Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 03, 2024  
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)


Three more intermediate courses of choice between 200-299 (all 200-levels are the same difficulty):


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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