What will you do with an English [or French] degree? Plenty.

Check out this article from CNN by Dr. Michael Bérubé, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and 2012 Modern Language Association President to find out exactly how and why a French degree would best serve you.

Almost every college student who considers majoring in English - or French, or philosophy, or art history - inevitably hears the question: "What in the world are you going to do with that?"After all, who needs another 50-page honors project on the poetry of Charles Baudelaire?

Well, strange as it may sound, if you’re an employer who needs smart, creative workers, a 50-page honors project on a 19th century French poet might be just the thing you want to see from one of your job applicants. Not because you’re going to ask him or her to interpret any poetry on the job, but because you may be asking him or her, at some point, to deal with complex material that requires intense concentration - and to write a persuasive account of what it all means.

Read the entirety of the article for more convincing evidence and arguments at http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/04/my-view-what-will-you-do-with-an-english-degree-plenty/?hpt=hp_c3