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With English courses at Highline College, students develop strong rhetorical, critical, and storytelling skills for a wide variety of academic and vocational arenas. With equity-based, multimodal reading lists and revision conferencing, English courses at Highline College offer students the effective, creative, and persuasive written communication skills necessary for other courses, personal needs and transfer to a 4-year degree. Highline English courses prepare a student to demonstrate the necessary awareness of editorial conventions such as grammar, syntax, and punctuation in written texts.
English Degree Options
Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Creative Writing AA-DTA
- Program Length: Two years for full-time students. (Full-time is 12 credits or more)
- Costs Per Year: $4,740 tuition and fees
- Program Map: Associate in Arts DTA - Creative Writing
- Catalog: Associate in Arts DTA – Creative Writing
Do you have a poem to write, or story to tell? Do you believe that your unique imagination, creativity, and curiosity still have value in an increasingly AI world? Then Highline's Creative Writing Program is the place for you! Learn to write short stories, poems, screenplays, and memoirs in a fun, supportive writing environment. Serve as a Student Editor for Arcturus, Highline's award winning literary arts journal. Along the way, develop the communication, critical thinking, and problem solving skills that will help you compete for jobs and imagine new possibilities in a quickly changing world.
Career
Employers require the skills of effective written communication for many fields. English courses prepare students for technical and formal written communication, with an emphasis on rhetorical awareness, critical thinking and analysis, creativity and online presence. Although Highline students do not “major” in English, you can take courses for an AA-Transfer degree that will best prepare you to transfer to a bachelor’s English program at a four-year college or university. With a bachelor’s degree in English, you can pursue careers in a variety of fields, including editing, translation, public relations, education, web content development, social media management, and journalism, among others. You may also want to seek a graduate degree in English, education, or law to work in the private or public sector.
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education - $99,016
- Postsecondary Teachers - $85,281
- Proofreaders and Copy Markers - $53,174
Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Literature AA-DTA
- Program Length: Two years for full-time students. (Full-time is 12 credits or more)
- Costs Per Year: $4,740 tuition and fees
- Program Map: Associate in Arts DTA – Literature
- Catalog: Associate in Arts DTA – Literature
With Literature courses at Highline College, students develop strong rhetorical and critical skills for a wide variety of academic and vocational arenas. With equity-based, multimodal reading lists and revision conferencing, literature courses at Highline College offer students the effective and persuasive written communication skills necessary for other courses, personal needs and transfer to a 4-year degree. Highline literature courses prepare a student to demonstrate the necessary awareness of editorial conventions such as grammar, syntax, and punctuation in written texts.
Career
Employers require the skills of effective written communication for many fields. English courses prepare students for technical and formal written communication, with an emphasis on rhetorical awareness, critical thinking and analysis, creativity and online presence. Although Highline students do not “major” in English, you can take courses for an AA-Transfer degree that will best prepare you to transfer to a bachelor’s English program at a four-year college or university. With a bachelor’s degree in English, you can pursue careers in a variety of fields, including editing, translation, public relations, education, web content development, social media management, and journalism, among others. You may also want to seek a graduate degree in English, education, or law to work in the private or public sector.
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education - $99,016
- Postsecondary Teachers - $85,281
- Proofreaders and Copy Markers - $53,174
After Highline College
The Associate in Arts degree is designed to facilitate students’ successful transfer to four-year programs. English degree maps provide the required and recommended courses necessary for your intended transfer school. English faculty can help you with transfer planning and course selection.
Top Transfer-To institutions
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University of Washington – Seattle
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University of Washington – Tacoma
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Central Washington University
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