The English Department strives to develop a true community of learners where a working knowledge of literary history and literary analysis gives students a home in their own culture and makes them careful and compassionate judges of human nature.
A graduate of the English program at the University of Mary:
- Displays mastery of usage and mechanics in edited work
- Can analyze a text or image in terms of its formal elements and their implications
- Can distinguish major critical theories
- Can use major research tools to construct a preliminary bibliography
- Can produce an original short work of narrative, dramatic, or poetic art
- Can use grammatical terminology to explain the stylistic or dialectal differences between two texts
- Can apply several different critical theories to the same literary text and discuss their implications
- Can analyze an argument in terms of both its logic and rhetoric
- Can produce a well supported argument incorporating research
The English Program Director is
A. Wesley Jones.
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