2024 PACK Welcome Week

Learn more about the Accelerated Undergraduate to Master's Pathway programs at WOU. You can get a master's in one year post degree completion.

It's a big world after all... but how can you live and travel abroad with no income? Answer: by teaching English. There are more English as a second language users in the world than native speakers of English, and there is still a high demand for English teachers in countries where English is not a language used by most people at home. However, unlike in the past when any native speaker of English was assumed to be capable of teaching the language to students, today the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) has become professionalized and schools want to hire trained English teachers. WOU's English Studies Department offers a 26-credit TEFL Certificate that can be completed as a Minor in Linguistics and will complement any number of Majors from Business to Education to International or Interdisciplinary Studies or English Studies. Join us to learn about teaching abroad and answer any questions you have. Whether you make teaching your career or use your skills to live abroad for a year or two after graduating but before starting a career in the US, employers value experience abroad, and your life will never be the same.

So someone told you college was free but then you got a scary email stating you have a bill. What do you do now? Visit our session to be proactive in your higher education financial health.