Welcome to Boise State English! We are proud to foster a supportive learning and teaching community inclusive of both students and faculty.
Find us at english.boisestate.edu to learn more. The major in English provides excellent preparation for many professional degrees and for a variety of careers demanding strong critical thinking and communication skills. The major also prepares students for traditional English graduate degrees in literature, rhetoric and composition, linguistics, technical communication, and English teacher educat
ion. With more than 50 full-time faculty representing five fields, we are the largest academic department on campus. Our size and our diversity allows us to offer students a unique experience to learn about, get involved with, and explore career choices in their areas of interest. Our undergraduate class sizes are some of the smallest on campus, and we offer students a dedicated advising team. We invite students to get involved through student organizations, internships, study-abroad experiences, and service-learning projects. The key to our success is our faculty. Our full-time faculty are nationally-recognized scholars in their fields, and our team of adjunct faculty often come to us with years of professional experience. Our award-winning programs in first-year writing and creative writing train and mentor our graduate assistants to keep up on the best teaching practices in the field. Students with degrees in English from Boise State have been successful in schools of law and graduate programs in English at a wide range of institutions, including Harvard, Duke, Nebraska, Indiana, Rochester, Washington, Washington State, Loyola of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. A number have received local and national scholarships or teaching assistantships at these institutions. An English major became one of Boise State’s first Rhodes scholars, and others have won Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Tau Delta national scholarships.
