English
学英语的学生要学会欣赏小说的艺术性, plays, poems, and stories; to understand the play of themes and ideas in literature; and to be sensitive to the complex relationship between literature and the society it reflects.
Overview
大多数选择主修专业的学生只是喜欢阅读, discussing, 写一些富有挑战性和启发性的想象力作品. 但是学生在学习英语中培养的技能——敏锐和创造性思考的能力, 提出并评价批判性的论点, 写作清晰而有说服力——为学生们准备一系列回报丰厚的职业生涯做好准备.
With small classes and a caring, distinguished faculty, 英语专业的学生学会怀着同情的心进入作家们创造的世界——从盎格鲁-撒克逊史诗《bwin体育》中的残酷世界到威廉·福克纳笔下闹鬼的环境 The Sound and the Fury and beyond. In addition to introductory courses, 该项目提供的文学课程包括奥斯汀等作家的课程, Chaucer, Dickinson, Faulkner, Melville, Shakespeare, and Woolf; and on such topics as African-American literature, early English novels, Irish literature, modern poetry, poetry by women, Shakespeare and film, Southern literature, and 21st-century literature. Except for junior and senior seminars, 所有英语课程对所有学生开放,无需特别许可.
Your Major Took You Where?
英语专业的学生已经进入了各种各样的研究生课程和职业.
Employers
- Brevard Music Festival
- James Graham Brown Foundation
- Portland Stage
- Southwest Times Record
- Wesleyan School
Postgraduate Study
- Belmont University School of Law
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Lipscomb University
- University of Kentucky
- Wake Forest University
- Xavier University
Curriculum
希望主修或辅修英语的学生通常从英国和美国文学调查开始, 是什么给他们介绍了文学研究的方法,给他们打下了文学史的基础. 然后,他们从一系列各个时期和流派的高级课程中进行选择, 还有创意写作和电影课程.