English (B.A.)
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education 23 Requirements | ||
| 33 credit hours | 33 | |
| English Major Requirements (42 credit hours) | ||
| (27 credit hours must be upper-division) | ||
| Required Courses (15 credit hours) | ||
| ENG 190 | INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE 1 | 3 |
| ENG 250 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS | 3 |
| ENG 390 | LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY | 3 |
| ENG 490 | SENIOR SEMINAR IN LITERATURE | 3 |
| Select one of the following Major Figure courses: | 3 | |
| MILTON | ||
| SHAKESPEARE | ||
| REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS | ||
| Pre-1900 options (9 credit hours) | 9 | |
| If ENG 313 or ENG 315 is used to satisfy the Major Figures requirement, it cannot be used to satisfy the pre-1900 requirements. | ||
| BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE | ||
| MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE | ||
| TOPICS IN BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE | ||
| BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1914 | ||
| TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| MILTON | ||
| SHAKESPEARE | ||
| EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | ||
| THE AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900 | ||
| Electives (18 credit hours) | 18 | |
| Select six ENG literature courses by advisement. Courses listed above that were not used to satisfy one of the above requirements can be used as an elective. | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO DIVERSE LITERATURES | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | ||
| BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1914 | ||
| FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | ||
| WOMEN IN LITERATURE | ||
| AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940 | ||
| AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1940 | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO LATINX LITERATURE | ||
| THE SHORT STORY | ||
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | ||
| LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION | ||
| MODERN WORLD LITERATURE | ||
| AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE | ||
| ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURES | ||
| SPECULATIVE FICTION | ||
| CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE | ||
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | ||
| FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE | ||
| THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK | ||
| GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN LITERATURE | ||
| SELECTED TOPICS IN DIVERSE LITERATURE | ||
| STUDIES IN POETRY | ||
| STUDIES IN FICTION | ||
| STUDIES IN DRAMA | ||
| All College Electives | ||
| 45 credit hours | 45 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 120 | |
- 1
Must be taken immediately after completion of basic communication requirement or within first year of transfer to English Department.
- 2
If students use ENG 313, ENG 314, ENG 315, or ENG 316 to satisfy their Major Figure requirement (see above), they cannot use it to satisfy their pre-1900 requirement.
Students will:
- use literary terminology and the conventions of the field (including MLA-style citation) appropriately and effectively in describing and explicating texts from different genres, periods, and movements.
- describe historical developments in literature, including the development of different literary forms/ genres and of critical and theoretical methods for exploring texts, and be able to explicate in oral discussions and in critical essays a variety of forms and genres using these perspectives.
- recognize and describe movements, periods, and representative figures in literature, and to make connections across and within genre, gender, racial, ethnic, and national border lines.