Careers
Graduates from the Department of Languages and Literature are highly attractive to employers and graduate schools. Knowing how to communicate, especially in a foreign language, is valuable in every field and in our global marketplace.
Career options, with links to job outlooks, include:
- Interpreters
- Advertising copyeditors
- Editors of books and other publications
- Marketing associates
- Screenwriters
- Lawyers
- Journalists
- Congressional aides
- Managers
- Web developers
- Technical reporter (quality assurance and compliance regulations)
- Teachers
- Archivist
- Author
- Critic
- Public relations manager/specialist
- Etc, etc, etc. With good communication skills, an English major can go anywhere.
Top 10 Reasons to become an English Major
Here are the advantages of pursuing a degree or minor from the Department of Languages and Literature:
- Take special interest courses like sports literature, web writing, Harry Potter and many more.
- Learn in small classes all taught by faculty holding the M.A. or the Ph.D. — no teaching assistants and no mega-sections.
- Study abroad in English, French, and Spanish.
- Increase your marketability with good communication skills or a second language.
- Be mentored by faculty who understand that advising is not just scheduling.
- Take courses on the web, in computer classrooms or in regular classrooms.
- Get a strong background in traditional English, American and World Literature.
- Study under two writers in residence and several distinguished faculty.
- Connect with people across barriers of language, culture and history.
- Become a valuable asset in a global economy.