George Fox University | Academics | Departments | Writing/Literature | Program Description

Program

The writing/literature major at George Fox University seeks to strike a balance between essential career preparation and crucial life preparation.

Fundamental to the study of writing/literature is its power to illuminate. Such study enlarges our understanding of who we are and how we are within our shared human condition.

A writing/literature major provides broad exposure to the interpretative skills, imaginative capacities, and multiplicities of knowing, undergirding individual wisdom and expanding one's grasp of our own culture as well as the world's.

Facing an increasingly competitive, skilled, and changing marketplace increasingly means that in business, government and academic careers writing/literature provides the thinking, imaginative and interpretative capabilities necessary to a broad and practical career education.

Majors Offered

Writing/Literature (B.A.)

Selected Writing/Literature Courses (for a full listing, please see catalog)

• Masterpieces of World Literature, Western and Non-Western
• American Literature
• British Literature
• A Study of the Modern Novel
• Literary Criticism
• Professional Writing and Desktop Publishing
• Writing Poetry
• Writing Fiction
• Writing for Publication
• Biography and Autobiography
• Major Authors
• Values Through Story and Myth
• Poetry

Why George Fox?

Alumni of the Department of Writing/Literature find three general advantages in having attended George Fox:

1. The smaller size of the university helps contribute to the feeling of belonging and being recognized as an individual with unique talents and abilities.
2. The liberal arts curriculum helps broaden perspectives and contributes to an appreciation and understanding of all aspects of society.
3. The strong spiritual emphasis of George Fox helps students grow in their personal relationships as well as their relationship with God.

For further information, contact Bill Jolliff
Professor of Writing/Literature and Dept. Chair Telephone: 503-554-2604
E-mail: wjolliff@georgefox.edu