2026-2027 Undergraduate Bulletin [DRAFT]
Department of English
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Department website: english.appstate.edu
Leonardo Flores, Chair
Jacob Babb, Assistant Chair
David Orvis, Assistant Chair
If you enjoy studying and creating literature, film, and other texts, including multimedia compositions, you’ve come to the right department. In our courses, minors, and majors, you will analyze and critically engage many kinds of texts for their craft and meaning in their cultural contexts. Many of our courses involve written, visual, and auditory texts, challenging students to develop 21st century digital literacy skills and exploring new ways to create and seek meaning.
Whether you seek to take courses in our program as a major, minor, or elective, our award-winning faculty members are committed to supporting you. We are active writers and scholars who publish and teach about literature, cinema, memoir, nonfiction, poetry, teacher education, multimodal composition, digital rhetorics and literature, environmental literature and rhetoric, Appalachian studies, and many other timely topics.
We offer a B.A. program with specializations in Creative Writing, Film Studies, Literary Studies and Rhetoric and Technical Writing, a B.S. in English Education, and minors in English, Film Studies, and Rhetoric and Technical Writing. Our graduate program offers concentrations in Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, and Teaching Literature and Writing. We offer accelerated admissions to our graduate program that enables students to complete a bachelor’s and master’s degree in as little as 5 years.
Our department’s goal is to contribute to students’ success in their professional aspirations. Our graduates pursue numerous career and education pathways, including teaching at the secondary and postsecondary levels, earning advanced graduate degrees, and pursuing careers in creative and technical writing, business, medicine, entertainment, publishing, broadcasting, advertising, journalism, government, the law, and beyond.
Honors Program in English
The English Department offers highly qualified and motivated students the opportunity to pursue departmental honors. These students take specialized honors seminars and complete an honors thesis tailored to their particular interests and academic or professional aspirations. Students with a minimum overall grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 and at least a 3.45 GPA in English classes are invited to apply to the program in their sophomore or junior years by having a faculty member nominate them or by contacting the Honors Director. This is a 9-credit program, which requires students to take two honors seminars (ENG 3508 and ENG 4508) and complete a three-credit Honors Thesis, ENG 4510, which satisfies the General Education Capstone requirement. Students may also be able to fulfill the seminar requirements with honors contracts and graduate courses.
At time of graduation, students must earn at least a “B” average in all Honors courses, and maintain at least a 3.45 GPA in all English course work and at least a 3.45 overall GPA to graduate with the “Honors in English” distinction.
Study Abroad Opportunities
In keeping with the University’s belief that studies and travel abroad contribute to its role as an institution of higher learning, the Department of English encourages and offers students opportunities to study abroad, in semester-long programs and through faculty-led short term travel experiences throughout the world. These short experiences are directed by faculty members and offer opportunities for both supervised group study and individual investigation for credit. Established programs include Summer courses in England, Ireland and Northern Ireland, and we are constantly developing new opportunities for our students. We announce these opportunities every term. We encourage students interested in study abroad to visit the department office to discuss their interest in study abroad.
University Writing Center
The Writing Center offers its services to all members of the University community. The center’s staff is specially trained to help in the completion of virtually any academic writing project and in the solution of most writing problems. Users of the center should make appointments for its services or may drop in to see if one of the staff is available. The center is conveniently located in the Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons. For more information, go to www.writingcenter.appstate.edu.
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