American Conference for Irish Studies
The American Conference for Irish Studies is a multidisciplinary scholarly organization with approximately 800 members in the United States, Ireland, Canada, and other countries around the world. Each spring the ACIS holds a national conference attended by 300-400 people from the academic community and the general public. Each fall meetings are held in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and Western regions; the Southern regional takes place in the winter. The ACIS also sponsors joint sessions with the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association at their annual conventions.
Both national and regional meetings include plenary speakers, academic sessions in all fields of Irish Studies, poetry and fiction readings, films, and performances of Irish music and plays.
The ACIS was founded in 1960 as the American Committee for Irish Studies; it is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a non-profit organization. Today its members can be found worldwide.
Kutztown University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
The mission of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is to prepare students to achieve their academic goals, to access and critically examine increasingly complex sources of information, to take an active role in their society and world, and to commit themselves to lifelong learning.
This mission is accomplished through both curricular and co-curricular elements. The general education curriculum provides students with a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences that emphasizes the development of communication, computational, and analytical skills; of an understanding of the methods used in the natural and social sciences; and of an appreciation of the arts and humanities.
The major program curriculum provides students with a depth of knowledge in a particular discipline that prepares them for their chosen careers or graduate or professional studies. Co-curricular opportunities such as internships, service learning, and international travel provide students with individualized growth experiences.
Kutztown University Department of English
Kutztown University's English Department proudly offers a wide range of degree programs to serve undergraduate and graduate students with diverse career interests. If you are interested in writing for a newspaper or magazine, teaching high school English, studying literature at an advanced level, creating content for websites, editing for publishing companies, writing for public relations, producing technical documents, strengthening your skills in written argument and research, laying a foundation for a legal career, or earning a master's degree in English, Kutztown's English Department can provide the foundations you need to achieve your career goal.
Our students select from robust offerings in literature, film, journalism, composition and rhetoric, public relations, business and technical writing, creative writing, cultural studies, and digital media. Our program encourages students to think critically about diverse texts and communicate clearly in a variety of forms. In addition to working closely with our faculty in small classes, students can participate in opportunities such as pre-professional internships, a range of publications that include the student newspaper and the international Journal of Dracula Studies, and various clubs and activities.