English

Professor: Xiongya Gao, Ph.D.; Associate Professors: Chester St. H. Mills; Ph.D.; Robert Azzarello; Ph.D.; Norbert Davidson, M.F.A; Assistant Professors: Douglas Marshall, Ph.D.; Adam Falik, M.F.A.

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

BIOL-105NGeneral Biology I

3

-
And

BIOL-105LNGeneral Biology I Lab

1

ENGL-111N

3

MATH-151NCollege Algebra

3

MUSC-101NSurvey of Music

3

-
Or

FIAR-101NIntroduction to Art

3

JRDV-111NCollege Survival Skills

1

JRDV-111ANFreshman Assembly

0

Total Credit Hours:14

Required

ENGL-112NEnglish Composition II

3

MATH-232NFinite Mathematics

3

-
Or

MATH-250NElementary Statistics

3

CMIS-164N

3

BIOL-106NGeneral Biology II

3

PSYC-210NGeneral Psychology

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Sophomore Year

Required

ENGL-203NIntroduction to Literature

3

-
Chem./Phys. Sci. Lecture

3

-
Foreign Language 101

3

HIST-103NHistory of Civil. to 1500

3

-
Or

HIST-104NHistory of Civil. Since 1500

3

POLI-110NAmerican Government

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Required

ENGL-231NSurvey of British Lit. I

3

ENGL-255NAfrican American Lit. I

3

-
Or

ENGL-256NAfrican American Lit. II

3

PHIL-211NIntro to Philosophy

3

-
Foreign Language 102

3

SOCL-210NIntroduction to Sociology

3

-
Course in Minor Area

3

Total Credit Hours:18

Junior Year

Required

ENGL-232NSurvey of British Lit. II

3

ENGL-351NAmerican Literature I

3

PHIL-212NIntro to Logic

3

-
Electives in Minor Area

6

-
Foreign Language 211

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Required

ENGL-352NAmerican Literature II

3

ENGL-365NIntro to Literary Theory

3

-
English Elective

3

-
Course in Minor Area

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Senior Year

Required

ENGL-470NChaucer

3

-
English Elective

3

-
English Elective

3

HUMA-311NHumanities/Arts

3

-
Course in Minor Area

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Required

ENGL-462NIntro. to Modern Linguistics

3

-
English Elective

3

HIST-210NThe United States to 1865

3

-
Or

HIST-220NThe US History Since 1865

3

HUMA-315NAfrican-American Humanities

3

-
Course in Minor Area

3

Total Credit Hours:15

Total Credit Hours: 122