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2020 - 2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

English Minor


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Mission

The Language and Literature Department strives to develop a true community of learners where a working knowledge of literary history and literary analysis gives students a home in their own culture and makes them careful and compassionate judges of human nature.

Program Learning Outcomes

A graduate of the English program at the University of Mary:

  • displays mastery of usage and mechanics in edited work
  • can analyze a text or image in terms of its formal elements and their implications
  • can distinguish major critical theories
  • can use major research tools to construct a preliminary bibliography
  • can produce an original short work of narrative, dramatic, or poetic art
  • can use grammatical terminology to explain the stylistic or dialectal differences between two texts
  • can apply several different critical theories to the same literary text and discuss their implications
  • can analyze an argument in terms of both its logic and rhetoric
  • can produce a well-supported argument incorporating research

Minor Requirements


Required Courses:


One of the Following:


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