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)*:

• Elective: any literature or writing courses 300-level or above
• ENGL 491: Senior Seminar in Writing

*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.