The mix of contemporary and traditional content is designed to both ground the student in what an English major is and does. And that tradition of the discipline, as well as to provide sort of that more contemporary experience, that literature is still being written. We tried to design our curriculum to not just focus on the written word, but also on film and video, and internet resources. There's a mix of media as well as content.
One of the great things about the English program is that the class sizes get smaller, so you can do a lot more discussion. It's more personal with the professors and with your classmates. Like, you get super close with them. And the professors are able to like help you more one-on-one if you're struggling with something. Or if you're interested in something, they can push you even further and give you more knowledge that you need for that.
I think there's a lot of possibilities for an English major to take in a career path after their experiences here at Tabor College. Personally, I took the education route, and that took me through the classroom and now I'm an administrator.
So a first-year student would have English classes that would be probably 20 to 25 students. So it's still very manageable, it's not a big lecture hall. You would get a lot of individual attention. For our English majors, we really encourage them to be involved in the student service, sort of writing focus, tutoring sessions, so they would have opportunity for that to tutor others.
And in that process, they learn a lot about themselves in their own writing, and they also gain skills that they can use in the classroom. We encourage students to do internships, to get into the real world to apply some of their knowledge from the classroom, and to engage in whatever way -- fits their desires and their gifts when it comes to participating in the business world.
