This website will help you to explore our innovative and engaging curriculum, and our student-focused faculty.
While developing a solid foundation in literature and language, our students specialize in writing, in literature, or in preparation for teaching at the secondary level. We offer minors in creative and professional writing, in literature, and in film studies. We also support the University's Foreign Language Program, which offers a major in Spanish and minors in Spanish Language and Culture, Arabic Language and Culture, Chinese Language and Culture, and East-European Language and Culture (Polish or Russian).
Our courses are taught by professors who continue their education through scholarship, regularly presenting at conferences and publishing books and articles. Likewise, we encourage and guide our majors and minors to pursue opportunities to share their work at conferences, in print, online, and through a variety of departmental publications. Offering small classes of no more than 25 students each, we are committed to the success of each student, and we take a personal approach—both within the classroom and outside it.
We have so much to offer you, as our students can attest. Studying English not only enables you to enjoy classic, contemporary, and diverse literary works, but also sharpens the critical, analytical, and communication skills and processes that employers and graduate schools demand. Furthermore, by developing these crucial skills, a second major or a minor in English strengthens a major in any other discipline. In fact, our graduates are employed not only as educators and editors, promotional and technical writers, but also as lawyers and morticians, graphic designers and sales reps, administrative assistants and project managers, communications consultants and librarians with masters degrees.
We would be delighted to hear from you, and to explain our programs in detail. Please visit the Contact Us page so that we may get to know you, answer your questions, and perhaps schedule a visit.
DO YOU NEED HELP WRITING A PAPER FOR ONE OF YOUR CLASSES?
Please make an appointment with the Writing Center where you can receive in person and online assistance from excellent writing tutors!
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
Expected November 2025
Start date
January 2025
College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communications
Lewis University,
One University Parkway,
Romeoville,
Illinois,
United States
Applicants must have graduated from an approved high school with a combination of grade point average, class rank, and ACT or SAT score which indicates a strong likelihood of success in university studies.
Applicants must have accumulated 18 high school units. Three of those units should be in English; the remaining 15 units should be chosen from a college preparatory curriculum.
English Proficiency Exams
IELTS - Minimum 6.5; TOEFL IBT - Minimum 79; PTE-A - Minimum 52; Duolingo Academic - Minimum 105.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Lewis University places a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on learning with small class sizes and a personalized teaching approach.
