The study of English provides opportunities to explore the worlds of literature and culture. This English major produces graduates with demonstrated skills in literary analysis, critical thinking, writing, and communication. With this major, students build important research and critical thinking skills. They learn to discern what is important and to synthesize that information for other usage. As English majors are learning to read with a critical eye, they are also polishing their own writing skills.

Program Level Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

1. Write well-organized, well-developed expository essays in a variety of rhetorical modes, using Standard English, with a clear thesis statement and supporting topic sentences and supporting details.
2. Search for and find reliable, unbiased sources and to use these sources in research papers, using correct MLA documentation.
3. Evaluate a literary work in terms of style and descriptive technique, language, tone, mood, and literary conventions, such as symbolism, imagery, irony, and poetic devices such as meter and rhyme pattern.
4. Analyze a given literary work and explain its relevance to the time period and genre in which it was written as well as the relationship between the events in an author’s life, time, and culture to the development of his or her writing.

Review Graduation Requirements and General Education. 

Course List Units

Course	Title	Units
Required Core
Complete the following:
ENGL C102	Critical Reasoning, Reading, and Writing	3
Program Electives
Select one of the following:		3-4
ENGL C101	Critical Reasoning, Reading, and Writing Through Literature
ENGL C140	Appreciation of Literature
Select two of the following:		6
ENGL C150	American Literature through the Civil War
ENGL C155	American Literature 1865 to Present
ENGL C270	British Literature to 1800
ENGL C275	British Literature since 1800
Select two of the following or any course not selected above:		6
ENGL C135	Business Writing
ENGL C136	Business Communication
ENGL C143	Children's Literature
ENGL C144	The International Short Story
ENGL C145	American Literature: The Short Story
ENGL C146	Introduction to 20th Century Military Fiction
ENGL C181	Shakespeare
ENGL C296	Gothic Victorian Literature
ENGL C297	American Gothic Literature
HUM C100	Introduction to the Humanities
THEA C101	Introduction to History and Literature of Theater
Units Required for Major		18-19
Local General Education, CSU General Education, or IGETC pattern		Varies
Electives to satisfy unit requirement		Varies
Total Units		60