English - Covenant College

English from Covenant College is a Campus Bachelor English degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Department of English seeks to help students understand, appreciate, and use responsibly God's gift of language . Students should develop a Christian awareness of the issues and problems in each area of language use and work toward Christian answers. In this way students should be equipped with the ability to understand language and use it responsibly wherever the Lord leads them after college. Writing Courses in composition aim to teach students how to generate, organize, and communicate ideas clearly, correctly, and effectively; students also get practice in analyzing and evaluating the ideas of others. Various courses in creative writing offer students a chance to develop their gifts in particular types of writing: fiction, poetry, nonfiction. The communication department's courses in playwriting and screenwriting offer additional options. Language Believing that its students should understand the nature of language as part of the God-given structure of reality, the department offers an introductory course in linguistics and a course in English syntax. Literature In the department's wide range of literature courses, students learn how to approach and appreciate literary art forms, as products both of the creativity which is part of the image of God in humankind and of human beings living in particular cultures and employing particular literary techniques. View more details on Covenant College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related English courses.