Standards for Educators:

Program includes courses that focus on the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickinson, and Faulkner.

Career Preparation:

English Majors concentrating in literature gain rich exposure to literary history, texts, movements, and authors.

Students will:

• Study literacy criticism and theory• Participate in senior seminar• Develop writing and critical thinking skills

Your Classes

Your Colleagues

Your Careers

First-Rate Faculty:

WCU’s English faculty are focused on providing the very best learning experience to students through small classes, cutting edge content, technology, discussion formats, and experiential learning. Several English professors have won the most prestigious teaching awards at WCU and in the UNC system. They can offer students such engaging teaching because they are also active scholars who publish articles andbooksintheirfields,aswellaspresenttheirresearchatnationalacademic conferences.

Dynamic Peers:

English students give presentations about their research at NCUR, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Students are also studying abroad, winning awards for their writing, taking part in local service projects and participating in various English clubs and events.

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.

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

private organizations• Hold exciting student internships

English.WCU.edu

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

Western Carolina University

Sought-After Graduates:

English students possess the communication, writing, and critical thinking skills that employers want in their employees.

Other Choices:

Many undergraduates go to graduate and professional schools to continue their English studies or to pursue new areas, such as law, art, or communication.

Careers with this degree:• Editor• Technical Writer• Journalist• Web Designer• Speechwriter• Novelist

Study Literature• British• American• Eco/

Environmental• Appalachian• Southern• Native American

English students can join the English Club or choose to work on WCU’s literary magazine, The Nomad. Upper-level students may be invited to join Sigma Tau Delta, the international honor society for English students.

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