English
A Unique and Flexible Program where you design your own Path
You get to choose many of your degree requirements, selecting from a cluster of connected courses called a Concentration.
Examples of Concentrations students have created include Psychology in Media and Literature, The Art of the Comic Book, Editing and Publishing, Teaching English Abroad, Diversity in Literature, The Art and Practice of Journalism, Literature and Film, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, and Contemporary American Literature and Culture.
About this Program
Here, you’ll work closely with faculty members who will introduce you to exciting new ways of experiencing literature — in the class and outside the classroom. Our evening Visiting Writers and Visiting Speakers programs bring to campus a diverse group of published authors, filmmakers, performers and others. Best of all, you’ll get to network and meet with them after their presentations.
Our on-campus publications, discussion groups, conferences and symposiums allow you to write and present your ideas and research in public: presenting about Shakespeare at regional conferences, making and showing short films about Emily Dickinson’s poems, writing and performing songs about Jane Austen’s novels, and more.
Some English students have been awarded UMF Wilson Scholarships to fund independent research. Student research projects have explored young adult literature, book conservation in a digital age, the Iraq War, knighthood in The Canterbury Tales, and more.
Courses
You will get to choose interesting classes specifically tailored to this program, such as:
- Literature and Your Life
- Nature Writing
- African American Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare
- Video Games as Literature
- Multicultural Literature and Film
- The Splendid Drunken Twenties
- Twentieth-Century British Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
You will also take courses in the Arts, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.
Program Requirements
At UMF you can find out, first-hand, what it’s like to work with a degree in English while you learn valuable career skills and develop a strong network of professional contacts.
Here’s a short list of where our English students have recently interned:
- Central Maine Media Alliance
- Taffy Films – Philadelphia
- Maine State Aquarium
- Sandy River Review
- Mt. Blue TV, Farmington
- Spinner Publications – New Bedford, MA
- Beloit Poetry Journal, Windham
- Longfellow Young Writers Camp
- And More
Graduates from this program have gone on to become:
- news journalists
- lawyers
- graphic designers
- medical technicians
- teachers
- web developers
- librarians
- writers
- editors
- union organizers
- even folksingers
Others have found careers in fields such as:
- journalism
- communications
- marketing
- freelance writing
- professional research
- broadcasting
- teaching
- library science
