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Attention English Majors! English courses for Summer 2012 are now available on the English Department website. The tentative schedule for Fall 2012 semester is also available, but, please note, that this schedule is subject to change. To view the courses, click Courses on the navigation bar above. To view archives of courses from semesters past, click Undergraduate Courses in the left sidebar. Welcome to the Undergraduate Program in English at the University of Georgia. We are a large department of nearly 600 majors and 100 minors. Our faculty, consisting of 49 tenured and tenure-track faculty, teach a range of courses, from Old English to Contemporary American Literature. In any given semester, you will find courses that explore the sweep of American and British literature, as well as more specialized offerings in linguistics, film, and creative writing. In Spring 2012, we are offering a variety of courses, ranging from "18th-century British Literature: Rural England" to "'Contested Ground: The Literature of the American South" through "Aesthetics and Politics" and "Graph & Photograph." The majority of our courses are taught in a discussion format with great attention paid to the nuances of language and style. In 2007 the faculty of the English department voted to recommend that our literature and writing courses should include at least twenty pages of writing, ideally a mixture of high- and low-stakes assignments. Such assignments might include timed examinations, blog or journal postings, one-page response papers, five- to seven-page argumentative essays, annotated bibliographies, research-intensive papers, web-sites, short stories, poems and other forms of writing. If you're a current major and wondering who your academic advisor and faculty mentor are, you may enter your name below (last name, first name): Faculty contact information can be found on the English department site. If you are not on that database or it says that your mentor and advisor need to be assigned, please contact the Administrative Coordinator, Laurie Norris, in the Undergraduate office, Park Hall, Room 134. We hope that further exploration of our website will introduce you to the exciting opportunities available in the English Department.
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