Welcome to the English Department!
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About
the English Department
The
English Department
at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University offers a wide range
of undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and literature
designed to meet the needs of a richly diverse student body.
The emphasis is on the teaching of writing as a rhetorical act and
the close analysis of literary texts in historical, critical,
and cultural contexts. At the undergraduate level, the
three-semester Writing Program
consists of the study of interdisciplinary issues intended to stimulate
purposeful writing at each level of development. The study
of the elements of rhetoric, along with intensive practice, equips
students with the writing skills they will need for success in college
and in the business and professional worlds after graduation.
The four sophomore literature courses, any two of which satisfy
the six-credit literature requirement of the Humanities core curriculum,
survey the Western literary tradition from the beginnings to the
present as well as the non-Western traditions of Africa, Asia, and/or
Latin America. Readings from a wide variety of texts may be
structured chronologically or thematically, depending on the instructor.
Our undergraduate English Major program
(B.A. in English) allows students to concentrate in Literature,
Creative Writing, or Writing & Rhetoric. Students
gain a breadth of knowledge in literature in English, a sense
of the scope of English studies, and familiarity with contemporary
debates in their chosen field of concentration. At the graduate
level, the English Department offers a Master
of Arts (M.A.) degree with three possible concentrations:
Literature, Professional Writing, and Writing & Rhetoric. The
Department also offers a Master of Fine
Arts (M.F.A.) degree in Creative Writing. Teaching fellowships
and assistantships are available. The English Department promotes
literary studies and the literary arts through the activities of
the English Club; the Omicron Zeta
chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (the
international English honor society); our literary magazine, Downtown
Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing; and the Voices
of the Rainbow poetry/fiction reading series. In addition,
the Creative Writing MFA Program hosts its own MFA
Reading Series, and the Department hosts the annual Paumanok
Lecture on American Literature.
Contact
Information
The
English Department
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
One University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
front desk phone: 718-488-1050
department fax: 718-246-6302
Click
here for a list of program administrators in the Department.
Click here to e-mail the
English Department (english@brooklyn.liu.edu).
Click
here to find an e-mail address for a particular professor.
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