Are you interested in…
Becoming an English major?
Meeting other English majors?
Learning about what kinds of literature classes Palomar and other schools offer?
Finding out what in the world you can do with an English major after you graduate?
Discovering if teaching might be the right career for you?
Attending plays, films, and other cultural events?
If so, then we invite you to come meet other English majors and some of Palomar’s English faculty as part of our English Majors Group! We meet monthly during the regular semester. For more information, please contact Dr. Melissa Bagaglio at extension 2685or via email at mbagaglio@palomar.edu.
Transfer Success
Our majors have had great success in transferring to top 4-year schools in California and the rest of the nation. Take a look HERE at the directions our recent transfer students have taken.
Fall 2024 Meetings
Thursday, September 19 – Welcome back for the fall semester! Our first meeting will be in Humanities 319 from 4:30 – 5:30pm. This meeting will be a “meet and greet,” we’ll plan out the rest of the semester’s meetings, and we can share some book recommendations (so come with a title or two in mind)! We’re looking forward to seeing you all!
Thursday, October 17 – This meeting will be a Q & A session with a representative from the Transfer Center, so come prepared with questions to ask about transferring to a 4-year institution. We did this last year, and our majors found it very helpful! Location is TBA, but we will likely be meeting from 4:30 to 6:00pm.
Thursday, November 14 – We will actually have two meetings going on (in two different rooms TBA): One will be a writing workshop for people working on transfer statements and/or scholarship essays; the other will be a “careers roundtable” where you can ask questions of English Department faculty who spent time working outside of academia. Time will likely be 4:30 to 6:00pm.
Tuesday, December 10– Get ready to party! This month’s meeting–the last of the semester–will be an open house at the English Department’s Little Free Library. Cookies, cake, coffee, chips (and anything else you can think of)! This will be more of a “come and go” kind of thing, and we’ll have things going from about 11am to 3pm.
Useful Links for Palomar College’s English Majors
Interviewing our Professors (pdf)
UC Essays Guidelines (pdf)
ASSIST – California’s website for information about transfer and articulation requirements between two-year colleges and four-year universities.
Occupational Outlook Handbook – This is an excellent government site (run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) that allows users to look up various job titles and find out job descriptions, salaries, job outlook, etc.
Websites that list career choices for English majors:
University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s website
Rutgers University’s list of career choices
Kansas State University’s website – includes skills that English majors learn
Albion College’s website
Portland State University’s website
Information about graduate school
GradSchools.com — listing of graduate programs that offer MA and PhD degrees
About.com’s guide to graduate studies in the humanities