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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog

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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

English

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The core and distribution requirements for a major in English are those listed for the baccalaureate degrees , with the exception that a course in art, music or theatre is required to fulfill the fine arts distribution requirement, and a course in history or philosophy is required to fulfill the humanities distribution requirement.

Requirements for Major

Core Curriculum Requirements 59 hour(s).
Electives 28 hour(s).

Major and Supporting Course Requirements

ENG 201 Introduction to Literary Studies 3 hour(s).
ENG 380 Critical Theory 3 hour(s).
ENG 401 Special Topics in English 3 hour(s).
ENG 418 Shakespeare 3 hour(s).
ENG 491 Senior Integration Paper in English: Research 1 hour(s).
ENG 492 Senior Integration Paper in English 2 hour(s).
English electives from 200-level or above ENG courses, and THT 220 Contemporary Drama . 5 hour(s).
LIN 100 Studies in Language 3 hour(s).
or LIN 150 Introduction to Linguistics 3 hour(s).

Choose one course in American literature:

ENG 203 American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 3 hour(s).
ENG 204 American Literature: 1865 to 1965 3 hour(s).
ENG 272 The American Novel 3 hour(s).

Choose two or more writing classes totaling at least 4 hours:

ENG 245 Journalism 3 hour(s).
ENG 250 Introduction to Creative Writing 3 hour(s).
ENG 255 Introduction to Professional Writing 3 hour(s).
ENG 301 Creative Writing: Fiction 3 hour(s).
ENG 302 Creative Writing: Poetry 3 hour(s).
ENG 303 Creative Writing: Nonfiction 3 hour(s).
ENG 304 Advanced Composition 3 hour(s).
ENG 305 Theories of Composition 3 hour(s).
ENG 307 Writing in Hypertext 2 hour(s).
ENG 446 Practicum in Journalism 1 to 3 hour(s).
THT 310 Playwriting 3 hour(s). (With advisor approval)
THT 315 Screenwriting 3 hour(s). (With advisor approval)

Choose one course in contemporary and cross-cultural literature:

ENG 211 European Literature in English Translation 3 hour(s).
ENG 275 Twentieth-Century African-American Literature 3 hour(s).
ENG 352 Contemporary Literature 3 hour(s).

Choose one course in earlier British literature:

ENG 311 Chaucer and the Middle Ages 3 hour(s).
ENG 318 The Renaissance 3 hour(s).
ENG 331 The Restoration and Eighteenth Century 3 hour(s).

Choose one course in later British literature:

ENG 308 The British Novel: Beginnings Until 1945 3 hour(s).
ENG 334 British Romanticism 3 hour(s).
ENG 341 Victorian Poetry and Prose 3 hour(s).

Total hours for the major: 39

Total degree hours: 126

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