Along with specific requirements for any major, all students in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree programs must meet all general education and graduation requirements under a single catalog.
The English major with Literature Concentration (40 hours) enables students to build on the common core of foundational courses:
Code | Title | Credits |
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Core Requirements | ||
ENGL 155 | Reading Writers: Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
or ENGL 156 | Reading Writers: Introduction to Literary Studies (Shakespeare) | |
or any 100-level ENGL course | ||
ENGL 215 | Classical and Early British Literature | 4 |
Pre-1800 British Literature | ||
Select 4 credits of the following: | 4 | |
Medieval Literature | ||
The English Renaissance | ||
Seventeenth-Century English Literature | ||
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature | ||
Post-1800 British/Global Literature | ||
Select 4 credits of the following: | 4 | |
Transatlantic Crossroads in Modern Literature | ||
The Romantic Period | ||
Victorian Literature | ||
British Modernism: 1900-1939 | ||
British Literature after 1939 | ||
American Literature | 6 | |
At least one period survey course: | ||
American Literature: Beginnings through Romanticism | ||
American Literature: Realism to Modernism | ||
American Literature after 1945 | ||
One American Literature in Focus from a different time period: | ||
American Literature in Focus: Beginnings Through Romanticism | ||
American Literature in Focus: Realism to Modernism | ||
American Literature in Focus: After 1945 | ||
American Literature in Focus: Beginnings through Romanticism | ||
American Literature in Focus: Realism to Modernism | ||
American Literature in Focus: After 1945 | ||
British/World Figure | ||
Select one of the following: | 4 | |
Shakespeare | ||
Selected Authors | ||
Selected Authors | ||
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
Jane Austen in Her Time and Ours | ||
Studies in Wade Center/Special Collections Authors | ||
Studies in Wade Center/Special Collections Authors | ||
Electives | ||
Select 10 credits 1 | 10 | |
Integrative Senior Seminar | ||
ENGL 494 | Senior Seminar in English | 4 |
Total Credits | 40 |
1 | Students are invited to explore various interests from among a wide range of elective offerings in world literature, theory, genre, figure courses, writing, and special topics from a list of courses numbered 200 or above (available in the English Department). Students my choose up to 6 credits in writing courses (ENGW 213, ENGW 214, or sections of ENGW 444) as electives toward the Literature Concentration. |
Note: ENGL 326 Children's Literature and ENGL 328 Young Adult Literature do not count toward the major.