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english

Our catalog offerings encompass everything from Shakespeare to Latino/a American Literature and Fiction Writing workshops. Recent additions to our catalog include: Literature and the Environment, Black Literatures, Literature and Social Movements, and Major Writers of World Literature in English. The English Department also regularly offers new and exciting “special topics” courses. Our latest offerings include The Western, American Comics and Graphic Novels, Baseball in Literature, The Spy Thriller, The Animal in Literature, Native Women’s Writing, and Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.

Sigma Tau DeltaOur strongest English majors are encouraged to join the FAU chapter of the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta. Sigma Tau Delta sponsors public readings of student writing, holds book discussion groups, and conducts writing workshops. It also raises money for important causes, including earthquake relief in Haiti. For further information, contact the Department of English.(english@fau.edu)

FAU boasts a dedicated, approachable, and accomplished faculty in English. Faculty have recently published important books of literary scholarship ranging from contemporary Renaissance syntax and subjectivity toRobert Louis Stevenson’s travel narratives, Louis Zukofsky’s life and poetry, William Faulkner’s fiction in a postcolonial context, Asian-American literature and food, Joel Barlow’s Columbiad epic, and Latino/a literature and the market. We also continually publish numerous critical articles in top tier journals. Along with excellence in the traditional areas of British and American literature, FAU has been building particular strengths in Multicultural and World Literatures, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Rhetoric and Composition, and Creative Writing. In the creative arena, we actively publish poems, stories, and creative nonfiction in important journals, with recent books of poetry, memoir, and fiction published by Syracuse University Press, Shearsman, Alfred A. Knopf, HarperCollins, and the University of Wisconsin Press.

This scholarly and creative publication feeds innovation and insight in the classroom, which directly benefits the undergraduate student.

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www.fau.edu/english

FAU has been building particular strengths in

T H E E N G L I S H M A J O R

English Faculty Courses

Literary Life The Lawrence A. Sanders Writer–in-Residence Program, the Off the Page: Events for Readers and Writers Program, and the Mary Blossom Lee Visiting Poets Series bring exciting and influential poets and prose writers to deliver readings, conduct seminars, and meet with students.

FAU English is dedicated to bringing writers to campus to read from their work and communicate with students

If you are a person who loves to read and write, English is a natural major for you! Your coursework will strengthen your writing and encourage you to read and think critically. As these skills are necessities in almost any field, FAU’s English major will open up a world of career opportunities. The English Internship Program is designed to introduce majors to some of these possibilities. Nationwide, English graduates work as elementary or secondary school teachers, college professors, writers, broadcasters, editors, entertainers, literary agents, and public relations specialists. English graduates are also employed in the business sector, in marketing and sales, and in the legal world, as lawyers and judges.

For information about the English major and English Internship Program, please contact the Department of English (561-297-3830) or (english@fau.edu)

English Major RequirementsThere are 39 credits in the English major. These must includeENG 3822: Intro to Literary Studies and either LIT 3213:Literary Theory or PHI 3882: Philosophy of Literature.

The first of these introduces students to three important literary genres, key concepts in reading and research in the field, and a sampling of critical approaches. It prepares students for the remainder of their major coursework. Either of the latter two introduces students to theoretical or philosophical statements that attempt to define literature and our reasons for studying it.

Students must then take fifteen credits from a list of courses in Literary Periods or Movements, and an additional six credits from a list in Multicultural Literature and Gender Studies. Students must also take at least one course in Writing or Rhetoric.

The final nine credits of the major are electives, allowing students to concentrate in one area of study, such as American or British Literature, Multicultural Literature andGender Studies, Writing and Rhetoric, or World Literature.

Students interested in majoring or minoring in English should contact the department office in CU 306 on the Boca Raton Campus (561-297-3830), Student Academic Services in Davie West 303F in Davie (954-236-1101), or Professor Mary Faraci in Jupiter (561-799-8545 or faraci@fau.edu).

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www.fau.edu/english

In recent years, visiting creative writers have included Michael Martone, John D’Agata, Cristina García, Forrest Gander, Paul Muldoon, Rosmarie Waldrop, Barret Watten, and Sven Birkerts.