In the General Option, core courses constitute just over half of the undergraduate program with the rest consisting of elective courses. The capstone experience (ENGL 4950) offers an opportunity for senior English majors to review and better understand the major issues, themes, theories and research findings in the field of English, and reflect on how they might use and further develop their knowledge, whether in their future career or advanced academic endeavors, or as lifelong learners and cultural contributors. The program fosters individual aesthetic and intellectual growth while gradually broadening the scope of the students’ engagement with academic and civic communities. The 3000-level courses provide breadth, and the 2000-level tutorial, 4000-level electives, and senior seminar or practicums all provide depth. The six required 3000-level Readings courses prepare students for the more specialized 4000-level courses. Introductory lecture courses ensure that students develop and employ a variety of critical perspectives to study a range of topics in language and literary traditions, genres, authors, movements, and time periods. Finally, the one-unit Senior Capstone offers students the opportunity to reflect on their experience as English majors through analytical and reflective writing on their coursework and development while compiling a portfolio of their work. Again the basic pedagogic model is traditional, the seminar being one of the oldest forms of institutional instruction and the practicum adapting an apprenticeship model, but the courses themselves promise to be innovative.

For the senior seminar, students will be allowed to choose between a seminar focused on research and a “practicum” course focused on application. The new introduction to the major course, English Tutorial, is based on the Oxford tutorial system, where a small group of students meets weekly with a faculty member to discuss readings and student work. The tutorial experience, innovative and yet ancient, provides the backbone of the program’s emphasis on skills-small group experiences where students work closely and intensively with faculty on reading, thinking, and writing. The core of the program consists of intimate and intensive tutorials and seminars combined with introductory lecture courses in essential areas of the discipline. Community Teaching Artist Certificate Program.Communication Studies Prison BA Program.Institute for Interactive Arts, Research, and Technology.Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities.Center for Contemporary Poetry & Poetics.

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