English Department Success Stories
Our most recent student success stories include the two Rebeccas.
To read more about them click on their pictures.
Rebecca Bauman
Rebecca Gray
Student and Faculty Activities
Faculty and students in the PSU English Department participate in a range of departmental activities outside the classroom. The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series brings prominent writers to our campus for readings, class discussions, and conversation. Each year the winner of the Victor J. Emmett Memorial Prize is invited to campus to receive the prize and present a scholarly lecture. Our students write, edit, and produce Cow Creek Review, the student literary journal that showcases our students' fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. The department also sponsors Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society.
Writing Support
The facilities in our department enhance students' reading and writing abilities. The Department has a Computer Lab and a Writing Center. In addition to staffed, physical facilities, the English Department helps coordinate a university-wide program called Writing to Learn. All PSU students enroll in a series of Writing to Learn courses that emphasize intensive writing skills across the disciplines.
Kansas fiction writer Amy Sage Webb reads from her work Thursday, March 25 as a part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. Free and open to the public, Webb's reading will take place at 8:00 p.m. in the Balkans Room in Overman Student Center on the Pittsburg State Campus. Read more here.
Undergraduate Programs
Undergraduate students who pursue a Bachelor of Arts in English have an array of degree program options. In addition to a Traditional Emphasis in Literature, we offer undergraduate emphases in Creative Writing in Poetry or Fiction as well as a Technical/Professional Writing Emphasis.
Students interested in a teaching career can pursue a Bachelor of Science in Education.
Undergraduate students who are minoring in English have similar options. We offer minors in the Traditional Emphasis in Literature, Creative Writing, Technical/Professional Writing, and teaching.
Graduate Studies
Graduate students pursuing the Master of Arts in English also have several degree program options. In addition to the traditional Literature Emphasis, we offer a Creative Writing Emphasis, a Professional and Technical Writing emphasis, and an emphasis in Composition and Rhetoric.
Those who already have a master's degree can pursue a Specialist in Education degree with English as the major teaching field.