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English Option

Revised curriculum for students admitted Fall 2015 and after.

This option provides students with a course of study that focuses on how to read critically—that is, analyze, historicize, and politicize—a wide range of literary and cultural texts. Students examine how such things as genre, form, method, historical period, geography and nation inform narrative media, including works of literature, film, television, digital culture, and the visual arts. Through an engagement with narratives of the past and the present, students develop a critical understanding of contemporary cultural production.

Thirteen (13) courses are required, grouped as follows:

REQUIRED:

One course from the following:

Two courses from the following:

Five courses from the following:

Students may opt for depth by selecting courses within thematic categories, or may opt for breadth by sampling broadly across those categories.

Media & Culture Studies:

Urban & Global Literatures:

Literary History & Movements:

Rhetoric, Writing & Culture:

Genre Studies:

Independent Study:

NOTE: English courses cannot be used toward the liberal studies requirement if the English Option is chosen. Students in the English Option cannot complete the English Minor.