English Curriculum
The English Department offers a major and a minor in English and cooperates with the Rhetoric Department to offer a major and minor in Creative 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 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.
Click here to view the English and Creative Writing requirements and course descriptions (PDF).
