The Undergraduate Program in English offers students a strong liberal arts experience, emphasizing reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills within a global, multicultural context. Our mission is to provide all English majors with a thorough grounding in the analysis and interpretation of texts and to teach them the research skills essential to discovery and reasoned argument. Through options for deeper study in Literature, Language, and Culture, Creative Writing, and Professional Writing, students build on this groundwork. LLC students develop sophistication in literary and cultural analysis; creative writers hone craft and imagination; professional writers learn the advanced communication and design skills necessary to articulate issues and solve problems.

Threaded through the program as a whole is the conviction we share with all our students: that language and discourse offer powerful means to discover meaning, to create new possibilities, and to take action in the world.

We offer a faculty-led study abroad program, internships, and undergraduate research and professional development opportunities.