Degree requirements

Hours required and general/college requirements

A minimum of 120 semester hours, of which 42 must be advanced, and fulfillment of degree requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree as specified in the “General University Requirements” in the Academics section of this catalog and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences  requirements.

Major requirements

Required courses, 15 hours

• ENGL 1310 - College Writing I
• ENGL 1320 - College Writing II

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• ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills

• Note: ENGL 3000  should be taken in the first 18 hours of English course work.

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  6 additional hours

  Students choose one of the following options:

   

  Option 1

  • ENGL 2210 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700   or
  • ENGL 2211 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700  and
  • ENGL 2220 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present  or
  • ENGL 2221 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present  

   

  Option 2

  Choose three hours from:

  • ENGL 2210 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700  
  • ENGL 2211 - Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700  
  • ENGL 2220 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present  
  • ENGL 2221 - Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present  

  And three hours from

  • ENGL 2400 - Literature, Media and Popular Culture  
  • ENGL 2420 - Gender and Sexuality in Literature  
  • ENGL 2440 - Banned Books and Literary Scandals  

Literature concentration, 24 hours

 No fewer than three 4000-level courses must be included in the 24 hours.

Other course requirements

None.

Electives

Hours required for electives may vary based on course selection and the University Core Curriculum requirements. Electives may be required to satisfy the advanced hour requirement (42) and/or the minimum total hours required for the degree. For specific information see an academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Other requirements

A minimum grade of C is required in all English courses counting toward the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English and a concentration in literature.

A minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 for all English courses is required for graduation.

Historical period courses

Medieval literature

• ENGL 3431 - Introduction to Early Medieval Literature
• ENGL 3432 - Introduction to Late Medieval Literature
• ENGL 3433 - Medieval Women Writers
• ENGL 4410 - Chaucer
• ENGL 4431 - Studies in Medieval Literature

Renaissance literature

• ENGL 3434 - British Renaissance Drama
• ENGL 3435 - British Renaissance Poetry
• ENGL 4430 - Shakespeare
• ENGL 4432 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
• ENGL 4440 - Milton

18th century literature

• ENGL 3436 - Introduction to Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3831 - Introduction to the Literature of the Colonial Americas
• ENGL 4433 - Studies in Restoration and 18th Century British Literature
• ENGL 4831 - Studies in the Literature of the Eighteenth-Century Americas

19th century literature

• ENGL 3441 - Introduction to Romantic Literature
• ENGL 3442 - Introduction to Victorian Literature
• ENGL 3832 - Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
• ENGL 3833 - The American Renaissance
• ENGL 3845 - Nineteenth-Century Literature of the U.S.-American West
• ENGL 3847 - American Realism
• ENGL 3921 - African American Literature
• ENGL 3922 - Chicano Literature
• ENGL 4434 - Studies in Romantic Literature
• ENGL 4435 - Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENGL 4832 - Studies in 19th-Century American Literature

20th and 21st century literature

• ENGL 3450 - Short Story
• ENGL 3843 - Twentieth- and Twenty-first–Century American Poetry
• ENGL 3844 - Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature
• ENGL 3846 - Mexican American Non-Fiction and Criticism
• ENGL 3920 - Survey of Ethnic Literatures
• ENGL 3921 - African American Literature
• ENGL 3922 - Chicano Literature
• ENGL 3923 - American Jewish Literature
• ENGL 4300 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 4480 - American Drama
• ENGL 4841 - Studies in Modern Irish Literature
• ENGL 4842 - Studies in British Modernism
• ENGL 4844 - Studies in American Modernism
• ENGL 4845 - Studies in Contemporary American Literature