英语专业教给学生有效的欣赏和使用英语和文学的方法，以进行批判性思维，有效的沟通，公民权和事业成功。英语专业的学生具有较强的写作能力，并能进行高级的批判性和分析性思考。他们遇到了丰富，持久，实验和复杂的文学作品。他们努力解决与自己截然不同的观点，研究其最深层的价值观。讲师向学生介绍各种体裁和文化观点，并密切关注学生的思维和写作的各个方面，从逻辑和证据到独创性和风格。通过培养沟通技巧，激发创造力，发展文化敏感性和提高分析能力，该英语专业为学生提供了广泛的职业准备。追求创意写作的学生将通过一系列创意写作研讨会来
The Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing provides a variety of opportunities for students to read, write, and study the genres of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. In addition to a range of creative writing courses, the program also offers an English Major with an Emphasis in Creative Writing, a lively series of readings, visits by distinguished authors, opportunities to work on The Madison Review, and a number of contests and prize competitions. Undergraduate creative writing workshops are composed of twelve to seventeen students. In these courses—commonly called “workshops”— students read the work of established writers through the lens of literary craft and write poems and prose often generated from writing exercises.