CSUSB Alert: Power has been restored to the San Bernardino campus; normal operations will resume Friday, July 26th.

Power to the San Bernardino campus has been restored as of 9:55 a.m. Normal campus operations will resume Friday, July 26th. Essential staff with questions on whether to report should contact their appropriate administrator. Facilities Management will be working to check all building systems including HVAC, elevators and fire alarms. If power has not been restored in your work area when you return, please report that to Facilities Planning and Management at (909) 537-5175. The Palm Desert Campus remains open and operational.

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Department of English

Welcome to the Department of English


Welcome to the Department of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

The Department offers a Bachelor of Arts in English, with concentrations in Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics, and Rhetoric and Writing Studies; minors in English, Border Studies, Creative Writing, and Multimedia Storytelling; and a Master of Arts in English and Writing Studies with concentrations in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language, Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, as well as English Pedagogy and Public and Professional writing.  In addition, we offer certificate programs in Creative Writing, Public and Professional Writing, TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Teaching Writing. The Department also sponsors two annual literary journals, The Pacific Review (on our San Bernardino Campus) and The Concrete Desert Review (on our Palm Desert Campus).