English Major Requirements

THE ENGLISH MAJOR

Required Coursework

Lower Division – 21 Credits of 200-level courses

From one of the following sequences, 8 credits:
Survey of British Literature (ENG 204, ENG 205, ENG 206)
Survey of American Literature (ENG 253, ENG 254)    

From one of the following, 12 additional credits (at least 4 credits pre-1800*):
Survey of British Literature (ENG 204*, ENG 205, ENG 206)
Survey of American Literature (ENG 253, ENG 254)
Literature of Western Civilization (ENG 207*, ENG 208)
Literatures of the World (ENG 210, ENG 211, ENG 212, ENG 213)                                 
Shakespeare (ENG 201*, ENG 202*)                                                                                   

Library Skills for Literary Studies (ENG 200, 1 credit)                                                      

Upper Division – 32 Credits of 300/400-level courses

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory (ENG 345)   4 credits
Pre-1800 Literature (minimum 2 courses)  8 credits
Post-1800 Literature (minimum 2 courses) 8 credits
Electives (from upper division ENG or WR, 3 courses) 12 credits

TOTAL  53 credits

 

Writing Intensive Course (WIC): At least one of your upper-division courses must be a WIC.

Also Note:
Courses taken to satisfy major requirements may not be taken for an S/U grade.

Undergraduate English majors must attain proficiency in a foreign language, as certified by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, equivalent to that assumed at the end of the second-year language course.

 

Classification of Upper-Division Courses for English Majors:

Pre-1800
ENG 412	Studies in British Theater and Society
ENG 417	The English Novel
ENG 425	Studies in Medieval Literature
ENG 426	Studies in Chaucer
ENG 429	Studies in Early Modern Literature
ENG 430	Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literature
ENG 433	Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
ENG 435	Studies in Shakespeare
ENG 490	History of the English Language

                           

Post-1800
ENG 317, 318, 319	The American Novel
ENG 320	Studies in Page, Stage and Screen
ENG 321	Studies in Word, Object and Image
ENG 322	Studies in Globalism, Text and Event
ENG 330	The Holocaust in Literature and Film
ENG 355	Continental European Literature: Nineteenth Century
ENG 356	Continental European Literature: Twentieth/Twenty-First Century
ENG 360	Native American Literature
ENG 362	American Women Writers
ENG 374	The Modern Short Story
ENG 375	Children's Literature
ENG 418, 419	The English Novel
ENG 434	Studies in Romanticism
ENG 436	Studies in Victorian Literature
ENG 438	Studies in Modernism
ENG 440	Studies in Modern Irish Literature
ENG 450	Studies in Short Fiction
FILM 452	Studies in Film (WIC)
ENG 457, 458	Comparative Literature: Colonialism/Postcolonialism
ENG 482	Studies in American Literature, Culture, and the Environment
ENG 485	Studies in American Literature (WIC)
ENG 489	Writing, Literature, and Medicine
ENG 495	Language, Technology, and Culture

Course Classified by Term According to Date of Materials Studies:
ENG 311, 312, 313	Studies in British Prose/Drama/Poetry (WIC)
ENG 399	Selected Topics
ENG 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407	Research, Independent Study, Thesis, etc.
ENG 416	Power and Representation
ENG 445	Studies in Non-Fiction (WIC)
ENG 454	Major Authors
ENG 460	Studies in Drama
ENG 465	Studies in the Novel
ENG 470	Studies in Poetry (WIC)
ENG 475	Studies in Criticism
ENG 480	Studies in Literature, Culture, and Society
ENG 486	Studies in British Literature
ENG 497	International Women's Voices
ENG 498	Women and Literature

English Minor

THE ENGLISH MINOR

28  Credits Required; two options, A or B, below

 A.  (8 Credits):

Survey of American Literature: 
ENG 253 and ENG 254 
               or
Survey of British Literature: Choose 2 of the following:
ENG 204
ENG 205
ENG 206

B.  (12 Credits)

      Any Three Upper-Division (300 or 400-level) English Courses

C.  (8 Credits)

      Choose from Upper- or Lower-Division English  or Upper-Division Writing Courses