Welcome to the English Department
The Motto for the English Department
at A&M - Central Texas:
Engage, Equip, Empower
Earn a degree with the sweeping marketability you deserve by acquiring the communicative and critical thinking skills today’s workforce values. Tomorrow’s professionals and educators benefit alike from our courses in language, culture, and literature.
- Choose from one of three tracks
- An English Track in Professional Communication for Our Military
- Full-time Faculty
Career Fields Awaiting English Majors
The English major fosters the critical thinking and eloquent writing abilities employers in numerous fields desire including:
- Teachers in Public or Private Schools
- Students in Academic or Professional School in English, Law, or Public Administration, among others
- Service members in the Peace Corps or Teach for America
- Writing Careers as Editors, Professional Communications, or Marketers in any field
- Business Careers in Management, Training, Sales, and Public Relations
Whatever the eventual career, English majors graduate ready to enter their field with the inquisitiveness, sensitivity, and imagination employers in an ever more complex world demand.
“What good amid these, O Me, O Life? That you are here, that life exists, and identity;
that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1891