Undergraduate
Honors Program
OVERVIEW
Students who enroll in the English Honors program are able to enroll in our advanced Honors seminars, offered each semester. These are small, special-topics courses that offer greater intellectual challenges, stimulating discussions, and closer contact with faculty. Topics have included:
- Irish Dramatic Revival (Spring '25)
- Transformations of the Medieval (Fall '24)
- Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and Social Justice (Spring '24)
- Speculative Fiction and Fantasy
- African-American Women Writers
- Literature, Gender, and Sexuality
- Nineteenth Century Literature and Adaptation
- Worldbuilding and Enchantment
- The Literature of Horror
- Comics and Graphic Literature
- Rebooting Beowulf and Challenging Chaucer: Medieval and Modern Authors in Conversation
English Honors also offers these other opportunities for advanced scholarship:
- Community-building with a small group of fellow students who share your interests, abilities, and goals
- The option to take a graduate English course, by permission of the instructor
- Development of your creativity, initiative, and sophisticated critical skills
- Enhanced preparedness for graduate scholarship or advanced professional study