Opportunities abound for English majors to practice their craft. Undergraduate writers publish poetry and fiction in the student periodical, The Album , or the student literary journal, Cargoes . The creative writing program even has it own anthology, Elvis in Oz , to which undergraduate writers contibuted. In addition to writing classes, the English department offers a full complement of courses, including Eighteenth-Century Literature, Modern British and American Poetry, Modern Novel, Contemporary Poetry, United States Literature, Film as Narrative Art, and courses on Chaucer and Shakespeare. The relationship between students and faculty is a special one.
Students are more colleagues than pupils.
It seems clear to me now that we were being taught an approach to life, an approach that invites, perhaps even invokes, mystery and delight. The academic experience downplays competitiveness and stresses the benefits of discussion, interaction, and support from both professors and fellow students.