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The Department of English Language and Literatures offers a broad and balanced curriculum featuring historical, national, and transnational literatures, cultural studies, genre studies, theory, media, rhetoric, and English linguistics. In English, you can custom-tailor a program that reflects your interests and which explores literatures, media, and language from the English-speaking world. You can learn about a fantastic variety of topics, from Old English to Canadian English, from medieval ecology to Indigenous science fiction, from the history of dictionaries to the influence of texting, from Shakespeare in film to transsexuality in television; from ancient rhetorical theory to cognitive approaches to language today. All English undergraduate programs prepare you for any profession in which analytical thinking and communication are essential.