The Stern College for Women s English Department holds that the study of language, literature, and media is fundamentally important to an individual's personal development and successful functioning within society.

Students who study in the Yeshiva College English Department gain direct, intimate access to other cultures and time periods, through encounters with works from classical Greece, medieval Europe, and Victorian Britain to U.S. and world literature of the present. At the same time, students develop both analytically and creatively as writers and thinkers, learning to express themselves with clarity and power. It engages students with a range of forms poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, film, as well as the genres of the Internet age.