关于
The skills most in demand for today’s job market are those in which 英语 majors excel – oral and written communication, 阅读理解, 积极倾听, 分析和批判性思维.
These fundamental strengths place graduates of 澳门新濠娱乐开户’s 英语 (BA) – Creative Writing program at the top of employers’ wish lists, assuring them success and flexibility in a variety of careers – including writing, 编辑, 出版, 新闻, 广播, 市场营销, 广告, 公共关系, 教学, 教育行政管理, 法律, 业务, 图书馆情报学, 关怀行业, 政府及其他机构.
With award-winning faculty including a former North Carolina Poet Laureate, Appalachian’s 英语系 offers one of the finest undergraduate 创意写作 项目 in North Carolina. Students flourish in small classes focused on workshopping their writing, 并有机会与著名的访问作家进行交流, including Appalachian’s Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing.
毕业后
就业: Students who graduated from this program have gone on to work for Oxford University Press, 技术编辑服务, 亚当斯文学代理公司, 考克斯传媒集团, MicroMass通信, UNC-Chapel山, Merkle, 北卡蓝十字和蓝盾组织, 影响金融系统和其他.
研究生院: Students who chose to continue their 教育 have gone on to earn graduate degrees in 英语, 法律, 出版, 图书馆情报学, 教育, 传播科学与疾病, 公共管理, 社会工作, 计算机科学和创意写作. Students from this program have gone on to MFA graduate 项目 in Creative Writing at the following schools:
- 达特茅斯大学
- 爱荷华大学
- 旧金山大学
- 南佛罗里达大学
- 印第安纳大学
- 萨拉劳伦斯学院
- 纽约大学
- 佐治亚州立大学
- UNC-Greensboro
- UNC-Wilmington
- 北卡罗莱纳州立大学
人
课程
未成年人
这门专业需要辅修. 受欢迎的选择包括:
- 心理学
- 历史
- 哲学
- TESL /Apply语言学
- 一般业务
- 市场营销
- 宗教研究
- 政治科学
- 艺术
- 戏剧艺术
课堂外的参与
西格玛τ δ 是一个英语本科生的国际荣誉协会吗.
歌词 是澳门新濠娱乐开户口语诗歌俱乐部吗.
果皮 is an award-winning student-run literary publication that features Appalachian students’ stories, 诗歌, 散文和艺术品.
冷山评论 is Appalachian’s professional literary review published out of the 英语系.
电影俱乐部 is the 英语系’s undergraduate club devoted to film production and appreciation.
APPS协会电影系列 由澳门新濠娱乐开户流行编程协会(APPS)赞助,.
可持续发展电影系列 screens films that help viewers better understand the challenges facing human culture and our planet.
酷儿电影系列 旨在提高校园和社区对历史的认识, 生活, 以及LGBTQI(女同性恋)文化, 同性恋, 双性恋, 变性人, 质疑, 以及双性人.
休琳·博斯蒂安·弗兰克访问作家系列 brings eight authors to campus for readings and craft talks throughout the school year.
全球学习
Appalachian is committed to introducing students to different cultures and 教学 them 如何在一个全球化的社会中生活和互动.
入学要求
There are no admission requirements beyond admission to 澳门新濠娱乐开户.
为什么澳门新濠娱乐开户?
- 休琳·博斯蒂安·弗兰克访问作家系列 每年带八个作家来澳门新濠娱乐开户.
- Appalachian’s Creative Writing concentration was the first undergraduate program in the U.S. 获得杜鲁门·卡波特创意写作奖学金. It is awarded annually to a rising junior or senior whose submissions of prose or 诗歌 are judged to be outstanding. The department also offers the John Foster West and Marian Coe Creative Writing Scholarship Competitions.
- The Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing brings to campus every fall a writer of national prominence. In the past, the program has hosted Al Young, Toi Derricotte, Kelly Cherry, Robert Morgan, R.T. Smith, Gurney Norman, Nancy Huddleston Packer, Kathryn Stripling Byer, George Ella Lyon and others.
- Research shows that 英语 majors who choose to pursue a graduate or professional degree consistently perform at the highest levels on the GMAT, 称MCAT, 法学院入学考试和GRE考试.
- Qualifying students can participate in App State’s 硕士速成课程 — often called 4+1 — and complete a 英语专业硕士学位 再过一年.
位置
布恩和 胡桃木
职业生涯
Appalachian graduates with 英语 degrees excel wherever employers value cultural literacy and the ability to read carefully, 批判性地思考和有效地写作.
联系人
Dr. 莱昂纳多弗洛
椅子
floresll@dienmayhikaru.com
828-262-3098