Outcomes
- Students will gain an understanding of the range and diversity of literatures in English.
- Students will gain an understanding of a variety of genres, modes, and critical perspectives.
- Students will be able to analyze literary forms, historical and cultural contexts, and critical theories.
- Students will learn close reading skills and the terms and concepts essential to interpretive argument.
- Students will become skilled and discerning writers working in argumentative, analytical, and/or creative modes.
After Graduation
What careers have English majors pursued?
English majors most commonly go on to be attorneys, editors, teachers and professors, marketing and advertising agents, journalists, publicists and communications experts, and specialists in grant-writing and fund-raising.
Recent alumni include a legislative correspondent at the United States Senate, a digital production specialist at W.W. Norton, an award-winning fashion journalist, a development coordinator for a major charitable organization, a producer at Yahoo! Entertainment, an attorney, an editor at Carnegie Hall, a manager at the Vermont Agency of Human Services, a business development executive at Apple, and a sports editor at a Vermont newspaper.
Where Our Alumni Work
- Apple
- United States Senate
- W.W. Norton
- Yahoo! Entertainment
- Carnegie Hall
- Vermont Agency of Human Services
- Vermont newspaper
Where do UVM English majors go to graduate school?
- Brandeis
- Columbia
- University of Virginia
- Georgetown
- George Washington
- Harvard
- Penn State
- Rice
- Tufts
- Pittsburgh
- Stanford
- Yale
