The major in English is suitable for many purposes, both professional and cultural. The Department of English offers courses which provide instruction in grammar, composition, critical thinking, and the analysis of literature.
Literature offers clues but never a complete answer.
Writers reveal how individuals have attempted to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which loneliness, despair, irrationality, and death are as conspicuous as friendship, hope, reason, and birth. Through literature we learn what it would be like to be Antigone, Hamlet, Huck Finn, or Job, or to live in other cultures. World Literature 2213 and 2223 will satisfy the core curriculum and will count as 6 hours of the English major. World Literature 2213 and 2223 will satisfy the core curriculum and will count as 6 hours of the English minor. For the admission requirements, retention procedures, dismissal procedures, and exit requirements of the teacher education program, see pages 81-84.