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Lamar University’s English Department offers
ü A Master’s Degree with or without a Thesis
ü A Master’s Degree with a Writing Thesis Option
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A Bachelor’s Degree in English with
a Writing Concentration
ü A Minor in Writing
ü A Bachelor’s degree in English with a Minor in Writing
ü Teaching Assistantships and jobs as editors/proofreaders, web designers, tutors, writers, and graders/assistants
ü Readings by regionally and nationally known writers and poets
ü Small classes and individual instruction
ü Graduate and Undergraduate classes in fiction, poetry, creative-non fiction, feature article writing, technical writing, critical writing, rhetoric, and pedagogy
ü A smooth transition from undergraduate to graduate study
ü Editing and publishing opportunities in Pulse, Lamar Journal of the Humanities, Review of Texas Books.
Writing Students
Have won state and region-wide contests, published in state and region wide journals, gone on to Ph.D. programs, and gotten jobs in high schools, colleges, and businesses.
Members of Writing Faculty
R.S. Gwynn, Professor, poet in residence, University Professor, University Scholar—poetry and poetic analysis
Jim Sanderson, Professor, University Scholar, Writing Director—fiction and non-fiction
Jerry Craven, visiting writer and editor
Jerry Bradley, Professor, editor, poet—grammar and poetry
Sara Pace, Asst. Professor—composition and rhetoric
Max Loges, Professor—technical writing
(Four Lamar instructors are members of the Texas Institute of Letters. Lamar faculty members have published novels, short story collections, essay collections, poetry collections, articles, reviews, scholarship, manuals, and textbooks. Check out their publications on Amazon.com).
Creative Writing links
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Other Links of Interest
For A WORD Printable Poster click here
For information or help contact
Jim Sanderson, Box 10023, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710
409 880-8555;
jim.sanderson@lamar.edu