Complete the English Concentration Plan of Study
Draft an eight-term plan of study outlining the courses you plan to take to fulfill your degree requirements. This plan is non-binding and is a useful tool to explore and understand the balance and content of your studies. You'll use this document to discuss your plan, interests, and questions with a concentration advisor.
Plan of Study
As part of your plan of study, you should indicate a few preferences for your concentration advisor. This will be a faculty member you work with for the duration of your English concentration. It can be someone you’ve taken a class with or someone you share an interest with. All non-creative writing faculty are eligible to be concentration advisors. We'll discuss this further in your advising meeting.
Submit your concentration declaration request in my.harvard
How to create a declaration or change of concentration request
If you are declaring a double concentration, please be mindful of the College guidelines (Students pursuing double concentrations who are writing English Department senior theses should normally plan to designate English as their honors field. [Even if a student is writing theses in both their concentrations, only one can have that status.] If there is a compelling reason to designate the other concentration as the “honors field,” please see the Director of Undergraduate Studies.)
To ensure a departmental experience rich in both breadth and depth, we encourage you to work with your faculty concentration adviser to explore your interests in depth and to explore as many subfields of English literature as possible:
- Medieval (c. 700-1550)
- Renaissance (c. 1550-1688)
- Enlightenment (c. 1688-1800)
- Romanticism (1780-1830)
- Nineteenth Century British (c. 1815-1900)
- Modern British (1900-present)
- Early American (c.1700-1850)
- American Renaissance & Post-Bellum (1850-1900)
- Modern American (1900-present)
- African American (1800-present)
- Transnational Anglophone (c.1750-present)
- Drama
- Literary Theory
- Creative Writing
