This program is designed to strengthen your analytical, critical, rhetorical, creative, and communication skills. In this major, youll develop a sophisticated familiarity with a wide-range of literature, learn digital professional compositions (technical and digital content writing), and expand your creative and imaginative writing skills, last, youll learn how to educate and instill a passion for reading and writing in young minds everywhere. English majors at Lewis University develop life-long skills that go beyond their classroom studies and into their future careers. Whether the goal is to go into print or digital content writing, editing, publishing, professional writing (technical writing, grant writing, nonprofit writing, digital media, speech writing, and much more) become an English teacher, or complement another major, the English Studies program helps students develop the skills they need to succeed in all work environments. Such majors are versatile and needed in the workforce, the ability to communicate critically, creatively, and professionally is an invaluable skill for your prospects after graduation. English majors choose to specialize in one of three concentrations to develop the skills necessary for their career goals.
The English Studies Department offers a concentration in Literature and Language that prepares the student for graduate studies in English and for other graduate degrees and for professional work in related disciplines that require enhanced verbal and analytical skills, such as law, library science, management, public relations, and humanities administration or research.
The Department of English Studies features a fully approved English Language Arts program that prepares candidates to teach grades 9-12 in Illinois public and private schools. The program is approved by the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board in conjunction with the Illinois State Board of Education and includes all the requirements for a major in English Language Arts. English majors specializing in Concentration One: English Language Arts must declare majors in both English and Secondary Education.
