Written works preserve our history, describe our current reality and color our future beyond imagination. Whether you aspire to analyze literature or write it, the study of English offers a versatile and challenging major. Through reading we have the opportunity to live a thousand lives, while writing with care and imagination can reveal new self-truths. A disciplined experience with the written word develops broad vision, fresh insight, and the more sophisticated skills of analysis, interpretation and communication.
Publication and Printing Arts is a minor program that explores the ethical, cultural, and commercial issues confronting readers, writers, editors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, teachers, and all who value the written word. But PPA also offers students solid pre-professional skills, and each year our active internship program helps launch students into publishing-related careers across the country including jobs at Amazon and in New York publishing houses.