What Can I do With a Major

Major: English

Description of Major:

English programs focus on literature, language, and writing, and an English major provides the opportunity to encounter a wide array of absorbing works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from around the world and throughout history. This major will help shape your critical, analytical, and creative capabilities. An English major enables you to share the experiences of others, to feel what was felt by people in earlier eras, distant lands, entirely other patterns of life, and to juxtapose those feelings with your own. The study of English may be divided by time period, country, style, or author. There may be areas focused solely on creative writing (poetry, fiction, playwriting), or on historical aspects of the works.

Related Career Titles:

Writing, Editing, Publishing
Teaching
Advertising and Public Relations
Technical Writing
Writer
Drama critic
Book store manager
Journalist
Book Critic
Columnist
Comedy Writer
Legal Assistant
Librarian
Social Worker
Translator
Speech Writer
Marketing Specialist

Employment Areas:
Newspaper
Magazine
Book publishers
Business and nonprofit organizations
Professional Associations
Labor Unions
Religious Organizations
Advertising agencies
Public relations firms
Large corporations
Radio
TV broadcasting stations
Government agencies

Related Links:

Write Jobs
www.writerswrite.com/jobs 

Online journal and job site for higher education
http://chronicle.com/jobs 

Jobs for English Majors (and Other Smart People)
www.iusb.edu/~eng/careers.html

TV Jobs: Broadcast Employment Services
http://www.tvjobs.com/index_a.htm

Job Links for Journalists
http://www.newslink.org/joblink.html

Magazine Publishers of America
www.magazine.org

National Newspaper Publishing Association
www.nnpa.org

Association of American Publishers
www.publishers.org

Association of Authors and Publishers
www.authorsandpublishers.org