The Calvin English department is replacing its traditional English major with three new majors: literature, linguistics and writing. And with each of these majors, an internship is required. The ...

I didn’t doubt my English degree until everyone else did, and it made me question something I’d always been sure of.

Note that I did not say, "I was an English major." English majors often use that construction to disguise the fact. Putting it in the past tense suggests it was a youthful indiscretion from which they ...

What the world needs right now is more English majors. This may sound counterintuitive, even ridiculous. Indeed, the question English majors most dread is, “What will you do with that when you ...

Students choose from a variety of courses within every area of the English major and may develop concentrations in a number of fields, including historical periods, cultural studies, popular culture, ...

Philip Cohen is convinced that many English departments, especially at research universities, should be attracting more English majors as a result of the demand in the private sector for the skills ...