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BA in English - Concentration in American Literature

Main Subject Area

Modern LanguagesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn about traditional rhetorical strategies and how they have been adopted to the internet age. Mason’s English department combines the advantages of a large research institution with the personal attention of a small college. Because we will teach you to read critically and write carefully, our classes are uniquely small for a university our size. You will develop these important skills not just by reading traditional texts, but also through the use of technologies such as blogs, wikis, and multimedia production. This concentration invites you to learn more about the eclectic yet interconnected writers and texts that, taken together, constitute American literature. Every semester we offer a variety of courses spanning literary genres, critical perspectives, geographical zones, historical periods, and cultural identities. American literary studies, like English studies in general, is a dynamic, evolving field, committed to the reexamination of older traditions and the exploration of newer ones. In concentrating on American literature, you have the opportunity to choose a broad range of courses and learn about a variety of historical periods, thematic concerns, and American identities, including ethnic, racial, sexual, legal, and place-based identities. Or you might decide instead to develop a more sharply-focused concentration on, for example, multiethnic American literatures, African American literature, 19th-century American literature, American women writers, or the literatures of the Americas. The possibilities are many. American writers take up the central cultural, social, and political issues of their day and, to a surprising extent, of our own. Whether the issues at hand have to do with literacy, revolution, slavery, immigration, women's rights, imperialism, globalism, environmental justice or something else, you will find that American literary works challenge and provoke you to consider even the most familiar, close-to-home things in new and unexpected ways. You'll also find out about the inventiveness of American writers-the many ways in which they devise new formal and stylistic techniques that, again and again, redraw the map of American literature. Most importantly, the courses in this concentration help you to think and write critically about American literature in historical and cultural contexts, so that you can draw your own conclusions about this body of work in all its unruly and engaging multiplicity.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

BA

Study Level

Undergraduate

Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn about traditional rhetorical strategies and how they have been adopted to the internet age. Mason’s English department combines the advantages of a large research institution with the personal attention of a small college. Because we will teach you to read critically and write carefully, our classes are uniquely small for a university our size. You will develop these important skills not just by reading traditional texts, but also through the use of technologies such as blogs, wikis, and multimedia production. This concentration invites you to learn more about the eclectic yet interconnected writers and texts that, taken together, constitute American literature. Every semester we offer a variety of courses spanning literary genres, critical perspectives, geographical zones, historical periods, and cultural identities. American literary studies, like English studies in general, is a dynamic, evolving field, committed to the reexamination of older traditions and the exploration of newer ones. In concentrating on American literature, you have the opportunity to choose a broad range of courses and learn about a variety of historical periods, thematic concerns, and American identities, including ethnic, racial, sexual, legal, and place-based identities. Or you might decide instead to develop a more sharply-focused concentration on, for example, multiethnic American literatures, African American literature, 19th-century American literature, American women writers, or the literatures of the Americas. The possibilities are many. American writers take up the central cultural, social, and political issues of their day and, to a surprising extent, of our own. Whether the issues at hand have to do with literacy, revolution, slavery, immigration, women's rights, imperialism, globalism, environmental justice or something else, you will find that American literary works challenge and provoke you to consider even the most familiar, close-to-home things in new and unexpected ways. You'll also find out about the inventiveness of American writers-the many ways in which they devise new formal and stylistic techniques that, again and again, redraw the map of American literature. Most importantly, the courses in this concentration help you to think and write critically about American literature in historical and cultural contexts, so that you can draw your own conclusions about this body of work in all its unruly and engaging multiplicity.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
Other English Language requirements: Students are required to have paper-based TOEFL of 570 and 230 on the computer-based TOEFL ; overall band score of 59 on the Pearson Test of English.

Jan-2000

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