The Cypress College English Department offers a transfer program that includes composition, literature, creative writing, and humanities. Our mission is to provide courses that are innovative, flexible, and challenging to meet academic standards for transfer, vocation, and personal development. The program offers online, hybrid, accelerated, and learning community classes, as well as an AA in English degree.
English Department faculty strive to support and advance students’ abilities to read, write, and think both analytically and creatively.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of a true education.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
NOTE: You are now able to use the Guided Self-Placement tool in lieu of taking the assessment exams. To use the tool, click the button below.