Major in English at MSU Denver and you can study what you love while amassing a resume and portfolio you can take with you into graduate school, law school and compelling careers in fields such as digital media, marketing, advertising, law, education, publishing, fundraising and many more. Your options for concentrations include:

• Without a Declared Concentration (on-campus or online)
• Literature Concentration
• Literature, Film, and Media Studies Concentration (on-campus or online)
• Writing Concentration
• Secondary School Teaching Concentration.

We offer a well-rounded, diverse curriculum that will ask you to think harder, write better and read wider than you ever have before, you will encounter works across genders, genres, cultures and ethnicities that will expand your mind and your world.

You will also have the chance learn outside the classroom. Complete an internship at a local magazine. Travel to India to study Bollywood cinema. Present your research at a national conference. These are just a few of the ways you can build on the analytical, creative and communication skills you will develop as a MSU Denver English major.

Better yet, as an English major, you can study what you love while amassing a resume and portfolio you can take with you into graduate school, law school and compelling careers in fields such as digital media, marketing, advertising, law, education, publishing, fundraising and many more.

Learn about MSU Denver’s generous scholarships for English students.

Program Options

English, B.A. Major (Online)

• No concentration
• Literature, film and media studies

Linguistics, B.A. Major

• No concentrations are offered for the Linguistics, B.A.

English Teacher Licensure 7-12th Grade

Minor in Film and Media Studies (online)

Minor in Film and Media Studies (on-campus)

Minor in Rhetoric, Composition and Professional Writing

Minor in English

• Literature concentration
• Writing Concentration

Minor in Linguistics

• Linguistics emphasis 
• Language emphasis 

Benefits of Earning Your Degree at MSU Denver

The English degree program at MSU Denver offers you opportunities to stretch intellectually, creatively and professionally through internships, student teaching, the Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society and the following:

• MSU Denver’s Annual Writing Contest
• Writing Center Internships
• Annual Undergraduate English Conference
• Metrosphere Arts and Literary Magazine
• Indian Cinema Study Abroad Course
• Student Organizations

Faculty

Chereka Dickerson

Assistant Professor Chereka Dickerson teaches African American literature and Black women writers. She is in the process of completing her Ph.D. dissertation in U.S. minority and women’s literature.

Cynthia Kuhn

Professor Cynthia Kuhn is the author of the Lila Maclean Mystery Series. Her debut novel, “The Semester of Our Discontent,” received the 2017 Agatha Award for best first mystery.

Jason MillerProfessor Jason Miller is a fiction writer, screenwriter and Pushcart-Prize nominee whose work has been published in the Starry Night Literary Review, Literary Potpourri, Ink Pot #2, Burning Word and Outsider Ink among others.

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Featured Alumni

“I’ve had wonderful professors who’ve inspired me to continue my education and get the best out of my education.”

Janet Hernandez, MSU Denver ’17, is the first student in MSU Denver history to receive a Fulbright Scholarship. During her Fulbright year she will teach English and Spanish to elementary school children in South Korea.

Read more about Janet.

Facilities and Resources

Adjacent to downtown Denver, MSU Denver’s campus is within walking distance from the city’s many cultural and entertainment attractions such as the Denver Public Library, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Complex, Denver Art Museum and the Colorado History Museum.

The MSU Denver Department of English also houses the MSU Denver Writing Center, a writing-help resource for all MSU Denver students.