Bachelor of the Arts in English Writing University of Pittsburgh

The English Department at Saint Vincent Higher provides an atmosphere and a setting for students togo on the 2,500 year-sometime conversation about text, linguistic communication, inventiveness and imagination. With literature at the center of the chat, students pursue focused intra-textual reading and apply wider insights that cantankerous national, historical, critical and disciplinary boundaries.

Students in the Saint Vincent College English language department think, research and write more fluently most the canon as well as popular civilisation. Ultimately, the person graduating with a degree in English willencompass language both as an instrument and an fine art, having explored the felicitous tension betwixt creative impulse and traditional course.

What Tin can I Do With a Major in English language?

Our English major alumni not but survive in the "real world," they thrive.  Saint Vincent English majors teach in high schools throughout the United States, and many contempo graduates have launched successful, fulfilling careers every bit lawyers, business organization administrators, higher professors, librarians, professional writers, editors and authors.

• Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Caste in English

  Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English: 36 Credits

  Required Courses
  English majors must take the following 4 courses:
  EL 202 - Intermediate Writing (taken after the freshman year)
  EL 325 - Literary Criticism I (offered only in the autumn)
  EL 326 - Literary Criticism Ii (offered only in the jump)
  Taken later the freshman year, these 2 Literary Criticism classes are non sequential.
  EL 400 - Senior Projection - Taken during the fall semester of the senior year, this course engages you in the completion of your capstone project. Capstone projects may range from xx-five page literary analyses to collections of poetry. These projects should jump from your concentrations and may be extensions or elaborations of a paper that you completed in another English grade.

  Electronic Portfolio
  Your English portfolio is a collection of four term papers or projects, written throughout your time at SVC, that help you touch base with your intended concentration, organize your interest, and collect work that y'all are well-nigh proud of inside the context of useful courses. You must complete at least ii researched literary analyses and two term projects. As you stop each term newspaper/project, complete a survey (plant on Schoology English Form) after submitting each portfolio requirement. Papers completed in the Common Courses, including your senior capstone project, DO NOT satisfy the term project requirement. During your final semester, to fulfill requirements for your Exit Interview grade, you volition upload a Senior Reflection paper that assesses your work as an English language major throughout your higher career.

  English Concentration
  By the end of your freshman yr, y'all should choose i (ane) of the following xx (xx) concentrations. Directorate volition work with yous to create term projects and a senior project that spring from your concentration. If you seek whatever exceptions for the courses required for the concentration, please see the department chair.

  American Studies
  Choose four of the following:
  EL 113 - Women'southward Literature
  EL 133 - American Literature: Beginnings to Present
  EL 137 - American Short Story
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the United states
  EL 139 - African American Literature
  EL 143 - The Shell Generation
  EL 242- American Renaissance
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th Century Women'southward Literature
  EL 258 - American Modernism

  Classicism and Romanticism:
  Required classes:
  EL 115 - British Literature: Neoclassicism to Modernism
  EL 131 - American Literature: Exploration to Civil War
  EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
  EL 224 - The Romantic Historic period
  EL 242 - American Renaissance

  Creative Writing:
  Choose four of the following:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Artistic Writing
  EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
  EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  Drama and Performance:
  Cull four of the following:
  EL 114 - British Literature: Centre Ages to Restoration
  EL 126 - Stone 'n' Roll Criticism
  EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
  EL 210 - Classical Greek Poesy & Drama
  EL 213 - Shakespeare'southward Histories
  EL 214 - Shakespeare'southward Comedies/Tragedies
  EL 236 - Modern European Literature

  Interdisciplinary Studies:
  Choose 4 of the following:
  EL 111 - Environmental Literature
  EL 127 - Shakespeare on Motion picture
  EL 128 - Children'south Literature: Fables - 1900
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
  EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
  EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
  EL 211 - Medieval Studies
  EL 224 - The Romantic Historic period

  Literary Publishing:
  Take these three courses:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Artistic Writing
  EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
  EL 230 - Small Press Publishing
  Take one of the following:
  EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  EL 244 - Artistic Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  Literary Translation:
  Required courses:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  EL 252 - Creative Writing: Literary Translation
  Choose 1 of the following:
  EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  EL 244 - Creative Writing Workshop
  Cull ane of the post-obit:
  EL 230 - Small Press Publishing
  EL 236 - Modernistic European Literature
  EL 250 - Contemporary World Literatures in Translation

