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The Comprehensive English Major at Saint Vincent College
Year-by-Year
Freshman Seminar for English Majors
To refine your conception of being an English major in college
To deepen your love of literature and your love of writing
To add to your perspectives about formal literary study
To increase your skill in writing and critical thinking
To explore your particular interests, and to practice your talents
To settle on a Concentration
To begin a major portfolio
To learn of opportunities related to the department: tutoring, The Review, The English Club, Study Abroad, Sigma Tau Delta,
Pre-Law Society and Generation
Literary Criticism I & II
To provide a thorough and comprehensive inauguration to literary study
To evolve a working critical vocabulary
To develop skill in writing through textual analysis
To distinguish literary periods
To investigate possibility of studying abroad
To appreciate the distinctions and connections between traditional literary criticism and contemporary literary theory
To become active in departmental tutoring, The Review, The English Club, Sigma Tau Delta, Pre-Law Society and Generation
Junior Seminar
To begin the process of initiation into a literary profession
To gain a critical understanding of major literary themes
To perform an exercise derived from your concentration
To provide tutoring for students in Literary Criticism
To assume leadership roles in The Review, The English Club, Sigma Tau Delta, Pre-Law Society
To study abroad
To be responsible for the publication of Generation
To complete a prospectus for your Senior Seminar project
Senior Seminar
To complete preparation for a career in a literary profession
To produce a culminating project derived from your interests, your concentration, and your preparation in Junior Seminar
To provide tutoring for students in Junior Seminar
To submit a review of your final year’s experience
To continue leadership roles in Departmental Enterprises such as The Review, The English Club, Sigma Tau Delta, Pre-Law
Society
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