PROGRAM GUIDE | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS | FACULTY | SCHEDULE OF COURSES
If you wish to learn to write clearly and effectively, if you wish to write creatively, if you wish to hone your critical thinking skills through the careful analysis of literature, if you wish to become content-ready for secondary level teaching or graduate level work, then you should consider an English or English/secondary education major at Point Park.
This program is designed to emphasize two main objectives. The first is to guide you in the understanding of great literary works both past and present, which will expand your knowledge of human emotion and experience. The second objective is to help you develop the skills you'll need to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively in the written and spoken word.
As an English major, you can take courses in expository and creative writing, literary criticism, speech, the history of the English language, and British and American literature, plus courses in world literature, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. We also offer special topics courses on issues of interest to our faculty. Recent offerings include courses such as language acquisition and reading poetry.
Graduates in the English program go on to graduate studies in literature and creative writing or to law school, or to positions of technical writing, publishing, communications or business.
