But good communication takes practice. Like any muscle, your capacity to write well and think creatively requires regular exercise and proper technique.

That’s where English comes in. Choosing from our diverse and stimulating classes, you will sharpen your reading, reasoning, and writing skills, giving you the tools to present the most polished version of yourself to the world. With classes capped at between 20 and 25, students get individualized attention from expert wordsmiths and critical thinkers.

As a result of their training, English majors and minors aren’t intimidated by today’s text overload. They’ve learned how to read efficiently and how to analyze content expertly; how to tell stories that engage and how to make arguments that convince; how to communicate to different audiences and how to express themselves inventively.

And they practice doing all this while enjoying themselves in energizing classes. They familiarize themselves with the classics of literature as well as the latest in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, and television, from the United States, Britain and the English-speaking world more broadly. See here for our latest course offerings.

Their communication expertise makes English graduates the most versatile of employees, who thrive in various fields from business to law, education to journalism, medicine to nonprofit work, to name a few. See here for the diverse career outcomes of English alumni.

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