Marietta College

Course Details

Bachelor of Arts in English

Course Description

If you're thinking of majoring in English, you've asked yourself, "What can I do with an English major?" The simple answer: whatever you want. Marietta's English Department produces authors and English teachers, but our graduates also include attorneys, software engineers, hospital administrators, technical writers, public relations specialists, and CEOs. Majoring in English is about learning to interpret and analyze information, crucial and marketable skills in today's information-driven economy. So whether it's Shakespeare or an annual report, Marietta will give you the education to become a perceptive reader, logical thinker, and persuasive writer. All of the English faculty at Marietta are writers, so you're taught writing skills by men and women who understand it from experience. In the senior capstone course, students work as a community of scholars to put all of their accumulated knowledge, skill, and intuition to use. Whether its focus is cultural studies, textual criticism, postcolonialism, or cognitive psychology, the capstone gives English majors a strong facility with cutting-edge theoretical approaches to literature. Seniors’ projects demand the kinds of critical analysis and communication necessary both in graduate school and the world of work. Pulse is an in-house magazine featuring student writing. It is edited and published by Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society. The Marietta College English Department sponsors Pizza, Poetry, and Prose, a series of public readings where faculty members and students present original poetry or fiction. As an English major, you can work as a tutor in Marietta's Writing Center beginning your sophomore year. You'll learn the writing conventions required by various disciplines, as well as techniques for enhancing the writing skills of other students. Because of the strength of the Writing Center's program and the level of involvement available to you, tutors present papers on peer tutoring at national and regional conferences.

Course Duration

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3year

Career outcomes

The English Department of Marietta College strives to teach students not only how to interpret a Shakespearean sonnet, but to hone critical thinking skills and analyze a wide variety of literary movements. Additionally, each student who comes away with a degree in English has the skills needed to write persuasively and concisely. Students receive specialized attention from faculty who are also writers. Courses instill a fundamental knowledge of the great writers across the centuries, yet allow for exploration and research into topics of interest.




Bachelor of Arts in English Marietta College