English Major with Literature Emphasis

This program requires the completion of forty-four (44 units), as follows:

Lower-division (12 units):

• ENGL - 190 Survey of British Literature and Methods and
• ENGL - 191 Survey of American Literature and Methods (lecture)
• ENGL - 192 Introduction to Literary Study

Supporting General Courses Required at the Lower Division:

• College Rhetoric and Composition Requirements
• College Core Literature Requirement (or, may be fulfilled by an upper-division literature elective or requirement)

Upper Division Mid-Level* (20 units):

One course in each of three period seminar courses in either British or American Literature distributed among the following (12 units):

• ENGL - 310 Literature Period Courses: 1100-1700
• ENGL - 320 Literature Period Courses: 1700-1900
• ENGL - 330 Literature Period Courses: 1900-Present

Two courses (8 units) as follows:

• ENGL - 340 Shakespeare
• ENGL - 390 Critical Analysis

Upper Division Senior Level* (12 units)

• Electives chosen from courses numbered 300 and above (12 units)

• ENGL - 490 Senior Seminar in Literature

*One Upper Division course must focus on a minority issue.

(All required courses are four (4) units each).

Learning Goals/Outcomes for the B.A. in English

• Students will have acquired a basic understanding of the literary, historical, social, or cultural influences that inform literary works.
• Regardless of the language of the texts or the language of instruction, students will have articulated in writing and discussion their responses to literary texts.
• Students will have developed a basic critical ability to identify, interpret, and evaluate the ideas and formal features of an integrated body of literary texts.
• Students will have developed a sensitivity to the plurality of meanings within a literary text.