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4. Planning Your Major |
The English department is aware
that there are many constraints on a student's ability to
plan and secure a coherent major, most especially when courses
are available. However, planning in advance helps to make
your undergraduate experience more successful, interesting,
and hassle-free. In planning your major, try to keep in mind
the following:
Sequencing of courses: In general,
it is wise to complete required classes early on in your program.
Classes specified as requirements mean that the department
considers them to be fundamental to your major and therefore
useful in providing you with important foundational material.
You may want to take a course in literary or cultural theory
early in your progress so you can apply it to your later course.
Think, as well about taking courses that make a coherent and
interesting quarter (and, ideally, year). That is, try to
combine courses in a particular period of English literature
with a course in history on the same period, with a course
in art history on the same period, and/or with a course in
another language (in translation or not) on the same period.
For example, a course on Renaissance drama might be combined
with a history course on the English Renaissance (or Italian,
or French Renaissance), with a course on Renaissance painting,
and/or a literature course on the Harlem Renaissance. Alternatively,
try to take courses that vary historically but address similar
questions, genres, styles. For example, a course on English
romantic poetry might be paired with a course on revolutions
(in history or political science), and/or with a class on
feminist approaches to social change.
Balance in course selection:
Where possible, give some thought to the kinds of course you
are taking in a given quarter in terms of workload. In terms
of courses within the major, you can assume that any course
will be writing intensive, but different courses require different
amounts and kinds of reading. When balancing English classes
with classes outside your major, try not to take 4 reading/writing-intensive
courses at once. Where possible, balance large lecture courses
with smaller discussion classes. Think, too, about getting
to know as wide a range of English professors as possible
and as early on as possible. This helps you identify the kinds
of professor with whom you might wish to study in a more concentrated
fashion later on.
Below is a what a schedule
of courses required for the English major might look like
for a student who plans to graduate in four years. Other courses
taken to satisfy General Education and University requirements
would be taken in addition to these courses.
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Winter |
Spring |
| Freshman |
Foreign Language Quarter 4 |
English 10;
Foreign Language Quarter 5 |
English 15 |
| Sophomore |
English 101 |
English 102 |
English 103B Lower Division English Elective |
| Junior |
English 104B or
104AUpper Division English Elective |
Upper Division English Elective toward Specialization |
Upper Division English Elective toward Specialization |
| Senior |
English 197Upper Division English Elective |
Upper Division English Elective toward Specialization |
Upper Division English Elective toward Specialization |
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Section
4.1 Planning Your Minor
The English Department welcomes students majoring in other programs who feel they would like to complement their studies, and enrich their cultural lives, by minoring in English. Such crossing of disciplines makes even more sense today because the field of literary studies like many other humanities fields—has in recent decades actively fostered relations with the arts, social sciences, and science and technology. (See, for example, the department's Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research for a conceptual map of how literature currently intersects with other disciplines.)
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4.2
Requirements of the Minor in English
Preparation
One lower-division course in English (4 units)
Upper Division
20 UD units, distributed as follows:
- 4.0 units of literature, pre-1700, chosen from: English 101, 105A-B, 110A-B, 115, 119, 144, 152A, 156, 157, or 162
- 4.0 units of literature from 1700-1900, chosen from: English 102, 103A-B, 126B, 126C, 137A, 169, 172, 179, 0r 180.
- 12.0 units of English electives
Depending on course content the following courses may apply to area A or area B of the upper-division minor; English 114AA-ZZ, 128AA-ZZ, 131, 132AA-ZZ, 133AA-ZZ, 134AA-ZZ, 151AA-ZZ, 16SAA-ZZ. Any of these courses apply automatically to area C. Contact the department to see which courses will apply to areas A and B in a given quarter. Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department.
All courses to be applied to the minor must be completed on a letter-grade basis. This includes both courses offered by the English Department and those offered by other departments and applied to the minor. |
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4.3
How to Become a Minor in English
Students do not need to declare the minor. Once a student has completed the course work outlined above, he or she can pick up a Request for Certification Form in the English Department office, South Hall 2607. The following preconditions apply:
*Student UC grade-point average in pertinent upper-division courses is 2.0 or higher.
*No more than 5 upper-division units overlap between the English minor and the
upper-division portion of a student's major(s) or other minor(s). If the overlap with
a student's major(s) exceeds 5 upper-division units, then completion of the English
minor will not be formally recognized; if the overlap with other minor(s) exceeds 5
upper-division units, then only the first minor reported will be noted on the student's
transcript.
*Students must have completed at least 12 of the upper-division requirements for the
minor while registered as a UCSB student.
Substitutions and waivers are subject to approval by the chair of the department.
*Students may petition only one course from outside the department to satisfy
either a lower division requirement or an upper division elective.
No substitute petitions will count for area A. Pre 1700 Literature or Area B. 1700-1900 Literature.
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