The core program has been designed to interest and challenge senior students while acknowledging the generalist for whom this may be the final year of English studies. Writing focuses on the study of and practice in the elements of argumentative and reflective prose. A wide range of oral and written tasks encourages intensive examination of text. In the literature component, study is intensive, extensive and comparative. The year concludes with independent study.
Students choose to read with a focus on a genre, theme or author.
The choices are personal, the approach academic. The study results in a mini-lecture given in the final week.