ucb, we really encouraged him to seek out a second area so he would have some narrower interest or market to target when he graduated and he hunted and hunted - tried all kinds of intro classes from sociology to geology to anthropology to history, but he really liked the economics related business classes when he stumbled into those. I would highly suggest a double major or at minimum a major and minor for any kid who is thinking of majoring in English at a smallish school (not in J school). The world is so huge that it somewhat "helps’ to have a target. He’s just now starting to think about whether getting an advanced degree in something even more specialized makes sense so I think he’s doing just fine I really didn’t mind nurturing his love of English writers, his love of Latin, his creative writing along the way and I still send him a box of books now and then since he likes to hold books rather than read on a Kindle and after all these years i know what books he would enjoy. It doesn’t hold you back but it also really helps to have a targeted area of specific interest when you grab that diploma, otherwise the world is a huge, huge place for an English major. He never saw himself as a poet or as a novelist or even as a college prof…he toyed with the thought of being a high school English teacher. and he had a couple profs that kept whispering “law school” into his ear…but he found something he enjoyed with his business classes that complemented his English major and he ran with it. YMMV.