English Department honors its students
at the Shapiro Writing Festival Gala!
| The Shapiro Endowment provides funding for
undergraduate and graduate student travel and research, more here | ||
Programs of Study: Major or Minor in English! Or maybe a Masters Degree? | ||
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The Department offers BA programs in General Literature, American literature, Linguistics, General Writing, and Creative Writing, and Master’s Programs in Literature and English-as-a-Second Language. Also offered are literature courses satisfying general education and core requirements for all UT students. The English Department is home to the Composition Program which offers courses in college-level academic, professional, business, and technical writing. | ||
Why Study English? | ||
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English is one of the most dynamic, exciting and professionally flexible
majors that anyone can choose. From scientists to lawyers, from doctors to
politicians, f | ||
Why English at UT? | ||
| Our Department of English is unique in that
it offers a working relationship with the Toledo Museum of Art and the Center
for Visual Arts, providing an extensive archive of print materials and artists'
books, allowing for courses in visual language, letterpress printing and the art
and process of the book. Students may also work with Aureole Press, a literary
fine-press that publishes work by established and new writers. In addition to working with our exceptional faculty, students have the opportunity to hear from renowned visiting writers such as Edward Albee, Tom Robbins, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Pinsky, Marjorie Perloff, Jerome McGann, William Labov, David Bevington, John McWhorter. |
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journalists to teachers: all human beings tell stories and use words to make
sense of their experience. Thus, reading and writing are two of the most
important requirements for effective working and living. If you understand the
language of literature, you will be able to read real-world texts such as
newspapers, legal contracts, diagnoses, analyses and legal briefs, as well as
great literature with an enhanced feel for meaning and for the relationship
between form and content. If you learn to write exposition, argument,
description, and analysis as an English major, you will equip yourself to go
forth in the world possessing the one tool most likely to influence the way
other people believe, feel, and judge: clear and effective communication. Being
an English major is more than an opportunity to read amazing books that
stimulate and challenge your imagination; it's also an opportunity to become a
powerful agent of communication in all of the language communities in which you
live: your campus, your neighborhood, your profession, and your
world.