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Career Options with a Graduate Degree in English
The program equips students to advance within an existing career, to pursue the goal of becoming a published author, or in the case of K-12 teachers, to complete work as part of their professional development plan and to gain knowledge they can pass on to their students. Career options -
- upper-level writing positions often at the managerial level
- editing
- journalism
- media writing
- children’s writing
- public relations
- human resources
- advertising
- grant writing
- freelance writing
- publishing
- technical writing
- magazine writing
Students completing the English graduate program are well positioned to teach writing courses at the college level or to continue their studies at the doctoral level.