All honors concentrators must take the one-term Junior Tutorial (English 98) in the fall or spring. These small group tutorials concentrate on techniques of critical reading and writing over the course of one semester. The writing requirements of the junior tutorial include the twenty-page Junior Essay, in which students explore a literary topic in depth, demonstrate independent critical judgment and analysis, and engage other critical writing. The essay also prepares students for the year-long research and writing of a senior thesis.

• "Go Little Book" -- First Books of Major Poets
• Novel Forums: Women Writers and the Development of the Novel
• Writing Medieval and Early Modern Women
• Contemporary Science Fiction and Critical Theory
• Victorian Literature and the British Empire
• American Apparitions: Gothic and Supernatural Fiction in America, 1780-1900
• Myths and Methods: Modernism through the Long Poem