  Literature and Politics:
  Cull 4 of the following:
  EL 111 - Environmental Literature
  EL 113 - Women'southward Literature
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
  EL 139 - African American Literature
  EL 143 - The Beat Generation
  EL 179 - The Literature of Protest
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature

  Literature and Spirituality:
  Choose iv of the following:
  EL 124 - Literature and the Bible
  EL 143 - The Crush Generation
  EL 148 - Modern Catholic Literature
  EL 211 - Medieval Studies
  EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature

  Literature and the Family :
  Cull iv of the post-obit:
  EL 113 - Women's Literature
  EL 128 - Children'southward Literature: Fables - 1900
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature in the U.s.
  EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
  EL 273 - Representations of Childhood in Immature Adult Literature

  Literature of Dissent:
  Choose four of the post-obit:
  EL 126 - Rock 'northward' Ringlet Criticism
  EL 139 - African American Literature
  EL 143 - The Trounce Generation
  EL 179 - The Literature of Protest
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

  Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
  Choose 4 of the following:
  EL 114 - British Literature: Heart Ages to Restoration
  EL 127 - Shakespeare on Moving-picture show
  EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
  EL 211 - Medieval Studies
  EL 212 - Chaucer
  EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
  EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
  EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature

  Modernism and Postmodernism:
  Cull four of the following:
  EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the United states of america
  EL 143 - The Beat Generation
  EL 236 - Mod European Literature
  EL 258 - American Modernism
  Ane of the following may substituted:
  EL 203 - Verse Workshop
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  Narrative:
  Required courses:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  Choose two of the following:
  EL 137 - American Short Story
  EL 236 - Modernistic European Literature
  EL 244 - Artistic Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
  EL 258 - American Modernism

  Verse:
  Required courses:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  EL 203 - Poesy Workshop
  Choose two of the following:
  EL 114 - British Literature: Center Ages to Restoration
  EL 115 - British Literature: Neoclassicism to Modernism
  EL 143 - The Beat Generation
  EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
  EL 212 - Chaucer
  EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature

  Pop Civilisation Studies:
  Choose three of the following:
  EL 111 - Environmental Literature
  EL 125 - History and Development of Science Fiction
  EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
  EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
  EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature

  Shakespeare:
  Choose four of the following:
  EL 114 - British Literature: Center Ages to Restoration
  EL 127 - Shakespeare on Film
  EL 213 - Shakespeare'due south Histories
  EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
  EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature

  Women's Literature:
  Choose four of the following:
  EL 113 - Women's Literature
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
  EL 148 - Modern Catholic Literature
  EL 244 - Artistic Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 250 - Contemporary Globe Literatures in Translation
  EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature

  Earth Literature:
  Choose four of the following:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  EL 111 - Environmental Literature
  EL 138 - Multiethnic Literature of the US
  EL 210 - Classical Greek Poetry & Drama
  EL 236 - Modern European Literature
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  Writing:
  Required courses:
  EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  EL 107 - News Writing
  EL 108 - Technical Writing
  Choose one of the post-obit:
  EL 142 - Literary Magazine Internship
  EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
  EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  Secondary Teaching Certification
  If y'all are pursuing Secondary Pedagogy Certification, you must take the following courses, which may serve as elective or concentration credits:

  • EL 119 -  History of the English Linguistic communication (offered only in the fall)
  • CL 129 - Young Adult Fiction or EL 273 - Representations of Children in Immature Developed Literature
  • EL 127 - Shakespeare on Moving-picture show (offered simply in the summertime), EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories (spring semesters only), EL 214 - Shakespeare'due south Comedies and Tragedies (spring semesters only), or EL 265 - Shakespeare in London (written report away)
  • EL 133 - American Literature: Ancestry to Present

  Electives
  Cull four courses offered past the department, only go on the term project requirement in mind.

  Term Projects
  Term projects are heavily weighted requirements of sure courses listed beneath. The nature of these projects may vary, but ii of your term projects must existresearched literary analyses . Yous must file evidence of completed Term Projects in your electronic portfolio in the English Majors Schoology site.

