A centerpiece to the curriculum at Peddie, the English coursework focuses on developing critical reading skills. You'll be exposed to vigorous classroom discussions among intellectually and emotionally engaged peers, in a setting where love of language and a love of ideas is valued. English department faculty design their own one-term elective courses annually.

Required coursework

• Grade 9: Humanities
• Grade 10: Literature and Composition
• Grade 11: AP English Literature
• Grades 12 and PG:
  • Senior Seminar in Contemporary Literature: “The Undiscovered Country”
  • Senior Seminar in Contemporary Literature: “Reckless Libertines”

Electives

• Anna Karenina: A Comprehensive Study of Tolstoy's Masterpiece
• Writing Children’s Literature
• Bimaadiziwin: Living Well the Indigenous Way
• College 101: Issues and Debates in American Higher Education
• Contemporary Plays and Playwriting
• Human Noir: A Comparative Study in Hitchcock and Nabokov
• In This Distracted Globe
• I Start With Her: A Seminar on Toni Morrison
• Modern Comic Theory
• Navigating "The Influencing Machine" - Truth, Power, and Trust in the Media
• Tolkien's Lord of the Rings - a Cinematic and Literary Journey
• Paths to Knowledge: Educational Quests, Odysseys and Adventures
• The Ups and Downs of Immortality