English Minor

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