ENGLISH MAJOR

Hours Required: 36 (BA program) or 42 (BS program)

A major in English opens the doors to many professions and careers. It is especially appropriate for students who intend to pursue graduate studies in English or a related field (law, philosophy, theology, etc.) It is also appropriate for students who do not intend to enter graduate studies but to have non-teaching careers in fields requiring highly developed skills in analysis, interpretation, and communication (advertising, management, publishing, public relations, etc.).

To receive the BA degree, students pursuing a major in English must have at least twelve semester hours of credit for modern foreign language studies. Four three-hour courses in one language or two three-hour courses in each of two languages will fulfill the requirement. Students may be exempted from the requirement on the basis of proficiency certified by both oral and written tests administered by the modern foreign language faculty. Students whose native language is not English will be exempted.

To receive the BS degree, students pursuing a major in English do not have to take foreign language courses but must complete six hours in English in addition to the hours in English required in the BA program.

The English faculty recommends that students who expect to enter graduate studies in English or a related field choose the Bachelor of Arts option.

Required/Core Courses (9)
ENG 234 - Foundations of World Literature I (3)
ENG 331 - British Literature I (3)
ENG 332 - British Literature II (3)

Restricted Electives (18)

American Literature: Choose one course from this list: (3)
ENG 341 - Survey of American Literature I (3)
ENG 342 - Survey of American Literature II (3)

Advanced Literature/Writing Courses: Take once course from this list: (3)
ENG 361 - Linguistics: Modern English Grammar (3)
ENG 395 - Advanced Composition (3)

Literature Before 1800: Choose one course from this list: (3)
ENG 491 - Shakespeare (3)
ENG 351 - Renaissance to Restoration Literature (3)
ENG 352 - Age of Enlightenment Literature (3)

Literature After 1800: Choose one course from this list (3)
ENG 358 - Modernist and Postmodernist Literature (3)
ENG 375 - Contemporary Drama (3)
ENG 380/480 - Special Topics (3)
ENG 442 - Contemporary American Literature (3)
ENG 433 - Romantic and Victorian Literature (3)
ENG 486 - Literature in the American South (3)
ENG 490 - Independent Study (3)

Unrestricted Electives (6 or 12)
Take two courses on this list for the BA degree; take four courses for the BS degree

ENG 341 - Survey of American Literature I (3)
ENG 342 - Survey of American Literature II (3)
ENG 320 - World Mythology (3)
ENG 351 - Seventeenth-Century British Literature (3)
ENG 352 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature (3)
ENG 361 - Linguistics: Modern English Grammar (3)
ENG 373 - Creative Writing (3)
ENG 374 - Contemporary Drama (3)
ENG 380/480 - Special Topics (3)
ENG 390/490 - Independent Study (1-3)
ENG 395 - Advanced Composition (3)
ENG 442 - Contemporary American Literature (3)
ENG 455 - Nineteenth Century British Literature (3)
ENG 473 - Advanced Creative Writing (3)
ENG 486 - Literature of the American South (3)
ENG 491 - Shakespeare (3)

Any survey course not taken as a required course may be taken as an unrestricted elective.