OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVOLVEMENT

The Department of English offers students significant cocurricular activities, including:
- A highly acclaimed theatre program, including two mainstage productions and numerous student productions during the academic year.
- The speech and debate team, which participates in intercollegiate tournaments in both individual events and Lincoln-Douglas debate.
- Lambda Iota Tau (LIT), the literary honorary on campus, which sponsors poetry readings and other literary events.
- Tau Alpha Pi (TAP), the theatre honor society on campus, which sponsors a student-directed one-act play festival each
semester.
- The campus weekly newspaper, The Collegian, the annual literary magazine, The Echo, and the college yearbook, The Bridge, all of which offer opportunities for reporting, writing, layout, and editing.
- The Quad, a quarterly intellectual journal of student essays, reviews, and poetry.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Students may earn academic credit for work done offcampus under the supervision of a professional in an English or communication related field. Recent internships have included work in public relations, advertising, library and information sciences, journalism and publishing. Internships are most often completed during the summer and are considered a valuable stepping stone to careers following graduation.

CAREER AND GRADUATE SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

Our graduating English majors are well prepared for graduate school. Our seniors have scored consistently well (99th percentile most recently) on the Major Field Achievement Test (MFAT) in English. Our graduates have gone on to excellent graduate schools in recent years, including Oxford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, and others. These students report that their work at Grove City prepared them well for the rigors of graduate study in English. An increasing number of our graduates are also going on to law school, as well as graduate school in library science and other areas.

Our Secondary Education graduates in English and Communication undergo a rigorous pre-professional training program and are very well-prepared for careers in secondary teaching. Our Department of Education has a superb placement rate for graduates looking for jobs in teaching, far above the national average.