- The aim of the course is to ensure that all English majors receive a well-rounded background in English literature.
- For an Honours English major, university define well-rounded as some knowledge of all the different periods, geographies, and genres of literature written in English and the different applied and theoretical approaches to the study of literature, writing by women and by men, the historical development of English as a language and as a literary medium, and the relation of English literature to other world literary and cultural traditions.