Equipped with the skills of careful reading, analytical thinking, and oral and written expression you will be prepared for work in a variety of careers and professions: teaching, journalism, communications, public relations, business, ministry, foreign service, writing, law, or medicine.
Real Majors, Real Careers
President, St. Olaf College
Writer, Prairie Home Productions
Judge of the Superior Court , Washington State
Certified Nurse Midwife , Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago
English Professor, Mckendree University, Lebanon, Illinois.
Senior Producer, Performance Today, American Public Media
Editor, Oxford University Press
Mom
State Senator, North Dakota
Playwright
Editor, NPR News
High school English Teacher, Palm Beach, FL
Ophthalmologist/Eye Surgeon , Northwest Eye Clinic
Owner/Editor/Publisher, Midwest Fly Fishing
Public Relations Coordinator, HOPE Adoption & Family Services
Foreign Service Officer, Brazil
Senior Committee Assistant, House of Commons, England
Bookbuyer, The Red Balloon Bookshop
Graduate schools attended by recent St. Olaf
English Majors
Literature
Cornell University
Oxford University
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin
University of York, England
Writing and publishing
Cornell University
Hamline University, St. Paul
The New School University, New York City
University of Denver Publishing Institute
University of Houston
Other
Boston College Law School
Chicago Divinity School
Columbia University School of Journalism
Humphrey Institute for Public Policy, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Medical School
University of Wisconsin, Library Science