English Department
What You'll Study
Open a book and open new worlds. In your English classes, you will explore wide ranging literary traditions in American, British, and world literature, and practice critical and creative reading, writing and discussions. You will learn to articulate and defend ideas with confidence, and to understand and respond to ideas and values different from your own. In this track you will develop your ability to read with comprehension, think critically, and write clearly— all of which are skills required by our rapidly evolving global marketplace.
Topics covered include:
- Haunted American Texts
- Multiracial/Multicultural Literature
- Shakespeare
- Temptation: Narratives of Resistance and Surrender
- The Invisible Disability: Mental Illness and Literature, A Cultural Studies Perspective
In today’s content-driven world, everyone needs a writer. This concentration will develop your creative skills and prepare you for a future as a writer. Whether you plan to pursue graduate school or dive into the job market, a degree in English writing will help you hone your craft and turn your passion for the written word into a marketable skillset.
The courses comprising the writing concentration will give you a strong background in several core disciplines. Topics covered include:
- Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- Advanced Composition: Rhetoric and Writing
- Poetry Workshop
- Business Writing
- Fiction and Drama
Program Highlights
- Scholarships: From honorariums to full-tuition waivers, scholarships exist to reward your hard work and dedication to the major. Find more information here.
- Campus Reading Series: Each semester the LHU English department brings today’s top writers and English scholars
to campus to read from their work and share their literary journey with the campus
community. Past visiting writers and scholars include:
- National Poet Laureate Billy Collins
- American Book Award winner Li-Young Lee
- NAACP Outstanding Image Award winner Jamaal May
- John Newbery Medal winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- The Crucible: LHU’s student-edited literary arts journal gives you the opportunity to showcase your creative talent. The journal publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, along with art and photography.
- Careers: LHU English majors hold jobs around the world in a variety of fields. The breadth
of their experience speaks to the versatility of the major. Graduates have found careers
in:
- Politics
- Public Relations
- Non-Profit
- Journalism
- Publishing
- Creative Writing
- Business
- Marketing
- Law
- Library Science
- Facilities: Faculty deliver courses in technology-enhanced classrooms with vast multimedia capabilities. Students can access open computer labs and campus wireless network when using personally-owned devices. Students can request technology resources from Stevenson Library, Media Services.
