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Requirements

for the English Major/Creative Writing Minor (as of Fall 2009)

Below is a summary of the requirements. For complete information please refer to the Brandeis University Bulletin.

Courses only fulfill the requirement under which they are listed. See the listing of courses on this site and in the Brandeis University Bulletin. For other restrictions, please see the section "Special Notes Relating to Undergraduates" in the Bulletin.

Thirteen semester courses are required, including the following:

A. ENG 1a (Introduction to Literary Studies)

B. Two semester courses dealing primarily with literature in English written before 1800.

C. Two semester courses dealing primarily with literature in English written after 1800. By definition, film courses cannot fulfill the literature distribution requirements.

D. One course each from at least two of the following three categories:

1. Literary Theory

2. Media/Film

3. Multicultural Literature / World Anglophone:

E. Three elective semester courses.

F. At least two courses must be 100-level (courses ending in 9 are excluded); these may fall into any of the above categories. Normally 100-level courses will have pre-requisites, such as ENG 1a plus one additional course in the department. We suggest 100-level courses be taken in the junior and senior years. (This suggestion does not apply to courses ending in 9.)

G. Three semester courses in directed writing (poetry, prose, or both). See course category breakdown for list of directed writing courses. Such courses facilitate writing under direction in a creative and critical community and are offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis, with the exception of THA 71a.

H. There is no double counting between course categories. (e.g., The Novel in India cannot count for both world literature and post-1800, etc.)