Guidebooks

A resource for Arts & Sciences students, the guidebook focuses on policies, the majors, experiential education, the core curriculum and major requirements. Copies are available in the dean's office, or as PDFs, below.

English
Department's Website

We live in a time when precise expression, astute interpretation, and the ability to make informed critical evaluations are skills in great demand in the workplace, and in graduate and professional schools. The study of writing and literature fosters those skills, offering at the same time insights into the ways of women and men, and giving shape and meaning to otherwise formless experience. And the study of writing and literature accomplishes these goals with great force and a graceful economy of means.

The English curriculum is multiverse in its aims and flexible in its design. For the general University student body, the curriculum offers possibilities in creative, expository and technical writing, as well as the more popular forms of literature. For students within the College of Arts and Sciences, the curriculum offers courses in literature and language study that present these as methods of inquiry and show how literature addresses the western cultural heritage, theoretical perspectives and changes, and current issues in perspective. For students who major in English, the curriculum offers the opportunity to study writing and literature in preparation for a professional education or for careers in teaching and research, writing and publishing, radio and professional communication.