Program Requirements: English

Nonrequired Preparatory Courses:

• IDND018 Expository Writing/Workshop
• ENG019 The Essay: Reading and Writing/Workshop
• ENG020 Introduction to Literature/Discussion

Core Requirements:

A minimum grade of C is required to receive major field credit. Each designation in parentheses in the descriptions below is used in course listings every semester in order to identify what requirement a course meets. Thus, if a course does not appear in the list below (for example, a new course), you can nonetheless readily see what requirements it meets through these designations.

A. Historical Sequences (A; 3 courses)

The three courses used to satisfy this requirement must include either the entire sequence ENG140 and ENG141 or the entire sequence ENG180 and ENG181.

1. Either one of the two sequences (3 courses):

ENG140 Major British Writers I
ENG141 Major British Writers II
OR
ENG180 Major American Writers I
ENG181 Major American Writers II

2.Each major must take one other course offered as a historical sequence course, as, for example, ENG133 Survey of Women Writers I; 134 Survey of Women Writers II; ENG182 African-American Literature I; or ENG183 African American Literature II (no double-counting with courses in Category A-1 above).

B. Genre Courses (2 courses)

1. Each major must take at least one poetry course (B-1), such as:

ENG107 Creative Writing: Poetry
ENG110 English Poetry I
ENG184 American Poetry

2. Each major must also take at least one other genre course (B-2), such as:

ENG122 Terror of the Gothic
ENG135 The Short Story
ENG142 Mythemesis
ENG143 Terrible Beauty: The Art of Tragedy
ENG144 Drama of the Western Tradition
ENG145 Fabulae: Genre of Romance
ENG148 Memoirs from the Borderlands
ENG164 The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
ENG206 Writing the Novel I

C. Period Requirements (2 courses)

1. Each major must take at least two courses of literature before 1700, one of which must be at the 200-level (C-1a for 100-level; C-1b for 200-level), such as:

ENG120 Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG140 Major British Writers I (may double-count as a historical sequence course)
ENG144 Drama of the Western Tradition
ENG150 Introduction to Medieval Literature
ENG250 Medieval Literature Seminar
ENG251 Chaucer
ENG253 Advanced Shakespeare
ENG254 Still Spaces—East Meets West
ENG255 Studies in the Renaissance
ENG256 Shakespeare from Page to Stage
ENG294 History of the English Language

2. Each major must take at least one 200-level course of literature between 1700 and 1900 (C-2), such as:

ENG260 Studies in 18th-Century British Literature
ENG262 Studies in 19th-Century British Literature
ENG263 British Romantic Literature
ENG265 Victorian Literature
ENG281 American Literary Renaissance
ENG282 Studies in 19th-Century American Literature
ENG283 Visions of Representation 1860-1920

3. Each major must take at least one 200-level course of literature after 1900 (C-3), such as:

ENG230 Southern Writers of the 20th Century
ENG231 William Faulkner
ENG239 Aliens and Others in Science Fiction
ENG272 Radical Thought and the Black Arts Movement, 1966 to 1976
ENG275 Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature
ENG276 Ethnic America: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives
ENG278 Contemporary British Literature and Culture
ENG279 Fictions of Asian American
ENG291 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

D.Theory orLanguage (1 course)

Each major must take at least one 200-level seminar in the theory or practice of criticism (D), such as:

ENG240 Literary Analysis and Critical Strategies
ENG245 Mythopoetics
ENG248 Contemporary Literary Theory
ENG249 Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice
ENG252 Cultural Discourses of Advertising
ENG272 Radical Thought and the Black Arts Movement, 1966 to 1976
ENG277 Race and Gender in African American Literary Theory
ENG295 Gender and Discourse
ENG340 Introduction to Graduate Study
CMLT251 Seminar in Literary Criticism

E. Capstone Requirement (1 course)

All English majors must take the Capstone course, ENG290.

F. Area of Specialization

As early as possible, in combination with an adviser, an English major should select an Area of Specialization (seven courses, four of which are typically fulfilled by core courses in the major).

Students may substitute a second major, a University concentration, or a minor for the Area of Specialization as long as they demonstrate the links between the English major and the substituted area of study in the Capstone or in another appropriate course.

Descriptions of areas of specialization with lists of required and recommended courses are available from the department.