You can dive into the rich traditions of British and American literature and study the Gothic and digital literacy, investigate the rhetorics of Ancient Greece and the visual rhetorics of the twenty-first century; you can examine the characters of Verona, Yoknapatawpha County, and Krypton, or learn about German and Chinese film; you can write poems, essays, short stories, scripts, memoirs, video game narratives, or graphic novels and get a start in editing and publishing. Our students and faculty have wide-ranging interests and many opportunities to explore them.

Members of the English faculty work closely with students from all majors. We offer a great variety of general education courses, such as Critical Reading and Writing, World Literature, Spirituality and Literature, and theme-based approaches to Composition I and II. 

 

Our department works closely with the Honors Program, the Moving Image Arts Program, and the minors in rhetoric and women’s studies. Our faculty supports OCU Serves by including service learning courses in our curriculum, and we encourage our students to participate in internships and study abroad. We also work to create significant co-curricular activities for students at OCU—our annual distinguished poet workshops, creative writing festival, OCU Reads, and the Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Literature.