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| Whether you're
considering law, medicine, advertising, teaching, or journalism,
a background in English can offer you a good foundation
for a future career. Majoring in English, you gain strong
critical reading, analytical thinking, focused research,
and precise writing skills. Our curriculum is designed
to be comprehensive, integrated, intensive, and interesting
to all English majors. The core courses you'll take will
enable you to fulfill requirements for state teaching accreditation,
graduate work in the humanities, and admission to a wide
variety of professional schools. You'll choose from an
array of specialized writing courses, including intermediate
and advanced exposition and argumentation, technical writing,
legal writing, business and professional writing, and creative
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Contact
Dr.
Dana Williams
Chair
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences
Locke Hall, Room 248
Howard University
(202) 806-6730 |
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Spring 2011 Issue |
AMISTAD
The
online undergraduate literary magazine
Fall/Winter 2011 Call for Submissions
Amistad Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for the Fall/Winter 2011 issue. The theme of this upcoming issue is "The Prison Industrial Complex: The Meaning of Social Reform in the 21st Century." Submissions should reflect this theme. Editors are accepting online submissions in the form of poetry (maximum 3 poems), short fiction (including flash fiction), creative non-fiction, and art work (JPEG files only).
Please contact editor Shakeema Smalls at shakeema.smalls@gmail.com with any questions. |
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| Fall 2011 Electives for Majors and Minors |
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Dr R. Victoria Arana to participate in "Behind the Looking Glass"
As a pioneer in the field of Black British writing, Dr Arana has been invited (in August 2011) to join Britain’s newest academic project, “Behind the Looking Glass," as one of a small core of leaders, to kick off the UK’s Black British Literature Research Network. The initial planning meeting of the core group is to take place at Leicester University (in Leicester, England), October 7-8, 2011. Dr Arana is Professor of British Literature and a member of the Department's graduate faculty. She is also the author of several seminal texts on Black British travel writing. |
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Britney Wilson wins The Black Theatre Network S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition
Wilson's essay "Every Woman in No Man's Land: Triumphs of the Modern Black Woman at the Expense of the Black Male Character in the Works of Lynn Nottage" has won 1st place in the Division I level of the 2011 S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition sponsored by the Black Theatre Network. As first place winner, she has been invited to deliver her paper at the 2011 Black Theatre Network Conference in Winston-Salem,
N.C., to attend a special Young Scholars awards ceremony and reception in her honour during the conference, and her paper will be published in the conference edition of BTNews. In addition to a monetary prize, she will also receive a free one-year membership in the Black Theatre Network. Congratulations Britney!
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