Undergraduate Programs
Undergraduate study in English at the University of Florida prepares students for diverse careers in law, publishing, advertising, media and business, teaching and advanced degree work. Courses offered by the Department introduce students to a world of experiences that cannot be exhausted in the brief span of a college education; new authors, new works, new media, and new tools for understanding continually enlarge and transform the world. With the help of faculty advisers, undergraduate majors in English select from courses in various forms, periods and approaches. In addition, students may develop special expertise in one of several programs; for example, communication and creative writing, study of the language itself, theory of media, literary study or cultural studies.
Our majors go on to graduate and professional degree programs at distinguished institutions. At the end of the 2008-2009 academic year, UF English majors were accepted for admission to law school at the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University, Florida State University, Fordham University, George Washington University, Harvard Law School, the Levin College of Law at UF, the John Marshall Law School, the University of Miami, Nova University, the Stetson University College of Law, and William and Mary Law School. At the same time, a number of majors were accepted to M.A./Ph.D. programs in English or Film and Media at Florida State University, Michigan State University, the New York Film Academy, Stanford University, Temple University, the University of Chicago, the University of Florida, the University of Montana, and Washington University. Another group of students has gone on to M.Ed. programs at Notre Dame, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina, and the University of South Florida. Others received offers of admission to medical school from Boston University, Florida State University, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami; to the M.S.M. program in Management at the University of Florida; to the Library and Information Science program at Florida State University; and to the M.A. program in Publishing at University College, London.
