Academic Catalog 2024-2025
English ID, B.A.
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Requirements for Interdepartmental Majors
Students wishing to declare an ID major should confer with both Department Chairs to explain how their intellectual interests or plan of study might integrate the two disciplines.
English ID Majors have an 8-course requirement, which includes one 100-level (100-189), one ”Confronting the Canon” course (190-199), a 200-level course tagged as BIPOC literature, and a choice between either a Shakespeare (200-201) or a pre-1700 course (202-215). Along with three 200-level electives, ID majors finally take a seminar of choice, either at the 300-or 400- level, while being sure to fulfill the college requirement for a WS (Senior Writing experience).
English ID majors take eight courses, including the required courses below:
One 100-level course (100-189)
One “Confronting the Canon” course (between 190-199)
One Shakespeare OR pre-1700 course (between 200-216))
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 between 200-299 (all 200-levels are the same difficulty):
- 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 207 - White Columns, White Narratives: Archi[text]ure and Race in the Middle Ages
- EGL 208 - Renaissance Drama
- EGL 210 - British Literature: Seventeenth-Century Literature
- EGL 211 - Milton
- EGL 212 - The Restoration
- EGL 213 - Circum-Atlantic Revolutions
- EGL 217 - Enlightenment and Romanticism
- EGL 220 - The Romantic Revolution
- EGL 222 - Gendered Ecologies in the Long-Nineteenth Century
- EGL 223 - Jane Austen
- EGL 224 - 19th-Century Novel
- EGL 230 - Seduction in Early American Republic
- EGL 231 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- 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 1960, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”
- EGL 242 - Experimental Writing Workshop
- EGL 243 - The Poetic Object Workshop: Experimental Book Forms
- EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination
- EGL 245 - Experimental Texts
- EGL 247 - Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Gary Snyder
- EGL 248 - Introduction to Black Poetry
- EGL 249 - Contemporary Poetry
- EGL 250 - The Beats and Contemporary Culture
- EGL 251 - World Literatures in English
- EGL 252 - The Islamic World and Global Literary Culture
- EGL 253 - Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature
- EGL 254 - Discourses on the Viet Nam/American 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 266 - Black Women Writers
- EGL 267 - The Virginia Woolf
- EGL 268 - Staging Black Feminisms
- EGL 269 - New Women around the World
- EGL 270 - Imagining the Nation(s): Ireland/India
- EGL 271 - Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks
- EGL 272 - Indigenous Sovereignty: Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Voices
- EGL 273 - Disability, Literature, and Society
- EGL 274 - Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis
- EGL 275 - Autobiography
- EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House
- EGL 277 - Philosophical 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
- EGL 289 - The Essay Film Workshop
- EGL 290 - Studies in Film Genre/Style: Film Noir
- EGL 291 - From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity Drama Criticism Workshop
- 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 297 - Literary Research Practicum 1
- EGL 298 - Literary Research Practicum 2
- EGL 299 - Literary Research Practicum 3
One Advanced course: 300-level or 400-level Seminar:
Advanced courses - Junior and Senior Seminars - are writing intensive and research oriented. ID Majors should be attuned in particular to the college’s requirement of a WAC-R (many are 300-level) and of a WS, which in English are Senior Seminars - but may depend on the ID combination (see below under ID thesis).
Prerequisites: Students must take 3 courses, an Introductory-level course (unless exempt) and at least two 200-level courses, before enrolling in a Junior Seminar. Students must take 6 courses - an Introductory-level course (unless exempt), “Confronting the Canon” (190-99), and at least four 200-level courses - before enrolling in a Senior Seminar.
Requirements for Honors in English (ID):
Students seeking interdepartmental honors in English have a 10-course requirement, the usual eight and the two-term thesis seminar. Be advised that Honors ID majors, like full Honors majors, must take the Literary Theory course EGL 302 in winter of their Junior year as their 300-level seminar (thesis will become their WS) and meet the other qualifications for honors.
In the two-term honors thesis seminar* students learn research methods, discuss their topics and approaches, share ideas and workshop their writing as they complete their individual theses under the direction of the seminar instructor. Prospective Honors thesis and Honors ID thesis writers take EGL 302 prior to applying to write a thesis, whether they propose a creative or an analytical thesis. Students envisioning creative theses should have completed at least one creative writing workshop in the proposed genre. Interested students should discuss topics with their advisor and other departmental members in order to develop an appropriate thesis proposal. Prospective Honors thesis students apply by submitting a two-to three-page thesis proposal with a writing sample in the appropriate genre for review by the department’s Honors thesis selection committee. Acceptance into the workshop is not guaranteed.
*Note: ID Honors thesis students enroll in IDM 498-499 (by application) yet participate in the Honors thesis workshop class, EGL 402-403.
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