Representative Majors
To illustrate the possibilities, here are five representative course sequences. (Please note that not all courses are offered every semester.)
English for general interest:
185: Literary Studies
221: Literatures in English to 1650
222: Literatures in English 1650 to 1850
240: American Literary Eras: The Beat Generation
ID 258: Theatre in London (off-campus Interim)
257: Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry
286: Women's Literature: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
247: Post-Colonial Literatures: Literature of India (GLE)
380: Shakespeare
290: Authors in English: Wordsworth, Eliot, and Springsteen
English with focus on writing:
185: Literary Studies
221: Literatures in English to 1650
222: Literatures in English 1650 to 1850
223: Literatures in English 1850 to present (GLE)
251: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
254: Science Writing
274: English Language and Linguistics
373: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
371: Advanced Poetry Writing
398: Independent Research: Creative Nonfiction
Off-campus semester: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford University (including one course in creative writing)
English with focus on teaching:
185: Literary Studies
221: Literatures in English to 1650
222: Literatures in English 1650 to 1850
233: Children's and Young Adult Literature
274: English Language and Linguistics
280: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
239: Literature of the Vietnam War/American War (GLE)
345: Topics in American Racial and Multicultural Literatures
English with focus on graduate school:
185: Literary Studies
221: Literatures in English to 1650
222: Literatures in English 1650 to 1850
230: Literary Eras, British: Romantic Period
270: Literature of the Eastern Caribbean (off-campus Interim)
275: Literature and Film
283: Studies in Prose: Modern and Postmodern Narrative (GLE)
391: Major British Authors: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf
360: Literary Criticism and Theory
398: Independent Research: Jane Austen and Contemporary Parallels
399: Major Seminar: Epic and Romance
398: Independent Research: Wordsworth
English and Environmental Studies
185: Literary Studies
221: Literatures in English to 1650
222: Literatures in English 1650 to 1850
253: The Moral Vision (Holden Village off-campus Interim)
276: Literature and the Environment
215: Fiction Down Under (GLE)
283: Studies in Prose: Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century Novels
399: Major Seminar: Cultural Criticism
398: Independent Research: Women's Autobiography and Environment
Off-campus semester: Environmental Science in Australia
