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English Major Core Requirements, 2005-07

All English majors take a common core of 27 credits plus a required introduction to the major and a capstone portfolio course, along with completing additional advanced study requirements for a selected progam of study. Courses used to satisfy advanced study requirements cannot be used for the English major's core requirements detailed below.

English Major Core Requirments

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 Literature = 6 credits

  • English 360 American Literature: Beginnings to 1830 (3 cr.)
  • English 362 American Literature: 1830 to 1914 (3 cr.)
  • English 364 American Literature: 1914 to Present (3 cr.)

British Literature = 6 credits

  • English 373 British Literature: The Middle Ages (3 cr.)
  • English 374 British Literature: The Renaissance (3 cr.)
  • English 375 British Literature: The Restoration and 18th Century (3 cr.)
  • English 376 British Literature: Romantic and Victorian (3 cr.)
  • English 378 British Literature: Modern and Contemporary (3 cr.)

Women's and/or Multicultural Literature = 3 credits

  • English 301 Selected Topics in Popular Culture (3 cr.) (when topic is appropriate) (3 cr.)
  • 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.)

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