English, B.A.

Program Overview

The University of South Carolina's English B.A. program fosters critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills through diverse courses and smaller classes. It offers four tracks, including an accelerated path to a Master of Teaching, and boasts impressive alumni outcomes in fields such as education, writing, and marketing.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The English B.A. program at the University of South Carolina offers diverse courses designed to challenge and inspire students in the classroom and beyond, providing them with adaptable skills for a changing world.

Objectives:

The program aims to:

• Provide students with a vibrant intellectual community.
• Offer close interaction with award-winning teachers who care about students' ideas, well-being, and success.
• Expose students to wide-ranging perspectives, diverse skills, and unique research opportunities through faculty from multiple disciplines and fields.

Teaching:

• The program emphasizes smaller classes designed for discussion and individualized focus.
• Students benefit from learning from a dynamic, diverse community of teacher-scholars.

Careers:

• The program helps students hone skills in communication, research, critical thinking, collaboration, and more, making them stand out to employers in a range of fields.
• Potential career paths include: Teacher, Writer, Editor, Journalist, Columnist, Grant Writer, Marketing Manager, Social Media Manager, Public Relations Manager, Technical Writer, and Editor.
• Alumni have found employment at various organizations, including the University of South Carolina, Glacial Multimedia, Kendall Press, PepsiCo, MailChimp, and Penguin Random House.

Other:

• The program offers four tracks, including the option to complete the B.A.
and Master of Teaching in about five years.
• The program sponsors the INK!
Undergraduate Student Association, open to any student who loves reading and writing.
• The program highlights exciting courses, including Literature and Law, Creative Writing, Introduction to Rhetoric, Introduction to Comics Studies, Shakespeare's Tragedies, and Young Adult Literature.
• The program emphasizes the development of professional and personal intelligence for a successful career, including skills in writing, analytical reasoning, critical thinking, communication, multicultural awareness, and collaboration.
• The program encourages students to advance their careers or options with post-graduate education, including Master's in Secondary Education, Master's in Creative Writing, Master's/Doctorate in English, and Doctorate in Law.
• The program provides outcome data from Gamecock GradStats, a service of the University of South Carolina Career Center, to showcase how alumni use their degrees.
• The average alumni salary five to ten years after graduation without additional education is $59,669.
• The program highlights the importance of storytelling as a means to change the world, as expressed by a student, Jackson Ringley.