You'll also gain fluency in expressing yourself through analytical and creative writing.
Through Quincy University's English program, you will read and discuss rich and challenging texts, synthesize wide-ranging research, and appreciate varied points of view. You'll explore a dynamic curriculum with the expert guidance of faculty members who hold the highest degrees in their field and have completed specialized study in particular periods and genres. Our program offers a bachelor of a
11/07/2015
"The most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels."
http://qz.com/534165/barack-obama-says-he-learned-how-to-be-a-good-citizen-from-reading-novels/
Barack Obama says he learned how to be a good citizen from reading novels Words from the reader in chief.
11/02/2015
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/austen-reading-fmri-090712.html
This is your brain on Jane Austen, and Stanford researchers are taking notes Researchers observe the brain patterns of test subjects reading a Jane Austen novel. The fMRI images suggest that literary reading provides a valuable exercise of people's brains.
10/27/2015
The English Club and the Political Science Club are hosting a film night! Come celebrate Guy Fawkes day!
09/27/2015
Going to an event:
http://www.clarke.edu/page.aspx?id=15680
Streamlines: An Undergraduate Conference Celebrating Language, Literature, and Writing : Clarke... Clarke University is a four-year Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
09/26/2015
"Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. 'If you want your children to be intelligent,' he said, 'read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' He understood the value of reading, and of imagining. I hope we can give our children a world in which they will read, and be read to, and imagine, and understand."
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens
09/24/2015