What it is UMass Dartmouth offers a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, a minor in English, and a Master of Arts Degree in professional writing. The literature option at UMass Dartmouth aims to teach students how to read intelligently, critically, and perceptively in many different literary fields. Students will explore fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, biography and autobiography, literary criticism, and literary theory. The writing option emphasizes writing, editing, and researching.
Students learn to write persuasively for a particular audience.
Students also create original, imaginative works and learn how to prepare them for publication with computer software. All options emphasize the connections among effective writing, perceptive reading, and clear thinking. The department offers a variety of courses ranging from Myth and Literature to Detective Fiction, from Journalism to Comedy and Satire, from Film as Drama to Creative Writing. Go to Menu What you study To complete a degree in English, students take at least 42 credits within their major and 120 credits overall. Students also meet a two-year foreign language requirement, either by studying another language, or by displaying proficiency in one of several foreign language tests.