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Colloquia & Events Schedule Spring 2025
English Department Hangouts
Weekly on Thursday nights
6-8 p.m. in Hollenbeck 129
- English lovers are welcomed to Hollenbeck 129 to enjoy a peaceful break from the stress of college life. Students may work on homework, hang out, or work on projects. All are welcome to join.
Rosemarie Garland Thomson Lecture
5 p.m. Wednesday, April 16
Ness Family Auditorium
Fred R. Leventhal Lecture (Wittenberg Series)
Robert Samuels, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Washington Post Journalist
7 p.m. Thursday, April 24
Weaver Chapel
English Senior Symposium
Friday, April 25, Time TBD
Location TBD
- Celebrate our English seniors as they present their final thesis projects!
Pub Fest
2025 date and time TBD
Founders Pub
- Every spring, the English Department hosts this event to celebrate the accomplishments of our students. Typically, a professor wraps up the year with a nice speech, students receive writing awards, and students and faculty have a chance to hang out in a more casual setting.
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.