USC College Department of English

four reasons to major in english at usc:

The cultural cross-fertilization and creative energy that make Los Angeles one of the world’s great international cities also provide the inspiration for USC English.
Our program complements the rich historical swath of British, American, and Anglophone literatures that traditionally constitutes academic study with the literary cultures of the US-Mexican border, the larger sphere of Latin America, the African diaspora, the Pacific Rim, and the circum-Atlantic world.
The broad reach of the program is likewise reflected in the central place Creative Writing occupies on both undergraduate and graduate levels.
English’s award-winning faculty has made a reputation for itself nationally for its embrace of diverse theoretical approaches and its encouragement of interdisciplinary studies.

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested”
—Sir Francis Bacon

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