The English Major provides a flexible program. Students who major in English participate in increasingly intensified study of language and literature that includes English, American, and foreign literature in translation. Upon graduation, English majors are well qualified to enter nearly all fields that do not require previous technical and professional training. 

Degree Outcomes

• Enter professions including teaching, writing and editing, journalism, law, social work, business, communications, advertising, the ministry, and library science.
• Pursue graduate study in law at institutions including Elon University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in literature at institutions including The University of Texas and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.