The English Honors Program welcomes students who have shown exceptional ability in their English concentration coursework and who want the opportunity to expand their knowledge by working in a thesis project.
The English Honors Program
All qualified students, and especially those who plan to attend graduate school, are urged to apply for admission to the English Honors Program. Candidates are expected to submit a personal statement and provide the name of at least one faculty member who will recommend them to the program. On the basis of the candidate’s statement, faculty recommendation and grades in English courses the Honors Committee decides whether a candidate is qualified for honors work.
The Honors Program Director
Janée A Moses is Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York, CUNY, whose research focuses on black expressive cultures from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries. Her current book project is an intertextual study of black women’s life writing and performances that combines extraordinary pursuits and ordinary experiences to highlight the fullness of their lives. Prior to this appointment, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia.
The English Department at CCNY
One of the largest as well as most important academic departments at CCNY, the Department of English, which includes Comparative Literature, offers a wide variety of courses for its undergraduate and graduate degrees from medieval to modern. Students may choose classes ranging from one-author courses on Milton, Melville or Shakespeare to theme courses on Trauma and Literature, Caribbean Spirits-Colonial Ghosts or the Poetry of Jazz. The Department’s creative writing courses include fiction, poetry and drama for the beginner as well as those more advanced. With a long and distinguished as well as forward-looking tradition, the Department boasts over 100 full and part-time faculty members, including a number with international reputations.
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