ENG 216 - New Majors Seminar

The English New Majors Seminar is led each semester by a member of the English faculty who facilitates student discussions and activities some weeks and other weeks hosts English colleagues for informal talks, interviews, roundtables, readings, and demonstrations. At the heart of the New Majors Seminar is the faculty’s engagement with students and with the Big Questions that animate the discipline. Examples of questions explored in the course include: How do works written by folks dead for hundreds if not thousands of years still have relevance today? How and why do literary works, films, and other kinds of texts affect us cognitively, emotionally, intellectually, and so on? What is the place of children’s lit and young adult lit in the scholarly study of literature? This course is required for all English majors. Students should enroll in New Majors Seminar during their first semester as declared English majors, or they may use the course to explore the possibility of declaring the major. This course is graded pass/fail.

Credit(s): 1