The English/Humanities Generalist degree provides an excellent background for several career paths, including advertising, government employment, law, and publishing. The degree requires 120 hours, including 34 hours of electives. This distribution of required and elective courses allows you to pursue approved minors or to take a grouping of courses in such fields as science or business, which adds to your employment possibilities. The department strongly recommends that if you plan to attend graduate school, you should take courses in foreign language as well as additional courses in English, linguistics, and philosophy.

Learning Outcomes for the B.A. in English and Humanities (Generalist)

Students who complete the English & Humanities Generalist concentration will be able to:

• situate texts within a historical and cultural context;
• analyze texts through the lens of literary, cultural, rhetorical, and/or linguistic theory; and
• compose effective arguments supported by relevant evidence from primary and secondary sources.