For reasons that will shortly become clear, record the course title, course and section numbers, and the semester in which you take the course. Some of these courses will also be listed elsewhere on this form, but this section should be a complete record of all your courses. The Pursuits of English. We hope that you will take this early in your career as an English Major, since the course is designed to help you cope with and make sense of the connections between the various English courses you will take. A word about Guidelines.
Guidelines are like requirements but more flexible.
Rather than specify particular courses, the Department only requires that somewhere in the eleven or more courses you take, you have taken at least four literature courses and studied certain issues or areas in some depth. Any given course can satisfy several guidelines, and the same course can be used to demonstrate that you have met several guidelines. Also, the guidelines a given course satisfies depends on the faculty member teaching it, so that two sections of the same course might each satisfy different guidelines. Finally, from time to time faculty change the content and emphases of the courses they teach. Thus, the same course, taught by the same faculty member, in two different semesters, might satisfy different guidelines.