Within recent years our graduates have gone on to pursue careers in theater, film-making, criminology, advertising, veterinary medicine, environmental activism, publishing, and politics. Our majors have won Fulbright scholarships and have served in the Peace Corps. Washington and Lee University English graduates have won places at some of the nation's top graduate programs in English and American Literature and Irish Literary Studies. Majoring in English qualifies you for many areas of postgraduate work , not only literature and law. Requirements in English 1.
Most graduate programs require that two language exams be passed within the first two years.