The English Teaching Emphasis fulfills Idaho certification requirements and prepares students to teach in school districts around the country.
The Linguistics Emphasis provides the opportunity for closer study of how language works and its connections with related fields such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology; the linguistics emphasis also leads to graduate study and careers in linguistics and teaching English as a second language.
The Literature Emphasis (combining two former emphases, General Literature and Liberal Arts) allows you to study a wide range of authors, genres, and periods in English and American literature, as well as English-language literature produced in post-colonial and ethnic minority cultures.
In the Technical Communication Emphasis, students learn to produce a wide variety of print and online documents for users in the computer industry, in the health sciences, and in many other fields.
The Writing Emphasis, with components in poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, rhetoric and composition, and courses in book arts, gives students an opportunity to write, design, edit and publish their own work.
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My chosen emphasis is the Writing Emphasis.
The service I've utilized the most that the English Department provides is the Writing Center. Those working there have given great feedback and have helped me significantly improve my work.