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English Major

37 semester hours required

Choose any 200-level literature course

offered by the department, with the exception of ENGL 237.

These introductory courses stress close reading, explore interpretive strategies, and engage students in literary research. This requirement should be completed during the sophomore year.

Senior Exercise:

ENGL 452 (1) – Senior Exercise

In one of her last two terms a senior major must choose one of her 300-level courses (excluding writing courses and special studies) or one of her 200-level courses (with permission of the instructor) and do her senior exercise in conjunction with this course. The senior exercise will include a substantial paper as a culmination of an individual research project and an oral presentation. Students may fulfill this requirement by completing an honors thesis in English. A senior exercise in the teaching of writing is also offered with the permission of the chair. Any of these options must be taken at Sweet Briar College.

Choose 2 of the following courses:

Medieval and Renaissance Literature
ENGL 313 (3) – Studies in Medieval Literature
ENGL 317 (3) – History of the English Language
ENGL 319 (3) – Chaucer
ENGL 322 (3) – Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama
ENGL 324 (3) – Shakespeare and Jacobean/Caroline Drama
ENGL 325 (3) – Shakespeare: Ten Plays
ENGL 340 (3) – The English Renaissance

Choose 2 of the following courses:

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature
ENGL 329 (3) – American Romanticism
ENGL 331 (3) – The 19th-Century American Novel
ENGL 367 (3) – The Age of Romanticism
ENGL 368 (3) – Topics in 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
ENGL 374 (3) – Great 19th-Century British Novels

Choose 2 of the following courses:

Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
ENGL 302 (3) – Special Topics (when material is appropriate)
ENGL 330 (3) – African-American Literature
ENGL 332 (3) – Modern and Contemporary Women Writers
ENGL 380 (3) – Classics of Modern Drama
ENGL 393 (3) – Modern Poetry
ENGL 394 (3) – Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 397 (3) – Modern Fiction
ENGL 398 (3) – Contemporary Fiction

Choose 3 additional 300-level courses

in English. Two of these courses must be in literature or criticism; the third may be an internship sponsored by the department.

Choose 2 additional courses

in English at the 200- or 300-level (with the exception of ENGL 205 and ENGL 206). No more than two creative writing or two film studies courses (or one of each) offered by the department may be counted toward the English major. These courses also must be at the 200- or 300-level.

Notes: Five courses (15 semester hours) in English must be taken at Sweet Briar College. With the exception of internships, no course taken on a P/CR/NC grading option may be counted toward the English or English and Creative Writing major. No course below the 200-level may be counted toward the major.

Majors must pass at least one 200 or 300-level course offered by the Department in which a significant amount of the reading is in translation or in literatures in English other than U.S. or British. Courses in other departments may satisfy this requirement with the approval from the chair of the English Department.

A maximum of three credit hours of internship sponsored by the Department may be counted toward the English or the English and Creative Writing major.