Goals for the English Major

Department faculty have developed a set of goals for students who graduate with a degree in English from Framingham State University. Graduates of the English major will be able to:

• Demonstrate an aesthetic appreciation of language and literature. 
• Interpret a range of texts in American, British, and world literature, providing those texts with appropriate historical and cultural contexts. 
• Demonstrate advanced analytical reading skills. 
• Understand a variety of critical theories, approaches, and methodologies and apply them to the interpretation of texts. 
• Demonstrate substantial communication skills, including the ability to write lucid prose for specific rhetorical situations. 
• Demonstrate advanced ability to conduct and use academic research, from locating and evaluating print and electronic sources to integrating research materials into substantial critical essays.