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A performance of Hamlet at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, July 2000

Welcome to the Department of English!

For students poised like Hamlet to make life-changing decisions, English offers an ideal education for today's job market,

• grounding the student in effective communication skills,
• disciplining the student in critical reading and writing,
• nurturing the student's career paths with personal advising, and
• enabling the student by providing a flexible liberal arts education that serves a variety of occupations and professions.

What do you do with an English major? The only answer to that much-asked question is our graduates. Our English majors each year go on to successful careers in publishing, teaching, business, the ministry, law, and medicine.

The Department of English also offers a number of impressive awards, internships, and scholarships for its students, as well as personal guidance for career choices.

For students and alumni, we offer frequent travel opportunities, particularly to England. Jane Hiles, a member of the English faculty, is director of Samford's London Program.

Our curriculum contains the kind of skill-based courses that employers like to see, but centered in a diverse literature and language. English students have the opportunity to complete a senior thesis and a capstone course that culminates the major, and the English Department has been one of the campus leaders in supporting undergraduate research. Extra-curricular opportunities are plentiful--internships, campus publications, and Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honorary society.

Explore our website and see what the Department of English can offer you. For alumni, browse back into the department's archives and let us hear from you.

Nancy Whitt, Chair
Sandra McDonald and Beth Moore, Administrative Assistants
For questions about the website, email Mark Baggett at jmbagget@samford.edu

The grave of John Bunyan (1628-1688) in Bunhill's Fields, London, where many thousands of dissenters from the Church of England were buried. Milton's last house, on Bunhill Row, was just up the hill but has been torn down. (Photos taken by Jane Hiles)