Overview

The department stresses critical thinking, incisive writing and speaking, and a sense of initiative and responsibility for the enterprise of interpretation. With their advisers, English majors design a program of study that deepens their understanding of diverse genres, textual traditions, and periods. We encourage students to explore the history of cultural production and reception and also to question the presuppositions of literary study. The major culminates in an independently written essay of 30-40 pages, developed during a senior research seminar in the fall semester and individually mentored by a faculty member in the spring. Students are expected to take at least two English courses at Bryn Mawr before signing up for the major or minor.

As students construct the English program from Bryn Mawr College, they should seek to include courses that provide:

Historical depth-a sense of the construction of traditions.
Formal breadth-experience with more than one genre and more than one medium: poetry, prose fiction, drama, letters, film, epic, non-fiction, essays, documentary, etc.
Cultural range-experience with the Englishes of more than one geographical location and more than one cultural tradition, and of the exchanges and transactions between them; a course from another language or literary tradition can be valuable here.
Different critical and theoretical frameworks-the opportunity to experiment with several models of interpretation and the debates that animate them.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Workshop for Multilingual Writers

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

Understanding Poetry

Imagined Worlds: Utopia and Dystopia in Literature

Film

Narrativity and Hip Hop

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ardmore, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Common Application or Coalition Application (fee waived when submitted online)
Bryn Mawr Writing Supplement
School report including official transcripts (Homeschool and Alternative Education requirements)
Two teacher recommendations
School Counselor recommendation
Mid-year report
If your mid-year report is not available until after Jan. 15, we will still accept your application if the rest of your file is complete. We do require your mid-year report in order to issue a final decision.
Standardized test results
Final report
Early Decision Agreement (if applicable)

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Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
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Accidents
Legal aid

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Tuition Fee

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International

64500 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 64500 USD per year during 48 months.
National

64500 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 64500 USD per year during 48 months.
In-State

64500 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 64500 USD per year during 48 months.

Living costs for Ardmore

1000 - 1500 USD /month

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