"What Can I Do With a Major in...English?"
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Bachelor of Science in Education Degree
The graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in English degree will use the knowledge and skills obtained in the program to:
- Appreciate the aesthetics of literature; understand its origins, trends, critical approaches, classifications, and limitations; and evaluate significant patterns of meaning found in its study.
- Write and speak with clarity, originality, grammatical correctness, and logic, demonstrating rhetorical skills necessary for successful communication.
- Accomplish primary and secondary research, incorporating the results into formal written and oral presentations.
- Understand language diversity as well as language uses, the relationship between spoken and written language, historical developments and social/cultural adaptations, and particular and universal linguistic features.
- Understand the relationship between a work of literature and the historical/cultural milieu in which it was written.
- Identify the components of a sound language arts curriculum at the secondary school level.
- Understand and apply currently accepted teaching theory and practice.
- Develop a personal philosophy and teaching style that accounts for diverse student backgrounds, needs, and abilities and that reflects growing teacher expertise.
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