“So what are you going to do with that English major?”
Helping schools, organizations, and communities tell their stories is just one way you'll put your English major to work.
Internships for English Majors was founded in 2021 to enhance the employability of UCI English majors. The program runs each fall and offers paid internships in marketing and communications and adjacent fields in both campus and off-campus positions. Positions are limited and priority will be given to juniors and seniors with a grade point average of 3.5 or above. Students should be available to work 5-10 hours per week, and they must enroll in Writing 197 (Tuesday's 3:00-4:20 PM).
Faculty Director, 2025: Professor Rebecca Davis, radavis@uci.edu
Fall 2025 Deadlines
Information Session: Thursday, April 10, 3:00 pm
Deadline for Fall 2025 program: May 16, 2025
Application link: https://forms.gle/cfyA3GVp8vfTEKD5A
Notification of acceptance: mid-June 2025
Register for WR197: July 2025. Get enrollment code from Professor Davis.
Placement with an employer: July / August, 2025
Onboarding: Meet your employer, get on payroll, submit MOU, August/ September 2025
Fall program begins: September 26, 2025
Read more (article, January 2024)
You may also be interested in this new Climate Communications Internship Program, for Humanities Majors.
Meet our Fall 2021 interns & employers
In 2021, we placed 25 English majors in paid internships across the campus and community.
Here's what they learned.
Read on-the-job writing produced by our interns:
Learning through experience
UCI humanities students take their studies outside the classroom
For information, please contact Professor Rebecca Davis, radavis@uci.edu. We are always seeking new employers and donors to help grow this program!