Your Classes

Your Colleagues

Your Careers

Standards for Educators:

Program includes literature courses that focus on Fairy Tale, Post-Colonial, African-American, and Appalachian studies. English Education students also take courses in TESOL, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Career Preparation:

Students gain a variety of field experiences throughout the four-year program.

• Methods in Teaching English• Methods in Teaching Writing • Intern I• Intern II (You are the teacher for 12 weeks!)

First-Rate Faculty:

The English Department consists of accomplished teachers who will give you the best educational experience possible. Your teachers have published award-winning books and journal essays and have written content for television and film. They bring their own real-life experiences to class and use these to help you grow in your student teaching, ultimately preparing you for a successful career.

Dynamic Peers:

Peer support is one of your greatest resources as a student majoring in an English program. Many of these hardworking students are North Carolina Teaching Fellows who present their essays at regional and national conferences and actively participate in community service projects.

Spring Literary Festival:

Our annual Spring Literary Festival had been bringing local and national writers to the campus since 2003. Distinguished authors, such as Jim Harrison, Leslie Silko, Mazine Kumin, Sherman Alexie, Silas House, Elizabeth Kostova, Brett Lott, and Kathryn Stripling Byer have all been featured artists at the Spring Literary Festival. Members of the English faculty, such as Catherine Carter, Ron Rash, Deidre Elliott, Pamela Duncan, and Mary Adams, have also performed in past festival events.

Sought-After Graduates:

Program conveniently places students in and beyond the region. Recent graduates are currently teaching at Smoky Mountain, South Iredell, Cherokee, Lake Norman and Pisgah high schools.

Other Choices:

Teachers wanting to teach in higher education may choose to go on to graduate work for their Masters of Arts in Education or for a Doctorate in Education.

Study Literature:• Milton• Chaucer• Shakespeare

English students• Compete in poetry slams• Design and edit web sites• Write and edit for public and

private organizations• Volunteer in public schools• Hold exciting student internships

Advanced Opportunities:• Administrationatlocalorstatelevel• PrivateSchools• TestingandAssesmentsforthestate

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English Deparment * 305 Coulter Building * Cullowhee, NC 28723 * 828.227.7264

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