The Center at Carnegie Mellon continues to focus on programs of research aimed at understanding how written language is acquired and how it can be best taught. Opportunities for CMU graduate students in the study of literacy. Dr. Wayne C. Peck, Executive Director and Dr. Linda Flower, President, Board of Directors. The Community Literacy Center is a community-university partnership between the Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy at Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh's Community House on the North Side. The CLC's major objective is to help teens and adults take action through literacy and collaboration.
Graduate students have the opportunity for literacy research.
Internships may be arranged on and off campus. 76-306 Editing and Publishing Students work closely with the editors of the CMU Press and the Three Rivers Poetry Journal to learn many of the facets of producing books and magazines. An honors thesis may be written by senior English majors in the college Honors Program. For all Independent Study courses, study may be arranged with individual faculty members. Medieval and Renaissance literature, literary theory.