We Teach You to Read and Respond to the World: Come Check Us Out at Fall Open House Saturday 30 October 2021

Come see what Elizabeth City State University is all about!

Register for our Open House this Saturday!

Our English and Digital Media Department will be there to answer any questions, talk about the program, classes, etc.

The world changes faster and faster ever day. There are new technologies, new ways to communicate, new expectations, new information. A degree in English can help you learn the skills you need in order to navigate this new world. We can help you learn how to read and respond to the world.

With a degree in English you can go into public service, in the government, a non-profit, or social justice organization. In our classes you'll learn how to argue a point, evaluate sources, and communicate your message.

You can go into publishing, learning to edit, write, publish a variety of texts from technical manuals to webpages, to social media campaigns to fiction.

You can become a teacher, abroad teaching English, or at the middle or high school level.

A degree in English can help you learn how to tell stories for video games, filmmaking, novels.

You can use the skills you learn in our classes to get a job in marketing because you know how to use visual and written rhetoric, you can go into public relations because you know how to craft a message, or become a social media manager because you know how images and texts can be used to tell a story.

In our classes you can also learn or rediscover the simple joy of reading an interesting book and talking about it.

We offer classes in:

• Harlem Renaissance
• African-American Literature
• Multi-Ethnic Literature
• Special Topics in American Literature, British Literature, Creative Writing, where the topics, books, themes, change every semester to always bring you the most interesting, engaging, and relevant material
• The Graphic Novel
• Film and Literature
• Technical Writing
• Advanced Composition

We hold regular events every year, workshops on how to become a teacher or apply to graduate school.

We also have guest speakers from a variety of fields and jobs come talk to students and share their work.

We have a Writing Center that has tutors and help available for anything you may need- job documents to presentations to research papers.

We also offer internships with local businesses so you can get a chance to see what certain careers and jobs are like!

At our Open House on Saturday we'll have a book giveaway that represents just some of the ideas, authors, and works you can learn about in our classes.

Come join us!

We're always happy to talk more about our program and how we can best serve you.

How can we help?

Follow us on Twitter for the latest news and to see what we're up to: @ECSU_English

For more information, or questions contact:

Dr. McKee, department chair

Phone: (252) 335-3753
E-mail: armckee@ecsu.edu

Dr. Shimabukuro, English program coordinator

Phone: (252) 335-3348
E-mail: khshimabukuro@ecsu.edu