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...Concentrators will now take more electives and fulfill one requirement in each of the four common-ground categories. According to Donoghue, the guiding mission for the new curriculum was to improve pedagogy by reducing class sizes. The new courses will be capped at thirty students...
...While current introductory courses survey British literature, the new curriculum will emphasize cross-cultural interaction. “Arrivals” focuses on cultures coming to England through the seventeenth century, while “Diffusions” covers the spread of the English language during the British Empire. The “Shakespeares” category will consider the playwright’s works in multiple contexts...
...particular emphasis on cultural mobility derives from a sense of the way the discipline is going now,” said English Professor W. James Simpson, who sat on the committee that drafted the new curriculum...
...common-ground courses are intended primarily for sophomore and junior English concentrators. Current sophomores and juniors may enroll in the new courses, which will have equivalents under the current curriculum. Donoghue said that non-concentrators and underclassmen may be allowed to take common-ground, but that it is not clear. He said that one possible course, “English Lyrics,” proposed by English Professor Helen H. Vendler, would cover Shakespeare, Herbert, Wordsworth and Keats...
...English concentrator Amber A. James ’11 said she is happy with the new curriculum. “I joined the English concentration to learn the canon of literature, but there is also a certain degree of agency I want in that,” she said. She added that she believes students will learn more in smaller classes, though she said she hopes concentrators will still have the choice to take English 10a and 10b as electives...