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"For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems bared of its covering and given an intenser life."
– Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Sweet Briar’s English Department offers a breadth of courses in literature, creative writing, expository writing, and film. The Department offers majors and minors in English and in English and Creative Writing. In addition, it is the anchor of the Film Studies minor at Sweet Briar.
What unites these varied courses is an appreciation for the value and power of language as both an aesthetic medium and a social force. Here, you will learn to read analytically, to write persuasively, and to think both creatively and probingly. You will also take part in a thousand-year-old tradition of shaping yourself and your world through the study, and the pleasures, of English language and literature.
To learn more about majoring or minoring in English, English and Creative Writing, or Film Studies, select “Why English?”