Centering Your University
Long regarded as a pillar in the College of Arts and Sciences,
the English Department is also a kind of disciplinary
cross-road. For us, the study of literature is an integrating
activity. Through the lens of literary analysis we look at
issues of history and economics and politics, at questions of
psychology and biology as well as philosophy, and this great range
positions us uniquely well to help you center a number of second majors
or program degrees from your home in English.
It is no accident that both American Cultural Studies and the
Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities were founded by faculty
from the English Department, and our program will enrich and facilitate
your movement across other disciplines of interest to you, be they ACS,
IPH, Women Sexuality and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, or
others. Our students develop second majors in every available
department, ranging traditionally from Politics to Psychology and
Anthropology but including increasingly those departments in the
Natural Sciences that lead to careers in medicine and research science.
The interdisciplinary knowledge and interpretive skills that you
develop as an English Major can help to ensure your exceptional success
not only in our department but across the college and in your
postgraduate career.