About the Undergraduate Program

With nearly 40 full-time faculty, the Department of English offers a broad range of courses in English, American and Anglophone literature of all periods and genres, but also in related areas such as creative and expository writing, literature and visual arts, ethnic literature and cultural studies, the history of the English language and of literary criticism, and literary and cultural theory. Class sizes are kept at 19 to enable full discussion (16 in creative writing workshops), and faculty are available for advisement. Instructors assign extensive reading and writing in order to help students become perceptive readers, critical thinkers and strong writers — skills that are their own lasting rewards and that also help prepare students for several areas of graduate study and for a number of professional and creative pursuits.

The Undergraduate English Association

Date: October 27, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Ide Common Room, Taper Hall 420

Topics to be Discussed Include:

• Building a niche community within a large university
• Independent & faculty-sponsored research opportunities
• Internship opportunities
• Upcoming events sponsored by the English Department
• The English Undergraduate Honor Society

Professor Lawrence Green (Director of Undergraduate Studies) and other English professors will talk informally about their teaching and academic work.

To learn more, contact Kelly Lawrence at kelly.lawrence@usc.edu.

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RECEPTION FOR NEW MAJORS IN ENGLISH
(and for anyone else interested in an English major or minor)

We’ve met many of you over the summer, and spoken with many more of you in the last year.  Now we’d like you to meet each other. This will be a good chance to find out what’s going on in the English Department these days, and what you can expect in the next few semesters.

This Thursday, on August 27, 2009 the English Department will host a casual reception for new majors and other interested students.  It will be held in the Ide Commons Room, on the fourth floor of Taper Hall of Humanities (THH420). Please come and bring a friend. Eat pizza, meet faculty, talk to other students majoring or minoring in English, and find a friendly niche in the huge university.

See you on Thursday, August 27, 2009 from 4pm to 5pm.

Margaret Russett, Chair of English
Lawrence Green, Director of Undergraduate Studies