English - Bellarmine University

English from Bellarmine University is a Campus Bachelor English degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. English as a discipline of thought and study is fundamentally concerned with literacy.Critic and teacher Robert Scholes helpfully defines what such literacy means:???the ability to understand and to produce a wide variety of texts that use the English language???including work in the traditional literary forms, in the practical and persuasive forms, and in the modern media as well.??? English is, then, a very wide-ranging field of study. Historically, it gives attention to the great variety of texts that human culture has produced over centuries. Conceptually, it aims at developing deep abilities in reading and writing???again of a great variety of texts. The study begins with Eng. 201, The World of Texts, which introduces the student to the basic principles underlying the discipline. Students are also required to take at least one half of the American Literature Survey before moving into upper-level American literature courses and one half of the British Literature Survey before moving into upper-level British literature courses. The 300 and 400 level courses presume the solid grounding in literary history and critical reading skills that our 200 level courses are designed to provide. In the student???s senior year, the major provides a distinct ???capstone??? experience through Eng. 450, the Integrative Seminar. The deep literacy that one can achieve through careful work in the major prepares the student for a range of post-graduate opportunities. Naturally, one can pursue the discipline further, through graduate study in English . But the major in English, in connection with the full experience of coursework that a Bellarmine education provides, can lead also to a range of professional opportunities; recent graduates in English have gone on to work in such fields as banking, law, medicine, management, public relations, advertising, and academic administration. Department Goals The Department of English is committed to the following four goals: 1. To teach writing, as a fundamental means of learning ??? of self-expression, and of communication ??? across the full range of our course work. 2. To teach close, creative reading of both literary and non-literary texts, and to teach such reading as an interactive, culturally grounded process of making meaning. 3. To provide our majors with a fundamental sense of literary history ??? American, English , and as much as possible international ??? and of the social history relevant to it. 4. To explore literature as a centrally important mode of human inquiry and experience; that is, to take seriously what it is saying, and to argue critically about its social and individual truths. View more details on Bellarmine University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related English courses.