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.