Overview

The English major at Boston College offers a wide range of courses while introducing fundamental skills in close reading, literary analysis, and critical thinking. You’ll have the freedom to shape a program suited to your intellectual and creative interests while sharpening skills in critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, and articulation.

Boston College’s First-Year Writing Seminar is a workshop designed to help you develop and practice skills in writing and research.

Features

Boston College’s First-Year Writing Seminar is a workshop designed to help you develop and practice skills in writing and research. One goal of FWS is to teach you a variety of strategies to practice in a range of writing situations which, in turn, will help you to understand and plan for subsequent writing challenges in your future academic, professional, and personal lives.
The English department offers a Creative Writing Concentration that allows you to intensify and focus your English major by taking a series of practice-based writing courses along with literature courses. These small, intensive, processed-based workshops are taught by published authors and offered in three genres—poetry, fiction and non-fiction—at three levels.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Lyric Impulse: Poetry and Memoir
4 Literature of Plagues and Pandemic
Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
Living and Dead Bodies in Medieval Lit
Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
Literary Boston 1790-1860
Seminar: Dickens and His World

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-01-13 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-11-01 00:00:00
Starting 2026-08-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-02 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

7.5

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TOEFL^® IBT

100

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130

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Newton, 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

IELTS

7.5

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TOEFL^® IBT

100

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130

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Other requirements

General requirements

Standardized Testing

International applicants must submit TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo English Test examination scores.

Curriculum Evaluation

All students are required to submit an official high/secondary school transcript.

Supporting Materials

The School Report and Counselor Recommendation Form

Teacher Evaluations

Application Fee

English Proficiency

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Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
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Tuition Fee

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International

72180 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 72180 USD per year during 48 months.
National

72180 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 72180 USD per year during 48 months.
In-State

72180 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 72180 USD per year during 48 months.

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Scholarships Information

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