Special courses are available for English Education majors. Tutorials, internships and independent studies are available in all of these areas. Students are directly involved in the development and production of Red Weather, a literary magazine edited by students with submissions from students, alumni and faculty. MSUM features an annual writers series that brings nationally known authors to campus for public readings and writing workshops. The English department boasts a professionally active faculty with national and international connections.
English majors gain practical writing experience in a variety areas.
MSUM graduates have entered doctoral programs at universities ranging from Purdue University in Indiana to the University of Texas at Austin to Oxford University in England. Greg Carlson and Molly Williams, MSUM English majors, received the distinguished Carothers Writing Award, a statewide award honoring excellence in university student writing in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Students can work as Honors Apprentices on American Fiction, an acclaimed annual collection of short stories edited by MSUM faculty, or as helpful research assistants for individual faculty members. Alumna Dawn Gunderson works for the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. Alumna Jennifer Borgen enjoyed a successful career in New York publishing at Chapman and Hall before leaving to pursue graduate studies at the University of Vermont.