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Oct 10, 2024
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Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English, B.A.
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Requirements beginning with the Class of 2025
Majors take “Confronting the Canon” course (EGL 190-199) as one of their two 100- level courses, and must take a 200-level BIPOC lit course as one of their 200-level electives.
One course between 100-189:
One Confronting the Canon course (between 190-199)
Seven Intermediate Courses, including the following:
One course on Shakespeare (200 or 201):
One course on literature before 1700 (202-215):
One course on eighteenth to nineteenth-century literature (216-236):
One course focused predominantly on literature by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) from the following:
Three more intermediate courses of choice (any course between 200-299):
In addition to the courses listed above, these include the following:
- EGL 200 - Shakespeare to 1600
- EGL 201 - Shakespeare after 1600
- EGL 202 - Amazons, Saints and Scholars: Women’s Writing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- EGL 203 - The Age of Heroes
- EGL 204 - Plague, Revolt, Religion, and Nation: The Fourteenth Century
- EGL 205 - The Road to Canterbury
- EGL 206 - Gender in Renaissance Literature
- EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama
- EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
- EGL 211 - Milton
- EGL 212 - The Restoration
- EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800
- EGL 216 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- EGL 217 - Enlightenment and Romanticism
- EGL 219 - Rise of the Novel
- EGL 220 - The Romantic Revolution
- EGL 223 - Jane Austen
- EGL 224 - 19th-Century Novel
- EGL 225 - The Brontë Sisters
- EGL 226 - Victorian Detective Fiction
- EGL 230 - Seduction in Early American Republic
- EGL 231 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- EGL 232 - The American Renaissance
- EGL 233 - 18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora
- EGL 236 - Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism
- EGL 237 - Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1968, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”
- EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination
- EGL 245 - Experimental Texts
- EGL 246 - Modern Poetry
- EGL 247 - Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
- EGL 249 - Contemporary Poetry
- EGL 250 - The Beats and Contemporary Culture
- EGL 251 - World Literatures in English
- EGL 257 - Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality
- EGL 258 - Changing Ireland
- EGL 259 - Irish Literature and Film
- EGL 260 - James Joyce
- EGL 261 - Modernism and Modernity
- EGL 262 - Global Modernisms
- EGL 263 - Literature and Sexuality
- EGL 264 - Women Writers, 18th to 20th Century
- EGL 265 - Jewish Women Writers
- EGL 271 - Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks
- EGL 272 - Gendered Ecologies in the Long Nineteenth Century
- EGL 274 - Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis
- EGL 275 - Autobiography
- EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House
- EGL 277 - Philosophical Fiction
- EGL 278 - Science Fiction
- EGL 279 - Literature and Science
- EGL 280 - Nature and Environmental Writing
- EGL 281 - Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape
- EGL 282 - The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas
- EGL 283 - Pilgrims, Flâneurs, & Pranksters: The Walk in Literature
- EGL 284 - Interactive Fiction Workshop
- EGL 285 - Nabokov
- EGL 286 - Transnational Literature, Film, and Theory
- EGL 287 - Gender and Sexuality in Film
- EGL 288 - Film as Fictive Art: American Independent Cinema
- EGL 289 - Studies in a Major Film Director
- EGL 290 - Studies in Film Genre/Style: The Essay Film
- EGL 291 - From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity
- EGL 292 - Contemporary American Theater and Drama
- EGL 293 - Workshop in Poetry
- EGL 294 - Workshop in Fiction
- EGL 295 - Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction
- EGL 296 - Screenwriting Workshop
- EGL 296H - English Honors Independent Project 2
- EGL 299 - Literary Research Practicum 3
Three Advanced Courses:
Advanced courses, or Junior and Senior Seminars, are writing intensive and research oriented. Majors must complete three advanced courses, including one Junior and one Senior Seminar, and a third seminar of choice. Students must take at least two Intermediate Courses before enrolling in a Junior Seminar. Students must take at least four Intermediate Courses and both Introductory Courses before enrolling in a Senior Seminar. Students are strongly advised to take Junior Seminar before enrolling in a Senior Seminar.
Junior Seminars (topics change each year, 300-)
Senior Seminars (topics change each year, 400-401; 404-):
Requirements for the Major (for Classes of ‘23, and ‘24)
Twelve courses, including two introductory-level courses (100s); seven intermediate courses (200-level) including at least one course on Shakespeare (200 or 201), one pre-1700 course (202-215) and one pre-1900 course (216-236); and three seminars in total: one or two junior seminars (300-level) and one or two senior seminar (400-level).
Students seeking Honors in the Department of English have a 14-course requirement, the additional two beyond the requirements for the English major being the two-term Honors thesis seminar, EGL 402-3, a two-term thesis writing workshop available by application and invitation, to be written during Fall-Winter of their senior year.
No English major is required to write a thesis but all are still eligible for college honors based on GPA.
All English majors, including students who write a thesis, must take one senior seminar (WS Common Curriculum requirement).
