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Minor in Professional and Technical Writing

The minor in professional writing provides students with opportunities to learn and apply advanced strategies for writing academic, professional, and civic documents. Students examine the theoretical, interdisciplinary, and professional aspects of writing and develop their expository, persuasive, org...

Lijun Zhang

Lijun Zhang

Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...

Screen Cultures broadens scope

Screen Cultures broadens scope

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of English Matters, the English Department's twice-yearly newsmagazine. You can find the full issue here.  In Spring 2023, Mason’s Film and Media Studies program was rebranded Screen Cultures, but more than a simple renaming, this shift recog...

After the English Major

What Can You Do with a Degree in English? For most English majors, the interest and value of the degree is deeply personal. But we also have to earn a living.  The good news is that there are many career paths that people with majors in English pursue.  Some of these careers will seem to follow natu...

Internships

You may want to pursue an internship, either for credit or not for credit, during your time at Mason.  You are eligible to hold an unpaid internship and earn Mason credit while working in that internship if you plan it and get permission for it to count toward your program of study.  ENGH 504 is the ...

Illuminate Your Creativity

Great careers are built by creative people, and in Mason’s English department, illuminating your creativity is our specialty. We are dedicated to helping you become a researcher, a scholar, and an artist. Why is our brand of creativity so effective? Ask any professional in science, humanities, or b...

Linguistics

As an English major, you're already good with language. You may even have already taken some linguistics course in the English department. A linguistics minor will complement and develop the language skills you already have. You'll learn about how people learn a language, how the structures of langua...