Welcome to the Department of English
Because we teach the arts of rhetoric, English faculty have a special obligation to defend and promote the open exchange of ideas, and to expose and resist deliberate misrepresentations of the past. We honor the right to free speech and will oppose the intrusion of hate speech and hateful symbols of oppression on our campus. Since we recognize that the College of Charleston, like the rest of the country, has yet to shed the vestiges of our racist history, we stand committed to working toward a fully diverse and inclusive educational environment. Read More.
Read our faculty and staff's Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Antiracism here
Why English?
If you are a student reading this page, you probably already know why you want to study English.
You already feel the pull of the word and the image. You already know the pleasure afforded by language shaped into stories, poems, memoirs, and essays. You already experience the thrill of entering other worlds, adopting other perspectives, and grappling with big questions. You already experience the satisfaction of getting a sentence just right, expressing your idea, articulating your vision.
What you might not yet know is that English represents a pragmatic course of study as well as a fulfilling one. After all, there are some widespread misconceptions about how English majors fare on the job market. When you tell friends that you want to study English, some of them might have asked, “what are you going to do with that – teach?”...[Read more...]
SPRING 2024 Registration
You can view Spring 2024 English list of courses, including detailed descriptions here.
Our spring offerings include a number of exciting special topics courses, alongside returning favorites.
You’ll find upper-level classes on:
ENGL 305 Advanced Writing
ENGL 306 Milton
ENGL 320 Young Adult Literature
ENGL 321 The Romantic Period
ENGL 345 Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
ENGL 350 The GOAT: Toni Morrison
ENGL 364 “Americans All”: African-, Native-, and Asian-American Literature, 1865-1914
ENGL 366 Embodiment and the Writing Process
ENGL 369 Writing for the Web
ENGL 377 Poetry Writing II
ENGL 378 Fiction Writing II
ENGL 380 Literary Magazine, Publication, & Editing
ENGL 390 Alfred Hitchcock
ENGL 466 Advance Study in Writing, Rhetoric, & Publication
ENGL 475 Capstone: Beyond the English Major
ENGL 477 Proseminar Major Literary Themes
ENGL 495 Internship in the Major

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