Our courses are taught by?professors?who continue their education through scholarship, regularly presenting at conferences and publishing books and articles. Likewise, we encourage and guide our majors and minors to pursue opportunities to share their work at conferences, in print, online, and through a variety of?departmental publications. Offering small classes of no more than 25 students each, we are committed to the success of each student, and we take a personal approach?both within the classroom and outside it.

While developing a solid foundation in literature and language, our students specialize in?writing, in?literature, or in?preparation for teaching at the secondary level. We offer minors in?creative?and?professional writing, in?literature, and infilm studies. We also support the University's?Foreign Language Program, which offers a major in?Spanish?and minors in?Spanish Language and Culture,?Arabic Language and Culture,?Chinese Language and Culture, and?East-European Language and Culture (Polish or Russian).