, social sciences, business, and education. See below our sample four-year plans for English and Writing with Business, Communication, Occupational Therapy, and Psychology.

English and Writing Major Goals:

1. To provide students with a body of knowledge about literature and other forms of representation that will allow them to recognize the interrelationship among ideas and provide them with the skills to be lifelong learners.
2. To teach students the critical and creative reading, writing and thinking skills that enable them to develop a personal value system and that will inform their understanding of their impact on the world around them.

Learning Outcomes for English and Writing

Students graduating with a degree in English and Writing will be able to

1. Develop strategies for originating and answering questions about literature.
2. Use language specific to the discourses of poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction.
3. Analyze and respond critically to texts using research and bibliographic materials appropriate to the discipline.
4. Demonstrate the ability to synthesize and organize ideas.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of a writing process that includes reading, research, drafting, editing, and revising, and be able to analyze that process in their own writing and the writing of others.