UMBC's English Department is a vibrant center for teaching, learning, and research with two major tracks: the Literature Track, for the broad range and diverse traditions of literature written in English, and the Communication and Technology Track, for written and spoken communication and the new information technologies. The English minors feature literature, creative writing, journalism, and professional writing.
UMBC's outstanding English faculty past and present includes winners of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulbright fellowships, as well as recipients of the American Studies Network Prize, the James N. Britten Award for Inquiry in the Language Arts, the James Thurber Prize for Comic Fiction, the Society for Professional Journalists' Award for commentary, the City and Regional Magazine Award for column writing, and Baltimore Magazine's Best of the Web award.
Featured News and Events
LATEST NEWS: NEW MA COURSES
The Department is pleased to announce that the Graduate Council has approved several new courses at the Master's level for possible offer in 2012-13. Click here for a complete listing of our graduate courses.
FALL UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
In order to help you choose your fall 2012 courses, we have posted a list of upper division classes, showing what requirement they fulfil under the new curriculum. If you haven't had time to view the curricular changes yet, go here for information on the new majors, downloadable checksheets, and a curriculum selection form. A list of topics course descriptions for the Fall semester is available here.
RECENT Talks
Each year the English Department hosts talks by faculty and visiting speakers, through the Faculty Colloquium Series and the English Department Speakers's Series. We also co-host speakers in the Humanities Forum, with the Dresher Center for the Humanities. A complete list of past speakers is available here.
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