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| ENG 485: Seminar |
| Offered every fall, ENG 485 must be taken for at least three hours of credit, preferably in the senior year. It introduces students to an area of advanced literary or linguistic study and requires the writing of a major paper, which will be the final item in the student's portfolio. Students who receive a failing grade in the seminar will be required to retake the course; they will be urged to meet course requirements by the end of January or Spring terms. |
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| Portfolio Composition |
| The essays contained in the portfolio should be graded and include the comments of the instructor for the course for which the paper was written (photocopies are acceptable). In completing portfolios, students should work with their academic advisors. When a portfolio has been prepared to the satisfaction of the student and the advisor, it should be submitted to the chair of the department along with a coversheet, which must be signed by the student, the advisor, and the chair. Portfolios will be evaluated by the academic advisor and by one other member of the department. Portfolios not meeting departmental standards will be rejected, and students will revise them before graduating with an English major. (For transfer students of for those electing the English major late in their college careers, substitutions may be made with the approval of the student's advisor and the second evaluator.) All portfolios will be filed in the English Department in folders. Portfolios must include: |
- one essay representing student's work in the sophomore year
- one essay representing student's work in the junior year
- one essay written for a course taken outside the Department of English
- one essay written for a course taken outside of the Humanities Division
- the major research paper written for ENG 485
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