BA in English

Students who find reading, discussing and writing about literature to be exhilarating will enjoy the literature track. Students will study multiple time periods and genres, deeply engage with creative works and learn to think theoretically about literature, language, and society.

With an emphasis on multicultural approaches to literature, students are trained to critically function within the increasingly diverse and global world in which they exist. Students interested in English education should visit the English Education major.

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Master the art of writing for the 21st century. Writing today isn’t just putting pen to paper. In our track, you’ll craft digital content, manage projects, and collaborate with others. You’ll gain valuable research skills and learn to explain complex knowledge to diverse audiences. You’ll explore the deeper meanings of human experience by studying rhetorical theory. And you’ll learn to write for a broad range of professional, academic, and community purposes, such as grant writing, visual and document design, community writing, and professional editing.

Offered both in-person and online, our track prepares you for today’s dynamic work environments. We’ll help you put your knowledge into practice. In project-based courses with local and international non-profits, you’ll gain real-world experience in a supportive context. And, throughout the track, you’ll work with diverse, multilingual audiences across the vibrant world of South Florida.

For more information, explore our program expertise, degree track learning outcomes, and courses.

Do you have that story, poem, novel burning within you? The Creative Writing track helps students learn the craft of writing imaginatively by working with some of the top creative writing faculty in the country.

Students study theory along with the best professional works in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction and develop their own voices in these genres through hands-on guidance and workshop feedback.

This track offers courses in language structure and variation, language universals, linguistic analysis and sociolinguistics. It helps prepare students for careers related to language or language teaching or for graduate work in Linguistics or a related discipline.

A Combined BA/MA in Linguistics Degree Pathway is available to qualified seniors. Students choosing this fast-track option are eligible to take up to 12 graduate credits while completing undergraduate coursework, placing them within a year of obtaining their master’s degree upon graduating with their bachelor’s.