Using the skills learned in English classes, our majors go on to succeed in education, law, journalism, government, publishing, marketing, publicity, and many other fields. English majors are equipped with a broad range of transferable skills, enabling them to succeed in any profession.
The Department of English Plays a Central Role in a Liberal Arts Education at UVM
- We offer courses and services to all UVM students in the department’s key areas of focus: literature and literary theory, cultural studies, and writing. These include the four key components of University-wide writing initiatives—the General Education Foundational Writing and Information Literacy (FWIL) requirement, Writing in the Disciplines, the Writing Center, and the Graduate Writing Center)—as well as a significant portion of the courses that satisfy the University’s six-credit diversity requirement.
- We offer one of the most heavily populated majors in the University, a minor in English and a minor in Writing, and a master’s degree in English.
- We foster scholarship and creative activity by students and faculty in a diverse range of areas, including critical race and ethnic studies, queer studies and theory, post-colonial literature and theory, and the writing of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, plays, and screenplays. This is, of course, in addition to traditional areas of literary studies and theory and of rhetoric and composition.
- We partner with other academic departments and programs to offer mutually beneficial classes, including such programs as Film and Television Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Global and Regional Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Jewish Studies.
- We serve the people of Vermont through outreach of various kinds, including service learning courses and the provision of graduate-level coursework for Vermont teachers.