Western Michigan University offers a variety of undergraduate English majors, including options in education, creative writing, rhetoric and writing studies, and arts and sciences. Arts and sciences is WMU's most traditional English program. It emphasizes British and American literature and the English language. The secondary education program is similar, but provides additional training that will prepare you to teach English and language arts at the middle and high school levels. WMU's creative writing program combines the traditional studies with creative writing workshops at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. If you choose this track, you will write poetry, plays, fiction and creative nonfiction. Our rhetoric and writing studies program combines traditional courses with focused studies in news, feature and professional writing.

After you graduate Recent WMU graduates with degrees in English are working as: * Authors and biographers * Copy writers * Creative writers and poets * Documentation and research specialists * Editors and editorial assistants * Entrepreneurs * Executive assistants * Journalists * Librarians and booksellers * Literary assistants * Literary critics, reviewers and judges * Nonprofit coordinators and officers * Playwrights * Proposal writers * Publishing assistants * Teachers * Translators Among the organizations they work for are: * Schools and universities * Libraries * Media organizations * Nonprofit agencies * Publishing companies.