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Gaining a bachelor’s degree in English can help students deepen their critical thinking and broaden their understanding of humanity through the world’s written works. In this degree, you will take classes that develop skills in reading, writing, and analysis. The English degree allows you the flexibility to tailor your degree to fit your career goals.
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Highlighted Career Paths
Graduates with a degree in English have a wide array of rewarding careers before them. Check out some of the top careers students get with this degree or explore more career options in I-Plan.
Publishing & Editing
Do you sit in sacrament meeting and silently correct the speakers’ grammar? Can you spot the difference between a comma splice and a run-on sentence? Would you love to help good writers become even better? Do you think it would be fun to correct a best-selling writer’s manuscript or to discover the next great American author and help her get published? Or perhaps helping geeky scientists explain their discoveries and innovations in language the public can understand is a secret dream you’ve always had. The editing and publishing field may be your cup of tea hot chocolate!
Creative Writer / Author
Be the next Flannery O’Connor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, or Brandon Sanderson. Inspire the world with your creative non-fiction writing, your popular blog, podcast, or website. Join the creative team behind the next version of Hi-Fi Rush or storyboard the next great RPG to invade the world. You might have it in you. So don’t be chicken!
English Teacher
Earning an English education bachelor’s degree will qualify you to teach various English language arts subjects to all grades from 6th to 12th. You’ll learn the skills required to plan, teach, and assess units of instruction, manage the learning environment, and prepare students for state exams. In everything you do, you will teach your students how to think critically, write competently, and communicate effectively.
Technical & Professional Writer / Communicator
The demand for technical and professional writers and communicators is high and the opportunities are many and varied! Use your knowledge and skills in writing, editing, and software/apps to get involved with everything from E-Learning & Corporate Training to Technical & Strategic Communication to Social Media & Advertising. Create web-based media campaigns, write podcast scripts, plan out storyboards, design book trailers, write and edit training documents and press releases, be the creative force behind marketing campaigns, write speeches for business, political, and community leaders, collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to bring innovation and knowledge to the general public, advise businesses and government agencies in crisis communication—the opportunities go on and on. Get in on the action!
Getting Started in this degree
If you are interested in English, start with one of the following major-specific courses
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As an English education major, you will focus on theories and methods for teaching literature and composition in the classroom. You also get to study an additional area of study in a selected minor. This will qualify you to teach in English and another area of study.
In the English Education Composite degree, the focus is to educate students in both classroom instruction and the English field. Students focus completely on English Education as their course of study. As a student in this degree, you will become certified to teach in grades 6-12, and you will deepen your learning in literature, language, and writing.
The Digital and Social Media emphasis prepares students for a career in social media marketing. Students will learn to successfully develop, execute, and measure digital media strategies.
News/Journalism trains reporters, editors, journalists, and content creators for modern careers in a fast-changing industry.
Public relations is a planned process to influence public opinion. This emphasis provides opportunities to write, research, and implement persuasive principles and tools of strategic planning for selected clients.
The Humanities major is designed for students who want a broad liberal education and excellent preparation for professional schools such as law and medicine, for graduate programs in the humanities and other liberal arts, and for life as parents, citizens, and disciple leaders.