English
Fostering critical thought and interpretation, and thoughtful expression.
Why do you read? Is it to experience and engage with a new world? To learn about others’ experiences? To prepare yourself for critically engaging life’s challenges, its difficulties, even its injustices? All of these responses would be valid reasons for engaging in the literary arts.
In English Studies we produce new knowledges, forms of empowerment, and inroads to social justice for our diverse society. We develop big ideas and dream big, to challenge the status quo. We strive to convey our insights on the page, the screen, the stage.
English majors, double majors, and graduate students take what they learn into a variety of walks of life and career paths—from education to law, from corporate business to nonprofit organizations, from the creative arts to medical professions. Whenever someone asks, “What can you do with an English degree?”, you can confidently say: “Just about anything.”
