English Program By University of Windsor |Top Universities
Program Duration

48 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

English Language and LiteratureMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

In studying English Literature, you will encounter the immense range of human experience as expressed across many historic periods and cultures, from Anglo-Saxon oral tradition through to contemporary writing in English from around the world. English is an excellent “passport degree”, given the foundation it provides for careers in education, law, politics, publishing, communications, journalism, management, public relations, advertising, library science, and writing, from technical to creative. Functional knowledge include reading intelligently and perceiving ambiguity and complexity in texts; appreciating the collective human condition and major themes of human experience; understanding the ways in which language and literature inform and reflect various cultures, social bodies, and historical periods; exploring the diversity of literary and social voices within traditions of literature; asserting knowledge, ideas, and opinions in persuasive writing with correct grammar and vocabulary; and interpreting, reorganizing, and rephrasing written materials to improve or modify effectiveness.

Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

In studying English Literature, you will encounter the immense range of human experience as expressed across many historic periods and cultures, from Anglo-Saxon oral tradition through to contemporary writing in English from around the world. English is an excellent “passport degree”, given the foundation it provides for careers in education, law, politics, publishing, communications, journalism, management, public relations, advertising, library science, and writing, from technical to creative. Functional knowledge include reading intelligently and perceiving ambiguity and complexity in texts; appreciating the collective human condition and major themes of human experience; understanding the ways in which language and literature inform and reflect various cultures, social bodies, and historical periods; exploring the diversity of literary and social voices within traditions of literature; asserting knowledge, ideas, and opinions in persuasive writing with correct grammar and vocabulary; and interpreting, reorganizing, and rephrasing written materials to improve or modify effectiveness.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

83+
6+
60+
24+

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The University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-centred university, with more than 16,500 students enrolled in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs including several professional schools such as Law, Business, Engineering,Education, Nursing, Human Kinetics and Social Work. The new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation, the largest capital project on campus to date, opened in the fall of 2012 as a world-class hub for innovation, featuring the latest in classroom teaching technology, an Industrial Courtyard for collaborative work with the region and 80 research labs.

The University of Windsor is located next to North America’s busiest international border crossing and facing one of Canada’s most beautiful waterfronts on the Detroit River. This location speaks to UWindsor’s greatness as an internationally oriented, multi-disciplined institution that actively enables a broad diversity of students, faculty and staff to make a better world through education, scholarship, research and engagement.

Its basic characteristics of openness, warmth and support make the University of Windsor an exceptionally welcoming community for students and faculty from Asia, Europe, and Africa — or from just down the street. There are more than 110,000 UWindsor alumni, with 35,000 living in the Windsor-Essex region.

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