Do you like to read, write, argue, analyze or persuade? English is a practical study that develops good communication, analytic, and persuasive skills needed for professions like public relations, politics, technical writing, marketing, and journalism. It’s an excellent major for those wanting to attend law school, and English teachers are in high demand.

English at Faulkner University

Faulkner’s English department combines reflective reading of compelling literature with writing and speech—all taught from a Christian perspective. Small classes and attentive professors provide lively discussion and one-on-one study.

The result is students who have a deep understanding of the human experience and who are literate, responsible citizens. Our students possess the necessary skills for the next level of education and a variety of promising careers.

The Value of Liberal Arts

The liberal arts, historically understood, are not technical subjects such as computer science or marketing, which prepare students for careers in specific fields. Instead, the liberal arts are those subjects which are appropriate to free people in a free society, those that help the student wrestle with the fundamental issues of human existence:

What is the nature of reality? Who or what are we? What is our place in the universe? How do we know what we think we know? How are we to behave towards others and towards God? What meaning is there in our existence and actions?

Study of the liberal arts involves asking these questions and seeing how others throughout history have answered them. Students learn how the implications of these different answers have played out in society, culture, politics, law, literature, and the arts.