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...students greater freedom to form their own plan of study, accompanied by more robust advising from a faculty member. English concentrators must complete 11 courses for the non-honors track: six English electives, one English 90 seminar, and one class in each of four newly-created “common-ground modules,” in the words of English professor W. James Simpson, who helped draft the proposal. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Menand said the department is trying to do too many things all at once: give students a common literary experience, make sure they take classes they would otherwise avoid, and engage them in small classes. But the curricular review veteran said, “It’s very hard to meet all those needs in the same curriculum...
...have one course on Milton and another on Anglo-Saxon poetry,” Menand said of the “Poets” category, “and that’s no common ground...
...Capped at around 20 or 30 students, most classes in the new “common-ground modules” will be limited to English concentrators...
...Although these courses would share common themes, the syllabi could vary extensively...