  The post-obit courses require Term Projects:

  • EL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
  • EL 125 - History and Evolution of Science Fiction
  • EL 126 - Rock 'n' Roll Criticism
  • EL 128 - Children's Literature: Fables to 1900
  • EL 143 - The Beat Generation
  • EL 147 - Arthurian Literature
  • EL 148 - Modern Cosmic Literature
  • EL 149 - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • EL 203 - Poetry Workshop
  • EL 204 - Fiction Workshop
  • EL 224 - The Romantic Age
  • EL 244 - Artistic Nonfiction Workshop
  • EL 252 - Literary Translation Workshop

  The following courses require Researched Literary Analyses:

  • EL 203 - Verse Workshop
  • EL 210 - Classical Greek Poesy & Drama
  • EL 211 - Medieval Studies
  • EL 212 - Chaucer
  • EL 213 - Shakespeare's Histories
  • EL 214 - Shakespeare's Comedies/Tragedies
  • EL 216 - British Renaissance Literature
  • EL 236 - Modernistic European Literature
  • EL 242 - American Renaissance
  • EL 242H - Honors American Renaissance
  • EL 244 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
  • EL 250 - Contemporary World Literatures in Translation
  • EL 256 - Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
  • EL 256H - Honors Sentimental Fictions: 19th-Century Women's Literature
  • EL 258 - American Modernism
  • EL 258H - Honors American Modernism
  • EL 273 - Representations of Childhood in Immature Adult Literature

• Requirements for a Minor in English

  The English Department at Saint Vincent College offers iii specialized minors in addition to the pocket-size in English.  These minors are Literary Translation, Creative Writing and Children'south Literature.

  The minor in English offers a flexible plan of study that allows students to build skills in writing, analytical reading and critical thinking. This minor nurtures curiosity and fosters appreciation of literature, art and civilisation. A minor in English communicates both technical and analytical competencies to future employers and graduate admissions counselors. Because it enhances intellect, conversational agility and marketability, a minor in English complements any major.

  Students seeking a modest in English must accept:

  • Either EL 325- Literary Criticism I or EL 326- Literary Criticism 2
  • Five other English courses - Two of which must crave researched literary analyses.

  See also Pocket-sized in Creative Writing andSmall in Literary Translation.

Internships

Ultimately, the person graduating with a caste in English will comprehend language both as a tool and an fine art, having explored the felicitous tension between creative impulse and traditional class. Such a comprehension enables graduates to succeed in instruction, police, professional writing, artistic writing and academia.

Samantha Hilyer: Journalism Intern
Internship: Journalism Intern, The Catholic Accent
Date: Autumn 2019 - Nowadays
Form of 2022

Saint Vincent'south English programme provided me with the necessary tools to delve into and exploratory career in journalism; through their personal style of teaching and detailed feedback of my piece of work, the English department staff has helped me to abound so much as a writer over the by three years and I thank them for the opportunities I take been able to receive considering of their rigorous piece of work and unfailing dedication to their students. I am ever challenged on and off campus to go along expanding my writing horizon. My freshman year of college, I joined The Review—the campus paper—and 1 of my articles was reprinted in The Latrobe Bulletin. My sophomore year, I began my internship with The Catholic Accent where I wrote articles for the newspaper and magazine and this by summer, thanks to my counselor, I even had the chance to produce a historical slice about local suffragist and Equal Rights Amendment champion, Emma Guffey Miller, with the Westmoreland History magazine. The English program at Saint Vincent offers skillsets that are expertly passed down to English majors and minors by proficient professors of fantabulous quality who take the time to know each educatee individually and yearn for their students success every bit much, if not more than, the students.

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Danny Whirlow: Journalism Intern

Internship: Journalism Intern, Swimming Globe Mag
Date: Summer 2019
Class of 2021

For a long time, my able-bodied pursuits as a swimmer and my artistic pursuits as a writer were prepare on distinctive paths. Rarely did they intersect. However, these paths would run across towards the end of my sophomore year, while I was searching for summer internships. My jitney shared with me an advertisement for a journalism internship with Pond Earth Mag, so I practical as finals loomed. Admittedly, I was nervous. I could write a thoughtful literary analysis or shimmering verse form, simply I had no journalism feel to speak of.

