Undergraduate Program
Tracks
Literature
Bachelor of Arts
This program requires 36 hours / credits in English.
- A course in speech or performance fulfills the speaking and listening requirements
- Second-year language proficiency is required
- Students keep a portfolio of 10 representative English papers for senior review
- This program also provides preparation for Initial Licensure for Teaching Secondary School English
Required Courses
ENGL 2000 American Literature I: Age of Exploration to the Civil War
ENGL 2100 American Literature II: Civil War to the Present
(2100 or) One post-Civil War American literature course\
ENGL 2999 Approaches to English Studies
ENGL 2200 English Literature I: Beowulf to Milton
(2200 or choose one of the following)
ENGL 3120 Golden Age of the English Renaissance
ENGL 3030 The Middle Ages
ENGL 4010 Chaucer and His World
ENGL 2210 English Literature II: Pepys to Shelley
(2210 or choose one of the following)
ENGL 4040 Major English Writers of the 17th Century
ENGL 4050 The Novel in the 18th Century
ENGL 4070 From Classic to Romantic: 1750-1800
ENGL 4080 Romanticism
ENGL 2220 English Literature III: Bronte to Rushdie
(2220 or choose one of the following)
ENGL 3040 British Literature Since World War II
ENGL 4090 The 19th-Century English Novel
ENGL 4095 The Age of Dickens
ENGL 4100 Victorian Literature
ENGL 4115 British Modernism
ENGL 4020 Shakespeare's Drama: Text and Performance or
ENGL 4030 Interpreting Shakespeare's Works
ENGL 4400 Seminar (for juniors or seniors)
Electives
- One elective in World or Multicultural literature
- Three electives in literature
- One at least 4000-level literature course in addition to Shakespeare and ENGL 4400
- One 3000-level literature course
Bachelor of Science Degree
This program is available for students who choose not to fulfill the requirement for foreign language proficiency at the second-year level. All other requirements are the same as for the bachelor of arts in English-Literature. |
