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English Degree

Student Literary Works

Finish in Four*

with the skills to launch your career

Studying English

is about what reading and writing can do in the world, leading to a versatile array of careers for our majors from law, project management, and human resources to nonprofits, grant writing, and event planning, as well as traditional English careers like teaching, publishing, and librarianships. Your four-year academic experience will strengthen and refine your ability to communicate effectively, think critically and creatively, and collaborate with others—skills that are highly valued in any field you may pursue. With a degree in English, you will be prepared to:

effectively express ideas in writing for a variety of contexts and audiences;

explore issues and ideas from a variety of perspectives with empathy and intellectual curiosity;

utilize purposeful interpretive strategies to evaluate how the features of a text contribute to its meaning;

find appropriate and credible sources in an increasingly complex information landscape; and

identify and address the historical and cultural contexts connected to the texts they're writing about.

Explore our Graduate Outcomes to learn more about what our graduates are doing today.

Program Highlights

PATH (opens in new window/tab)

Our Professionalism and the Humanities (PATH) program helps you build career-ready skills, explore the real-world career paths of successful recent alumni, and incorporate project-based learning into your courses that allow you to work with community organizations, develop exhibitions, and learn about the publishing process.

Suspension

Suspension is Austin College’s entirely student-led literary magazine. Published once a year in print, Suspension highlights poetry, prose, and art created by Austin College students. Editorial staff are involved in every step of the publication process, from advertising open submissions, judging contest entries, selecting works for publication, and creating the final magazine layout.