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What Can You Do With an English Major?

If you think that teaching is the only career for an English major, you will be surprised to know that most English majors choose other careers. Many employers are looking for the kinds of articulate and thoughtful job candidates who come out of English programs.

Interested in … ?

• ministry
• counseling
• public health
• law enforcement
• journalism and telecommunications
• public relations
• advertising
• marketing
• sales

Then BPC’s English program is the place for you!

Just look at what some of our recent graduates have accomplished:

Julie Gregory '94: After taking a second BA degree--and then an MA degree--in Spanish from the U of Mississippi, Ms. Gregory became a Baptist missionary in Latin America.

Brandi J. Walker '94: Ms. Walker obtained an MA degree in English from Appalachian State U, Boone, NC. After teaching at a women's school in Japan for two years, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey, to teach at a university there. An enthusiastic world traveler, Brandi spent part of this past autumn in the high altitudes of the Himalayas, where she visited with Buddhist monks. Her life-long dream to live in Africa will come true later this year, when she begins a Peace Corps tour of duty in Namibia. (She has promised to visit in March.)

Tammy D. Harvey '95: After completing her MA in English at Clemson U, Ms. Harvey entered the doctoral program at Georgia State U. Currently she is on the faculty at the State U of West Georgia, Carrollton.

Doy W. Cave III '95: Mr. Cave taught for a year at Robert Toombs Christian Academy in Lyons before taking a position at the Vidalia Advance-Progress, rising finally to the rank of news editor. In 1998, he resigned, moved to New Orleans, and began serving in the public relations office at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also a part-time seminary student.

Thomas Kenneth "Kenny" Fountain '95: After earning an MA degree in English at the University of Memphis, Mr. Fountain moved to Turkey, securing a TESOL post at a university in Ankara. He later headed that institution's writing-across-the-curriculum program. Last summer he began teaching at Yeshiva U in New York. Currently he is contemplating further graduate study. He lives in Brooklyn.

Janean Gray '95: Ms. Gray wasted no time in returning to her beautiful native Bermuda. There she edits a visually dazzling tourist magazine, Island.

Tamee Bowers Livingston '95: Mrs. Livingston took her MA degree in English at Georgia Southern U. After a short stint as copy editor at the Advance-Progress, she was a Brewton-Parker adjunct, teaching English classes in Hazlehurst. Now serving in the U.S. military, Mrs. Livingston lives in Alaska with her husband, Jimmy '96, also a graduate in English.

Michael Harrison '96: An Oklahoma native, Mr. Harrison was associate pastor at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Vidalia. He subsequently moved back to the Midwest.

Jeffery L. Dickerson '98: Since earning his JD degree from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer U, Mr. Dickerson has become an assistant district attorney in Macon.

Steven Hurwitz '98: Mr. Hurwitz, an honor graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer U, is a member of a law firm in Macon. (It is interesting to note that Mr. Hurwitz had obtained an AA degree in General Studies at Brewton-Parker in the 1970s. Thereafter he worked in journalism, becoming editor-in-chief of the Advance-Progress. In the early 1990s he returned to BPC to take a degree in English.)

Rachel Beigh Jones '98: Mrs. Jones has worked in Brewton-Parker's Office of Financial Aid for five years. Her long-term plans include graduate study in English.

Michael G. Morris '98: Mr. Morris is self-employed, serving as manager of a family-owned business, Video Land, in Mount Vernon.