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 the Associate in Science and Associate in Arts Graduation Requirements and General Education requirements. 

Course List Units

Course	Title	Units
Required Core
Complete the following:
ENGL C102	Critical Thinking and Writing
ENGL C140	Appreciation of Literature
Program Electives
Select two of the following:		3-4
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 one of the following:		6
ENGL C133	Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL C143	Children's Literature
Select two of the following or any course not selected above:		6
ENGL C101	Critical Reasoning, Reading, and Writing Through Literature
ENGL C128	Asian American and Transpacific Literature
ENGL C129	Black Voices: Introduction to African American Literature
ENGL C136	Business Communication
or BUS C139	Business Communication
ENGL C296	Gothic Victorian Literature
ENGL C297	American Gothic Literature
ANTH A190	Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Units Required for Major		18-19
Local General Education or CalGETC pattern		Varies
Electives to satisfy unit requirement		Varies
Total Units		60