Affirmative Action Alumni Please also visit our websites featuring our Faculty and Distinguished graduates . The Brandeis English Department offers courses dealing with a variety of authors, literary movements, historical periods, and critical theory. After the first year, many take courses in classical and modern foreign literatures, history, philosophy, and other related areas.
Flexibility is encouraged.
Our program has the advantage of intimacy. Brandeis University is a small liberal arts university. The English Department faculty has about fifteen members, with coverage of most fields and a diversity of critical approaches. About eight new students are admitted each year. Seminars usually have between five and fifteen students.