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Learn What You Love
If you've reached this web site on purpose, chances are you already enjoy reading or writing. But why read and write in the English Program at Plattsburgh State?
Two words: great professors.
Our faculty will get to know you. As a student in the English program at Plattsburgh State, you will benefit from small classes and personal attention from your professors. And with over 27 books published as well as countless poems, short stories, plays, articles, and reviews, our faculty will challenge you as well as work with you to realize your potential.
We Will Help To Make You a Better Writer
Our faculty are terrific teachers: men and women committed not just to their excellence, but to yours. The English Department at Plattsburgh State share boasts two Distinguished Teaching Professors, three winners of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, three Teachers of the Year, and an Adjunct Teacher of the Year.
In other words, we can make you a better writer, reader, and thinker - the three most widely marketable skills you can learn anywhere.
It's no secret that English is the preferred major among employers nationwide, and an English major is a popular, successful starting point not just for writers, editors, publishers, journalists, teachers, and librarians, but for careers in law, politics, business, teaching, administration, counseling, and public relations.
So Go Ahead: Learn What You Love
Dive into science fiction with Tom Morrissey, Distinguished Teaching Professor and a reviewer for Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation - and start your major in Literature.
Explore the outdoors with Dennis Aprill, winner of sixteen Outdoor Writers Association awards - and be on your way to a Writing major.
Revel in children's literature with Daphne Kutzer, Distinguished Teaching Professor and author of Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code; and Elaine Ostry, author of Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale while you prepare for a career in teaching.
Whether you're a budding writer, an aspiring teacher, or just someone who loves to read, the English program at Plattsburgh State is the ideal place to hone your craft and pursue your dreams.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
Thomas J. Morrissey, Chair
Phone: (518) 564-2134
Fax: (518) 564-2140
E-mail: morristj@plattsburgh.edu
SUNY Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901