What can you do with an English major or minor? English isn’t just for teachers (though
WCU English Education students have outstanding placement rates). Our graduates are
journalists (without journalism degrees), lawyers, web designers, poets and prose
writers, bankers, children’s authors, technical editors, NASCAR publicists, and museum
curators. English can take you where you want to go.
At WCU you can publish creative writing, present professional research at national
conferences, intern in Chapel Hill or Washington, DC, or rub elbows with famous writers
at our renowned Spring Literary Festival. Try your hand at a novel or a screenplay. Honors English students publish the annual
Imagine Magazine, and our professional writers produce real-world web pages and applications.
Degree Programs
WCU offers both two degree tracks:
- Bachelor of Arts in English with four concentration options: Literature, Motion Picture
Studies, Professional Writing, or English Studies Pedagogy. Learn More
- A Dual Degree program for those interested in teaching through which students earn
a B.A. in English (most often with a concentration in English Studies Pedagogy) and
a B.S.Ed. Secondary and Special Subject Teaching in English. Learn More
We also encourage students from other fields to consider one of our minor options,
including literature, creative writing, professional writing, film studies and teaching
English as a second language. Learn More
Faculty
Our professors are not just experts, they’re enthusiasts. They’re not just renowned
writers and thinkers like novelist Ron Rash, writer Pam Duncan, and eco-colonialist
Laura Wright. They’re banjo players, bikers, Trekkies, actors, marathoners, bloggers,
activists, and chefs. Whether your passion is Hawthorne or Heinlein, Garcia Marquez
or graphic novels, irony or Iron Chef, you’ll find a kindred spirit here.
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