Since its founding almost 200 years ago, the English Department has prepared students to meet the challenges of a constantly changing and increasingly complex world. We are home to two majors (English Literature and Film and Television Studies) and four minors (English Literature, Creative Writing, Reporting and Documentary Storytelling, and Film and Television). Both of these majors and all of our minors focus on the power of texts --- whether in print, film, video, game form --- to shape our world and ourselves.
To major in English Literature is to learn from, and about, the best that writers in English have shared. UVM English Majors graduate with a sophisticated sense of the way literature enhances and helps us to understand our worlds. With our emphasis on written expression and creative writing, UVM English majors graduate with the skills needed to use language to make a difference.
