The 36-hour Writing major is designed for future educators, pre-professional students, editors, technical writers, and students intending to continue to graduate school in English, rhetoric, composition, education, linguistics, or creative writing. The primary objective of the degree is to prepare students for the information rich workplace where communication and thinking skills are necessary.

 The 36-hour Creative Writing major is designed for creative writers, professional writers, future educators, pre-professional students, editors, publishers, journalists, technical writers, media studies students, students in the fine arts, and students intending to continue to graduate school in creative writing, linguistics, education, composition, rhetoric, journalism, media, and English.  The primary focus of the degree is to prepare students for careers in a workplace that is information-rich and that increasingly values communication skills and the ability to think creatively and critically.

The 36-hour Linguistics major is designed around a required core of 18 hours and one of four tracks of the student's choice for the additional 18 hours.  Each track provides students with an opportunity to develop their particular interests and/or career paths.  Track One requires six courses in one language beyond the General Education program; Track Two focuses on  teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); Track Three incorporates courses in computer science; and Track Four offers an array of choices within the discipline of general linguistics.  The primary objective of a degree in linguistics is to prepare students for either careers in a range of areas where language is the focus or for graduate school in linguistics, language, law, translation, lexicography or education.

The Writing minor reinforces a primary course of study in English, speech, or philosophy; complements science or business majors; gives education majors an understanding of writing pedagogy; allows students to pursue an interest in professional, technical, or creative writing; and prepares students to create software documentation and manuals.

The 24-hour Creative Writing minor augments a primary course of study in English, composition, rhetoric, journalism, or speech; complements business majors or students pursuing careers in the fine arts; provides education majors a comprehension of creative writing pedagogy; allows students to explore an interest in creative and professional writing; and prepares students to publish and edit documents using a variety of media.

Students can minor in linguistics and prepare for careers in language studies, international business, intelligence agencies, software development, computational linguistics, speech recognition, lexicography, editing, test development, teaching English as a second language, translation, or technical writing. This program requires 24 hours plus a sophomore level foreign language course (Spanish, French, German, Russian or Japanese).