Students who major in English will demonstrate:

1. knowledge of literatures in English, their historical, cultural, and formal dimensions and diversity

2. strategies of interpretation, including an ability to use critical and theoretical terms, concepts, and methods in relation to a variety        
    of textual forms and other media

3. the ability to engage with the work of other critics and writers, using and citing such sources effectively

4. the ability to write persuasively and precisely, in scholarly and, optionally, creative forms.