This year the English Department was chosen by the university as one of twelve LSU departments chosen for enhancement through a long internal process of review and evaluation, a process ratified in October by the management board of the LSU Board of Supervisors. This approval came as the culmination of two years of intensive planning by the university faculty and administration. In the spring of 1999, the Provost appointed a task force of twenty-four faculty members to formulate criteria for the selection of priority programs. The English major is arguably the most versatile degree offered by LSU, developing skills in critical thinking and effective writing that prepare students for careers in teaching, business, law, journalism, publishing, writing and film-making, technical editing, public relations, and even medicine and theology. Our program offers the MA and the Doctor of Philosophy in English and the MFA in Creative Writing degrees.
Admission is selective.
Applications for admission and financial aid are due in February. Our belief is that a mind trained to read critically and write lucidly is a mind well prepared to meet most of life's professional and personal challenges.