English Literature Requirement

[Dayfed]

So, I was talking to a friend premed, and he was saying that some med schools will only accept Literature credits if they are from the English department. Right now, I'm taking a lit credit in the comparitive literature department, and its a sci-fi class. We've been reading Harris, Dick, Gibson, Vonnegut, Shelley. Also, I have AP Lit credit, but the very reason I was taking this class was to show med schools that I've taken a lit credit while in college. I mean, if I need to prove that I read classic literature, I read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.....I mean, I could keep on going on this rant, but yeah, i'll spare you guys. haha.

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[Law2Doc]

So, I was talking to a friend premed, and he was saying that some med schools will only accept Literature credits if they are from the English department. Right now, I'm taking a lit credit in the comparitive literature department, and its a sci-fi class. We've been reading Harris, Dick, Gibson, Vonnegut, Shelley. Also, I have AP Lit credit, but the very reason I was taking this class was to show med schools that I've taken a lit credit while in college. I mean, if I need to prove that I read classic literature, I read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.....I mean, I could keep on going on this rant, but yeah, i'll spare you guys. haha.

It is very med school dependant. But I know people who had to pick up an english class the summer before matriculation because their literature class (which included some classics) was not counted as english by their med school. So check with the schools -- common sense does not always prevail when it comes to prereqs. Or just break down and take something offered by the Eng department if you want to be safe and preserve that last summer.

 

[thestudent]

i also have the same question. i called a few schools. some said that you just need a humanities class, others said that you need specifically an english language or composition class. i am planning to take a comparative literature class and i am assuming that this counts as a composition class? i think ill start an official english requirement thread...should be helpful.

 

[Law2Doc]

and i am assuming that this counts as a composition class?

As I suggest before "assuming" isn't always fruitful when schools requie something specific as a prereq. Common sense doesn't always prevail here. Either check with the schools, take the exact courses from the exact departments, or risk having to take an english class during the summer prior to matriculation (a pain but not the end of the world).

 

[thestudent]

I guess your right, but it would seem idiotic that a comparative LITERATURE course would not fit into the English literature or composition requirement. This whole process never ceases to amaze me...🙄

 

[0Complications]

I made a huge mistake with my English lit requirement. I thought it would be cool to take Classic Greek Mythology, but this was only until I started the class and realized that we were going to have to read two to three classics a week... I think one exam (about 2 to 3 weeks of material) covered the Iliad, Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, Aeschylus' Trilogy (Oresteia), and all these random readings about ancient Greek culture. Then on the exam, she would use 5 quotes from the books we read (roughly one or two sentences) and want us to say who said it, who they were talking to, what it is in reference to and what we thought about it... And then the rest of the exam was defining Greek words, Essays about the texts, and some other random matching stuff... OMG!!! It was crazy. That is the last time I take an upper division English class as a blow off Lit credit...

So if you do have to take another English class be sure to get a copy of the syllabus before you sign up for a semester of literary hell.