English Transfer Pathway Associate of Arts Degree

Program Overview

Major ID: TPEN

Program Start Dates: Fall, Spring, Summer

The English Transfer Pathway focuses on the English language, including its history, structure and related communications skills, and the literature and culture of English-speaking peoples.

Career Opportunities

Students who successfully complete the English Transfer Pathway will be prepared to transfer to a baccalaureate program in English. With a degree in English one can work in a number of fields within the government and education systems such as special collections librarians, archivists, museum work, and faculty at secondary and postsecondary institutions.

Program Outcomes:

1. Students will use major critical frameworks to analyze literature.
2. Students will define major periods, aesthetic trends, and historical developments in British and/or American literature.
3. Students will analyze literature of historically under-represented populations.
4. Students will apply discipline-specific knowledge of audience, rhetorical situation, and source documentation in writing texts.

Transfer Opportunities

Saint Paul College has transfer agreements & partnerships between many post-secondary institutions. For more information please go to saintpaul.edu/Transfer.

Program Faculty

Justin Bonnett
justin.bonnett@saintpaul.edu

Brandon Chitwood
brandon.chitwood@saintpaul.edu

Mary Crispin
mary.crispin@saintpaul.edu

Kassie Duthie
kasandra.duthie@saintpaul.edu

Natasha Fleischman
natasha.fleischman@saintpaul.edu

Kelly Hulander
kelly.hulander@saintpaul.edu

Carla-Elaine Johnson
carla-elaine.johnson@saintpaul.edu

Michael Leggs
michael.leggs@saintpaul.edu

Bill Lund
william.lund@saintpaul.edu

John Schlueter
john.schlueter@saintpaul.edu

Sue Taylor
susan.taylor@saintpaul.edu

Samantha Ten Eyck
samantha.teneyck@saintpaul

Jody Wheeler
jody.wheeler@saintpaul.edu

Program Advisors

Pathway Advisors are the Academic Advisors for the Associate of Arts degree and are located in the Advising Center, Room 1340, Main Floor. For assistance or additional information, please call our Advising Center at 651.846.1739 or email: advising@saintpaul.edu

Additional Requirements

• At least 60 earned college-level credits (40 MnTC credits and 20 additional MnTC, pre-major or elective credits)
• A grade of “C” or better in ENGL 1711  
• Associate of Arts (AA) cumulative GPA of 2.0
• Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) cumulative GPA of 2.0
• Meet Saint Paul College residency requirement: 20 credits. This requirement may be reduced to 12 credits with transfer of at least 12 college-level credits from another Minnesota State College and University or the University of Minnesota.