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Career Details :: English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Related Careers

• Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Housekeeping Supervisors
  
• Instructional Coordinators
  
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Travel Guides
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Speech Clarity
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Expression

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others
• Processing Information

Important Skills

• Reading Comprehension
  
• Speaking
  
• Instructing
  
• Writing
  
• Learning Strategies
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Indoors
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Coordinate or Lead Others

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