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

Undergraduate honors faqs