What will I learn?
RIT’s English BS pairs the study and production of literature, media, and language with the digital tools you need to excel in today’s professional environments. Technology affects how we write, tell stories, and analyze literature. And there’s no better place to explore the fusion of technology and English than at RIT. Our English bachelor's degree grounds you in critical thinking, writing, and making, all while preparing you with digital tools as well as the soft and hard skills that impress employers. With concentrations in creative writing, or literature and media, the English major offers more than 70 courses for you to choose from. In addition to traditional literature, you'll study what interests you.Our faculty offers exploration in fantasy worlds, Twitter bots, social justice, Afrofuturism, transgender poetics, graphic novels, Twine interactive game fictions, speech technologies, the rhetoric of science and terror, digital poems, and dangerous texts. You’ll gain expertise in articulating your innovative ideas, building collaborative teams, managing projects, creating powerful messaging that gets results, providing critiques and feedback, making intelligent and ethical arguments and decisions, and speaking in ways that make you stand out. Today’s emerging careers require English language expertise, writing, and analytic skills paired with computer science, new media, linguistics, animation, and more. Today’s writers are also content creators who use digital tools to communicate a range of messages across a variety of platforms and collaborate with game designers, animators, scientists, engineers, and digital media strategists. In the English BS degree, we introduce you to digital tools that interface with the study of language, literature, and media. Additionally, your BS in English includes professional electives in any area you choose, which empowers you to customize your English degree around your career goals. You’ll have access to a range of computing and tech courses and the world-renowned faculty who teach them.
