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As an ������Դ English major, learning happens both in and outside the classroom. Our student magazine, Voices, gives you the chance to submit your work and get published. Whether its poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or just snippets of daily life, we want to hear from you. 

Earn your bachelor’s and juris doctor degrees in six years through ������Դ’s Three-Plus-Three Law program. You’ll get a jump-start on your J.D. by integrating law courses into your undergraduate studies and completing undergraduate requirements in your first year of law school. Accepted students will take first-year courses in the School of Law along with legal electives to fulfill undergraduate fourth-year requirements. Interested students must indicate their intent to pursue a 3+3 pathway early in their undergraduate studies for curriculum planning and advising.

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Internships in fields like marketing, communications, and publishing, help English majors apply their passions to a career path. Getting real-world experience before graduation will set you up for success.  

We take your research seriously. Whether you’re analyzing the role of women in Harry Potter or exploring Marxism in Mean Girls, you will have the opportunity to make connections among pop culture, literature, and the world around you, and present your findings at national conferences. 

Whether it’s a Victorian high tea in English gardens or a career night to get you excited for your future, there’s always something going on in the English department.

1. Communicate ideas about literature and culture through effective analytical and critical writing and/or oral presentation
2. Develop and apply advanced literary and cultural research skills to analysis of literary and cultural texts
3. Apply critical theory, historical contextualization and/or other methodologies to analyze literary and cultural texts
4. Understand and analyze the impact diverse identities (race, class, gender, religion, etc)  have had  on writers, literary representations and historical interpretations  of literatures,  periods and cultures
5. Identify and analyze a variety of literary forms across multiple genres

The English Literary Studies program at ������Դ offers students a broad and diverse engagement with historical and contemporary texts from the Anglophone world (especially Great Britain and the US) and beyond. Our students become careful readers and excellent writers, taking these skills to a wide range of careers and graduate programs. Our major requirements emphasize flexibility and student choice so students can craft a curriculum that matches their individual literary interests. Thus, in all our courses, faculty  strive to engage with both canonical and non-canonical texts through a variety of contemporary lenses and approaches. Along with situating literature in its many historical and cultural contexts, our courses pay particular attention to the ways in which literature exposes and represents the hierarchies of power in our literary traditions, noting the importance of engaging with literatures of slavery and imperialism, as well as highlighting diverse expressions and representations of gender and sexuality throughout literary history. As we work to make the English literary tradition relevant to our students today, we believe that a program in English literary studies should help all students “see” themselves in that literary history.