What can I do with a degree in English?

The short answer is, "All sorts of things." Because the discipline of English hones writing, reading, and analytical skills, English majors find rewarding careers in a wide variety of fields. Recent LU graduates with degrees in English have become attorneys, physicians, managers, chefs, engineers, filmmakers, nurses, and librarians. Some have become high school teachers; many others have gone on to graduate programs in literature, history, religion, Spanish, Russian, or TESOL, thus preparing themselves for careers as university professors.

What do English majors study? 

The simplest answer is this: "the construction and interpretation of verbal texts." Some of the questions central to the discipline are these:

• What makes some writing "literary" while other kinds aren't?
• Why do people write the things they do the way they do?
• What's the difference between writing that's clear and writing that's not, and how can we turn the latter into the former most efficiently?
• How can writing be used to make things happen in the world?
• How can writing affect the way people understand what it means to be a human being?