Department of English, Communication & Media Studies
Our department offers highly versatile majors and minors that prepare students for success in a wide range of workplaces in our rapidly changing world.
Our students build their writing, speaking, and media skills in an environment that encourages creativity and critical thinking. Majors and minors in the English, Communication and Media Studies department benefit from broad training, and students go on to specialize in an area of their choosing.
Some of our majors focuses on great storytelling and the growth of writers, editors, journalists and/or publishers. Other majors may focus on developing expertise in interactive media and games. For those students who dream of becoming a high school English teacher, the English Education Major offers the best path to this career. Students who are content creators, work with digital media, or want to pursue broadcasting, will find that we offer the flexible English & Communication Studies Major for this purpose. Some majors plan to pursue a career in front of the camera, while others are passionate about what happens behind the camera. We nurture individual talents and prepare you for the world of work.
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Awards, Honors, & Published Works
Our student-run publications have won numerous awards. You can browse the list of award-winning issues of the college newspaper, The Collegian , or head over to our creative magazine, The Lyre, which is edited by students and features poetry, stories, photography, and other art.
The ECM department annually awards a number of prizes including:
- The L.L. Smith Memorial Award
- The Mary Ginn Award
- The Olena Bunn Award
The department also runs a chapter of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta. Students may be eligible to receive participation grants while working on The Collegian or The Lyre. Incoming students can email Dr. Johns about receiving the participation grant at wayne.johns@greensboro.edu. ECM majors and minors may also apply for the competitive Global Communication Center Fellows program.
