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College Home Faculty and Staff Listing About the Department English Department News First-Year Writing Undergraduate Programs Student Opportunities Graduate Programs Alumni Corner Give to the Department Contact Us Apply to the College Plan a Visit College Home / Department of English Welcome to the Department of English Because we teach the arts of rhetoric, English faculty have a special obligation to defend and promote the open exchange of ideas, and to expose and resist deliberate misrepresentations of the past. We honor the right to free speech and will oppose the intrusion of hate speech and hateful symbols of oppression on our campus. Since we recognize that the College of Charleston, like the rest of the country, has yet to shed the vestiges of our racist history, we stand committed to working toward a fully diverse and inclusive educational environment. Read More. Why English? If you are a student reading this page, you probably already know why you want to study English. You already feel the pull of the word and the image. You already know the pleasure afforded by language shaped into stories, poems, memoirs, and essays. You already experience the thrill of entering other worlds, adopting other perspectives, and grappling with big questions. You already experience the satisfaction of getting a sentence just right, expressing your idea, articulating your vision. What you might not yet know is that English represents a pragmatic course of study as well as a fulfilling one. After all, there are some widespread misconceptions about how English majors fare on the job market. When you tell friends that you want to study English, some of them might have asked, “what are you going to do with that – teach?”... [Read more...] Fall 2020 registration has begun! You may have seen that the course listing for next fall is available in MyCharleston. Now is the time to get your plans in place and meet with your advisor! Our Fall offerings include a number of exciting special topics courses, alongside returning favorites. You’ll find 300-level classes on: The Black South in Literature and Film Writing and Literacy Renaissance Intertextuality Lyric Poetry's Song & Slam Black Comics and Issues of Representation Writing for the Web American Realism English Language: Grammar and History Place, Pace, and Perspective: Gender & Identity in Slow Cinema Contemporary American Fiction Writing African Lives and a senior seminar for Literature, Film & Cultural Studies concentrators on Oscar Wilde We also offer ENGL 190: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes, and ENGL 233: Survey of Non-Western Twentieth Century Literature, along with our regular 200-level classes in Poetry Writing (220); Fiction Writing (223); Intro to Writing Studies (225); Cinema History and Criticism (212); and the core curriculum (201, 202, 207, 299). The Fall 2020 English department list of courses, including detailed descriptions , is now available. Flyers for individual courses will soon be available on the web and around our classrooms in Maybank. To determine your registration entry time , you can check this schedule . You will need to know your current number of credits, which you can find in DegreeWorks. Registration begins for seniors on March 24. The English Advising Worksheets will help you visualize the major requirements in a way that DegreeWorks can’t really replicate. All three concentrations are on the first page of this worksheet; requirements for EDEN (secondary ed cognate) are on the second page. You might also find the Program Planner , produced by the Registrar’s Office for the English major, to be helpful. (You need to scroll down the list of majors to find the appropriate one based on your concentration, or for EDEN.) Have you heard about the new concentration ELFC (“elfs”), Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies? The concentration in Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies provides a rigorous education in writing and analysis through the study of a wide variety of literary and cultural texts, from medieval manuscripts to modern films. Strong writing and incisive thinking are increasingly specialized skills that are in demand in a wide variety of professional fields. Graduates of this program have gone on to caree...