Taking an active role in pursuing creative ways to engage in personal academic interests within different courses and disciplines

As I have gone through my various courses and work over the last three years, I began to notice how important it was to me to find those areas of connection within each course or subject that relate to my own academic interests. From the beginning of my time at UNE, I knew that I was interested in the law but also hoped to truly immerse myself in literature, history and writing without worrying about my later professional goals. However, as I time went by, I always found ways to pull together the expansive nature of the law with my developing interests in subjects such as ancient history, literary criticism, and political and feminist theory.

Majoring in English allowed me to learn the foundational skills and theories in literature but at the same time find those interdisciplinary connections that deepened my understanding of each brand of my academic pursuits. With my double major in English and Political Science and minors in Writing and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies,