Introduction Advising Keeping Informed Major Requirements Sample Majors Major Worksheet Options & Restrictions English Concentrations Senior Essay Program Registration Procedures Course Distribution Lists 09-10 by Category 09-10 by Course Barnard Courses Summer Courses Past Distribution Lists Writing Prizes The Williams Traveling Fellowship Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (CJLC) SAMPLE MAJORS The following letters are used to designate which requirements are met by the courses listed in the Sample Majors below. A single course usually will fulfill more than one requirement; occasionally, as with writing workshops, a course will not satisfy any distribution requirements, though it still counts as one of the ten courses for the major. A  Pre-1800 B  Poetry C  Prose Fiction / NarrativeD  Drama / FilmE  British F  American G  Comparative / Global SAMPLE MAJOR I ENGL W3001 Critical Reading, Critical Writing  ------- ENGL W4211 Milton  A B F ENGL W3335 Shakespeare I  A D F ENGL W3337 Shakespeare seminar: the Sonnets  B F CLEN W4521 The Symbolist Tradition  B H WRIT W3062 Free Verse and Poetic Form   ------- ENGL W3961 Romantic Movement in England  B F ENGL W3874 Melville  C G ENGL W3958 Blake  A B F ENGL W4404 Victorian Poetry  B F Comment: Notice that the pre-1800 text requirement is fulfilled by the Milton, Blake, and one of the Shakespeare courses. The genre requirement is fulfilled by any one of the courses in poetry, the Shakespeare lecture for drama, and the Melville course for fiction. There are a number of courses in British literature, one in American (Melville), and one in comparative (Symbolist Tradition). Also notice that Critical Reading, Critical Writing and the writing course on Free Verse and Poetic Forms both count toward the major though they don't satisfy any distribution requirements. SAMPLE MAJOR II CLEN W3414 History of Literary Criticism I  A H ENGL W3269 Modern British Literature I  F FREN W3670 Dada & Surrealism [in French]  ------- ENGL W3801 History of the Novel I  A C F CLEN W4721 European Drama from the Renaissance to 1700  A D H ENGL W3961 FREN W3506 The Age of Proust [in French]  ------- ENGL W3220 20th-century Poetry  B H ENGL W3230 Joyce lecture  C F ENGL W3940 Joyce seminar  C F ENGL W4621 The Harlem Renaissance  G Comment: Notice that the pre-1800 text requirement is fulfilled by History of Literary Criticism I, History of the Novel I, and European Drama to 1700. The genre requirement is fulfilled by 20th-century Poetry, Euro Drama to 1700, and any one of the three courses on fiction (History of the Novel, Joyce lecture and seminar). There are four courses in British literature, one in American (Harlem Renaissance), and two in comparative. Also notice that Dada & Surrealism and The Age of Proust are both literature courses taught in French and count as 2 of the 10 courses for the major, but neither may be used to satisfy any distribution requirements. SAMPLE MAJOR III ENGL W3001 Critical Reading, Critical Writing  ------- ENGL W4702 Tudor-Stuart Drama  A D F ENTA W4724 Modern Drama II  D H SPAN W3722 17th-century Spanish Theatre [in Spanish]  ------- ENGL W4703 Restoration and 18th-century Drama  A D F ENTA W3702 Drama, Theatre, Theory  D H ENTA W4731 American Drama  D G CLEN W4023 Dante & Medieval Culture  A B H CLEN W3208 Modern Comparative Fiction  C H ENTA W3785 Drama seminar: Shaw & Stoppard  D F Comment: Notice that the pre-1800 text requirement is fulfilled by Tudor-Stuart Drama, Restoration & 18th-century Drama, and Dante & Medieval Culture. The Dante course also fulfills the poetry genre requirement; Modern Comparative Fiction counts for prose fiction; and any of the courses in drama counts for that genre requirement. There are 3 courses in British literature, 1 in American, and 4 in comparative. Critical Reading/Writing and the Spanish course in 17th-century Theatre both count toward the major but satisfy no distribution requirements.