English

Explore the Department of English

“English majors are used to getting a tough assignment, figuring it out, and getting it done” (The Small Business Bible). English majors are experts in the art and science of words; this gives you skills to expand your imaginative potential and solve real-world problems. English journalists report, write, and produce innovative stories across multiple platforms. English teachers create multi-media lessons to bring literature to life in the classroom. Linguists detect the mechanisms, and the magic, that make language work. The Cinema Studies Minor explores visual narrative and its aesthetic construction via the technologies of film. Creative writers exercise the craft of writing, reading, and imagining as literary artists. Majors learn how media can serve the humanities, develop digital skills required for business, digital storytelling, film, and multimedia journalism. Studying literature inspires different ways of living in and imagining the world; it sharpens and expands the mind, and equips you to succeed in a wide variety of careers, including law and the next new start-up, requiring expertise in critical thinking, problem solving, and writing persuasively.