The English Major

The Lenoir-Rhyne English curriculum is designed to graduate inquisitive, confident majors who can:

• generate an informed intellectual response to any given literary text, including the ability to recognize genre, form, and relevant rhetorical features and to extrapolate from these elements relevant historical / cultural contexts
• develop an authentic affective response to any given literary text, including the ability to reflect on how it connects to their sense of self and place in the world and to respond to it from the perspective of an informed aesthetic understanding
• conduct significant research informed by a sophisticated understanding of critical approaches and practice
• generate an articulate, rhetorically appropriate response or argument to any given issue or problem, when reasonably informed on the issue