I got the internship, joining a group of other swimmer-writers from across the nation. While I pictured stepping into an function edifice alongside other aspiring sports journalists, I learned that it was in fact a remote internship. Direct contact with our supervisor was confined to text messages and I'd never see whatever of my boyfriend interns in person. I was on my own after we received some training documents and signed some forms. The Magazine gave the states full creative freedom, besides some off-limits topics.

My nervousness peaked; could I write nearly eight distinct topics in three months? Simply I soon realized that I wasn't as helpless every bit I thought. The writing ability I had refined over the last two years in workshops fabricated up significantly for my lack of journalism feel. What's more than, the skills I learned from Dr. Snyder, Professor Gil-Montero, and Dr. McDaniel gave me the confidence to approach subjects from fresh angles and to seek stories out wherever they may be hiding.

I did not just survive my internship; I thrived. Of the eight stories, the one I'm most proud of today focuses on the lessons of Fred Rogers and how they can help teach children to swim. And at the terminate of the summertime, I walked away feeling validated as both a writer and a student, eager for whatever challenge was next.

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Mallory Truckenmiller: Editorial Intern
Internship: Editorial Intern, Asymptote Book Lodge
Appointment: Summer 2018
Class of 2019

During my internship for Asymptote Volume Order, I worked with an international team of editors and translators from various backgrounds while experiencing the complex, demanding, and overlapping responsibilities of managing a literary service. My responsibilities included promoting the book guild through social media and literary communities, collaborating with the marketing team to devise strategies for incorporating the book club into educational environments, and recruiting potential book club members; however, my favorite experience from this internship was reading unpublished translation manuscripts and writing reader'due south reports for the squad as part of the book club selection process. This experience besides led to a wonderful interview with renowned translator Emma Ramadan and a published book review.

From this internship, I learned how to communicate chop-chop and efficiently with an editorial team in order to ensure a smooth and successful performance within a fast-paced and always-changing publishing environment. I also learned how to navigate the multiple platforms of literary promotion that make up the worlds of social media and academia. Furthermore, I learned how to tailor my writing skill to different editorial environments such as literary blogs and professional person communication.

My feel was a rewarding one! I establish myself networking with experienced editors, writers, and translators while exploring a translation community that fought for the visibility and recognition of culling canons and marginalized communities. This internship reshaped my career path and shifted my attention to new literatures and languages.

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Kathryn Ordiway:Editorial Intern

Internship: Editorial Intern, St. Lynn's Press/Pittsburgh
Date: Summer 2015
Grade of 2016

There'southward never a dull day in a publishing company, especially if y'all're an intern at a pocket-size press. This summer, I was fortunate enough to take the opportunity to intern at St. Lynn'due south Printing in Pittsburgh. Somehow, at that place seems to be this common consensus that interns spend near of their fourth dimension picking upwardly the mail and getting coffee for their boss; my experience was the complete opposite.

From day 1, I was office of every part of the publishing process, from first to end. My big project for the summer was to pitch book ideas at the query meetings we had every week. I wrote re-create for newsletters and blogs, worked on tipsheets, attended all the staff meetings and participated in phone meetings, communicated with authors and agents, and, of course, edited. I saw books at every phase of the editing process. I also spent a lot of time on the copyright office's website registering books.

My time with St. Lynn's wasn't merely about professional experience. I had amazing life experiences likewise. We visited a St. Lynn's author who lives off the grid, took a field trip to the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, went to the Iii Rivers Arts Festival, and took the occasional walk along the Monongahela River.

It was an amazing summertime on the South Side and I was pitiful to meet it end. I left St. Lynn'due south with a fuller appreciation for the editing process and a new understanding of what information technology ways to edit someone else's work.

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Zach Tackett: Editorial Intern
Internship: Sampsonia Mode Magazine & City of Aviary/Pittsburgh
Date: Summer 2012
Grade of 2013

As an editorial intern for Sampsonia Way Magazine, I was given the opportunity to gain real life experience in journalism and civil rights activism. After a few curt weeks during the summertime betwixt my junior and senior years, I conducted interviews with several prominent figures, including a Guatemalan journalist who was forced to flee her home after speaking out against an unjust vigilante law enforcement grouping, equally well equally City of Asylum/Pittsburgh's and then-electric current writer-in-residence, Israel Centeno, virtually his beginning U.S. publication.

