BA in English

English program teaches you to closely analyze text, improve your writing through peer review and workshop exercises and develop communication skills. Through this major, you will be encouraged to look past your own experiences in order to understand others, and to study both past and present authors ranging from William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, and Emily Dickinson to Chinua Achebe, Sylvia Plath, Junot D az and Zadie Smith.