This program
requires the completion of forty-eight (48 credits), as follows:
Level One (4 credits)
- ENGL - 192 Introduction to Literary Study
Level Two, Literature (16 credits)
- ENGL 310-329 Literature Area A (4)
- ENGL 330-349 Literature Area B (4)
- ENGL 350-369 Literature Area C (4)
- ENGL 3xx/4xx Literature Elective
- Note: One of the courses must be a Minority
Literature course.
Level Two, Writing (8 credits)
Students must complete two courses at the 300 level,
choosing from Studies in Fiction; Studies in Non-Fiction; Studies in
Poetry; Studies in Drama.
- ENGL 3xx Studies in Fiction/Non-Fiction/Poetry/Drama
(4)
- ENGL 3xx Studies in Fiction/Non-Fiction/Poetry/Drama
(4)
Level Three (16 credits)
Students must complete four 400-level writing courses, two
of which must be Advanced Writing Workshops.
- ENGL 4xx Advanced Writing Workshop (4)
- ENGL 4xx Advanced Writing Workshop (4)
- ENGL 4xx Special Topic in Writing (4)
- ENGL 4xx Special Topic in Writing (4)
Level Four (4 credits)
- ENGL 491: Senior Seminar in Writing
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.
