Regardless of why you take a 20-99 course, you can expect to explore texts, your own and others', through writing, to share your thoughts in class discussion with a wide mix of students, and to collaborate with others through small groups or projects. To promote such activity, courses at this level are commonly limited to twenty students. Students majoring in English are required to take at least two 20-99 classes, preferably early in the completion of the major. English 100-174 Courses taught at the 100 to 174 level assume that students enter the classroom with a basic sense of how to read critically and how to write effectively. While working within a collectively-defined framework, students at this level of study are expected to become independent thinkers, designing projects and paper topics individually and in groups.
Class sizes range from twenty to twenty-five students.
English majors must take four courses at the 100-174 level. These courses are seminars, with a maximum enrollment of 15, encouraging students, in conjunction with faculty, to engage in intellectual work together in class discussion. In addition to seminars, this level also includes ENG 198, Independent Study, an option for students to design their own courses and to work independently with a faculty advisor. At this level, then, you take on increased responsibility, not only for your own learning, but for the learning of others. Literary Study ENG 60 is taken sometime during your first year and certainly no later than second semester of your sophomore year.