English Major with Literature Concentration (B.A.)
Do you love to read and study works in a variety of genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. Explore and understand the cultures these texts represent and the writers and poets who created them? In our program you will have read, discuss, and write about a wide variety of texts, full of ideas and characters that will have excite, challenge, and move you. Explore and articulate your own ideas, and watch your writing improve through the revision process while you create relationships with your peers and professors .
The Bachelor of Arts with a Major in English and a Concentration in Literature provides a broad set of writing and analytical skills that will serve you whether heading to graduate school, business, law, journalism, medicine, creative writing, or any other professional field. It is no accident that even Google lists critical thinking, communication, and empathy as their most desired skills for employees. English majors specialize in these “soft” skills, using our conversations, reflections, and writing about literature to build flexible, capable minds. Individuals with English degrees are found throughout virtually any field, from Nobel Laureates in medicine to stand-up comedians.
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Our department welcomes students to a close-knit and supportive community where your professors mentor and advise you. Our faculty fosters opportunities for you to publish creative work, apply for competitive scholarships and fellowships, present research at national conferences and help secure funding for student travel.
The Chestatee Review, our award-winning student literary magazine, publishes student fiction, poetry, essays, and visual arts each year.
Our faculty have published studies on such varied topics as Jazz and African-American fiction, Gothic fiction, Southern women’s writing, science fiction pulps, and Korean theater.
Three awards are given annually to recognize student writing: the Inman Quill Essay Award, the Kathryn Hinds Writing Award, and the John Ingrisano Award.
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The English Department is committed to low-cost textbook options for our students through Open Education Resources developed by English faculty and published by 91ÁÔÆæ Press. English Department faculty have published digital texts in English Composition, World Literature I and II, and British Literature that are available to students at no cost.
“Literature is the greatest of all sources of refined pleasure, and one of the great uses of a liberal education is to enable us to enjoy that pleasure.”
Thomas H. Huxley, A Liberal Education