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.
Many undergraduate courses offered by the Department (especially lower-division writing courses and upper-division new media courses) are taught in classrooms of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’s Networked Writing Environment (NWE), a large-scale, Unix-based network of computer labs integrating hypermedia, electronic conferencing, cooperative writing and revising, full Internet access, and MOOville, a robust MOO/MUD-based virtual community.
