Bachelor of Arts English

Total Credits Required: 120

• Required Major Core Courses: 18
• Required Major Elective Courses: 12
• Required Major Capstone Course: 3
• General Education Courses: 41
• Minor and Elective Courses: 46

Required Major Core Courses

• Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama(3 Credits, ENGL 240)
• Introduction to Women's Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 250)
• Critical Approaches to Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 303)
• Renaissance Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 310)
• Early American Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 430)
• Contemporary Global Literatures(3 Credits, ENGL 459) 

Major Elective Courses

Four 3-credit upper-level ENGL courses (12)—Focused study in American literature or British literature is recommended, as follows:

• American Literature Focus
  • African American Authors from the Colonial Era to 1900(3 Credits, ENGL 363)
  • African American Authors from 1900 to Present(3 Credits, ENGL 364)
  • Modern American Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 433)
  • Postmodern American Literature: 1945 to 1999(3 Credits, ENGL 441)

• British Literature Focus
  • The Long 18th-Century British Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 311)
  • 19th-Century British Literature(3 Credits, ENGL 312)
  • History of the English Language(3 Credits, ENGL 386)
  • Shakespeare Studies(3 Credits, ENGL 406)

Required Major Capstone Course 

• English Literature Capstone(3 Credits, ENGL 495)

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