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...English professors said the new curriculum, after the department’s first major reform in over two decades, will be unlike any other they had researched. It will begin offering four common-ground courses in the fall, and a full selection of eight per semester in the spring. These courses will replace the required survey courses English 10a and 10b, the American literature requirement, and the sophomore tutorial...
...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...
...Donoghue said it is important to note that the English department’s new plan does not herald the end of studies of Western civilization. “If anything,” he said, “it will give students more of a share in pursuing the English canon...