Bachelor of Arts in English

In CUW’s English program, you’ll explore how words shape cultures, influence relationships, and move the world. Whether you’re diving into great literature or crafting writing that resonates across contexts, you’ll grow as a thinker, communicator, and creator. You’ll choose one of two concentrations:

Literature

The literature concentration emphasizes skills in interpretation, analysis, and critical thinking. It is best suited for students who love reading and are interested in exploring the deepest questions for humanity. It serves as a pathway to careers in higher education, arts and entertainment industries, publishing, library science, law, politics, or mental health services.

Writing

The writing concentration emphasizes skills in writing, rhetorical awareness, and communication. It is best suited for students who love writing and want to express themselves and their ideas to the world. It serves as a pathway to careers in authorship, arts and entertainment industries, politics, corporate and non-profit management, content writing, technical writing, and grant writing.

No matter which direction you take, you’ll join a supportive community of readers, writers, and professors who challenge you to think deeply, consider texts from a Christian perspective, and apply what you learn in your day-to-day life. You’ll develop confidence in your ideas, creativity in your approach to problems, and resilience that will serve you in any career or calling.

Program learning outcomes

• You will be intellectually courageous: confident and secure in Christian faith, you will rigorously analyze diverse points of view in order to better understand the human condition.
• You will be well read: you can argue for the value of texts across a range of cultures, time periods, locations, genres, and media.
• Driven by intellectual curiosity, you will effectively interpret and analyze texts using discipline-specific content knowledge, methods, and theories.
• By engaging in divergent thinking, you will propose unique solutions to problems and develop original writing and analyses.
• You will be rhetorically savvy: well-versed in the methods of argument and persuasion, you will learn to communicate effectively using a wide range of techniques for varied situations and audiences.
• Vocational: you will leverage the power of texts and narratives to profoundly change the world, contributing to human flourishing on a range from personal to global levels.