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HISTORY AND LITERATURE HONORS MAJOR
Coordinators:
Dr. Frederick Marchant, Professor and Director
of Creative Writing, English Department
Prospective Majors must seek the prior approval
of the coordinators of the Program in order to undertake this major.
The major is open only to Honors students.
Honors Major in History and Literature
This Honors program provides interested and qualified
students the opportunity to explore in depth the relations between
history and literature. The History and Literature Honors student
must complete the requirements for a major in either History or
English and also complete the requirements for the Minor in the
other of the two Departments. The student must also complete the
Honors program in both Departments. Thus the course requirements
of this program are as follows:
- Completion of the Major in either History or English 30 credits
- Completion of the Minor in the non-major field 18 credits
- Completion of Honors Requirements in History and in English.
Honors Component of the History and Literature
Major
Regardless of whether the student in History and
Literature chooses to major in History or English, he or she must
also satisfactorily complete the Honors requirement in both the
History and English Departments. The History and Literature Honors
component will include the following:
- A 3.5 grade point average.
- Completion of the English Department’s Honors
Seminar at an Honors level.
- Completion of History 503, "History: Theory
and Practice," at an Honors level.
- Completion of an Honors Essay under the joint
direction of one History and one English Professor on a topic
that combines the fields of History and Literature.
- The Honors Major must also provide an oral
defense of the Honors Essay, to be evaluated and approved by professors
from both Departments.
Interdisciplinary Advising in History and
Literature
To facilitate this process, and to help in the
selection of appropriate courses in both Departments, the History
and Literature Honors student must select two official Advisors,
one from History and one from English. The advisors will perform
several functions:
- Provide overall coordination of all aspects
of the program between the two Departments.
- Help the students select courses in the two
Departments that will provide a focus for the program. For example,
students may be directed to courses in both Departments on American
History and Literature, or the Nineteenth Century, or Women in
History and Literature, or on a variety of other parallel topics.
- Help the students select an Honors paper topic
and guide them through the writing process.
Departmental Requirements
See the History and English Department listings
for further details about the respective requirements for either
Major or Minor.
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