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 (18 credit hours) | ||
ENG 190 | INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE 1 | 3 |
ENG 250 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS | 3 |
ENG 390 | LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY | 3 |
ENG 391 | JUNIOR SEMINAR | 3 |
ENG 490 | SENIOR SEMINAR | 3 |
Select one of the following Major Figure courses: | 3 | |
MILTON | ||
CHAUCER | ||
SHAKESPEARE I | ||
SHAKESPEARE II | ||
REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS | ||
Pre-1900 options (9 credit hours) 2 | 9 | |
BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE | ||
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE | ||
BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1700 | ||
BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1914 | ||
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1865 | ||
MILTON | ||
CHAUCER | ||
SHAKESPEARE I | ||
SHAKESPEARE II | ||
LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE | ||
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPEAN LITERATURE | ||
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE | ||
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | ||
BRITISH NOVEL TO 1800 | ||
THE BRITISH NOVEL, 1800-1900 | ||
ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN BRITISH LITERATURE | ||
EARLY VICTORIAN LITERATURE | ||
LATER VICTORIAN LITERATURE | ||
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
THE AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900 | ||
AMERICAN REALISM | ||
Electives (15 credit hours) | 15 | |
Select five 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. | ||
ENG courses on film, writing, and education cannot be used to fulfill the English B.A. elective requirement. | ||
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.