English majors with a writing emphasis may choose between doing a senior project and doing a writing internship, which are available in newspapers or business. English-education majors do their "internships" by teaching at a local junior or senior high school for ten weeks. English-drama majors participate in directing and producing plays and musicals.
Sigma Tau Delta is a national honors society open to anyone who has twelve or more credits of English courses beyond composition and who has the required GPA. Sigma Tau Delta sponsors a yearly dinner, trips to theater productions and movies, and a booth at the campus fall and spring festivals.
The department invites all majors and their friends to quarterly soup suppers and pre-vespers in faculty homes. Other activities include trips to museums, plays, and films.
The Dramatic Arts Society, an organization of the English department's drama program, produces a play every quarter. Open auditions provide many students with the opportunity to act, direct, and produce plays at PUC. In recent years, DAS has done several major productions in addition to smaller on-campus works. These include an extensive run and tour of Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White; a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the renovated Yountville Theater; and a unique outdoor production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Visit the DAS website
The department employs students as English readers and as helpers in the drama program.
The Franklyn and Laurie Hoyt scholarship provides $4000 worth of tuition help to one or more students each year.
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