English

The English department offers both a major and a minor, each allowing students to take literature and writing courses in a variety of combinations. The department also offers a combined major with environmental studies. The English major consists of four introductory courses, the research methods course, advanced courses in five distinctive studies areas, and a Senior-Year Experience. First-year students interested in majoring in English are encouraged to take any course at the 200-level, except ENG 250: Methods of Critical Analysis, which is the research methods course. See the available courses listed below. Students are advised to complete the introductory requirements during their first two years. A unit of credit toward graduation is given for a test score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement test in English Language/Composition. A unit of credit is also given for a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement test in English Literature/Composition. The following courses this fall semester are appropriate for first-year students, subject to the availability of seats:

• ENG 225: English Literature to 1700 (HUM)
• ENG 226: English Literature 1700 to Present (HUM)
• ENG 237: Survey of American Literature I (HUM)
• ENG 238: Survey of American Literature II (HUM)
• ENG 241: Techniques of Fiction (AEX)
• ENG 293: A Literary Harvest (with CBL component)

Two special topic courses are also offered in the fall semester and are open to first-year students, subject to the availability of seats; these courses do not fill any distribution or graduation requirements:

• ENG 247A: Experiential Writing (with travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest)
• ENG 247B: Metafiction and the PostModern (with novelist Joshua Barkan)