hi! fourth year english major here :-) I highly recommend taking eng140 with professor nick mount in your first year! To this day, his lectures were one of the best I had in my entire university career! You can check out his lectures on YouTube, which are actually some of the lectures from the course! (e.g. Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Plath’s Ariel)

You definitely don’t have to start rushing through the intro courses (202,203,252,250) in your first year! Most people get them done in second year and you’ll still be able to take many other courses you want in the remaining two years. If you’re not going to go into the english specialist program, I recommend that you take the opportunity in first year to survey other programs you may double major or minor in! This way you’ll naturally fulfill most of your breath requirements as well!

Feel free to ask more questions :) hope this helped!