I learned to write in not only classic-journalistic styles, but also through more than multimedia-driven styles, such equally photojournalism and blurb "roundup" styles. Before leaving, I as well had the opportunity to volunteer for Urban center of Asylum/Pittsburgh'southward almanac Cave Canem reading where such fine poets as Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Angela Jackson, and Thomas Sayers Ellis read their award-winning work. (I also aided in the video interview of Thomas Sayers Ellis.)

It was a decorated and fun experience, and I walked away from my internship with a stronger understanding and appreciation of the editorial procedure, more experimental styles of journalism, and web-based content, and on a more personal notation, with more than patience for taking the time necessary to truly edit something.

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Bethany Biesinger: Professional Writing Intern
Internship: Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau
Date: Spring 2011
Grade of 2014

Being an intern with the Laurel Highlands Visitors Agency was an splendid feel. That was in the bound of 2011 at their office in Ligonier. The first portion of my internship was writing summaries of the grants that had received funding from the Visitors Bureau. This was both for their records and in training for the plan for their presentation of the grants. Information technology involved researching the groups and choosing pertinent information for the summaries. After writing the summaries, I also proofed them. I was permitted to brand my own schedule, and normally worked 10 to 15 hours a week. They then asked me to stay on once this project was finished.

My new chore was to manage their client and member database from events and shows the Bureau would host or have a display at. It involved working with the database they had purchased for this purpose, organizing information technology, and entering new information. This internship absolutely came in handy because I have done both of these things in my current graduate student researcher job with the Learning Inquiry and Development Center. My GSR position requires 20 hours of piece of work a week and completely pays for grad school, healthcare, and gives me a monthly stipend. Part of my GSR position involves proofing documents and units. I take also worked on their membership database and have created programs like to the ones at the Visitors Bureau. The internship undoubtedly helped me to get my GSR position and my GSR position has been worth thousands for me.

Visiting Writers Series

Writers, Poets and Translators on Campus

Every fall, the SVC Visiting Writers Series highlights the work of strange writers and literary translators. Readings, class visits, and Q&A sessions offer students in the program a glimpse of international literature in the making.
Through the series, Saint Vincent has welcomed eminent writers and translators such as Ben Lerner, Toi Derricotte, Daniel Borzutzky, Valerie Mejer Caso, Kathrine Hedeen, Eduardo Chirinos, José Kozer, and many others.

For information nearly upcoming events, visit theVisiting Writers Plan page.

Visiting Writers Podcasts

Carmen Gimenez Smith- March 26, 2013
Eduardo Chirinos & Gary Racz - October 22, 2012
Kevin Pilkington- March 26, 2012
Horacio Castellanos Moya - October 20, 2011
Joy Katz - April xi, 2011
Khet Mar - October 21, 2010
Sarah O'Brien - April 23, 2010
Jose Kozer - September 24, 2009

Read More About Our Visiting Translators

Alumna Million Matich Speaks about Literary Translation and Icelandic Poetry
A conversation with Eduardo Chirinos and Gary Racz
Students share their translations with Burmese poet

English language Department Publications

The English department oversees three publications, each which utilize varying degrees of student leadership and participation. Saint Vincent'southward student-run newspaper, The Review , is a weekly news source. Generation Magazine  is a yearly literary magazine written, designed and launched by students.  Eulalia Books is a literary press that publishes works of literary translation with the help of student interns and piece of work studies.

Eulalia Books website:https://www.eulaliabooks.com/

The Review  website:https://www.stvincentreview.com/

Read the 2019-2020 issue of Generation Magazine :
Epub ebook file:Generation Magazine '19-20
Pdf:Generation Magazine '19-twenty

Educatee Learning Outcomes

English language students will exist able to:

• analyze and interpret literature recognizing and responding to context, genre, and style.
• write well, reflecting SVC's Six Principles of Skilful Writing.
• explain and utilise literary theory.
• produce substantial literary and creative projects that reveal keen assay, persistent revision, and thoughtful, responsible scholarship.

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