{"id":732,"date":"2018-05-23T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stfrancis100.org\/?page_id=732"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:13:59","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stfrancis.edu\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"English (B.A.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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English (B.A.)<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The ability to communicate ideas and information is one of the most valuable skills you can have. The English language is a powerful tool, and those who master it are well-prepared for the multiple career changes most college graduates experience in their lives. <\/p>

English majors develop sophisticated abilities in communicating, listening, speaking, reading, writing, critical thinking, information gathering and understanding a broad spectrum of human cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n

USF’s goal is to heighten and intensify student reading experiences, and help students reflect upon the ways in which written and spoken words deliver meaning. Through this discovery, students can develop the ability to recognize authoritative analysis and question authority. They can even become authoritative critics themselves.<\/p>\n

Skilled writing begins with skilled listening and speaking. Through spontaneous and focused exchanges that entertain wide-ranging ideas in a respectful way, USF English majors become confident speakers and can present their ideas in formal and informal settings. Critical thinking skills are honed in every class and assignment, enriched by discovery, originality, humor, creativity, and the pleasure of reading.<\/p>\n

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The Comparative Literature concentration is an interdisciplinary option for students of literature. Comparative literature, now often understood as international and interdisciplinary study rooted in literature, began as a disciplinary home for the comparison of literatures from different national traditions. It then evolved to encompass cultural studies and eventually became fully interdisciplinary. At its heart is comparison, which involves pondering juxtapositions, asking questions, making connections, starting a conversation, and carrying it through to the end with an awareness of how it all came about. Because Comparative Literature offers great freedom and creativity, it demands in turn great discipline: one needs the appropriate expertise to make the comparison (linguistic or disciplinary), a sound basis for the comparison, an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and implications of the comparison, and the ability to articulate them orally and in writing.<\/p>\n

Aside from courses in the English Department, students of Comparative Literature must take two upper-division courses in secondary field (including, but not limited to art, criminal justice, foreign languages, history, philosophy, psychology, theology) that will be relevant to their capstone experience. All courses should be chosen in consultation with the major advisor so that it forms a coherent and individualized curriculum.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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The English major concentration in English\/Language Arts is our teacher preparation program and is only open to students who are also pursuing Secondary Education with Professional Educator Licensure through the College of Education. The major is jointly administered by the English Department and the College of Education.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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For 1,400 years, the English language has been a rich and supple medium for poets, novelists, essayists, playwrights, filmmakers, and translators, not only in English-speaking nations but across the globe. To study this long tradition, we adopt a wide variety of lenses; rhetorical, political, and philosophical approaches complement the study of performance modes and material culture. English Literature students read a wonderful mix of old and new everything from ancient epics, Renaissance dramas, and Victorian novels, to the latest memoirs, graphic novels, and spoken-word poetry. They also study writing with published writers in a variety of creative, professional, and digital modes. In our student-focused, discussion-driven classes, students work alongside faculty to develop their own interests as they hone essential skills demanded by the job market: close reading and research, confident analysis and argument, both oral and written. Opportunities for learning outside the classroom are always on offer: internships, conference presentation, spoken word, live theater, and more.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\u201cGive me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.\u201d \u2013John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)<\/p>\n

More than a concentration, Writing at USF is a mission rooted in the universal human right of freedom of expression. Students in our multi-disciplinary writing program determine and hone their writing skills in three arenas: imaginative and creative expression, professional communication, advocacy writing. Within each one, they explore the relationship between conscience and expression, they learn that the right to speak the truth goes hand in hand with the duty to seek it, and they probe real-world tests to the limits that have grown up around the bold assertions of our First Amendment. The premium granted to wit and invention in our society, and the authority that clear and concise writing commands means that our students begin working within professional norms immediately. Research, argument and logic drive them to design innovative communications in multiple media. Adept at code-switching, they distinguish between different rhetorical situations and audiences. They know that using commas is an art and that telling a good story is the secret weapon of advertising, advocacy, business, diplomacy, entertainment, journalism, law, medicine, philanthropy, politics, social-media, and teaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the discussion-centered, collaborative classes and workshops of the USF Writing Program, learning is not about following rules, but about discovering the freedom of expression through them, challenging them, and writing new rules for professionalism in the twenty-first century.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The University of St. Francis is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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USF\u2019s general education coursework includes classes devoted to writing in academic and professional settings. This page describes the courses included in the first-year writing sequence and explains how students can fulfill their first-year writing requirement.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The ENGL 101 writing tutorials are a structured series of individual conferences with experts in first-year writing designed to supplement and support student learning in College Writing I. Students are selected by faculty for enrollment in ENGL 101, which they take at the same time as ENGL 111. (For details on the placement process, see below.) When a student takes ENGL 101, she meets with a faculty tutor for two 30-minute sessions each week of the semester, beginning in week three and going through week sixteen. These sessions are scheduled in the second week of the fall semester during a required meeting for all enrolled Writing Tutorial students. At this meeting, each student will determine a regular meeting schedule with their faculty tutor at times that work with their availability.<\/p>\n

