Bachelor of Arts Degree in English

The English major consists of various literature courses including both traditional ‘survey’ courses that cover the cannons of American and English literature and more specialized courses that can range from detective fiction to young adult fiction, film, or science fiction. Additionally, students can emphasize writing or even choose an additional minor in writing. Writing courses cover the entire gambit from rhetoric and argument to poetry or magazine writing. Students will find a variety of Writing Intensive course offerings that rotate from one semester to the next. These courses develop skills that have helped place our majors into graduate schools for medicine, law, English, education, and so on. ​ We understand that our majors have a diverse set of goals for their careers beyond JU, and our department tries to keep a variety of courses that will allow you to customize your major to suit those goals, whether you’d like to teach, continue onto grad school, law school, or enter the job market right away.