Harness the power of language. Navigate cultures through diverse written works. Learn to read, write, speak, and analyze. Use your words to improve the world. Intelligent written and verbal communication, critical analysis, cultural consciousness, reading comprehension - these are skills that last a lifetime.<br>Upon graduating with an English major or minor, you'll be a mature reader, thinker, and writer. You'll be able to engage confidently in thoughtful analyses, conduct insightful discussions, and write with acuity and self-awareness.<br>Whether you choose to make English your principal area of study or your secondary focus, the USF English Department offers you three distinct concentrations within both our major and minor coursework.<br>Acquire a basic understanding of the literary, historical, social, or cultural influences that inform literary works<br>Articulate in writing and discussion responses to literary texts, regardless of the language of the texts or instruction<br>Develop a basic critical ability to identify, interpret, and evaluate ideas and formal features of an integrated body of literary texts<br>Develop a sensitivity to the plurality of meanings within a literary text