The Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University offers a program leading to the Bachelor of Arts in the College of Humanities and Sciences. In addition, the Department offers minors in English, Writing, Creative Writing, British Studies, and American Studies.
The Bachelor of Arts curriculum in English is designed to help students acquire an understanding of their literary heritage and its relationship to contemporary life, develop an appreciation and practical knowledge of the modes of literary expressions, and prepare for advanced work in English language and literature.
Gretchen Comba, Director of Undergraduate Studies
R. Dale Smith, Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
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British Virginia is a VCU-hosted series of scholarly editions of documents touching on the colony. These texts range from the 16th and 17th-century literature of English exploration to the 19th-century writing of loyalists and other Virginians who continued to identify with Great Britain. Editions appear principally in digital form, freely downloadable. [View Image]
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