Two Introductory Courses chosen from the following:
Seven Intermediate Courses:
At least one Introductory Course is a prerequisite to courses at the Intermediate level (see exception for students who received a 5 on their AP exam in either English language or literature). In this group, majors must complete the following required courses:
One course on Shakespeare (200 or 201):
One course on literature from a period before 1700 (202-216):
One course on eighteenth to nineteenth-century literature (216-236):
Four more intermediate courses of choice (any between 200-299):
- EGL 200 - Shakespeare to 1600
- EGL 201 - Shakespeare after 1600
- EGL 202 - Amazons, Saints and Scholars: Women’s Writing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- EGL 203 - The Age of Heroes
- EGL 204 - Plague, Revolt, Religion, and Nation: The Fourteenth Century
- EGL 205 - The Road to Canterbury
- EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama
- EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
- EGL 211 - Milton
- EGL 212 - The Restoration
- EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800
- EGL 217 - Enlightenment and Romanticism
- EGL 219 - Rise of the Novel
- EGL 220 - The Romantic Revolution
- EGL 223 - Jane Austen
- EGL 224 - 19th-Century Novel
- EGL 225 - The Brontë Sisters
- EGL 226 - Victorian Detective Fiction
- EGL 230 - Seduction in Early American Republic
- EGL 231 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- EGL 232 - The American Renaissance
- EGL 233 - 18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora
- EGL 236 - Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism
- EGL 237 - Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1968, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”
- EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination
- EGL 245 - Experimental Texts
- EGL 246 - Modern Poetry
- EGL 247 - Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
- EGL 248 - Introduction to Black Poetry
- EGL 249 - Contemporary Poetry
- EGL 250 - The Beats and Contemporary Culture
- EGL 251 - World Literatures in English
- EGL 253 - Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature
- EGL 254 - Discourses on the Viet Nam War
- EGL 255 - Asian American Literature and Film
- EGL 256 - Southeast Asian-American Experience
- EGL 257 - Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality
- EGL 258 - Changing Ireland
- EGL 259 - Irish Literature and Film
- EGL 260 - James Joyce
- EGL 261 - Modernism and Modernity
- EGL 262 - Global Modernisms
- EGL 263 - Literature and Sexuality
- EGL 264 - Women Writers, 18th to 20th Century
- EGL 265 - Jewish Women Writers
- EGL 266 - Black Women Writers
- EGL 268 - Staging Black Feminisms
- EGL 271 - Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks
- EGL 272 - Gendered Ecologies in the Long Nineteenth Century
- EGL 274 - Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis
- EGL 275 - Autobiography
- EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House
- EGL 277 - Philosophical Fiction
- EGL 278 - Science Fiction
- EGL 279 - Literature and Science
- EGL 280 - Nature and Environmental Writing
- EGL 281 - Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape
- EGL 282 - The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas
- EGL 283 - Pilgrims, Flâneurs, & Pranksters: The Walk in Literature
- EGL 284 - Interactive Fiction Workshop
- EGL 285 - Nabokov
- EGL 286 - Transnational Literature, Film, and Theory
- EGL 287 - Gender and Sexuality in Film
- EGL 288 - Film as Fictive Art: American Independent Cinema
- EGL 289 - Studies in a Major Film Director
- EGL 290 - Studies in Film Genre/Style: The Essay Film
- EGL 291 - From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity
- EGL 292 - Contemporary American Theater and Drama
- EGL 293 - Workshop in Poetry
- EGL 294 - Workshop in Fiction
- EGL 295 - Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction
- EGL 295H - English Honors Independent Project 1
- EGL 296 - Screenwriting Workshop
- EGL 296H - English Honors Independent Project 2
- EGL 299 - Literary Research Practicum 3
Three Advanced Courses:
Advanced courses, or Junior and Senior Seminars, are writing intensive and research oriented. Majors must complete three advanced courses, including one Junior and one Senior Seminar, and a third seminar of choice. Students must take at least two Intermediate Courses before enrolling in a Junior Seminar. Students must take at least four Intermediate Courses and both Introductory Courses before enrolling in a Senior Seminar. Students are strongly advised to take Junior Seminar before enrolling in a Senior Seminar.
Junior Seminars (topics change each year, 300-)
Senior Seminars (topics change each year, 400-401; 404-):
Requirements for English Honors: Thesis (402-3):
Fourteen courses are required for honors, which includes the usual twelve plus a two-term honors thesis seminar, EGL 402 and EGL 403.* The two-term thesis does not replace the required senior seminar. Other qualifications to be eligible to apply to write an honors thesis include a 3.3 GPA both cumulatively and in the English major; the Literary Theory seminar; an accepted proposal (submitted during fourth week of Spring Term, students’ junior year). See the English Department website for a more complete description.
In this seminar, students are expected to learn research methods, discuss their subjects and approaches to them, and share ideas and writing, as they work toward completing their individual theses under the direction of the seminar instructor. Prospective Honors thesis writers are required to take the Literary Theory Seminar EGL 302 in Winter of their Junior year, prior to applying to write a thesis, whether proposing a creative or an analytical thesis. Students proposing creative theses are strongly encouraged to have already participated in a creative writing workshop in the proposed genre. Interested students should discuss possible thesis subjects with their advisor and other departmental members in order to develop an appropriate thesis topic. Prospective Honors students submit a two-to three-page thesis proposal and writing sample for review by the department’s Honors selection committee.
*Note: Double major Honors thesis students whose thesis combines both fields of study register for IDM 487-488 (with signatures from a director in each department) yet participate in the Honors thesis workshop class, EGL402-403. DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTH
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