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Bachelor of Arts
Our B.A. program offers an English literature major or a concentration in Creative Writing, or the path to certification for teaching at the secondary or college level.
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Master of Arts
The highly versatile MA in English program offers three areas of emphasis—literary study, creative writing, and technical and professional writing.
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Writers Series
The Writers Series brings to campus writers of distinction—poets, novelists, short-story writers, memoirists, playwrights—and ranges from the well-established to the up-and-coming.