"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
—Anne Morrow Lindburgh

English Department

Why study English?
Graduates in English have the skills needed to land jobs and advance their careers. Employers routinely cite the ability to work with language as key to a job candidate’s success. Specifically, employers look for workers with strong skills in:

• Writing and speaking
• Critical thinking and reasoning
• Reading and analyzing
• Assembling and organizing information

Why Mount Mary College?
The small class size and personal attention from the faculty support each student’s academic and personal success. Your coursework will focus on literature, writing, theory, and linguistics, allowing you to explore many genres and to develop your analytical, creative, technical, journalistic, and persuasive writing skills. As a Mount Mary English major, your interests and talents will be nurtured as you develop imaginative thinking, clear writing and communication skills, and a strong literary background by reading historically and culturally important texts.

Our majors have the opportunity to write for the student newspaper, publish in campus literary magazines, present at conferences, participate in the national English honor society, and complete internships—opportunities reserved for the few at large institutions.

Majors –

• English Literature
• English Professional Writing
• English Education
• English Broadfield Language Arts Education
  

Minors -

• English
• English Education - ECMC and general
• English/Language Arts Education
• Journalism
• Journalism Education
• Writing (English Professional Writing)

Post-baccalaureate Certificate -

• English
• English Professional Writing
• English Broadfield Language Arts Education
• English Education

Master of Arts in English Graduate Program -

• Creative Emphasis
• Professional Emphasis