Bachelor of Arts, English Major - Learning outcomes

Students who complete this program should be able to do the following:

• Write cogently and persuasively in a variety of modes, using the appropriate form of English for the occasion.
• Exercise critical discernment and employ disciplinary knowledge ethically and systematically to explore and critique oneself and the world.
• Conduct research independently and with scholarly rigour in order to make appropriate and well-reasoned contributions to knowledge within the field.
• Apply the skills of information literacy for the selection and use of authoritative scholarly sources.
• Distinguish textual forms and genres in order to evaluate their functions and facilitate a close reading of a text as a composed artifact.
• Apply original and creative thinking related to the discipline in order to produce compelling and imaginative work.
• Apply knowledge of the discipline’s major bodies of work, theoretical concepts, and interpretive approaches, and recognize diverse forms of knowledge, accounting for accuracy, complexity, and ambiguity.
• Evaluate the social contexts and complexities of literature and language in Canada, including Indigenous and immigrant works, and recognize the multiplicity and global dispersal of "Englishes."

Possible career options

• Writer, technical playwright, novelist, poet
• Journalist
• Editor
• Publisher
• Proofreader
• Copywriter
• Film/television producer
• Civil/foreign service officer
• Project manager
• English as a second language (ESL) teacher
• Researcher