Introduction Advising Keeping Informed Major Requirements Sample Majors Major Worksheet Options & Restrictions English Concentrations Senior Essay Program Registration Procedures Course Distribution Lists 07-08 by Category 07-08 by Course Barnard Courses Summer Courses Past Distribution Lists
Writing Prizes The Williams Traveling Fellowship Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (CJLC)
REQUIREMENTS FOR A CONCENTRATION IN ENGLISH

Fulfillment of an English Concentration requires a total of 8 courses in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Among these courses, the following distribution requirements must be satisfied:

— 2 in periods before 1800 (only 1 of which may be a course in Shakespeare) — 2 in different genre categories — 2 in different geography categories

A Premedical English Concentration requires simply that a student take any 5 departmental courses (with no distribution requirements)

English Major/Concentration  WORKSHEET.

Note:  All options and restrictions on the major also apply to the concentrations: 2 writing courses may count toward the concentration, no more than 2 summer courses may be applied to the concentration, etc.

(The option concerning the Senior Essay, however, is not applicable: concentrators may not apply to do a Senior Essay, nor are they eligible for departmental honors.)