English - Writing Studies Emphasis, B.A.

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Program Description

UVU’s English program is designed to give students skill, confidence, and versatility in writing, speaking, and interpreting texts. The program provides opportunities for students to consider and practice the applications of effective language use in diverse situations: professional, pragmatic, social, political, and aesthetic. The English program emphasizes knowledge and use of standard English in all written work, yet incorporates an understanding that English is a desirably diverse and variable phenomenon. The courses of study in English are designed to familiarize students with much of the traditional canon of literature. They are also designed to provide students with the critical and ethical skills necessary to interrogate this canon, to incorporate and legitimize their own and others’ “different” voices, not just in the academy, but in any of the many situations in which language influences human activity.

Program Requirements

Core Requirements

Graduation Requirements

1. Completion of a minimum of 120 semester credits, 40 of which must be upper division.
2. Overall grade point average of 2.0 (C) or above. (Departments may require a higher GPA.)
3. Residency hours -- minimum of 30 credit hours through course attendance at UVU, with at least 10 hours earned in the last 45 hours.
4. Completion of GE and specified departmental requirements.
5. For the BA degree, completion of 16 credit hours of course work from one language to include the 1010, 1020, 2010, and 2020G/2020 levels or transferred equivalents.
6. No grade below C- in required courses.
7. Successful completion of at least one Global/Intercultural course.

Graduation Plan

This graduation plan is a sample plan and is intended to be a guide. Your specific plan may differ based on your Math and English placement and/or transfer credits applied. You are encouraged to meet with an advisor and set up an individualized graduation plan in Wolverine Track.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Apply a range of rhetorical theory (from classical to contemporary) to the analysis of both academic and public/popular texts’ construction and effectiveness.
2. Compose multimodal documents that successfully synthesize text and other design elements(graphical, aural, interactivity, etc.) with rhetorical purpose.
3. Integrate rhetorical knowledge into the successful completion of a Writing Studies related capstone course.