B.A. in English

Iowa State University

Majoring or minoring in English helps you develop highly valued professional skills, such as communication, creative thinking, and critical analysis. The flexibility of Iowa State’s English major allows you to create the pathway that best supports your individual goals with courses that range from literature, film, and rhetoric to those in creative writing and English Education. In fact, many students choose to add English as a second major or a minor to diversify the skills they take with them into a career. Graduates from our program enter a range of professions, including law medicine publishing and editing nonprofit and government communication, consulting, and speech writing web design sales software documentation, usability, and user experience scientific, technical, and environmental writing

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences