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The English department at CSUSB offers courses in literature, linguistics, and various kinds of writing. Undergraduate English majors may choose one of four concentrations: literature, creative writing, linguistics, and rhetoric and writing studies. In special cases, with the support of a faculty advisor and departmental approval, students may also develop a “Directed Self-Study” concentration that combines coursework from English and, potentially, from other departments on campus. These five tracks share a common 30 unit core, book-ended by two courses (ENG 2000: Introduction to English Studies, and ENG 5160 Professional Pathways in English). Beyond the common core, each concentration requires 18 additional units, generally with a significant amount of choice for student to complete individual requirements. Within each track there are many options for students to pursue their particular interests.

Students planning to seek a single-subject teaching credential in English as their career option will likely want to complete the English Teacher Preparation Program (ETPP). The department encourages students to speak with a faculty advisor or a College of Arts and Letters Professional Advisor to ensure that they are making optimal choices regarding their elective courses in order to ensure a timely graduation.

Goals

The goals of the English program are to help students to develop the ability to read carefully and think critically, to write clear and well-supported analyses of a variety of texts, to understand various aspects of the English language, to gain a broad knowledge of writers and literary forms from a variety of periods and cultures, and to understand and practice writing as a situated and powerful form of social action. The five concentrations are designed to enable students to pursue their varied interests under the broad umbrella term of 'English Studies.

B.A. in English Goals

Social Construction

Students will understand that the meaning of any given word or text is established through a continuing process of social interaction, negotiation, consensus, and dissent. Students will examine how meaning is made in relation to texts of various literary, rhetorical, and linguistic genres in their various contexts.

Intertextuality

Students will understand that texts, in all of their forms, must be read in relationship to relevant contexts (historical, linguistic, social, political, personal) and in relationship to one another. Students will demonstrate intertextual thinking by analyzing how texts relate to these broader contexts and by producing their own texts in ways that attend to text-context relationships.
Writing

Students will understand that writing is a process of social and intertextual engagement that requires writers to negotiate the possibilities and demands of participation within a given context. As writers, students will recognize and apply (and sometimes revise, critique, and resist) the elements of various genres and rhetorical and stylistic conventions in realizing their purposes.
Diversity

Students will understand that the social, political, economic, and cultural value of different English literary, linguistic, and rhetorical conventions result from uneven power relations within a diverse society. Students will engage in meaningful collaborations and critical dialogues with peers and faculty from a range of communities and perspectives in order to analyze and produce various types of texts that examine (and sometimes revise, critique, and resist) the varied and complex uses of the English language and its varieties.
Theory

Students will understand that theoretical and aesthetic traditions and frameworks of thought necessarily shape the interpretation and creation of texts, and the production of new knowledge.

Ana dallar

  • Linguistics
  • Literature
  • Rhetoric and Writing Studies
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College of Arts and Letters

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Full Time (120 kredi saati)

Okul ücreti
US$16,987.00 (TRY 583,385) Yıllık
The given fees includes non-resident tuition fee of USD $396/unit
Başlangıç tarihi

Eylül 2025

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College of Arts and Letters

University Hall, Room 237 (UH-237),

SAN BERNARDINO,

California,

92407, United States

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Coursework equivalent to senior high school in the U.S

Academic Requirements:

Minimum 2.5 overall GPA

TOEFL (iBT 61 or PBT 500) or IELTS (5.5 total band score)

Application Deadline: Spring : January 4; Fall: July 25

Seçtiğiniz bölüme bağlı olarak farklı IELTS koşulları olabilir.

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