English/Writing
English/Writing
Create – Adapt – Succeed
Are you creative and wish to live a socially engaged life within your community, region, nation and world? Do the habits of mind that enable people to become life-long learners appeal to you? If so, this is a degree for you.
The Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in English/Writing, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and the minors in English/Writing or Interdisciplinary Writing and Rhetoric provide coursework in literature, rhetoric, and creative writing, preparing students to be critical, creative thinkers and effective communicators.
In addition to providing majors and minors, the English/Writing Department at EOU provides a number of services to the EOU campus community. English faculty teach composition courses (WR 115, WR 121, WR 122, WR 123), participate on First-Year Experience Committees, oversee the University Writing Requirement, and are involved in Writing Across the Curriculum initiatives.
On Campus Program
Attend on campus in La Grande, Oregon. Small classes with one-on-one support from faculty, advisors and student services like TRiO create a student-centered atmosphere. Our small cohorts are designed to foster a strong sense of community between students, faculty, and staff. Exceptional halls, student clubs and activities and events such as the Outdoor Adventure Program complete the Mountaineer experience.
Online Program
Get your degree 100% Online
Our 100% online option allows for the flexibility of online learning with our personalized academic support.
- Part-time or full-time study gives you the flexibility to work with your schedule
- Low cost per credit. Low student fees, too!
“I attended EOU as a non-traditional student from 2011 to 2016. All of my professors and mentors during that time were phenomenal, I learned and grew so much as both a writer and a reader. I can honestly say that I would not be where I am professionally if it were not for their guidance and instruction. They were instrumental in helping me publish poems in The Paddock Review, basalt, Red Savina Review, The Tower Journal and Nailed. Not to mention my poetry chapbook, All Those Lilting Tongues, which was just published in September 2018. In addition to those publications, I also teach creative writing courses online for Southern New Hampshire University as an adjunct instructor. I owe all my recent successes to the faculty of EOU’s English and Writing Department.”
Theresa Hamman, '14 & '16
B.A. in English/Writing (2014) Master of Fine Arts in Writing (2016)
La Grande, Ore.
Gain Practical Experience!
American Language and Culture Program
- Ars Poetica: creative writing lecture series and student workshops
- basalt: EOU’s literary magazine
- First-Year Experience and Integrated Studies Program
- Oregon East: EOU’s student-funded, student-run literature and art magazine
- Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Lambda Phi Chapter
- Student Writers’ Workshop conference for writers in grades 3-12 the second Saturday in March
- The Voice: EOU’s student newspaper
- Writing Center
State and National Networking
- Academy of American Poets
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
- Modern Language Association
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- National Writing Project (NWP)
- Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH)
- Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE)
- Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee
- Phi Kappa Phi