Creative Writing is the fastest-growing emphasis and minor in the English Department. The emphasis and minor requires attention to and respect for history, humanity, and diverse personalities, cultures, and communities. Creative Writing demands engagement with that most basic human power, the imagination, in such a way that students reach others, expand their innate talents, and prepare to fulfill their creative ambitions.
The English Education degree prepares students to teach English in grades 6-12 in Utah public and private schools. Additionally, many states outside of Utah offer reciprocal agreements to accept the Utah teaching license.
UVU’s English Education program is recognized statewide for its outstanding reputation. Each year we receive an increasing number of requests for interns, and our student teachers are widely acclaimed as well. Placement rates both in and outside of Utah are high.
UVU’s English Education program also welcomes students who already have a Bachelor’s degree from UVU or other institutions and now want to become English teachers.
The Literary Studies emphasis and minor provides you with the skills necessary for appreciating, engaging with, and analyzing literary texts. Literature exposes you to new and diverse perspectives about other times, other places, other cultures, and other contexts. It can even show you new viewpoints from your own culture and context. An appreciation for such diversity and for the peculiarities of our own cultural moment is essential to both civic responsibility and professional opportunity in our increasingly interconnected, globalized society.
The Writing Studies emphasis and minor provides expertise in the analysis and production of written texts in academic, professional, and civic contexts. In our current networked, digital, and global world, these skills are more important than ever as the very concept of “writing” has never been more complex. Writing Studies begins with the central tenet that writing is text, writing is code, and writing is design. Becoming a Writing Studies student will expose you to a variety of ways to communicate through composition and become a more critical, effective, and informed participant with the various audiences in your lives.
Cinema and Media Studies provides a framework for analyzing film and the screen arts as important cultural productions of the twenty-first century. In Cinema and Media Studies courses, students approach movies as cultural texts and gain an understanding of the social, political, historical, and industrial contexts that produce cinema. The Cinema and Media Studies minor and Integrated Studies emphasis broadens students' knowledge of how these texts shape and are shaped by culture. As an interdisciplinary program, Cinema and Media Studies draws on faculty expertise from various disciplines and includes global and historical perspectives.
Technical Communication is the science and art of creating, managing, and sharing information through every communications medium—including writing, video, illustration, websites, and multi-media. In an increasingly technical and specialized world, the ability to communicate anything to anyone in any medium is invaluable. Whether you want a Technical Communication career or simply want to give voice to your vision in another specialized field (such as the sciences, engineering, or medicine), a minor or certificate in Technical Communication prepares you to make a profound difference in the rapidly evolving, complex world of today and the foreseeable future.
An English Associates degree is an accelerated introduction to the field of English studies (usually only two years). Sometimes the A.A. is used as a stepping stone towards a bachelor’s degree, or the A.A. can grant eligibility for entry-level careers in a variety of fields that value written communication and textual analysis.
The Editing and Document Design certificate of proficiency provides expertise in planning, evaluating, and revising texts for publication. As a standalone credential or as a complement to another degree, this versatile certificate helps prepare you for both publishing-related careers and disparate career fields that require effective communication.
