The Department of offers programs of study leading to the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing or the Master of Arts in English, with specializations in?Creative Non-Fiction; Literature; Teaching English as a Foreign Language or Second Language (TESL/TEFL); and Writing, Rhetoric, and Social change. The department shares a joint Master of Arts degree in Foreign Languages and the Teaching of English as a Second Language.

The English?programme offered by ?is designed to facilitate the intellectual growth of passionate teachers, insightful scholars, and engaged public citizens.?Graduates have gone on to highly-ranked Ph.D. programs, publishing houses, and careers in the non-profit sector; whatever your aspirations, the training you receive at CSU will prepare you for a more vibrant future.

Areas of study

  • Composition: theory, teaching, history, administration
  • Computers and composition
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Cultural and critical studies
  • Discourse theory
  • English Education
  • Linguistics, applied
  • Literary studies: traditional and nontraditional
  • Literary history and theory
  • Literature
  • Reading/writing theory
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language (TESL/TEFL)
  • Teaching English as a foreign language
  • Teaching English as a second language
  • Teaching in secondary schools