The English Education program at Messiah College prepares students to be perceptive and energetic teachers. It assists students in studying a wide array of literatures using a variety of critical thinking and writing skills, to help them become perceptive readers, responsible writers, and insightful thinkers. Professors encourage students to develop perspectives on the relationship of Christian faith to all aspects of educational endeavor.
All English majors receive a critical introduction to the discipline through a set of core courses.
Those who are majoring in English Education then have a series of practica, educational philosophy courses, and student teaching, during the professional semester, administered through the education department. Details can be found in the catalog description of this major. Enthusiastic Professors Professors in the English program are all experienced educators at a number of academic levels. They reflect a diversity of backgrounds and scholarship specialties. These range from the ethnography of international literacy, Milton's poetics of worship, and Shakespeare's dramatic critique of King James I's theology, to the relationship between architecture and literature.