English/Writing Program
Welcome to the English/Writing Program!
Welcome to the home page of the English/Writing program at Eastern Oregon University! We offer a Bachelor of Arts degree with three possible concentrations: Literature/Film, Discourse Studies, or Writing. Minors are also available in each concentration with an additional minor in Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric. The Literature/Film minor and concentration of the major and the Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric minor are available at a distance. Approximately 60 students currently major or minor in English/Writing.
Because Eastern is a small institution, our faculty provide seminar-style teaching in upper-division courses, and students have the unique opportunity to take leadership roles in such activities as the Ars Poetica lecture series, editing and producing the literary journal Oregon East and the award-winning campus newspaper The Voice, planning poetry readings and community workshops with the English Club, leading discussions of films in the film series, and tutoring their peers in the Writing Lab. As part of their coursework, students may write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, web pages, multiworks, and screenplays, as well as traditional academic papers. They may study abroad, arrange teaching practica, present papers at conferences, travel to Portland to meet professional editors and journalists, learn to print and bind their own books, practice grant writing and other writing as community service, and engage in research with faculty. All majors produce capstone projects of their own design, culminating their degree work.
As a result of these opportunities, English/Writing graduates possess excellent communication and critical thinking skills and continue on advanced study in literature, creative writing, and rhetoric, master's work in education,and law school, as well as careers in such areas as journalism, politics, freelance writing, and education and tribal administration.
In addition to serving majors and minors, the English/Writing program serves the university by providing first-year writing courses, speech courses, and the American language program for international students. English/Writing faculty also participate actively in the Integrated Studies Program, supporting the success of provisionally admitted students; coordinate the cross-disciplinary University Writing Requirement and provide support for writing across the curriculum; and meet regularly with English/Writing faculty across the state to develop consistent course outcomes and numbers and to smooth articulation for students moving from high school to the community college and/or the university.