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English Department Advising Guide

Information for students about advising-related content

Sharing Courses

Sharing courses - click below for information on courses that can/can't count towards BOTH the English and minors, World Ready, Breadth of Knowledge/Gen Ed, etc.

Minors

  • A course which is specified as a requirement for both a student’s major and an interdisciplinary minor will satisfy both requirements, but credits for the course are counted only once in the total number of credits presented for graduation.
  • For any interdisciplinary minor, a student must present at least 9 credits of coursework that come from outside the student’s major.
  • An individual course may be applied only to one minor, even if the course is accepted in more than one. For students who elect to do more than one minor, separate and distinct coursework must be presented for each.
  • Students may “share” up to two courses from a minor with the Breadth of Knowledge (distribution) requirements in the Core Curriculum. The limit of two courses from the same department directed to any one category of Core Curriculum (AH, SS, SC) still applies. 
  • Students who direct coursework from the major field to an interdisciplinary minor must still meet College requirements regarding credits outside the major field.
  • English majors may not take English minors — except for Theatre Arts. (e.g. English lit concentrators cannot do a minor in Writing, but an English lit concentrator can do a minor in TA.)

World Ready Options

  • A student may count ONE of the three culture/history/literature/film courses used in this option toward an AH or SS Breadth of Knowledge course in the Core Curriculum/GenEd OR toward an interdisciplinary minor. 
    • For example, a student who takes WLSP 3750 Spanish and Latin American Cinema (taught in English) as part of the World Ready option may elect to count it toward an AH Breadth of Knowledge course or toward the Film Studies minor, but not both.
  • A student may not share courses used for the World Ready option with courses required in her or his major.
  • A student using this option to satisfy the FAHSS language requirement may not count any of the language courses toward the Breadth of Knowledge AH requirements in the Core Curriculum/GenEd. 
    • i.e. French 2 cannot count as a Breadth of Knowledge AH req.
  • A student who transfers in level 1 or levels 1 and 2 of a language for which the World Ready option is available may count those courses toward the requirement, but must complete the remaining courses necessary to fulfill the requirement.

Second Majors in FAHSS

  • Students who declare an additional (second) major may share up to two courses from the additional major with the Breadth of Knowledge requirements in the Core Curriculum (or Gen Ed for those entering before Fall 2015). 

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