Welcome to the Department of English on the Stark Campus!  This site includes information about the courses and programs offered by the English faculty on our campus.  With 13 full-time professors and an experienced group of adjunct instructors, we offer a diverse and exciting range of courses.  Click here to find out about the 20000-30000 courses (both LERs and major/minor requirements and electives) that you can take in Fall 2006.

At top left: the original manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

At top right, the original manuscript for John Keats' "Ode to a Nightengale".

This site also provides information about the freshman and sophomore LER writing courses required by most majors or programs within the university. If you're planning on taking ENG 11001 (Introduction to College Writing--Stretch), ENG 11002 (College Writing I--Stretch), ENG 11011 (College Writing I), or ENG 21011 (College Writing II), click here to learn more about individual sections of our Fall 2006 composition classes.

Students can complete all of the requirements for a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree in English entirely at KSU-Stark.  English and writing minors are also available.  While some students begin their college careers here and complete their English degree at the Kent Campus, we have a lively and talented community of nearly one hundred English majors or writing minors who, in addition to taking the majority of their classes at Stark, work in the campus Writing Center, create a literary arts magazine (Canto), participate in community-based service learning projects and gain practical work experience through our writing internship program.

In addition to the programs available in their entirety at Stark, students can also begin a degree program here in teaching English as a second language (TESL) or a certificate program in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) that can be completed at the Kent Campus.  For those students interested in graduate study within KSU's English Department, a variety of exciting programs are also located at Kent.

If you have any questions about this site or the KSU Stark English program, feel free to contact Dr. Robert Sturr, the Stark Campus English Coordinator, or Professor Bob King, the department’s website designer.