2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
English
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Address: 3200 Jamrich Hall
Phone: 906-227-2711
Fax: 906-227-1096
Web Address: https://nmu.edu/english/
Department Email: english@nmu.edu
English at NMU
While serving all students in the university with composition and study skills courses, the English Department also offers strong programs in literature and specialized writing. As literature courses challenge students to consider matters of broad human significance, the many offerings in creative writing, exposition, and journalism encourage students to develop their talents for expressing ideas and emotions. The department directs its majors and minors toward courses that will further enhance their abilities to analyze and to discuss literature, or to write fiction, nonfiction or poetry. A career in one of these fields, either teaching or another professional endeavor, can be a richly rewarding experience.
The department offers two undergraduate English majors and six minors. The majors are in English with a concentration in Literature, or English Writing, and Secondary Education English. The six minors offered are in English, Film Studies, Journalism, Secondary Education English, Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL), and Writing. The department also participates in the Interdisciplinary major in liberal arts and sciences, Gender Studies and Native American studies minors, as well as a certification in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL).
Student Organizations
- The North Wind Student Newspaper
- Passages North Literary Magazine
- Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society
- Student Michigan Education Association
Department Facilities
The department operates the Writing Center in the Learning Resources Center. This facility is open daily to help all students, whether or not they are enrolled in writing courses. This assistance is free to NMU students.
Department/Program Policies
English majors are required to pass one course in a language other than English.
Secondary Education English
Students with a major or minor in Secondary Education English or a minor in must maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or greater overall, in the major, and/or minor(s) with no grade below a “B-” in the professional education sequence and no grade below a “C” in the major and/or minor(s).
ProgramsBachelor of ScienceMinorCertificationCoursesEnglish
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