Why Study English at E-town?
Customize your curriculum.
With three concentrations to choose from -- literature, professional writing and secondary education – you have flexibility. But, you can also enhance your intellectual interests and career options by choosing to minor or double major in disciplines such as History, Religious Studies, Business, Communications, Women and Gender Studies, or a foreign language.
Be a Guest at the Bowers Writers House.
The Bowers Writers House opened in the Fall of 2010 and is especially attractive to those interested in writing. Nestled in a quiet, wooded campus cul de sac, this cozy arts center hosts writers, educators and other notable guests—from as near as campus or from countries afar-- for readings, discussions, lectures and presentations. The Writers House presents students a unique opportunity to mix and mingle with literary geniuses—kind of like you.
Write … and be read.
Elizabethtown College offers students interested in journalism or creative writing many outlets for a byline. Write or edit for the weekly student newspaper, The Etownian or submit your poetry or prose to Fine Print, a semi-annual literary magazine.
Find an alumni mentor.
More than 80 English alumni volunteer as mentors, offering career advice and sharing professional connections with current students. And, each year our department hosts an alumni dinner, an excellent opportunity for our majors to meet and mingle from graduates who are now working as journalists, teachers, lawyers, writers and in other professions.
Open doors to career opportunities
A degree in English can lead to a broad range of careers. Our graduates include teachers at every level, attorneys, directors of marketing and public relations firms, authors, freelance writers and staff writers for national magazines, textbook editors, business and technical writers, grant proposal writers, and many other careers which draw upon a good work ethic, social skills for team projects, and outstanding communication skills.
Meet like-minded people
English majors have their own club, Literati, as well as an honors society, Sigma Tau Delta. A number of our majors are editors or writers for The Etownian, the campus newspaper, Fine Print, the literary magazine, and The Conestogan, E-town's student yearbook.
