Program Overview

The English Major cultivates a critical understanding of the human experience across time, place, and cultures. It develops skills for research, analysis, and communication that enable graduates to engage the world in which they serve in thoughtful, constructive, and creative ways. Graduates may pursue a variety of career paths in fields such as education, writing, editing, publishing, public relations, and communications.

All students in the English Major take the Open Concentration, which affords them the opportunity to choose classes from a range of literature and writing courses.

Students who would like to teach at the high school level can earn the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching after completing their undergraduate work, leading to full licensure as a teacher with an undergraduate and a master’s degree from Johnson in just five years.

Every undergraduate student pursuing a four-year degree at Johnson earns a double major – a major in Bible and Theology and a major of their choice, like English. Click here to learn more about the Bible and Theology major.

Learn about our English Professors:

I love teaching English! Far more than just correcting grammar, the study of English is the study of humanity. When students critically engage language (words, stories, writing of all kinds), they engage culture, history, and all of human experience. When students learn how to read and write critically, they learn how to think, how to listen, and how to love those around them. I regularly see evidence of how students’ lives change through their study of literature and writing; those changes correlate to lives of service for God and others.
April Conley Kilinski
Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities, Director of the Honors Program, Program Director of English and Interdisciplinary Studies & Professor of English and Literature

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