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With its emphasis on close reading and writing skills and its training in critical thinking—skills that are crucial in today’s high-tech global economy—an English degree will help you acquire the tools to flourish in a wide variety of career paths in the private and public sectors and will give you career flexibility in a constantly changing world. Our language students enjoy opportunities to learn and develop outside of the classroom through study abroad experiences, career development workshops, community engagement, and the chance to work with professors on research and present at conferences. Our students also benefit from departmental opportunities including internships, student-run poetry and fiction publications, guest speakers, an annual writer’s conference, and membership in Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society, or Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society.

In our language, literature, culture, and writing programs, students learn in-demand skills that employers have identified as critical for job candidates, including:

Degree: B.A