During tutorial sessions, tutors offer additional instruction and guidance focusing on the major writing assignments in the student\u2019s College Writing I course. This guidance occurs throughout the writing process. When students are planning an essay, they might bring the assignment prompt to tutorial sessions, where the faculty tutor can help students understand what the prompt is asking for, guide students toward clarifying questions they should ask their writing instructor, and help students see connections between the assignment and what they have been learning in class.<\/p>\n

Faculty tutors mentor students through the brainstorming stage of their essays, and they also provide support during the drafting stage. Tutoring sessions often focus on a student\u2019s\u00a0in-progress essay. Student and tutor work together on the essay in both global and local ways.\u00a0At the global level, a faculty tutor might ask guiding questions to help students outline their\u00a0essays or incorporate additional evidence, topic sentences, and so on. At a more local level, the faculty tutor will workshop sections of the essay line-by-line to focus on grammar, mechanics, and style.<\/p>\n

The success of ENGL 101 tutorials depend on the student\u2019s proactive focus on their own writing assignments. As outlined in the ENGL 101 syllabus, students are expected to bring a writing project to each tutoring session. More than dedicated time and space each week to work on their writing, tutorial sessions offer targeted instruction in the writing process, rhetorical principles, and style and mechanics by facilitating collaboration between student writer and faculty tutor.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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College Writing I introduces students to the practices needed to effectively communicate in the diverse, global, technologically-mediated contexts they will encounter in college and beyond. The course lays the foundation for effective writing across disciplines by developing rhetorical awareness, critical thinking, awareness of academic and professional writing conventions, and the habits of mind needed to develop a flexible writing practice. In this course, regular practice in the writing process will help students develop their unique strategies for brainstorming, drafting, giving and receiving feedback, revising, editing, and proofreading. Writing projects and course activities will cultivate rhetorical thinking, including awareness of audience, context, purpose, and rhetorical appeals. The course will help students select and evaluate information from sources and enter into conversation with the ideas of others, empowering students to express their thoughts, advocate for their beliefs, and communicate ethically and creatively in diverse contexts.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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After you commit to attend USF, you will be required to take a one-hour writing placement exam, which is administered online via USF\u2019s learning management system, Canvas. This exam asks you to write a short essay in response to a prompt, asks you to evaluate sentences for grammatical correctness, and asks questions about your experiences with academic writing.<\/p>\n

The placement exam is scored by faculty in the English department, who evaluate the placement essays for their narrative coherence and writing style. The placement exam is used to identify students who will be placed into the Writing Tutorial (ENGL 101). You should complete your placement exam well before the day you are scheduled to register for classes; this will enable the English department to make a recommendation about ENGL 101 to your first-year academic advisor, who will enroll you in the appropriate writing courses. If you do not complete the placement exam in a timely manner, it will be assessed at a later date, and you may be enrolled in ENGL 101 over the summer or at the beginning of the fall semester.<\/p>\n

For questions about the writing placement exam or ENGL 101, please contact the director of ENGL 101: Writing Tutorials, Dr. Veronica Popp, at\u00a0vpopp@stfrancis.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Most incoming students, whether new, traditional freshmen or transfer students, must take ENGL 111. Students can place out of ENGL 111 in the following ways:<\/p>\n