<p>So sorry Carolyn. Hope my disclaimers covered it. I think it is a real difference in style about what the two departments are out to teach. I took all three and loved all three also. S loves Paradise Lost, but he’s a Classicist so he’s predisposed to epics. Don’t think he’s read much Chaucer, though, but he’s not an English major.</p>
<p>And that is a very good requirement. I think I was required to take all three, but it was so long ago. Americanists, of course, don’t necessarily have to.</p>
<p>My D majored in American Studies to avoid all the theory and requirements of English, and made up her own concentration, Literature and Law. She had to take four American Lit surveys. Barnard parses things into these small historical packages. </p>
<p>Well, the Smith English Department looked vibrant and a lot of fun.</p>
<p>My S took the course on Ulysses because his classics background was very helpful there.</p>
<p>But I digress. </p>
<p>I did not mean to mislead anyone.</p>