What We Have to Offer

Advising

Each student at CSI is assigned an advisor. If you are an English major, your advisor is a member of the English Department faculty. Working with your advisor, you can discuss your academic goals and a plan for achieving them. Then, your advisor can help you use the catalog, decide what classes to take, and decide when to take those classes so that degree requirements are met and that you graduate according to your timeline. If you are planning to transfer to a four-year institution, your advisor can help you look ahead to the degree requirements at those schools. Finally, your advisor will be happy to discuss career options with you so that you can make the most of the English degree you are earning.

It's a good idea to meet with your advisor at least once a year prior to registering for the upcoming semester. In fact, if you use the printed form to register, your advisor's signature will be required. Although some students do navigate the catalog and registration successfully without using an advisor, they miss out on one of the most important relationships in a student's academic career. We urge you to take advantage of your advisor's training, experience, and insight. Through talking with an advisor, you may discover a degree focus, transfer opportunity, or scholarship you hadn't heard of before.

To meet with your English Department advisor, first contact the Department Chair, Jeff Fox, at jfox@csi.edu, at 732-6528, or through the department secretary, at 732-6800. For more information about advising at CSI, visit the Advising Center's Web page, at http://www.csi.edu/advising/student/Stu%201%20Advising.htm.

Social Opportunities

English majors will be especially interested in joining the Literary Arts Club. Among other activities, the Literary Arts Club celebrates National Poetry Month with a campus Poetry Project. Club members arrange sponsorship of poems that are exhibited around campus in April, and through this raise money for travel to events such as the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah. If interested in the Literary Arts Club, contact Ken Bingham, kbingham@csi.edu, David West, dwest@csi.edu, or Deb Matier, dmatier@csi.edu.

The English Department also sponsors activities for majors throughout the year. Those activities will be announced in the "Student News" portion of the department Web page and posted in the informational case across the hall from Shields 112. Or, ask your advisor or one of your English class instructors for information.

Educational Opportunities

• Literature Class Projects - Traditionally, students in literature classes are asked to read great works and then write about them. But English majors at C.S.I. can do more. Read about creative and innovative responses to literature here.
• The National Undergraduate Literature Conference - The National Undergraduate Literature Conference is held each spring in Ogden, Utah, and is known as "the nation's only undergraduate literature conference." According to the NULC Website, the conference "giv[es] the undergraduate an opportunity to present papers both critical and creative, to an audience of peers from campuses across the country." Students are also privileged to attend presentations by well-known contemporary writers.
  In the past two years, nine CSI students have been selected to present papers at the NULC. We hope to make CSI's representation at the conference a tradition, and invite you to consider submitting a critical or creative piece of your own. For more information about the NULC, contact Dr. Jette Morache, jmorache@csi.edu, or Dr. Clark Draney, cdraney@csi.edu, or visit the Conferences Web site, http://departments.weber.edu/ce/conferences/nulc/.
• CSI offers tutoring services through the Academic Development Center/Learning Assistance Center. The LAC often needs tutors for students taking English Composition and doing writing in other courses. If you have passed English 102 and are interested in tutoring, speak with your composition instructor about recommending you to become a tutor.

Scholarship Opportunities

Scholarship opportunities for the 2007-2008 school year will be announced soon.