英语专业教给学生有效的欣赏和使用英语和文学的方法，以进行批判性思维，有效的沟通，公民权和事业成功。英语专业的学生具有较强的写作能力，并能进行高级的批判性和分析性思考。他们遇到了丰富，持久，实验和复杂的文学作品。他们努力解决与自己截然不同的观点，研究其最深层的价值观。讲师向学生介绍各种体裁和文化观点，并密切关注学生的思维和写作的各个方面，从逻辑和证据到独创性和风格。通过培养沟通技巧，激发创造力，发展文化敏感性和提高分析能力，该英语专业为学生提供了广泛的职业准备。
The English major teaches students to appreciate and use the English language and literature effectively for critical thinking, effective communication, citizenship, and career success. English majors build strong writing skills and engage in high-level critical and analytical thinking. They encounter enriching, enduring, experimental, and complex works of literature. And they grapple with perspectives far distant from their own, examining their deepest values. Instructors introduce students to a wide range of genres and cultural perspectives, and pay close attention to all aspects of student thinking and writing, from logic and evidence to originality and style. Fostering communication skills, stimulating creativity, developing cultural sensitivity, and sharpening analytical abilities, the English major prepares students for a broad range of careers.<br><br>English majors choose one of three tracks: the general major (which emphasizes literary and cultural studies), creative writing, or language and linguistics. All majors take a core curriculum that introduces them to a range of approaches to literature and language, including courses in literary and cultural history. Students who opt for the general major build on core courses with intermediate and advanced classes that focus on texts from across a range of periods and places, investigating literature and culture using multiple methods and approaches. Students pursuing the emphasis on creative writing take the core curriculum with a sequence of creative writing workshops. Students wishing to emphasize language and linguistics choose options in grammar, the history of the English language, phonology, and language acquisition.