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English Major Core Requirements, 2007-09
All English majors take a common core of 24 credits plus a required introduction to the major and a capstone portfolio course, along with completing additional advanced study requirements for a selected program of study. Courses used to satisfy advanced study requirements cannot be used for the English major's core requirements detailed below.
English Major Core Requirements
Specified Courses = 9 credits + Req. credit for 199 and 497x
- English 199 Introduction to the Study of English (R cr.)
- English 260 Introduction to Literary Study (3 cr.)
- English 220 Descriptive English Grammar (3 cr.)
- English 310 Rhetorical Analysis (3 cr.)
- English 497x Capstone Portfolio Course (R cr.)
Advanced Writing = 3 credits
- English 302 Business Communication (3 cr.)
- English 303 Free Lance Writing for Popular Magazines (3 cr.)
- English 304 Creative Writing--Fiction (3 cr.)
- English 305 Creative Writing--Nonfiction (3 cr.)
- English 306 Creative Writing--Poetry (3 cr.)
- English 307 Writing and Publishing Young Adult Fiction (3 cr.)
- English 309 Report and Proposal Writing (3 cr.)
- English 313 Writing for the WorldWideWeb (3 cr.)
- English 314 Technical Communication (3 cr.)
- English 315 Creative Writing--Screenplays (3 cr.)
- English 316 Creative Writing--Playwriting (3 cr.)
American and British Literature Surveys= 9 credits
- English 225 Survey of British Literature to 1800 (3 cr.)
- English 226 Survey of British Literature: 1800 to Present (3 cr.)
- English 227 Survey of American Literature to 1865 (3 cr.)
- English 228 Survey of American Literature: 1865 to Present (3 cr.)
Women's and/or Multicultural Literature = 3 credits
- English 340 Survey of Women's Literature (3 cr.)
- English 344 U.S. Latino/a Literature
- English 345 Women and Literature: Selected Topics (3 cr.)
- English 346 American Indian Literature (3 cr.)
- English 347 Survey of African American Literature (3 cr.)
- English 348 Contemporary African American Literature (3 cr.)
- English 349 Selected Topics in Minority Literatures of the United States (3 cr.)
- English 389 Multicultural Literature (3 cr.) (when topic is appropriate) (3 cr.)
