English BA Degree Overview
Students can choose a variety of paths through the English major. For more detailed information on degree requirements, students should consult their DegreeWorks audit.
English, BA: Creative Writing Concentration
Students in the Creative Writing program at º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø learn critical thinking and reading in a creative context. For students who are strong writers and interested in writing fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, the chance to be part of a community of writers while working with our internationally recognized faculty is not just an opportunity to prepare for a career — the ability to think critically and communicate well cuts across almost all jobs, and our graduates have gone on to work in almost any field you can think of — but also to understand how your own voice fits within the vital continuum of literature.
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English, BA: Rhetoric Concentration
As a social act, rhetoric has the power to transform the world around us. Our program focuses on public discourse and the intersection of culture and rhetoric, with an emphasis on digital and multimodal rhetoric, community engagement, and the contextualization of rhetoric as a deeply rooted historical practice. Our cultural rhetorics approach provides students with the theoretical frameworks and skills to analyze how language has functioned to shape social reality in both the past and the present. While recognizing the uses and dangers of rhetoric, students learn methods of effective communication, with the potential for local and global impact, across a range of platforms: in academic and creative nonfiction writing, journalism, podcasting, debate, and more.