English Literature (Distance)

• Demonstrate critical thinking and interpretive skills reflecting knowledge and comprehension of important British literary texts.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and interpretive skills reflecting knowledge and comprehension of important American literary text.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and interpretive skills reflecting an awareness of theoretical trends and criticism.
• Demonstrate knowledge of some of the literary traditions, and/or cultural situations, and /or historical eras from which the literature referenced in SLO1, SLO2, and SLO3 emerged.
• Create original research topics, research primary and secondary sources on those topics using digital databases, and produce writings on those topics which demonstrate clear grammatical prose and accurate style.

Graduates are qualified to apply for most full-time community college English professorships, and to teach composition and literature as an adjunct at most community and senior colleges.

The degree may also lead to non-academic careers in fields which require writing, critical thinking, and research skills, such as:

• publishing
• editing
• advertising
• technical writing
• journalism
• other media

Secondary-school teachers can earn graduate English content credits for such things as (re)licensing, promotion and retention.