Big announcement! The faculty have voted to change the requirements for the English major!
The English major will remain 30 credits in ENG courses above 100. However, there will no longer be three separate concentrations, and there will no longer be any particular required courses. Instead, there will simply be one English major, with a minimum of restriction and much more freedom for students to put together the mix of courses that best suits their interests and goals.
For students entering LIU in Fall 2018 or later, the English major will be as follows.
- One Creative Writing course
- One Literature course
- One Writing & Rhetoric course
- Seven additional ENG courses of any type
The senior thesis will be optional. If the student elects to write a thesis, it will be conducted on a tutorial basis, and it will be one of the abovementioned “seven additional ENG courses.” The decision whether to write a thesis should be made in consultation with your faculty mentor and should be based not on expediency but on your intellectual interests and your future academic plans.
Current students must decide now whether to stick with the old requirements or switch to the new plan.
Some students are far enough along that it might not make sense to switch. Others have not yet taken many 100-level ENG courses, and it would be safe to switch.
Before you make any decision, please discuss your situation with your faculty mentor and/or Wayne Berninger, the advisor for undergraduate majors in our department.
If you decide to switch, please do so before planning your Fall 2018 schedule. Mr. Berninger will guide you through the switch process.
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Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Haynes (English) for winning the 2018 Abraham Krasnoff Memorial Award for Single Scholarly Work. 
