The Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in English/Writing, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and the minors in English/Writing or Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric provide coursework in literature, rhetoric, and creative writing, preparing students to be critical, creative thinkers and effective communicators.

In addition to providing majors and minors, the English/Writing Department at EOU provides a number of services to the EOU campus community. English faculty teach composition courses (WR 115, WR 121, WR 122, WR 123), participate on First-Year Experience Committees, oversee the University Writing Requirement, and are involved in Writing Across the Curriculum initiatives.

American Language and Culture Program

• Ars Poetica: creative writing lecture series and student workshops
• basalt: EOU’s literary magazine
• First-Year Experience and Integrated Studies Program
• Oregon East: EOU’s student-funded, student-run literature and art magazine
• Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Lambda Phi Chapter
• Student Writers’ Workshop conference for writers in grades 3-12 the second Saturday in March
• The Voice: EOU’s student newspaper
• Writing Center

State and National Networking

• Academy of American Poets
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
• Modern Language Association
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Writing Project (NWP)
• Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH)
• Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE)
• Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee
• Phi Kappa Phi