The Compass Center for Career & Calling will connect you with internship experiences at leading graphic design firms, marketing agencies and newspapers. Past internship placements have included Lawrence & Schiller in Sioux Falls and TriNorth Communications in London.

Visit the Student Success Center for free writing help from an experienced student tutor. Strong student writers are recommended by their professors to work at the center or to serve as writing fellows for the First-Year Seminar course, so you could be paid for having a way with words!

Each spring, students from nearly every department on campus participate in Northwestern’s Celebration of Research, a showcase of student research and creative projects. This opportunity will allow you to share your writing and digital media work with others in Northwestern’s campus community—great practice for grad school!

Northwestern students regularly attend this writing festival at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Past speakers have included celebrated authors, poets and theologians like Maya Angelou, Sarah Bessey, Frederick Buechner and Shane Claiborne.

Jourrney across the pond for a semester at the University of Oxford, the oldest unviersity in the English-speaking world. As a visiting student, you'll have access to more than 100 libraries and 11 million books! A 3- to 4-week summer study abroad experience in England is also offered, during which students attend plays on London's West End, tour museums, worship at St. Paul's Cathedral and explore a castle ruin.