
English Major with Writing Emphasis
This program requires the completion of forty-four (44 units), as follows:
Lower-division (16 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
- ENGL - 250 Introduction to Creative Writing
Supporting General Courses Required at Lower Division:
- College Expository Writing Requirements
- College Core Literature Requirement (or, may be fulfilled by an upper division literature elective or requirement)
Upper-division Mid-level (20 units)*:
- Any three literature courses selected from period distributions Special Topics courses.
- Any three of the following writing courses:
- ENGL - 350 Rhetoric and Culture
- ENGL - 360 Studies in Non-Fiction
- ENGL - 370 Ethics, Writing, and Culture
- ENGL - 400 Special Topics in Writing
- ENGL - 450 Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction
- ENGL - 460 Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Poetry
- ENGL - 470 Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Nonfiction
- ENGL - 480 Writing Internships
Upper Division Senior-level (8 units)*:
*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.

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