Courses offered by the department introduce students to a world of experiences that cannot be exhausted in the brief span of a college education; new authors, new works, new media, and new tools for understanding continually enlarge and transform the world. With the help of faculty advisors, undergraduate majors in English select from courses in various forms, periods and approaches. In addition, students may develop special expertise in one of several models; for example, communication and creative writing, theory of media, literary study or cultural studies.