English (B.A.)

Program Requirements

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 190INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE 13
ENG 250LITERARY MOVEMENTS3
ENG 390LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY3
ENG 391JUNIOR SEMINAR3
ENG 490SENIOR SEMINAR3
Select one of the following Major Figure courses:3
MILTON
CHAUCER
SHAKESPEARE I
SHAKESPEARE II
REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS
Pre-1900 options (9 credit hours) 29
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 hours45
Total Credit Hours120
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 313ENG 314ENG 315, or ENG 316 to satisfy their Major Figure requirement (see above), they cannot use it to satisfy their pre-1900 requirement.

Students will:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.