Discover your passion
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Find new horizons
Our majors go on to have successful careers. With a degree in English or Creative Writing, you can do nearly anything. Advisors and career planning specialists can help you discover ways to match the skills you gain with available internships, volunteer opportunities, and leadership roles, giving you the chance to gain real-world experience and build professional networks. To learn more about professional development opportunities and career outcomes for our majors, visit LAS Career Services.
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Build your creative community
If writing feels as necessary as breathing, this major is for you. Our students read and write well, and they are also skilled oral communicators. They thrive when surrounded by diverse styles, aesthetics, and world views.
- "Friend, you stand on sacred ground. This is a printing office." These words from Beatrice Ward are displayed in Skeuomorph Press & BookLab, where the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign community can create their own prints using a...
- Frankie Ward, a junior majoring in English (secondary education) was awarded a Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service. Ward, a Chicago native, wants to explore educational inequity and the effects it has on the development of teens of color as they navigate...
- Susan Koshy, a professor of English and Asian American studies, relies upon a unique perspective...
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