What You'll Study
Gonzaga's Department of English offers a Bachelor degree in English (B.A) with two areas of emphasis: a Literature Concentration and a Writing Concentration. Students choose one of these concentrations for their major. The department also offers a highly flexible English minor.
Stretch your Mind
Gonzaga University’s rigorous English curriculum, rooted in the Ignation Pedagogical Paradigm, stimulates personal and intellectual growth. Faculty and students engage in close reading, critical inquiry, and study how language and writing both reflect and create societies.
What Can I do With an English Degree?
An English graduate from Gonzaga University has the skills and habits of mind to succeed in a wide variety of vocations. Any field that values critical analysis, the ability to research and think creatively, and a deep understanding of language needs people who do what we do. Recent Gonzaga English graduates have found employment in a variety of fields, which include:
"What can you do with an English major?" poster courtesy W.W. Norton.
- Advertising
- Armed Forces
- Copy Editing
- Government
- Insurance
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps
- Journalism
- Marketing
- Medicine
- Public Relations
- Publication Design
- Teaching
- Teaching ESL Abroad
- Technical Writing
- Video Production
