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, to make and evaluate critical arguments, 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.
