The English Department at the University of Wyoming provides a diverse and exciting educational experience to students from all over the country. Here, students can pursue an engaging curriculum in an incomparable natural setting.
In the heart of the west, we aim to sustain and promote cultural understanding and participation through extensive reading, thoughtful intellectual inquiry, and rigorous academic, professional, and creative writing. At undergraduate and graduate levels, our curriculum extends through composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and literary and cultural studies. Our internationally recognized faculty, who have won numerous research and teaching awards, offer a variety of courses in literature, film, popular culture, digital media, composition, professional writing, rhetoric, and critical theory. We encourage students to pursue studies that intrigue and challenge them.
Undergraduate degree programs include an undergraduate major with tracks in literary studies or English studies (commonly also referred to as the rhetoric and composition track), and minors in literary studies, creative writing, and professional writing. Undergraduates are encouraged to pursue independent research through our English Honors program, and to participate in our intellectual and social community through study abroad opportunities, visiting lecture series, and a range of events the department organizes throughout the academic year.
On the graduate level, we offer an on-campus Master of Arts in English and an online Master of Arts in English, both with emphases in literary studies, rhetoric and composition studies, and public humanities. We also offer an MFA in Creative Writing with tracks in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and our new PhD in English with an emphasis in the public humanities. To apply for the PhD, please click here: the application deadline for academic year 2024-2025 is June 15, 2024.
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