BA in English in Boston United States | Suffolk University

Enhance your abilities in reading, writing, and analytical reasoning. Apply these skills to adapt to our evolving society and carve out your unique role within it. Suffolk's English curriculum equips you with diverse language competencies to steer your personal and professional journey while emerging as an influential force across various fields.
By exploring narrative techniques, rhetorical strategies, critical essays, poetry, and expressive prose, you'll examine socially relevant themes spanning local and international perspectives. You'll craft original works, sharpen your persuasive communication, adeptly employ historical and theoretical frameworks, harness creative voice with confidence, and acquire versatile techniques to connect with varied audiences.
English alumni frequently enter professions in publishing, public service, teaching, library sciences, medical communications, arts management, media, and advertising. Many continue their education in disciplines such as literary studies, language science, fiction writing, rhetorical studies, and legal education.
Our English students will:
Conduct detailed text examinations to formulate unique interpretations, Produce imaginative works across fiction, verse, and literary nonfiction, Cultivate refined writing techniques and creative processes, Examine and evaluate textual structures, styles, and formal elements, Construct research-based arguments supported by contextual evidence, Acquire comprehensive knowledge of literary heritage and evolution.
Pursuing an English degree involves examining and producing texts across multiple genres, forms, and cultural-historical settings. Foundational courses immerse you in global literary traditions while teaching critical analysis methods. You'll also select three specialized electives from our extensive upper-level offerings.