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Reading a great book, writing a provocative sentence—why not make a career of it, starting with an English degree from Northwestern? Our program is among those included in Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges, a national guidebook that recommends select college departments.
English education. Share your passion for story and words with teenage readers and writers. In addition to your English classes, you’ll take courses in an education department that is one of only five in Iowa accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). You can also globalize your English education major with a Teaching English as a Second Language endorsement from the foreign languages department.
Literature. Northwestern English majors read from an ever-expanding literary canon (recent course readings included Milton’s Paradise Lost and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried). You’ll graduate with more books on your shelves, but more than that, you’ll start the rest of your life knowing how to feed and tap your boundless imagination.
Writing & rhetoric. Because writing is a tool for expressing ideas and supporting other learning, Northwestern's writing & rhetoric major requires a minor (or major) in another discipline. Become a better thinker as you learn to express yourself clearly and concisely. Students can choose a discipline well-served by strong writing skills, like history, political science or public relations—or one that represents another area of interest, like religion or theatre. Northwestern’s writing & rhetoric major also can be tailored to offer a diverse creative writing program that includes poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, playwriting and screenwriting.
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