Writing, Arts & Media Career Pathway

The Writing, Arts & Media Pathways helps students prepare for careers as writers, journalists, filmmakers, visual artists, performing artists, digital content developers, marketing executives, public relations directors, researchers, and more. By studying works that span the development of theater, art, music, rhetoric, politics, and writing, Johnnies have foundations of knowledge that most lack and sharply developed critical eyes that position them for excellence in arts and media.

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Professional Pathways

Every student at St. John’s is guaranteed a college-funded internship or research fellowship if they work with our career offices. Discover institutions at which we often place our students and where our alumni are currently employed.

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Meow Wolf

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Google Gemini

Museum of International Folk Art

American Shakespeare Center

The New York Times

dnca architects

National Geographic Magazine

Theater Project - Baltimore

Ki Smith Gallery

The Exodus Ensemble

Dow Jones News Fund

Georgia Okeefe Museum

The Santa Fe Opera

New York Public Library

The Business Journals

The Wall Street Journal

SITE Santa Fe

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

NYU Press

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra

Princeton University Press

Meow Wolf

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Google Gemini

Museum of International Folk Art

American Shakespeare Center

The New York Times

dnca architects

National Geographic Magazine

Theater Project - Baltimore

Ki Smith Gallery

The Exodus Ensemble

Dow Jones News Fund

Georgia Okeefe Museum

The Santa Fe Opera

New York Public Library

The Business Journals

The Wall Street Journal

SITE Santa Fe

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

NYU Press

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra

Princeton University Press

Writing, Arts & Media Studies

Curricular Pathways

At St. John's, you will study over 30 arts-related texts from across 3000 years that span the development of theater, music, art, rhetoric, writing and more. Explore a sampling here.

More Writing, Arts & Media Texts

Four Plays by Aristophanes

Othello

Tristan and Isolde

A Room of One's Own

The Divine Comedy

Don Quixote

Fire Next Time

Inventions

Essays of Montaigne

Essays of Marcel Duchamp

Middlemarch

Song of Solomon

Operas

The Art of Manet

Paradise Lost

Sophocles

Poems

Pride and Prejudice

Quartets

Selected Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Sonnets

St. Matthew's Passion

Stomping the Blues

Ficciones

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Graduate Pathways

Our graduate school partnerships connect Johnnies to multiple career pathways. Discover special fast-track admissions opportunities, discounted tuition, expedited degrees, and more for Johnnies only.

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Maryland Institute College of Art

Includes MFA and MA degrees in filmmaking, graphic design, illustration, curatorial practice, community arts, and social design.

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John Hopkins University

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in marketing.

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Maryland Institute College of Art

Includes MFA and MA degrees in filmmaking, graphic design, illustration, curatorial practice, community arts, and social design.

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John Hopkins University

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in marketing.

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Study Abroad & Gain Cross-Cultural Skills

Global Pathways

St. John’s funds and facilitates study abroad experiences at institutions including Rome Institute for the Liberal Arts, Marchutz School of Art in France, Incheon National University in South Korea, and Boya College of Sun Yat Sen University in China.

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France

Marchutz School of Art

The Marchutz School of Art in France strengthens students’ ability to see and to be more aware of the relationship between perception and artistic expression. The Marchutz program welcomes people at all levels of art experience who want to look deeply into nature, the art tradition, and into themselves.
Italy

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

The Rome Institute of Liberal Arts offers a rare opportunity explore the art and architecture of Rome in order to articulate fundamental questions across disciplines. Discussion-based classes on philosophy, literature, and history are designed together with excursions led by art historians and classicists throughout Italy’s artistic heritage.
South Korea

Incheon National University

St. John’s special relationship with South Korea offers multiple opportunities for study and research in South Korea. Incheon National University is foremost among them, with its Great Books Center providing study programs, internships, and exchange opportunities between our colleges. Opportunities also exist at Kangwon National University, Hallym University and Yonsei University.

France

Marchutz School of Art

The Marchutz School of Art in France strengthens students’ ability to see and to be more aware of the relationship between perception and artistic expression. The Marchutz program welcomes people at all levels of art experience who want to look deeply into nature, the art tradition, and into themselves.

Italy

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

The Rome Institute of Liberal Arts offers a rare opportunity explore the art and architecture of Rome in order to articulate fundamental questions across disciplines. Discussion-based classes on philosophy, literature, and history are designed together with excursions led by art historians and classicists throughout Italy’s artistic heritage.

South Korea

Incheon National University

St. John’s special relationship with South Korea offers multiple opportunities for study and research in South Korea. Incheon National University is foremost among them, with its Great Books Center providing study programs, internships, and exchange opportunities between our colleges. Opportunities also exist at Kangwon National University, Hallym University and Yonsei University.

Alumni in the Writing, Arts & Media Field

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Lydia Polgreen

Opinion Columnist, New York Times

“I realized I wanted to look at and question the world just like I did at St. John’s. And to continue my inquiry because the world is open to interpretation. I had to go places and see things for myself.”

Salvatore Scibona

National Book Award Finalist, Guggenheim Fellow

“I am always asking myself if the work I'm doing matters, and if it’s true. Those are Johnnie questions, I find.”

Caitlin Cass

Cartoonist, The New Yorker; Art Teacher, Buffalo Seminary

“St. John’s helped me enter a conversation with ideas that I’m still engaged in with every comic I make and every class I teach. St. John’s gave me something to make art about.”

Devandra Contractor

Founder + Principal, DNCA Architects

“I always tell people that St. John’s is the best education for architects … I firmly believe every architect should have a liberal arts undergraduate degree.”

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Credentialing Pathways

eCornell offers Johnnie discounts and is our preferred credentialing partner.

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Meet Our Network of Alumni Advisors

Advising Pathways

St. John’s College alumni are employed at high levels across all career pathways. Benefit from their advisement in your field of interest through the Odyssey Program.

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Writing, Arts & Media Studies

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