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Congratulations 2020 Graduates!
Congratulations Wildcats on your graduation! We are so proud of you!
The Department of English engages at all levels the power of words to shape the human condition in its diversity. We educate our students about the many ways that our language organizes our imaginative capacity to understand, respect, care and find common ground with one another across real differences, or else to inhibit those capacities.
Explore Our Degree Programs
B.A. Creative Writing
Develop your writing craft under the guidance of award-winning writers in small workshop settings in creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry.
B.A. English
Get a broad-based liberal arts education in English literature, language, and culture through innovative and diverse approaches.
MFA Creative Writing
Learn in a challenging, supportive and dynamic atmosphere in a super-literary, culturally vibrant, progressive border city from extremely active and critically acclaimed faculty.
M.A./Ph.D. English
Engage in a broad and inclusive course of advanced study in English and American literature.
M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language
Work with nationally and internationally recognized scholars and focus your studies on second language acquisition, language pedagogy, second language writing, and technology.
M.A./Ph.D. Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
Get ready to conduct research in rhetoric and composition, to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the field, and to develop writing programs in school settings.
"The classes have been phenomenal. And they have been so widely varied. You can always find the class that will suit your interest." –English student
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