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Undergraduate
Program
Overview
The Department of English offers a wide range of courses in
literature, language, and writing. These courses are designed to
meet the needs and interests of English majors in the various
colleges, of English minors, and of students majoring in other
fields.
Two
options are available to English majors:
Literature
and Creative Writing
Although the emphases of each option differ, the goals are essentially
the same: an acquaintance with English and American literature
necessary for the liberally educated person; a knowledge of the
language necessary for perceptive reading and writing; an ability to
write English with competence and grace; and a sense of English
studies as a discipline.
Program
Goals for the English Major include:
Knowledge:
a variety of texts
from a range of genres, periods, and cultures, including American
and British literature and relevant contextual material; critical
theory and relevant applications; the history and/or structures of
the English language; other subject expertise as required by a
student's option.
Abilities: analyze, interpret, and
explicate texts (poetry, prose, drama, film, etc.), correctly
applying literary or technical terms as relevant; examine a text
from multiple perspectives, including critical and theoretical
approaches, applying terms and approaches correctly; evaluate the
strengths and weaknesses of a text (which may include one's own, or
another student's writing); organize and present arguments orally
and in writing; write formal essays effectively and write for
different purposes and for different audiences; use professional research tools,
showing both accuracy in format and the ability to choose,
introduce, provide background for, and evaluate researched sources
properly.
Exit
Portfolio
Students should keep work from all English
courses; they will need to assemble an Exit Portfolio that
demonstrates their mastery of the above goals. English 350 and
English 420 in particular will help students in preparing the
this portfolio.
An exit
portfolio judged as "highly successful" should demonstrate knowledge
of at least three genres, six literary periods, and three cultures
in addition to American and British literatures; and of at least
three literary critical theories, in addition to new critical
explication.
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English Department Office, CH 346 | 696-6600 | Fax: (304) 696-2448
Writing Center, CH 353 | 696-6254 Et Cetera Editor, CH 402A | 696-6645
english@marshall.edu |
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