The power of the written word remains a constant for every generation.
Overview
In our English program in literary studies, you'll cultivate valuable skills in writing and critical thinking while exploring literary works by diverse writers. Courses stress the importance of critical reading, writing and research to provide you with a background suitable for many kinds of careers. Our diverse faculty teach and publish across the historical and theoretical spectrum, and students benefit from an interdisciplinary mix (for example, a course on crime fiction co-taught by faculty in English and sociology).
Present papers at regional and national research conferences. Publish your work in The Oswegonian student weekly, Great Lake Review creative writing journal and Exist e-publication. Excel and join the Oswego chapter of the international English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta. As a senior, enroll in Words in the World, to connect with the world of professional communications by designing and producing writing and research-related projects for businesses and non-profit organizations.
Curriculum
Bachelor of Arts
Outcomes
- Evaluate and analyze, in a variety of expressive forms, literary and extra-literary texts from formal, historical and other theoretically disciplined critical perspectives
- Recognize and recall literary movements and geohistorical periods and demonstrate how writers and critics use these traditions to situate and transform their own practices
- Detect and critique how categories of human diversity influence the identities of writers and readers and can produce cultural, political and institutional inequity, even as they create opportunities for expanding freedom, civic identification and social justice. (Examples of human diversity might include race, gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity and disability.)
- Enhance ability to revise writing for accuracy in the use of primary and secondary sources, for logically sound arguments, for rhetorically sound strategies and for conformity with standard usage and grammar.
Career Opportunities
- Corporate communications
- Activism and advocacy
- Video game development
- Teaching
- Editing
- Publishing
- Public service
- Non-profit communications and grant writing
- Copywriting
- Marketing
