Overview
Students who are interested in advertising, education, law, journalism, creative writing, politics, social media, and a wealth of other careers pursue an Associate of Arts degree in our English Area of Study. These are students who most often plan to move on to a Bachelor of Arts degree at a four-year university.
English is the home base of such a varied span of interesting careers for good reason. The fundamental focus of the program is communication—how to arrange and convey information in a manner that’s most likely to get us what we want, and how to analyze information from others to find deeper meaning and implications. Learning the tricks of how information is best received by an audience opens the door to successful projects and arguments, and recognizing those tricks also helps in seeing past rhetorical flourishes to the core of someone else’s communication. This focus on critical thinking and its application to composition and literature is an excellent foundation for those who want a career that challenges them to “think outside the box” by producing new ideas and interpretations.
