Undergraduate Program
Courses offered by the Department of English are designed to develop students' understanding of important works of English, American, and other literatures in English; to provide historical perspectives from which to read and analyze these works; and to deepen students' insight into their own experience. Courses also aim to develop students' abilities to express their ideas orally and in writing.
Official Yale College program information is found in the Yale College Programs of Study, available on line at www.yale.edu/yalecollege/publications/ycps.
Important Announcements and Deadlines
Library Orientation
Library Orientation Registration is now open. Please contact todd.gilman@yale.edu to schedule a library orientation session.
- You do not need an individual library session if you have taken, or plan to take, a course that fulfills the requirement. These are marked LIBR in the Blue Book. If a course is not so marked, and you received significant research instruction in the course, please see the DUS or ADUS for permission to count it.
- If you request an appointment with Mr. Gilman you MUST KEEP THAT APPOINTMENT. Please do not abuse his willingness to provide this individual service to our majors. Failure to keep appointments for these sessions may ultimately result in your not fulfilling the requirement--and that means we cannot certify you for graduation with an English major.
- You should find, and enroll in, a LIBR-tagged seminar if at all possible by the fall of junior year, or at the very latest, by the spring of junior year. While individual sessions at the library are available, it is better to get your instruction in the context of a course, where specific assignments make the research instruction meaningful.
Please see the DUS or ADUS if you have questions about this requirement or how to fulfill it.
Application Deadlines for spring 2010:
Writing Concentration: Friday, November 20th (seniors only);
Creative Writing Courses: Friday, December 11th by noon;
ENGL 470b, Tutorial in Writing: Friday, December 4th by noon;
ENGL 471b, Special Projects for Junior and Seniors: Friday, December 4th by noon;
ENGL 489b, Writing Concentration Senior Project: Friday, December 4th by noon;
ENGL 490b, The Senior Essay: Friday, December 4th by noon;
Complete Project Deadlines:
Completed SENIOR ESSAYS are due in LC 107 by NOON on Friday, December 4th (TWO copies).
Completed WRITING CONCENTRATION SENIOR PROJECTS are due in LC 107 by NOON on Monday, December 7th.
Prize Winners:
Click here to view a list of this year's departmental prize winners. Congratulations!
Addition to the Courses that may be Counted Among the 14 Credits Towards the Major:
Theater Studies 110a and Theater Studies 111b, are now included among the courses that can count toward the major, in the category of the introductory-level courses. Note that no more than four courses at the introductory level may be counted toward the major.
