Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [English - Literature] From State University of New York Plattsburgh

English majors will learn to:

• Write in clear, lucid, effective prose;
• Learn to think critically and analytically;
• Become more articulate by developing oral communication skills, a key to achieving managerial positions;
• Master language, which of the three communication systems ? language, mathematics, and music ? is the most versatile, complex, and capable of the greatest breadth of representation;
• Master literature, which is an applied version of almost all of the arts rolled into one;
• Master poetry, which is concentrated on the human experience.