English Major with a Literature Concentration

The English Major with Literature Concentration (40 hours) includes a thorough overview of classical, British, and American literature and then allows for individual choices within a range of categories from historical context courses, genre courses, author courses, and deep exploration courses around a theme/idea or on praxis that helps students prepare for life beyond Wheaton. All students take a senior seminar, which focuses on the interrelationship of literature and theory from a Christian perspective.

The English Major with a Literature Concentration requires a minimum of 40 hours, but students may count up to 52 hours in English toward graduation. Additional hours are encouraged for students planning graduate work.

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Requirements
Foundational Courses:		12
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 with an LE tag
ENGL 215	Classical and Early British Literature	4
ENGL 221	Contemporary Literary Conversations	4
Historical Context Courses:		12
(Select 4 credits in each category)
Pre-18th century
ENGL 329	Old English Language and Literature	4
ENGL 331	Medieval Literature	4
ENGL 336	The English Renaissance	4
ENGL 337	Seventeenth-Century English Literature	4
18th and 19th centuries
ENGL 338	Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature	4
ENGL 341	18th- and 19th-Century American Literature	4
ENGL 352	Transatlantic Crossroads in Modern Literature	4
ENGL 355	The Romantic Period	4
ENGL 361	Victorian Literature	4
20th and 21st centuries
ENGL 342	American Modernism	4
ENGL 343	American Literature after 1945	4
ENGL 344	Diverse Traditions in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature	4
ENGL 364	British Modernism: 1900-1939	4
ENGL 365	British Literature after 1939	4
ENGL 366	British Black and Asian Literature	4
ENGL 367	Postcolonial Literature	4
ENGL 371	Modern European Literature	4
Literature Concentration		16
Deeper Focus Courses (Select 4 credits in each category)
Genre
ENGL 421	Studies in Literary Genre	4
ENGL 422	Romance	4
ENGL 423	World Drama	4
ENGL 424	Science Fiction	2
ENGL 425	Fairy Tales	2
ENGL 426	Children's Literature	4
ENGL 427	Young Adult Literature	4
ENGL 428	Magical Realist Literature and Film	4
ENGL 431	Christianity and Fantasy	4
ENGL 436	Modern Drama	4
Exploration
ENGL 415	The Archaeology of Texts: Bibliographical Investigations	4
ENGL 433	Varied Literary Topics	2,4
ENGL 437	Literary Theory and Criticism	4
ENGL 442	History of the English Language	2
ENGL 444	Christianity and Crime	4
ENGL 445	Literature and Place	2 to 4
ENGL 446	Advanced Research and Writing	4
ENGL 447	Reading and Writing about Theater	4
ENGW 471	Teaching Writing	4
Author
ENGL 461	Selected Authors	2
ENGL 462	Selected Authors	4
ENGL 463	Shakespeare	4
ENGL 466	Jane Austen in Her Time and Ours	4
ENGL 468	Louisa May Alcott	4
ENGL 469	C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien	4
ENGL 471	Emily Dickinson	2
ENGL 472	Herman Melville	4
ENGL 473	Louisa May Alcott	2
ENGL 474	T.S. Eliot	2
ENGL 475	William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens	2
ENGL 476	Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes	2
ENGL 477	Flannery O'Connor	2
ENGL 478	James Baldwin	2
ENGL 481	Cormac McCarthy	2
ENGL 482	David Foster Wallace	4
ENGL 483	Achebe and Adichie	4
ENGL 485	Studies in Wade Center/Special Collections Authors	2
ENGL 486	Studies in Wade Center/Special Collections Authors	4
Integrative Senior Seminar
ENGL 494	Senior Seminar in English	4
Total Credits		40