Requirements
The English Program offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and provides a course of study that offers a rigorous basis for intellectual growth that helps to prepare students for varied careers in an increasingly demanding workplace. The program also prepares students for further academic study through a curriculum that encourages independent thinking, attentive analysis, as well as critical and creative communication skills. Students majoring in English must achieve at least a grade of “C” in ENGL-111N, ENGL-112N and ENGL-203N. (Students attaining a grade of “C” or better in ENGL-112N receive credit for the mandated Writing Proficiency Exam). The English major consists of thirty-six credit (36) hours, of which twenty-four (24) credit hours consist of required courses. The required courses are distributed as follows:
ENGL-231N and ENGL-232N
ENGL-255N or 256N
ENGL-351N and 352N
ENGL-365N
ENGL-470N
ENGL-462N
Twelve (12) credit hours must be chosen from English curriculum courses as electives
Students majoring in English must also complete coursework as follows:
9 credits of a foreign language
15 credits in Humanities or Philosophy
18 credits in a Minor
The English program also offers a minor in English, a minor in Creative Writing, and a minor in Communication under the auspices of the program. The details on the respective minors are stated below.
The minor in English consists of a minimum of eighteen (18) credit hours. The required courses for the English minor are distributed as follows:
ENGL-231N and ENGL-232N
ENGL-255N or 256N
ENGL-351N and 352N
ENGL-470N
The minor in Communication consists of a minimum of eighteen (18) credit hours. It provides a course of study that emphasizes both rigorous conceptual understanding of communication and practical uses of a variety of communication which prepares students technically, professionally, and personally to successfully navigate the changing global workplace. The minor promotes understanding of group, personal, interpersonal, organizational, and mediated communication. The minor in Communication further prepares students for continuing academic study through a curriculum that embraces current issues and seminal concepts while encouraging critical evaluation of messages, adaptation and analysis of audiences, and exploring oral, written, and mediated communication.
The required courses include: COMM-110N and COMM-210N.
Additional course offerings include: COMM-220N; COMM-230N; COMM-240N; COMM-310N; COMM-320N; COMM-330N; COMM-340N.
*COMM-110N is a required pre-requisite for COMM-230N; 240N, 320N, 330N, and 340N
*COMM-210N is a required pre-requisite for COMM-220N
*COMM-210N and 220N are required pre-requisites for COMM-310N
The minor in Creative Writing consists of a minimum eighteen (18) credit hours. It provides a course of study that encompasses both a broad range of genres and a unique emphasis on marginalized texts, performative texts, and digital media. This includes special attention to feminist, African-American and hybrid texts, studies of spoken word and the poetics of identity and the digital-literary landscape. The minor is designed to promote creative thinking and self-expression in students who love to read and write through an intensive cycle of reading, writing, and response. The minor in Creative Writing will further advance the student’s ability to personalize and synthesize information across disciplines and to select and manipulate modes of writing in order to communicate their stories and ideas effectively in a range of rhetorical situations. In this way, the minor prepares students for further study in the Humanities as well as for careers in a number of fields, including editing, publishing, journalism, advertising, and law.
The required courses include: ENGL-203N and ENGL-240N.
Additional course offerings include: ENGL-242N; ENGL-360N; ENGL-362N; ENGL-363N; ENGL-364N.
*ENGL-203N is prerequisite for ENGL-240N
*ENGL-240N is a prerequisite for ENGL-362N, ENGL-363N and ENGL-364N
*ENGL-112N is a prerequisite for ENGL-242N
*ENGL-242N is a prerequisite for ENGL-360N
Curriculum in English
Freshman Year
Required
Required
Sophomore Year
Required
| ENGL-203N | Introduction to Literature | 3 |
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| Chem./Phys. Sci. Lecture | 3 |
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| Foreign Language 101 | 3 |
| HIST-103N | History of Civil. to 1500 | 3 |
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| Or | |
| HIST-104N | History of Civil. Since 1500 | 3 |
| POLI-110N | American Government | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Required
| ENGL-231N | Survey of British Lit. I | 3 |
| ENGL-255N | African American Lit. I | 3 |
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| Or | |
| ENGL-256N | African American Lit. II | 3 |
| PHIL-211N | Intro to Philosophy | 3 |
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| Foreign Language 102 | 3 |
| SOCL-210N | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
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| Course in Minor Area | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Junior Year
Required
| ENGL-232N | Survey of British Lit. II | 3 |
| ENGL-351N | American Literature I | 3 |
| PHIL-212N | Intro to Logic | 3 |
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| Electives in Minor Area | 6 |
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| Foreign Language 211 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Required
| ENGL-352N | American Literature II | 3 |
| ENGL-365N | Intro to Literary Theory | 3 |
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| English Elective | 3 |
-
| Course in Minor Area | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Senior Year
Required
| ENGL-470N | Chaucer | 3 |
-
| English Elective | 3 |
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| English Elective | 3 |
| HUMA-311N | Humanities/Arts | 3 |
-
| Course in Minor Area | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Required
| ENGL-462N | Intro. to Modern Linguistics | 3 |
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| English Elective | 3 |
| HIST-210N | The United States to 1865 | 3 |
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| Or | |
| HIST-220N | The US History Since 1865 | 3 |
| HUMA-315N | African-American Humanities | 3 |
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| Course in Minor Area | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Total Credit Hours: 122