Undergraduate Program

This area of the site provides the basic information you will need to plan your major program in English. The more a student knows about the English Department, its requirements, and its resources, the more capable he or she will be of developing a productive undergraduate career. Yet this information can be only a first step in your development of a good working relationship with your department. Once you understand the material we provide here, you must use it to your advantage by consulting frequently with your faculty advisor, by seeking out other faculty members whose advice would be helpful to you, and by exploring all the various ways in which you can enrich your experience here. We offer the following information, not as a substitute for personal contact with the faculty, but as a means of ensuring that you will understand the basic ingredients of a challenging and satisfying major in English.