English studies help students sharpen their understanding, enhance their enjoyment, and heighten their awareness of themselves and their changing multi-cultural world. Designed for a variety of students, including those who are seeking personal enrichment, English studies are appropriate as preparation for careers in education, law, business, or human relations, and for graduate study in literature. The approach is through a close study of language and literature as a discourse upon and communication of human concerns and values, with emphasis as well on the distinctive imaginative and aesthetic qualities of literary texts.