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So welcome. This is the English department. It's in Bachelor Hall. It's where we have a lot of our administrators the director of composition. Everyone who comes to Miami will take a class in composition. So here we have books by our Miami University Press which the English department sponsors. And we have a contest every year for novella. The novella winner is up there. There's more books by faculty. And also this is really neat. One of our capstones in professional writing worked with the Hueston Woods Nature Center. And they produced all of their new maps and all of their new publicity materials. And they did that as part of their experiential learning. So here's where you would go if you had a question about one of our four majors professional writing creative writing literature or linguistics. Dr. Bechtel here can answer your questions. She also does a lot of work with transfer credits on study abroad. Here you see a sort of archive of some of our celebrations that we've had including a career development event Beyond Bachelor Hall. We have it every year. We bring in somebody who is a graduate of the English department who has done well. We've had CEOs. We've had publishers. So one of the great things that our students in Sigma Tau Delta are doing is they found all these old library books in our Bachelor reading room some of them from the s. You see this John Milton volume. And Sigma Tau Delta is actually taking these. And they're going to repair them and then put them into the special collections of the library. Here we have a lot of the newer faculty publications. You can see from all of our programs, writing and rhetoric creative writing literature cultural studies. We even have a feature article in National Geographic by one of our creative writers Daisy Hernandez up here. So one of our more popular programs is our literary London program where students go to study Shakespeare and other writers including contemporary writers in London. Here's a little idea chart of things you can do with an English major. As you can see it encompasses far more than just being an English teacher. Although I have to say I'm partial to English teachers myself as a professor of English. So this is our main hangout place in English. It's called the Bachelor reading room. It's named after Joe Bachelor who was a professor of English awhile back. And you can see here we have a place to hang out but also we have a collection of books. Some of them you've seen before that are going to special collections. But these are from faculty who donated them over the years. The English department was established in . It had classes in . So we have a long tradition of being around and writing publishing and analyzing culture.