英语系将研究生课程作为起点，以表彰非洲侨民是现代历史和文化的奠基人。该系的课程处理诸如流派和时期形成，创作技巧，修辞策略，主题主题和批判理论等基本文学问题。注意这些问题旨在培养语言艺术专业职业所必需的批判性阅读，研究和分析技能。同时，该计划通常在冲突，适应和调整从传统到现代和当代生活方式和写作的转变所带来的变化的范式中构思其产品。
Our graduate program in English trains first-rate scholars in cultural analysis, theoretical inquiry, and literary criticism. Students specialize in African American, American, British, Caribbean, or comparative literature. Ranked 7th in the nation by U.S. News, our graduate program in African American Literature is rooted in recognition of the African Diaspora as a founding event of modern history.<br>The Ph.D. in English at Howard's Graduate School aims to produce first-rate scholars and critics well-trained in historical research, theoretical inquiry, and criticism across a broad range of literary and cultural studies. Our program prepares graduates to compete successfully for postdoctoral positions, tenure-track teaching appointments at colleges and universities, and non-profit and private sector careers. Our curriculum emphasizes critical frameworks addressing fundamental literary issues such as genre and period formation, authorial techniques, rhetorical strategies, thematic motifs, and critical theories. Attention to these issues is intended to foster critical reading, research, and historical analysis skills required to conduct solid and innovative scholarly research in specialized fields.