English

Overview

The English MA program from Arizona State University allows students to explore specific subject areas while working across a range of subdisciplines within English such as literary studies, rhetorical studies, composition and linguistics.

With an emphasis on teaching and research, the program includes electives to encourage students to pursue interdisciplinary inquiry and the culminating experience primes graduates for critical and eloquent engagement with the world beyond the university.

Equally suited to prepare candidates for doctoral study or to advance the careers of area educators in the language arts, the degree also prepares graduates to begin careers in one of the many professions that value creativity, critical thinking and highly skilled communication.

Career Opportunities

The ability to influence and motivate behavior through the power of well-crafted language is a skill valued in every industry dependent upon customers, employees, suppliers or investors.

Graduates with a master's degree in English are able to use language to accomplish organizational goals; possess advanced critical thinking abilities and advanced skills for clear and effective verbal communication; are able to construct well-supported and persuasive arguments; can perform complex textual analysis; are knowledgeable about historical trends in written discourse; have an awareness of the role of literary discourse in broader social and historical contexts; and have the ability to engage in big picture thinking.

Career examples include:

• advertising copywriting
• business communication
• community college teaching
• digital copywriting
• editing
• educational consulting
• grant writing
• journalism
• market research
• media research
• nonprofit consulting
• public relations
• publishing
• secondary teaching (as continuing education)
• social media management
• technical writing
• web content management