Professionalizing opportunities for students to engage with include a literary and arts magazines, Upper Mississippi Harvest and an annual portfolio of student research in linguistics. Submit your work or join an editing and publishing team.

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Welcome to Writers' Club! We are a friendly and diverse group of creative writers of all genres and levels, excited to get together to share our writing.

Learn more about the Writer's Club on Huskies Connect

Apply in early March for one of our more than a dozen scholarships worth up to $1,000 for students and master’s degree candidates majoring or minoring in English.

View and apply for English scholarships

English majors and minors are among the student volunteers from across campus who stand to gain cross-cultural experience by working with international students in the Intensive English Center.

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Develop your workplace communication skills with an internship. 

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Many of our students present their research. This provides our students an opportunity to gain experience with the presentation of their research results to a larger community.

Research and Sponsored Programs

Master’s degree candidates may apply for graduate assistantships in teaching English as a second language courses, or in teaching composition (English 191), which serve both as outstanding professionalizing experiences and as support for financing their education.

Learn more about our graduate assistantships