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English Literature & Creative Writing Programs

Our English program has a simple goal:  to help you engage in the never-ending work of reading more insightfully, thinking more clearly, and writing more beautifully.  We know that you’ll be long gone from us when you’re at your best, but we know our programs in literature, education, and creative writing will help you get there.  We believe that literature is one of the most powerful ways that humans express what it means to be human, and that a steady, disciplined reading of classic and modern literature gives you insight and inspiration as you create your own texts.  Our writing courses help you pursue your own creative vision and build toward careers in editing, publishing, journalism, or technical writing.  Lastly, our courses in literary theory, rhetoric, and linguistics help you explore the powers and limitations of language, and thought.

Carroll's English graduates can look forward to excellent placement opportunities in various careers, professional schools, and graduate programs around the country. Approximately one-third of Carroll's English graduates become educators in primary or secondary schools. Others pursue successful careers in advertising, business, communications, journalism, public relations, politics, publishing, and numerous other fields.

Carroll's English graduates often choose to pursue advanced degrees (M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., etc.) in graduate programs and law schools across the United States and around the world. English faculty at Carroll are committed to placing qualified students into their chosen careers or the finest professional and graduate programs possible. Preparation for the Graduate Record Exam (G.R.E.) is a significant feature of this commitment to provide graduates with a solid foundation for academic and professional success.

10 reasons

to choose carroll college for english

  1. The department is just the right size so that professors teach the things that interest and excite them - and often end up interesting and exciting the students too
  2. Being treated as an equal by professors, not as another name to which they must assign a grade
  3. Work on what you want to (within reason, of course!)
  4. Learn the power of rhetoric and mind control
  5. The department on the whole has a sense of what is actually valuable to a student's development
  6. Conover sings!
  7. Advisors are very well connected to their students
  8. Every professor encourages ideas and exploration of topics that are both interesting and valuable
  9. No one questions your caffeine addictions or sleeping habits
  10. The entire department seems like a large, loving (albeit dysfunctional) family

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THIS DEGREE?

  • English Teacher
  • Attend Law School
  • Journalist
  • Publicist
  • Editor
  • Poet
  • Writer