Students discuss the inspiration behind their choice of major and reveal a softer side to literature.

In the Department of English & Literature, we celebrate the power of words and their capacity to influence our lives and our world. Our desire is to ignite students’ love of words through the study of literature, writing, and linguistics and to honor Christ as the foundation for our teaching and learning.

We encourage students to grow intellectually and spiritually by empowering them to discern significant ideas in their reading, to compose meaningful texts, to conduct scholarly and field research, and to understand and apply linguistic principles. As they synthesize their faith with their discipline, students are prepared to succeed as scholars, writers, teachers and communicators and to enjoy a lifelong relationship with words.

Objectives

Graduates of the Department of English & Literature will be able to demonstrate:

• their knowledge of literature, professional and literary genres and conventions, and linguistic structures
• their ability to read critically, to write for varied rhetorical situations, to conduct research, and to analyze language and texts
• their appreciation for the value and beauty of language and texts and for the integration of Christianity with the study of English