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2023 - 2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2023 - 2025 Academic Catalog

English, B.A.


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Mission

The English Program is committed to producing students proficient in oral and written communication and critical thinking skills inherent in the study of language and literature within cultural, historical, literary, psychological, and sociological contexts, thereby serving the practical needs of its students in the academy and for life, on local and global levels. Like the university’s overall mission, the award-winning faculty is dedicated to helping students “hone their capacities to think analytically, critically, and creatively” by engaging in research that contributes to the fields of language and literary studies and which will prepare them for exciting, challenging, and rewarding professions, such as teaching, law, writing, publishing, public relations, communications, business, and more.

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Develop competence in spoken and written English.
  • Gain an awareness of the historical, political, social and psychological context of literary texts.
  • Demonstrate skills in close reading interpretation, critical thinking analysis, and evaluation of a variety of oral, visual, and written texts.
  • Use a variety of technology and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to produce and communicate knowledge.

Programs/Opportunities

  • Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society 
  • The Dillard Review (a journal of arts and letters)
  • The Dillard University English Club

Requirement for Bachelor of Arts in English


Complete a total of 122 credit hours of coursework for graduation.

General Education Core - 41 credit hours
Major Requirements - 36 credit hours
Additional Coursework - 45 credit hours

Additional Coursework


Includes minor in another discipline.

English Curriculum


First Year


First Semester


Total: 15

Total: 17

Second Year


Third Year


First Semester


Total: 15

Second Semester


  • 3 cr.
  • English Elective 3 cr.
  • English Elective 3 cr.
  • Minor or General Elective 3 cr.
  • Philosophy Elective 3 cr.
Total: 15

Fourth Year


First Semester


Total: 15

Second Semester


  • 3 cr.
  • English Elective 3 cr.
  • Minor or General Elective 3 cr.
  • Minor or General Elective 3 cr.
  • Minor or General Elective 3 cr.
Total: 15

Total Required Hours: 122


*Service Learning: Students will earn a total of 30 service learning hours after successful completion of FYS 101  & FYS 102 .

**Community Service: Students must contact the Office of Student Affairs for pre-approved community service project to earn a total of 90 hours of community service by the end of their junior year.

 

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