Undergraduate
Integrated English Studies Concentration
Creative Collaboration
The brand-new Integrated English Studies concentration allows you to work closely with a faculty advisor to create a major of your design that explores upper-division work in more than one of our five disciplines:
- Creative Writing
- English Education
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy
An Integrated English Studies concentrator will forge a unique set of skills as they learn to think and make in ways that span multiple disciplines. This concentration presents that rare chance to pursue an interest of your own that refuses to rest comfortably in any one field but can only be fully explored by delving into many—and to do so with a faculty guide as your primary mentor.
Students in the Integrated English Studies concentration will be able to:
Understand differences and overlaps across two or more disciplines within English Studies
Utilize multiple disciplinary methodologies in English Studies to address scholarly, cultural, ecological, political, social, and creative concerns
Synthesize multiple viewpoints in English Studies to meaningfully engage across disciplines and difference
Create independent interdisciplinary approaches in English Studies to deliberately apply gained knowledge and skills in their post-collegiate lives and careers
Explore & Engage

Course Highlights
- E 150: English Studies Symposium
- E 204: Creative Writing as Transformative Practice
- E 320: Introduction to the Study of Language
- E 403: Writing the Environment
- E 465: English Studies Capstone

Get Involved
Interested in literary publishing?
Apply for an internship at our undergraduate literary magazine Greyrock Review.
Want to share poetry with your peers? Join our student-run poetry club: Dead Poets Society.
Make friends and create community! Connect with English majors through Inklings, our student-run English social club.

Career Paths
What can I do with this major?
The Integrated English Studies concentration opens doors to an exciting range of careers in which teamwork and collaboration, critical thinking and analysis, and creative communication are greatly valued.
Students develop an interdisciplinary, highly adaptable skillset that can lead to work in several fields and industries— including healthcare, education, marketing and communications, publishing and media, law, hospitality, and more.