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Author and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer will receive the 2024 Stone Award at PRAx on May 17
Poet David Biespiel takes students on an exploration of happiness
SWLF Student Lucinda Boyle publishes "Wolf Tales: A student perspective on a week's journey through Yellowstone National Park" in the Oregon Slater Magazine
The School of Writing, Literature, and Film celebrates our graduating students and 2023 scholarship and award recipients.
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The School of Writing, Literature and Film is the privileged place at Oregon State University for students, scholars, creative writers, and rhetoricians to gather together to discuss, critique, love, and celebrate the English language in all its diverse forms. We offer a number of degree programs, including undergraduate majors in English and Creative Writing and minors in English, Writing, Film, and Applied Journalism. We also host two fully-funded graduate programs: an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing.
These degrees testify to both the marvelous capaciousness of the English language and the enduring importance of learning its many modes and forms. It is a medium that can, after all, bring people together or push them apart. It is a platform that enables us to tell our stories--real or imagined--in poetry, prose, and film. It is a communication system through which we share our worldviews and think through our most pressing local, national, and global problems. It is our bridge to older cultures, histories, stories, and traditions that challenge and inform the values of the present. Students therefore leave our programs not only with skills suitable for a variety of careers and professions but also, and as importantly, with a deeper knowledge of the many ways in which our language and culture give meaning to our lives.