Come drop by THH 420 for the English Department's Undergraduate Open House! Available programs of study are the English Literature, English Creative Writing, and Narrative Studies majors, as well as the English, Narrative Structure, and Early Modern Studies minors. Refreshments will be provided.

We tell stories, and stories make us human. We use them to tell us what should be, what could be, and the human truth of what now is. We collect them over centuries, tell them to our children, and they define us as cultures. We change our stories, start new ones, rethink old ones and experiment as we shift our sense of who we are and what we value. Take away our stories, and there is not much left of us.

Study in English is a way of knowing our stories, and at USC we approach them critically and creatively. Distinguished faculty and professional writers teach the ways of language, modes of analysis, and varieties of production. We share a core of literatures and genres through the ages, and then emphasize either Literature or Creative Writing, using each to enhance the other. Our innovative Narrative Studies major is interdisciplinary across the entire university. Such studies all take time. “Everyone can read!”—but not everyone can see what is really there or explain why it is there. “Everyone can write!”—but not everyone can write in ways that change lives.