Program highlights

• Develop critical thinking and research skills that you?ll be able to use again and again in both your professional and personal endeavors.

• Engage with your peers in workshop-style fiction and poetry classes, which allow you to contribute to your classmates? work while receiving critiques and advice to improve your own.
• Create dynamic brochures, videos, and multi-media work to prepare you for a job in professional writing.?
• Read the classics as well as often marginalized voices in literature classes.
• Polish your work for a final portfolio in the English program?s capstone course, which focuses on revising and improving works you?ve already written to make them the best they can be.
• Enjoy a variety of activities organized by the English department and community every semester, including bake sales, story and poetry slams, the Banned Books Reading, Dr. Seuss Celebration and a Shakespearean production by Cambridge American Stage Tour.
• Meet your fellow writing and literature enthusiasts in the 3AM Society student writers? club and Sigma Tau Delta honor society.
• Publish your best creative works in Bittersweet, FSU?s student literary magazine, or Backbone Mountain Review, a regional journal partnered with FSU?s Center for Literary Arts.