The Mass Media, the University's student newspaper and The Watermark, its campus literary magazine, provide a forum for their talents, as does the yearbook. English majors have also been active, through the College of Arts and Sciences tutoring program, in tutoring students who have difficulty in writing. What You Study As a UMass Boston undergraduate, your studies toward the bachelor's degree will include a minimum of 120 credits of academic work. If you choose to pursue a bachelor of arts degree in English, ten courses, constituting at least 30 of these credits, are part of your major. Studies for the English major include both a broad selection of courses and the opportunity to focus on some area of particular interest.
All students take courses in criticism, and in some selected American and British writers.
Each major also takes at least one course in literature before 1850, one that concentrates on a literary genre, poetry, fiction, or drama, and one that focuses on the relationship between literature and society. And Awards The English Department each year chooses outstanding students to participate in a year-long Honors Program, each with the guidance of a faculty advisor. Successful honors students are recognized at an Honors Convocation, held just before commencement. The University of Massachusetts Boston UMass Boston, part of the five-member University of Massachusetts system, is an urban public university. Large enough to offer a broad range of academic choices, UMass Boston is also small enough to maintain a closeness of community.