English Department Major and Minor

The English Department offers a major and a minor in English and cooperates with the Rhetoric Department to offer a major and a minor in Writing. The Department’s main goals are to teach skills in critical thinking and textual analysis, to provide familiarity with literary works central to Western cultural traditions, and to develop students’ knowledge of and appreciation for major traditions of world literature. The Department publishes an English Handbook that offers information and advice on many topics of interest to students majoring in English, including discussions of employment, planning a major, considering an honors project, and preparing for graduate study. The handbook can be found at:

http://www.coe.edu/academics/English/, and here.

Students are invited to visit informally with English faculty to discuss English programs. Students planning to major in English should discuss their goals with English faculty; those considering graduate study should consult an English advisor in the first term of the second year or as soon as possible thereafter.

English Major

Ten term courses are required for the major in English.

1. One of the following:
ENG-145 Literature in Translation
ENG-155 Irish Literature
ENG-165 African Literature
ENG-185 Literary Studies in Gender
ENG-205 Asian Literature
ENG-225 Middle Eastern Literature
ENG-265 African American Literature
ENG-285 Russian Literature

2. ENG-315 History of English Literature

3. Three English courses numbered 335 or above.

4. ENG-615 Literary Analysis
This is the prerequisite for Seminars and Honors Projects in English.

5. Two additional English courses, one of which may be in creative writing (CRW – )

6. Two of the following seminars:
ENG-705 Seminar in Literature
ENG-715 Seminar in Literature
ENG-725 Seminar in Literature
ENG-775 Seminar in Black Literature
ENG-785 Seminar in Black Literature
ENG-795 Seminar in Black Literature

7. Complete two Reflection and Evaluation projects.

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