Working in conjunction with the Princeton College Board’s Advanced Placement Program and the University of Connecticut’s Early College Experience Program, this course provides the opportunity for students to earn college credits or receive an exemption from a freshman English course with a qualifying score on the AP exam. It is designed to be a rigorous course requiring extensive close readings of major works drawn from British, American, and World canons. Materials include the terminology that students need to discuss the literature and a survey of the critical approaches used in the analysis and evaluation of that literature. While students read a wide range of literature and practice using close reading to analyze and evaluate that literature, they also write in the various modes of composition encountered in college. They produce at least thirty pages of polished prose and inquiry-based writing. Class is a mixture of seminar, in which the literature is discussed, analyzed and evaluated, and writing workshop, in which conferences are held to refine writing skills.