English Major

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The English major at Rollins uses literary texts, film, television, and popular culture to equip you with transferable skills in research, analysis, teamwork, and written and oral communication. In your English classes, you’ll explore how different eras and cultures have captured, questioned, and understood human experience.

You’ll develop these skills through our flexible curriculum alongside core knowledge that spans time, continents, and genres. Pursuing the careful work of interpretation and cultivating powers of argument and inquiry will hone your competencies as an adept critical reader and expert writer prepared to excel in any career.

Major Requirements (12 courses)

Students majoring in English are encouraged to develop their majors in close consultation with an English Department faculty advisor.

Required (4 courses)

ENG 190 - Texts and Contexts
ENG 20X: Historical Context: Pre-1900
ENG 321 Studies in Transnational Literature
ENGW 374 Editing Essentials or ENGW 380 Language Studies: Readers and Writers

Electives (8 courses)

Students must complete eight (8) ENG/ENGW courses in the English department. Two (2) courses at the 300-level or above, one course (1) at the 400 level, and five (5) additional courses at any level.

Required Distribution

Two (2) ENG or ENGW at the 300/400 level

One (1) ENG or ENGW 4XX (must be completed at Rollins)

Five (5) ENG or ENGW (any level)

Major Policies

All students should take their advanced prose style or language studies requirement by the second semester of their junior year.
English majors must take their 400-level courses at Rollins.
Students who complete Composition I and II (or similar two-semester sequence) at another institution, may not count the first course in the sequence (typically Composition I) toward the major.

Concentrations (Optional)

Students may opt to organize their study in English by grouping 16 (four courses) of the 48 credit hours required for a major as a concentration in either Literature, Media, or Professional Writing

Literature

ENG 20X British Literature

ENG 21X American Literature

ENG 22X Transnational and Multiethnic Lit

ENG 30X British Literature

ENG 31X American Literature

ENG 32X Transnational and Multiethnic Lit

ENG 24X, 34X, 44X Special Topics in Literature

Media

FIL 150 Intro to Film

ENG 231, 331, 431 Media and Literature

ENG 232, 323, 423 Studies in Film

ENG 233, 333, 433 Studies in Television

ENG 234, 334, 434 Studies in Contemporary Media

ENG 244, 344, or 444 Literature & Cultural Studies

Professional Writing

ENGW 217 Intro to Professional Writing

ENGW 277 Visual and Verbal Text Design

ENGW 374 or 380 Editing Essentials or Language Studies

ENGW 377

ENG 334 Behind the Music

ENG 334 Good Medicine/Bad Drugs

ENGW 362 Creative Nonfiction