The English Major consists of 24 four-credit courses, and one 12-credit Supervised Research Paper (UGSRP) to be completed in four years. The first two years aim at providing the student with a historical grounding in the discipline. The student is familiarized with genres within literature and movements like humanism of Renaissance and modernism. The third and fourth years offer courses pitched at a more advanced level. Students are also acquainted with particular lines of specialization. The individually supervised essay, written through the seventh and eighth semesters, trains the student to engage with rigor and depth in a focused area of research.

Students of the university from disciplines other than English may earn a Minor in English by successfully completing at least 6 courses (i.e., 24 credits) from the English Department as University Wide Electives (UWE). Of these six courses, at least two must be “Core” English department courses.  The “Core” English department courses are listed below:

ENG104 Academic Writing

ENG143 Drama: Tropes and Adaptations

ENG240 Getting Verse

ENG241 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

ENG245 South Asian Literature

ENG343 Landmarks in the Novel Form

Please refer to the UG English Prospectus for more details.