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English Department
The English Department offers a wide range of courses to meet the needs of a diverse student body. Beginning in the Writing Program, our courses provide training in textual analysis, interpretive skills and writing proficiency, skills that are crucial to success in college and beyond — as well as to the exercise of democracy and global citizenship. Our sophomore literature courses survey both Western traditions and the non-Western literatures of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In required core classes and degree programs, our emphasis is always on writing as a creative and rhetorical act and on the analysis of texts in historical, critical, and cultural contexts.
Candidates for the B.A. in English concentrate in literature, creative writing, or writing & rhetoric. Students seeking the M.A. in English may specialize in literature, professional writing, or writing & rhetoric. Our M.F.A. in Creative Writing program includes courses in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and playwriting. Both graduate and undergraduate programs feature coursework in cultural criticism, literary analysis, the essay, rhetoric, and professional writing. The rigorous study of literary and cultural texts — from the canon and from traditions historically excluded from academic study — is at the center of our work.