News & Events
January 0, 0000 12:00 am
Bill McKibben on "Uniting Global and Local"
January 1, 2009 12:00 am
ANDREA WALTER RETIRES
January 1, 2009 12:00 am
Elizabeth Mazzolini Publishes Article, "Breathless Subjects," in Theory and Event
May 2, 2009 10:00 am
Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival
May 13, 2009 12:00 am
Babak Elahi's new book, The Fabric of American Literary Realism has just been published
May 15, 2009 12:00 am
RIT’s Signatures Named One of Nation’s Best Student Magazines
May 20, 2009 12:00 am
Elizabeth Mazzolini Gets Article Accepted in Theory and Event
May 22, 2009 1:00 pm
Tom Levenson MIT Science Writer Visits
Welcome to the Department of English at RIT
Our talented faculty offer a wide variety of courses, some of which you may be surprised to find in an English Department. Students can take courses ranging from:
Medieval Literature to Language and the Brain
Contemporary Film to Viking Myth and Saga
Traditional to Cutting edge.
Our core course in Literary and Cultural Studies engages students in the analysis of literary texts as diverse as medieval poetry and graphic novels (from Beowulf to V is for Vendetta) and cultural texts from film to video games (from Casablanca to Grand Theft Auto). All of our courses, however, teach students to think critically and express insights well, whether in writing, on a web site or via other media such as blogs and wikis.
We are working on a B.S. in English Studies, which will features three specializations, depending on your interests:
Creative Writing
Science Writing
Literature and Cultural Studies
We currently offer four innovative and engaging minors:
Literary and Cultural Studies (also a concentration)
Science Writing (also a concentrations)
Creative Writing
Writing Studies
In addition to teaching students about the historic role of written texts in the development of culture, we also recognize the changing nature of literacy in an increasingly complex and diverse digital environment. We offer you an opportunity to work with nationally known faculty in many literatures as well as faculty on the cutting edge rhetorics of technology and science, and our creative writing faculty will help you become better poets, storytellers and non-fiction writers.