Successful English majors will:

• Master various analytical and critical reading skills, demonstrating the ability to read closely and to comprehend and interpret a variety of culturally diverse literary, non-literary, and visual texts.
• Gain broad knowledge of literature, achieving
  • Familiarity with the development and significant periods and movements of American, British, and World literatures.
  • Knowledge of literary, critical, and theoretical terminology.
  • Understanding of background and contextual knowledge necessary for the well-informed consideration of various texts.