English Department
English Department Activities
Internships and Careers
Scholarships
Sigma Tau Delta
Travel
Undergraduate Research
Writing Awards
Internships and Careers
Internships offer professional work experience, an opportunity to sample careers while earning college credits, and the possibility of future employment. Recent sponsors include:
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Southern Living / Oxmoor House
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Clanton Advertiser
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Southern Building Code Congress International
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Alagasco
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Shelby Baptist Medical Center
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Literacy Council of Central Alabama
Scholarships
The English Department awards the following scholarships:
For incoming freshmen
For incoming majors
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English Department Merit Scholarship, $3,500 (renewable for three years)
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Judy Norton Trotter Scholarship, $600
For sophomores, juniors, and seniors
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Melba Griffin Scholarships: $1,000 sophomore, $1,500 junior, and two $1,500 senior awards
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Eva O. Golson Scholarship: $1,500 senior award
Sigma Tau Delta
The UM Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society, has received international recognition.
Travel
The English Department has a rich tradition of study abroad and general interest trips, serving students and members of the community. We've traveled to England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and South Africa. Plans are now being made for a trip to James Joyce's Ireland.
Undergraduate Research
If there's a literary topic that you're passionate about and want to investigate more closely than you can in a regular course, you can register for research credits and receive funding for your project through the College of Arts and Sciences. Our students regularly present their work at UM's Undergraduate Research Day and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Recent projects include creative work, and research on Shakespeare's plays, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Shelley's poetry, and Don DeLillo's novels.
Writing Awards
Student writers have many opportunities to enter writing competitions. Whether you write poetry, fiction or non-fiction, you'll find venues to present your work and win cash prizes. Our writing awards are the President's Award for Excellence in Writing, the Carmichael Library Book Review Award, the Harbert Writing Center Prose and Poetry Competition, and the Robert Jeremy Lespi Poetry Fellowship.