BA in English - Public and Professional Writing in Boston United States | Suffolk University

Enhance your abilities in reading, writing, and analytical reasoning. Apply these skills to adapt to a rapidly evolving world and carve out your unique path. Suffolk's English program equips you with comprehensive language proficiency to steer your personal and professional journey while making meaningful contributions across industries.
By exploring narrative techniques, rhetorical strategies, analytical essays, poetry, and expressive prose, you'll examine socially relevant themes at local and global levels. You'll craft original works, sharpen your rhetorical insight, skillfully incorporate historical and theoretical frameworks, harness creative expression, and acquire techniques to connect with varied audiences.
Graduates frequently enter fields such as publishing, public service, teaching, library sciences, healthcare administration, arts management, media, and advertising. Many also pursue graduate studies in areas including literary studies, language science, fiction writing, rhetoric studies, and legal education.
English program students will:
Conduct detailed text examinations to formulate unique interpretations, Produce imaginative works across fiction, poetry, and memoir genres, Refine writing techniques and creative processes, Examine and assess textual structures, styles, and formal elements, Construct research-based arguments supported by contextual evidence, Acquire extensive knowledge of literary heritage and evolution.
As an English major, you'll analyze and produce diverse texts spanning multiple genres, forms, and cultural-historical settings. Foundational courses immerse you in global literature while teaching textual analysis methods. You'll also select three advanced electives from our extensive offerings.
This specialization explores how authors connect with readers, hone their craft, and utilize technology across sectors. You'll analyze how language influences perception and how rhetoric molds public conversations about contemporary matters. Investigate persuasive communication in emerging formats like digital publishing, visual arguments, technical writing, and personal media. Additionally, you'll study composition ethics and document creation for multiple readerships.