About Us
The English discipline celebrates the College's Catholic, Norbertine, and liberal arts traditions, and is committed to providing an educational environment for its majors that is intellectually, spiritually and personally challenging.
English majors and faculty interact inside and outside the classroom, engaging in conversations about literature, connecting literature to spiritual concerns, and encouraging each other to participate actively in the college community.
Our goal is to help English majors become caring, thoughtful citizens. They graduate with the knowledge, skills and desire necessary to make positive contributions to the communities they enter.
To achieve that end, the English major includes the following:
- A survey of the broad canvas of English and American literature, which we recognize as an evolving, rather than static, body of work.
- Practice in the essential skills of critical inquiry: reading, analysis and academic writing.
- Learning the debates that frame the study of literature and how to apply theoretical paradigms to readings of literature.
- Pursuing creative writing, and serving the college and outside communities through academic organizations and extra-curricular projects.