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English Literature Program

Undergraduate Studies in Literature

If you are here just exploring the possibility of studying literature, you might be asking yourselves or us: “Why Literature?”  English majors might become writers, critics or English teachers, but they also go into advertising, publishing, law, medicine, media, business, public relations, government, social work, communication, or take any number of other paths.  Literature majors acquire analytical skills, develop their language faculties, experience multitudinous imaginative and historical worlds, test their own ideas and assumptions, and acquire a broad cultural awareness, all while reading great books.

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