Jan 13, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

English (BA)

Program Educational Goals

Program Educational Goals

With a focus on reading, writing, and textual design, our major fosters certain habits of mind. Students who successfully complete the program will be able to:

Practice and reflect on a range of reading, writing, and critical thinking skills, including making arguments in genres appropriate to a course’s field of study
Develop awareness of and facility in a range of rhetorical practices
Employ context-rich and culturally-informed analytical methods
Recognize and analyze rhetorical, conceptual, and logical patterns in a variety of textual formats; and to create texts that incorporate that understanding
Conduct historical and cultural research
Critically analyze the ethical values embedded and implied in the texts that we read and produce

Four Year Plan

Please refer to the Four-Year Plan for departmental recommended path toward graduation.

University Requirements:

ENGL 110 - First-Year Writing (C- minimum)
First Year Seminar (FYS) (0-4 credits)
Discovery Learning Experience (DLE) (three credits)
Multicultural Requirement (three credits)
University Breadth Requirements (C- minimum):
- Creative Arts and Humanities (three credits)
- History and Cultural Change (three credits)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (three credits)
- Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (three credits)
Capstone Experience

College Requirements:

College Breadth Requirements:

The College Breadth requirements are in addition to the University Breadth requirement. Up to three credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy these College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements. Minimum grade C- required for courses used to satisfy College Breadth.

GROUP A: Creative Arts and Humanities (Nine credits of courses representing at least two departments or appropriate instructional units)
GROUP B: History and Cultural Change (Nine credits of courses representing at least two departments or appropriate instructional units)
GROUP C: Social and Behavioral Sciences (Nine credits of courses representing at least two departments or appropriate instructional units)
GROUP D: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (Ten credits of courses representing at least two departments or appropriate instructional units and including a minimum of one course with an associated laboratory)

*If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.

Foreign Language:

Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-.
- The number of credits (0-12) needed and initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language.
- Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination through the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.

Mathematics:

The math requirement must be completed by the time a student has earned 60 credits. Students who transfer into the College of Arts and Sciences with 45 credits or more must complete this requirement within two semesters.

Complete one of the following four options (minimum grade D-):

Option One:

MATH 113 - Contemporary Mathematics Credit(s): 3 (designed for students who do not intend to continue to the study of mathematics)

Option Two:

One of the following:

MATH 114 - College Mathematics and Statistics Credit(s): 3 (designed for students who do not intend to continue the study of mathematics)
MATH 115 - Pre-Calculus Credit(s): 3 (designed for students who intend to continue the study of mathematics)
MATH 117 - Pre-Calculus for Scientists and Engineers Credit(s): 4 (designed to prepare students for MATH 241 )

Option Three:

Successful completion of any 200-level or higher mathematics course except: MATH 201 , MATH 202 , MATH 205 , MATH 251 , MATH 252 , MATH 253 , and MATH 266 .

Option Four:

Successful performance on a proficiency test in mathematics administered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences (0 credits awarded).

Second Writing Requirement:

A Second Writing Requirement approved by the College of Arts and Sciences. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours, completed with a minimum grade of C-, and the section enrolled must be designated as satisfying the requirement in the academic term completed.

Major Requirements:

A grade of C- is required in all major courses. No more than 45 credits with the ENGL prefix (including cross-listed courses) may be counted toward the total required for the degree. ENGL 110 will not be counted in the 45 credit maximum.

Literary History Category:

One of the following:

ENGL 202 - Biblical and Classical Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 204 - American Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 205 - British Literature to 1660 Credit(s): 3
ENGL 206 - British Literature 1660 to Present Credit(s): 3
ENGL 216 - African American Literature Survey Credit(s): 3

Textual Analysis and Production Category:

One of the following:

ENGL 200 - Reading, Creating, and Researching in English Credit(s): 3
ENGL 201 - Rewriting Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 217 - Introduction to Film Credit(s): 3
ENGL 222 - Introduction to Professional Writing Credit(s): 3
ENGL 223 - Stories that Change the World Credit(s): 3
ENGL 225 - Introduction: Rhetoric and Writing Studies Credit(s): 3
ENGL 227 - Introduction to Creative Writing Credit(s): 3
ENGL 294 - Diverse English Languages: Grammar and Usage Credit(s): 3
ENGL 300 - Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory Credit(s): 3
ENGL 361 - Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory Credit(s): 3
ENGL 394 - Language, Power, and Equity Credit(s): 3

Cultural Diversity Category:

One of the following:

ENGL 214 - Literature and Gender Credit(s): 3
ENGL 215 - Global Studies in Race, Culture, and Power Credit(s): 3
ENGL 278 - Studies in Diversity Credit(s): 3
ENGL 344 - African American Literature I Credit(s): 3
ENGL 345 - African American Literature II Credit(s): 3
ENGL 348 - Contemporary Jewish-American Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 350 - Studies in Jewish Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 376 - World Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 378 - Caribbean Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 381 - Women in Literature Credit(s): 3
ENGL 382 - Studies in Multicultural Literature in English Credit(s): 3

Additional Requirements:

Eight ENGL electives, including cross-lists (24 credits)
- Up to two ENGL 200-level courses (a maximum of 6 credits) and 300-400 level English courses (18 credits).
- Students can take a variety of courses that appeal to them but are not necessarily related, or they can focus their electives in a defined emphasis or in a personalized program of study. Students will work closely with their advisor to choose those courses and define their plan of study.

Capstone Experience:

A Capstone experience taken in the senior year approved and formally submitted by the Department Chair or their designee.

One of the following for a minimum of 3 credits:

ENGL 462 - Experiential Learning Credit(s): 3
ENGL 464 - Internship in Professional Writing Credit(s): 3
ENGL 468 - Undergraduate Research Credit(s): 1-3
ENGL 469 - Internship Credit(s): 1-3
ENGL 480 - Literary Studies Seminar Credit(s): 3
Alternative approved by the Department Chair or his/her designee.

Electives:

After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.

English (BA)

Program Educational Goals

Four Year Plan

University Requirements:

College Requirements:

College Breadth Requirements:

Foreign Language:

Mathematics:

Option One:

Option Two:

Option Three:

Option Four:

Second Writing Requirement:

Major Requirements:

Literary History Category:

Textual Analysis and Production Category:

Cultural Diversity Category:

Additional Requirements:

Capstone Experience:

Electives:

Credits to Total a Minimum of 124

Last Revised for 2024-2025 Academic Year