Requirements for the English Major (Bachelor of Arts) (40 semester hours)

The advisor and the student will develop together a major program that ensures the study of a wide variety of literary texts and varied interpretive strategies. Individual research is encouraged through Reading and Conference (course) and students can also apply internship credit toward the major through course.

Most students on the literature track complete the Senior Experience by designing and developing substantive, individualized projects in a sequence of two 400-level seminar-style courses. Students with excellent academic records in their English studies can design an advanced Independent Study project (course) to fulfill one 400-level Senior Experience credit.

English majors are encouraged to take courses from a variety of related fields. Courses in theatre, music, religion, classical studies, philosophy, art history, history, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish can be applied to the English major.

Department Honors for Literature and Creative Writing are awarded by faculty nomination and a faculty vote to recognize the most outstanding graduating students each year.

Only one course in fulfillment of the English major may be from a department other than English.

Core courses (8 semester hours)

course Reading Literature and Culture (4)
course Finding the Story: Research Methods in Literature and Creative Writing (4)

One course in literature outside the modern Anglophone tradition (4 semester hours)

course Shakespeare (4)
course Chaucer (4)
course Medieval Literature (4)
course Early Modern English Poetry (4)
course The Early Novel (4)
course Early Modern Drama (4)
course Advanced Studies in Lit 1300-1800 (4)
course The Greek and Roman Stage (4)
course Women in Roman Literature and Life (4)
course African Cinema (4)
course Oral Tradition and Performance in African Literature (4)
course Narratives of Migration: From Islamic Spain to the US/Mexico Border (4)
course German Cinema & Visual Culture (4)
course Love and Reason in the Middle Ages: European Intellectual History 400-1500 (4)
course Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (4)
course Japanese Literature in Translation (4)
course The Japanese Cinema (4)
course Forgotten Scriptures: Apocryphal Literature and the Origins of Christianity (4)
course Great Short Stories from Russia (4)
course From Russia with Love: Family and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (4)
course Tolstoy's War and Peace (4)
course The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel (4)
course Topics in Russian Literature (4)
course Hispanic Literature in Translation (4)
course Latin American Cinema (4)
course Theatre History (4)
Or other approved course (4)

One course in American Ethnic or Post-Colonial Literature (4 semester hours)

course Literature of Diaspora (4)
course African-American Literature 1 (4)
course African-American Literature 2 (4)
course Latinx Literature and Culture (4)
course African Cinema (4)
course Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Cinema (4)
course Oral Tradition and Performance in African Literature (4)
course Narratives of Migration: From Islamic Spain to the US/Mexico Border (4)
course Latin American Cinema (4)
Or other approved course (4)

Four additional courses (16 semester hours)

Senior Experience (8 semester hours)

Two 400W-level ENGL literature classes (8)

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