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Learn What You Love
If you've reached this web site on purpose, chances are you already enjoy reading or writing. But why read and write in the English Program at Plattsburgh State?
Two words: great professors.
Our faculty will get to know you. As a student in the English program at SUNY Plattsburgh, you will benefit from small classes and personal attention from your professors. And with over 27 books published as well as countless poems, short stories, plays, articles, and reviews, our faculty will challenge you as well as work with you to realize your potential.
We Will Help to Make You a Better Writer
Our faculty are terrific teachers: men and women committed not just to their excellence, but to yours. Chaired by a Distinguished Teaching Professor, the English Department at SUNY Plattsburgh also boasts the winners of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2009, 2008, 2006 and 1990. In other words, we can make you a better writer, reader, and thinker - the three most widely marketable skills you can learn anywhere.
It's no secret that English is the preferred major among employers nationwide, and an English major is a popular, successful starting point not just for writers, editors, publishers, journalists, teachers, and librarians, but for careers in law, politics, business, teaching, administration, counseling, and public relations.
So Go Ahead: Learn What You Love
Dive into science fiction with Tom Morrissey, Distinguished Teaching Professor and a reviewer for Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation - and start your major in Literature.
Explore the outdoors with Dennis Aprill, winner of sixteen Outdoor Writers Association awards - and be on your way to a Writing major.
Revel in children's literature with Elaine Ostry, author of Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale while you prepare for a career in teaching.
Whether you're a budding writer, an aspiring teacher, or just someone who loves to read, the English program at SUNY Plattsburgh is the ideal place to hone your craft and pursue your dreams.
News
Dr. Jon P. Chatlos Honored for Excellence
Dr. Jon P. Chatlos received the Award for Excellence in Teaching, an honor intended for faculty members who have consistently demonstrated superb skill in instruction. Over the past six years, the associate professor of English has taught 13 courses in literature, film and writing, including both introductory and advanced levels. In them, he has placed an emphasis on student involvement and has continually worked to improve both course organization and his teaching, according to SUNY Plattsburgh President John Ettling. He has incorporated appropriate technologies, developed new approaches to teaching writing and revised assessments to improve student outcomes. The result has been a high degree of student satisfaction with Chatlos' teaching, as reported through course surveys.
"It is no secret in the hallways of the English department that the students love Dr. Chatlos for his enthusiasm, the unrivaled respect he shows his students and the dedication with which he helps shape students' critical thinking and writing," said Joseph Finckel '05, one of Chatlos' former students who is now a teaching assistant in the English department at the University of Connecticut. Read more.
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
Thomas J. Morrissey, Chair
Phone: (518) 564-2134
Fax: (518) 564-2140
E-mail: morristj@plattsburgh.edu
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