A dedicated faculty helps you discover that literary study is a way to understand not just literature but life and culture. No wonder that our graduates enter a wide range of professions. Writing Across the Program Ursinus emphasizes writing in every discipline, and the focus is intensive in English. Students in many classes keep journals, and weekly writing assignments are commonplace. Faculty conferences and peer review ensure that written work is discussed in detail.
Senior seminars offer a capstone opportunity to explore a single topic in depth.
The Ursinus Writing Center, staffed with the best student writers, helps students solve writing problems. Writers need an audience, and Ursinus provides an enthusiastic one. Students publish their work in The Lantern, our highly regarded literary magazine, and in The Grizzly, our newspaper. They have also published stories in local and national literary publications. Internships in and around Philadelphia open up other writing venues, including television, advertising and journalism.