Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [English] From University of Illinois

Majors will build familiarity with various literatures, intensify their writing skills for personal and professional use, and enhance their understanding of how texts function in various cultural contexts, past and present.

The English Concentration is organized to provide instruction in literature in English, literary theory and criticism, the English language, English education, film, cultural studies, and closely related fields. Students who major in English have many choices in planning a field of study, but the basic program is designed to accommodate students who seek to broaden their familiarity with our literature, to intensify their language skills for personal and professional reasons, and to learn more about literature's relationship to the other arts, history, philosophy, psychology, and the modern languages.