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The Department of English can refer students to one of the coordinating faculty advisors. Regular office hours for all English faculty are posted near the Department office, and information sheets are available detailing which faculty members regularly advise for specific options.

ENGL 100B, a general education foundation course, is not part of any English option. Some options permit or require courses from other departments; if approved by a faculty advisor, options may also include other courses outside English. Because some courses meet requirements in several options, students can often change options with no significant loss of credit towards the required total; students also regularly double major in two options in English.

Option with Special Emphasis

(120 units)

Some students wishing to major in English have special interests or career objectives so different from those for which the other options are designed that another pattern of courses would better serve their personal educational needs. For those students, the Special Emphasis option offers an opportunity to pursue individually designed 41-unit programs of study. Student programs may center on technical writing, for example, or other writing goals; they may focus on American or English literature or literature in a particular genre, a particular historical period, or a particular theme.

A Special Emphasis program may include courses outside the Department of English closely related to a student's focus in English studies. At least 21 units must be earned in the Department of English at CSULB and at least 21 units of the program must be upper division.

Students wishing to take the Special Emphasis option must meet with the Department chair. Students must complete at least 15 upper-division units applicable to their Special Emphasis program after it has been officially approved.

Career Possibilities

Advertising ? Entertainment ? Journalism ? Management ? Law ? Marketing ? Mass Media (film, radio, television) ? Politics ? Professional Writing and Editing (creative or technical) ? Public Relations ? Teaching ? Publishing (Some of these require additional education or experience)