Careers
Career opportunities include becoming a creative writer, journalist, librarian, lawyer, technical writer and editor and public relations coordinator. Graduates also pursue publishing, advertising and business.
Hands-On Learning
Internship opportunities include:
- Avera or Sanford Health
- 605 Magazine
- Dakota News Now or KELO News
- South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks’ Outdoor Campus
- South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB)
Sioux Falls has many opportunities to participate in readings and other literary activities off campus, as well as field trips to nearby sites that are prominent in national and regional literature, including South Dakota’s Native American reservations.
English students study away in:
- Barcelona, Spain — focusing on colonialism, identity and modernism with AU faculty
- Scotland — focusing on its stories and scenes with AU faculty
- England — focusing on Londinium and Brexit with AU faculty
- New Zealand — focusing on cultural identity with AU faculty
- Cuba — focusing on race, gender and revolution with AU faculty
- Northern Ireland — focusing on the United Kingdom and reconciliation with AU faculty
Courses & Organizations
Students can choose to study these emphases:
- Literature & critical thinking
- Creative & professional writing
Students are encouraged to consider a double major in English and journalism because the department works as a unit with many overlapping requirements.
Professors teach diversity in writing, including:
- Traditional British and American literature
- Emerging voices of women and people of color
- Classic and contemporary literary talents of India, China, Japan, Russia, Ireland and the Middle East
English students often participate in:
