English BA

Requirements

General Education — 51 hours

See the General Education Curriculum Section for the complete list of courses.

Major — 43 hours

English Core — 28 hours

ENG 4000	Literary Criticism	3
	or
ENG 4200	Comparative Literature	3
ENG 3100	American Literature I: Beginnings to the American Renaissance	3
ENG 3200	American Literature II: The Civil War to Realism	3
ENG 3510	Medieval Literature	3
	or
ENG 3350	Themes and Genres in Classical and Biblical Literature	3
ENG 3580	Enlightenment Literature	3
ENG 3550/COM 3550	Shakespeare	3
ENG 3620	Victorian Literature	3
ENG 3630	Modern British Literature	3
	or
ENG 3860	C.S. Lewis and the Inklings	3
ENG 3650	The Age of Milton	3
ENG 4600	Senior Recitation for English Majors	1
ENG 3660	Modern American Literature	3

Choose an Area of Concentration:

Literature — 15 hours

ENG 3360	Gothic Literature	3
ENG 3810	Postmodern American Literature	3
	or
ENG 3370	Multi-Ethnic American Literature	3
ENG 4450	Genre Studies in Film and Literature	3
	or
ENG 3880	Life, Death, and Marriage in Eastern Literature	3
ENG 3490	Contemporary Writing	3
	Elective in English course above ENG 2000	3

 

Creative Writing — 15 hours

ENG 2100	Creative Writing: Beginning Poetry	3
ENG 2200	Creative Writing: Beginning Fiction	3
ENG 3460	Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry	3
ENG 3470	Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction	3
ENG 3480	Creative Writing: Nonfiction	3

 

General Electives — 24 hours

Total Credit Hours: 120