<p>I can't seem to get the web page for the english department to work. Can anybody provide a working link to the major requirements?</p>
<p>Department</a> of English at Duke University</p>
<p>basically, its a 10 course major. you need an english 90 (90as, 90bs, or 90b -- the ones with s are seminars, one is reading in genre, one is reading historically) and a course on criticism/theory/methodology (intro to film, intro to lit theory, intro to cultural studies, intro to linguistics are the main common ones). then you have time requirements (ds 1, ds 2, ds 3, ds 4) and you need one course of each; ds 1= pre-1500 period, ds 2= 1500-1660 (a lot of people take a shakespeare course), ds 3= 1660-1860, ds 4 = 1860 - present. and with your remaining courses, you get to take any english electives.</p>
<p>Thank you! Darn link still won't work for me. I've tried both yahoo and firefox. Maybe a different computer. Please excuse my ignorance, but do some focus programs satisfy anything? </p>
<p>Disclosure; I am a mom.</p>
<p>Some focus programs will satisfy one english course, offhand i probably couldn't tell you which though. i think four years ago visions of freedom (if that even exists anymore) had an english course, but that doesn't mean they'll still have one. but yes, i'd be surprised to see that not a single focus cluster offers an english course. additionally- i felt that it was an easy major to complete. the only requirement i went out of my way to take was the ds 1(pre 1500), but i wanted to take every other course i took, so the requirements were completed organically. i also didn't start taking courses in the major until my sophomore year and graduated with more elective credit in the major than needed.</p>
<p>Thanks! Looks like she got her first choice, the Genomes one, with a course in public policy, and one in religion. The latter is especially perfect for her. I'm sure she will get in plenty of classes for her major. Mind if I ask how you feel about English as a major? Are you "using" it?</p>
<p>I loved the English major -- it was my first of two (the other was Econ). I loved the professors I had, my adviser, my courses. I thought it was a great department. Granted, I took out of it what I wanted -- and this lends into my answer for your second question. A lot of the film studies courses are in the English dept at Duke, since there isn't a separate major (and I liked the structure of the English major more than the Lit one, which has the Lit and TV/Film track), so that's really why I chose to major in it. My roommate majored in it to do creative writing, but I realized I wanted film. In that respect, I am completely "using" my major. The only foreseeable way I'll be "using" my major in respect to my writing training etc etc is if I choose to develop a screenplay further down the line, something I haven't entirely ruled out, but just am not choosing to focus on now.</p>