English - Pacific University

English from Pacific University is a Campus Bachelor English degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The faculty of the English Department brings to its teaching a wide range of experience, training, and perspectives; students benefit from exposure to a variety of teaching styles and approaches to the reading, writing, and enjoyment of literature. Each member of the department brings his or her passions into the classroom: we are all active writers???and remain active in the larger community of writers and scholars???presenting or publishing scholarship, poetry, fiction, drama, or essays. Students may choose to major or minor in creative writing or literature. Both emphases encourage students to do interdisciplinary work and to recognize the connections between the study of literature and the work that they do in other fields as they seek a liberal arts education. Creative writing majors and minors are required to take part in editing and publishing the Pacific Review, the University literary magazine, and Silk Road, the international journal edited by our undergraduate and graduate writing students. We encourage literature majors and minors, as well as other students, to take advantage of the opportunity to produce literature. (In addition to offering the community the work of resident writers, the department also presents readings and lectures by noted visiting poets, essayists, and novelists.) Our majors go on to graduate school; teach in high schools and colleges; and use their thinking and writing skills in law, medicine, television, publications, technical writing, library science, special education, and social work. They also go on to give readings of their own. The English Department offers students guidance in acquiring and developing the skills of interpretation, critical thinking, and clear writing. For students choosing to specialize in literature or creative writing, the curriculum offers the opportunity to engage the literary traditions of Britain and the United States, as well as world literatures, and to enter into the theory and practice of literature itself. We also welcome students to explore the world of letters in any courses the department offers, provided he or she has fulfilled departmental prerequisites. View more details on Pacific University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related English courses.