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Resources for English Majors

General Career Information

An education in the humanities trains you for a much wider range of careers than graduates with more specialized training. Students learn to develop their critical thinking ability and communication skills: problem solving and a greater understanding of the world. In short, it gives students the skills wanted by many employers.

Careers for English Majors
From Rutgers University: types of employers, related occupations, career resources.

Kansas State University
Describes marketable skills, potential jobs and where the jobs are for writing majors.

What Can I Do With English Major?
A list of areas in which to use your degree, types of employers, as well as strategies to be competitive in that field, all from University of Tennessee!

Majors and Careers: English
One-stop shopping for info about what one can do with a major in English.

Considering Careers Beyond the University
A resource page for graduate student in the Humanities considering careers outside of academia.

Degree in Humanities
A Canadian resource for careers in the Humanities.

Careers and the Humanities
From Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

Social Sciences & Humanities Career Exploration Links
A comprehensive exploration of Humanities and Social Science careers from UC Berkeley.

For English Majors
This is a blog for English majors who may not yet have considered that they are uniquely positioned for a future career in business.

BookJobs.com
The folks at BookJobs.com help you to match your college major with a corresponding job function in publishing.

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Internships

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Offers a variety of summer internships.

San Francisco Chronicle
Summer internship program provides aspiring journalists with a diverse newsroom experience. Internships include reporting, photography, design, news graphics and copy editing positions.

The Washington Post
Offers twelve-week, paid reporting internships on the Metro, Financial, Sports and Style desks; copy editing internships on the Financial, Foreign, National and Metro desks; page and graphic design internships on the News Desk and in News Art; a photography internship on the Photo desk; and a writing internship in the Editorial Department.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission Internships
The LA County Arts Commission offers summer internship opportunities in the arts world for students of any ethnic background who attend school or reside in LA County. Various performing, literary, and other arts organizations participate, and there is a $3500 stipend for the 10 week commitment.

BookJobs.com
This is a one-stop shop that posts entry-level jobs and year-round internships from over 35 book publishers.

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Graduate & Professional Schools

GradSchools.com
The most comprehensive source of graduate school information.

Grad School Rankings
Tell us your priorities in choosing a graduate school. We'll use your preferences to generate a customized ranking of departments using National Research Council data.

University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA offers a Ph.D in English literature.

University of California, Berkeley
The Berkeley English Department offers a wide-ranging Ph.D. program, engaging in all historical periods of British and American literature, Anglophone literature, and critical and cultural theory.

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Professional Associations

American Society of Magazine Editors
Professional organization for editors of consumer magazines and business publications, which are edited, published and sold in the US.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Non-profit, educational association of journalism and mass communication faculty, administrators, students and media professionals.

American Library Association
Offers professional services and publications to members and nonmembers, including online news stories from American Libraries and analysis of crucial issues from the Washington Office.

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Job Listings

Guide to Writing and Journalism Jobs
A site that claims to be “a collection of the best job resources for jobs in writing, journalism, and publishing”. They do have quite a few mega-sites included on their list.

NewsJobs Network
Has links to dozens of mega-sites for jobs having to do with writing.

The Write Jobs
A specialty job board and career resource for journalism, media, publishing and writing professionals.

Writing Employment
Jobs for writers, editors, proofreaders, and more.

Jobs by Field: Arts
Information on Arts and Humanities careers from Skidmore College.

BookJobs.com
This is a one-stop shop that posts entry-level jobs and year-round internships from over 35 book publishers.

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UCSB Resources

UCSB Library English Language Subject Homepage

English Departmental Web Page
From the English Department at UCSB, a resource for graduate students in English.

Career Resource Room

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