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Colloquia & Events Schedule Fall 2024
Thursday, September 28
English Fall Assembly
4:00pm in Ness Auditorium and Hollenbeck Atrium
Monday, October 28
Koppenhaver Lecture: Susan Burton
7:00pm in Weaver Chapel
Tuesday, October 29
Literary Halloween Party
4:00pm in Ness Auditorium
November (TBD)
Room 129 Open House
3-5pm Hollenbeck 129
Thursday, December 5
De-Stress Event
6-8pm Hollenbeck 129
COLLOQUIUM ATTENDANCE POLICY
English majors must attend English department colloquia during their academic careers.
The department will offer an average of three colloquia every semester, and students are expected to attend at least one colloquium per semester. The department may occasionally designate a non-departmental colloquium as qualifying for this requirement.
Sign-in sheets will be at all English department colloquia, and attendance records will be kept in the English department office. It is the student's responsibility to sign in at each event they attend, and to keep track of their progress toward fulfilling this requirement. Information on colloquium attendance can be accessed in the English department office.
All colloquia will be advertised at the fall and spring department assemblies, as well as on the English department calendar. In addition to speakers and alumni events, the following always count as colloquia: The List defenses, the Literary Pub Fest, and Senior Symposium.
Senior Exercises/ENGL 405 Requirement:
Attendance at six colloquia is required by the end of the spring semester senior year. Students who fail to attend six colloquia will have their ENGL 405 grade dropped a third of a letter grade for each colloquium short of the requirement. Students may check in with the department administrative assistant at any time about their current number of credits, or if they have concerns about meeting this requirement.
To more fairly introduce the new requirement, majors graduating in spring 2025 only need four. The class of 2026 will be the first class to have the full six-credit requirement.