Curriculum

The English Department has a large and diverse curriculum that allows our students to pursue a variety of interests, including literature, creative writing, professional writing, linguisitcs, composition and rhetoric, teaching English as a second language, and film.

We offer courses that allow students to complete the following programs:

• English major, with a concentration in either literature, creative writing, or professional writing
  
  
• English and Allied Language Arts major, for those who want to teach in high school
  
  
• Creative Writing minor


• Professional Writing minor
  
  
• English minor (literature)

• an interdisciplinary film studies minor

In addition to traditional literature classes such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, American Poetry, and Southern Literature, we have courses that reflect the diverse interests of our eclectic student body, including African-American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Literature, Documentary Film, Japanese Cinema in Translation, and Women's Fiction. Alongside traditional writing classes such as Poetry and Fiction, we offer Creative Nonfiction, Writing Memoir & Autobiography, and Editing & Publishing.

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