1. Western Carolina University
LITERATURE
E n g l i s h . W C U. e d u
Your Classes English students can join the English Club or choose
Standards for Educators: to work on WCU’s literary magazine, The Nomad.
Upper-level students may be invited to join Sigma
Program includes courses that focus on the
works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Tau Delta, the international honor society for English
Dickinson, and students.
Faulkner. Study Literature
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Preparation: • Eco/ First-Rate Faculty:
Environmental
English Majors • Appalachian WCU’s English faculty are focused on providing the very best learning
concentrating in • Southern experience to students through small classes, cutting edge content,
literature gain rich • Native American technology, discussion formats, and experiential learning. Several
exposure to literary
English professors have won the most prestigious teaching awards at
history, texts,
WCU and in the UNC system. They can offer students such engaging
movements, and authors.
teaching because they are also active scholars who publish articles
Students will: and books in their fields, as well as present their research at national
academic conferences.
• Study literacy criticism and theory
• Participate in senior seminar Dynamic Peers: English students
• Develop writing and critical thinking skills • Compete in poetry slams
English students give • Design and edit web sites
Your Careers presentations about their
research at NCUR, the
• Write and edit for public and
Sought-After Graduates: private organizations
National Conference on • Hold exciting student internships
English students possess the communication, Undergraduate Research.
writing, and Students are also studying
critical thinking abroad, winning awards
Careers with this degree: for their writing, taking part in local service projects and participating
skills that
• Editor in various English clubs and events.
employers
• Technical Writer
want in their
employees.
• Journalist Spring Literary Festival:
• Web Designer
Other • Speechwriter Our annual Spring Literary Festival had been bringing local and national
• Novelist writers to the campus since 2003. Distinguished authors, such as Jim
Choices: Harrison, Leslie Silko, Mazine Kumin, Sherman Alexie, Silas House,
Elizabeth Kostova, Brett Lott, and Kathryn Stripling Byer have all been
Many undergraduates go to graduate and
featured artists at the Spring Literary Festival. Members of the English
professional schools to continue their English
faculty, such as Catherine Carter, Ron Rash, Deidre Elliott, Pamela
studies or to pursue new areas, such as law,
Duncan, and Mary Adams, have also performed in past festival events.
art, or communication.
English Deparment * 305 Coulter Building * Cullowhee, NC 28723 * 828.227.7264