Recent graduates in English at?University of West Georgia?have been admitted into law school and graduate schools in English, Professional / Technical Writing, and Education.

English majors secure jobs in a variety of fields, including all areas of business (such as marketing and communications), computer-related fields, editing and publishing, public and private education, library sciences, and creative writing.

Instead of teaching you vocational skills, the major in English prepares you for the real world where the demand is for individuals who can read and write effectively, learn and adapt to changing situations quickly, and work creatively and intelligently on their own.

Objectives

• Are adept writers in command of standard written English and demonstrate effective strategies for presending ideas and evidence.
• Are capable of critical thinking that takes into acount the variety of human experience and significant differences among cultural value systems.
• Can convincingly analyze, interpret, and explicate literary texts in light of pertinent critical assumptions.