The English Department at California State University Northridge CSUN offers a comprehensive academic experience centered on language literature and writing. Located within the College of Humanities the department emphasizes developing crucial skills in critical thinking communication and analysis. Students explore diverse areas like creative writing literary studies linguistics and rhetoric under the guidance of dedicated faculty who are accomplished scholars and writers. Offering programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels with various concentrations the department prepares graduates for a wide range of careers from education and publishing to law and business fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment.
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California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. With a total enrollment of 38,551 students (as of Fall 2021), it has the second largest undergraduate population as well as the third largest total student body in the California State University system, making it one of the largest comprehensive universities in the United States in terms of enrollment size. The size of CSUN also has a major impact on the California economy, with an estimated $1.9 billion in economic output generated by CSUN on a yearly basis. As of Fall 2021, the university had 2,187 faculty, of which 794 (or about 36%) were tenured or on the tenure track.
