The Department of English at UW-Stevens Point serves to educate students in the liberal studies of language and literature, which foster communication, critical reading, and critical thinking skills. We believe that studying and responding to literature play a crucial role in a liberal arts education that will help students become active and aware participants in our complex culture. Our English Department faculty pride themselves on the attention they give individual students to help them further and widen their interests and develop their strengths.
DECLARE YOUR MAJOR
The English Department offers a range of student-centered activities, from career workshops to speakers’ groups, to creative writing workshops. We foster career development opportunities, including work in our student-staffed independent university press. To explore minors and majors or requirements for the English honors program, view the placement requirements here. Students are advised by the department chair, and assigned a faculty mentor or adviser to assist with your area of emphasis.
Building Versatile, Vital Skills
Cornerstone Press
The only press of its kind in the University of Wisconsin system, Cornerstone Press is one of four undergraduate, student-staffed presses in the United States. Our independent publishing and teaching press is located in the Collins Classroom Center on the UWSP main campus.
Department Scholarships
Scholarships in the Department of English can either require an application, submission of essay or poetry, or be granted by faculty nominations.
Connect with Faculty
Our faculty offices are located in the Collins Classroom Center.
Life Stories Legacy Project
The Life Stories Legacy Project connects students to community elders in order to tell their stories in published volumes.
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Majors employed within a year
In the News
- Celebrate 40 Years of Cornerstone Press!
- Cornerstone Press Book Launch and Author Event – Video Here
Connections Project
Develop skills leading students and developing your own curriculum. Connections Project involves students enrolled in English 381-Reading for the English Teacher and provides hands-on practicum in middle and secondary school settings.
English High and Low Trip
Students will study contemporary scholarship in England during a summer study abroad course. Highlights include the Charles Dickens Museum, John Keats House in London, visit to the Sherlock Holmes statue in front of Baker Street tube station, and a day trip to Bath.
Internships
Students apply their knowledge and build on their foundational knowledge by working for a host of organizations, on and off campus.