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Program Advisors: Dr. Rebecca Chalmers (Chair) effective 9/12

Mission  

The Language and Literature 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.  

Departmental Learning Outcomes  

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

ENG 130, 202, 204, 215, 302, 315, 320, 481; plus four surveys from American, British, and World; two major focus classes.  

Minor in English:  

ENG 130, 202, 215, 302; two of ENG 321, 324, 330, 331, 336, 337; one of ENG 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466.   

Minor in Theater:   

COM 145, 245, 332, 345, 445; ENG 332, 343, 352, 353, 418.  

Honors Program  

English majors may pursue an honors program by taking the major sequence in English as defined above plus seven additional courses as follows: Two courses from PHI 308, 309, 311; THE 303, 306, 312, 338, or 339. One course from HIS 371, 372, 471, 472; POL 316, 414; or SOC 304. Two years of the same foreign language or four additional courses from the preceding two lists.  

Double Major:  

Students are encouraged to pursue a double major with the English major as one component. Modest adjustments in scheduling can be made.