Columbia College Bachelor of Arts in English
Learn how authors express themselves and help us see the world in new ways with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Columbia College.
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Learn how authors express themselves and help us see the world in new ways with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Columbia College.
An English degree from Columbia College provides a foundation for a variety of careers. You’ll develop strong communication and critical thinking skills grounded in a liberal arts education that offers a basis for understanding the human experience.
English majors learn to analyze and critique literature, write critical arguments, conduct literary research and identify the cultural contexts of diverse works.
Choose the literature emphasis to explore a range of literary traditions. You’ll study the theories behind literature and understand how it emerges out of history and culture.
Choose the creative writing emphasis to hone your writing skills. You’ll write and workshop fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, and you’ll interact with professional writers too.
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English majors at Columbia College work in a variety of industries and settings. You’ll be prepared to develop written content for advertisements, books, magazines, journalism, blogs and other forms of media. Students are also prepared for graduate-level studies in English.
Work for companies that rely on communication for marketing and public relations. Work in a non-profit setting to help charities convey their needs and services. Or work for governments and agencies that need to convey important messages to their constituents. Some English majors also provide services through freelance work or become independent writers.
Columbia College Global offers traditional classroom instruction for many courses at nationwide locations. Students at nationwide locations are expected to engage with multiple learning methods, including online and virtual while completing their degree. Columbia College offers on-campus programs with traditional classroom instruction at the Residential Campus in Columbia, Missouri.
"Dr. Monacell brings a great deal of experience to this position, and his passion for the humanities and for teaching was evident immediately after my first conversation with him."
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Available program formats
An advanced multigenre workshop that focuses on developing and fine-tuning a student's portfolio of creative writing, which should aid students in putting together a substantial collection of work worthy for publication or admittance into an MFA program. Prerequisites: ENGL 313, ENGL 314, and ENGL 315.
An intermediate workshop class in the writing of short fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 207.
Examination of classical and contemporary views of performance as a way of constituting meaning as well as to affirm individual and cultural identity at the crossroads of race, class and gender. Prerequisite: COMM 360W.
Study and practice of writing for professional and technical audiences and purposes. Prerequisite: ENGL 133W.
Survey of British literature from Old English through the late eighteenth century. Prerequisite: ENGL 133W.
Writing of fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, including class criticism of student and professional work. Prerequisite: ENGL 133W.
Methods and application of literary and critical theories. Prerequisites: six or more hours of 300-level or higher ENGL courses.
Study of the works of one-to-three major writers (e.g., Chaucer, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Faulkner, Cervantes or Melville and Whitman, Donne and Milton, Dante and Goethe, etc.). Prerequisites: ENGL 112 and a previous 200-level or higher English course.