Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023

English (BA)

 

Bachelor of Arts Degree

 

General Education

Category I: The Individual (9 to 11 hours)

IA: Rhetoric

ENGL 1101

           

Rhetoric and Composition

3

IB: Mathematical Reasoning

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3 to 4

IC: Critical Thinking 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

ID: Scientific Method

 

           

Choose course from approved list

0 to 1

Category II: Western Civilization (15 hours)

IIA: Freshman Composition

ENGL 1102

           

Literature and Composition

3

IIB: Speaking

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

IIC: Social and Behavioral Sciences

 

           

Choose course from approved list 

3

IID: Humanities 

 

           

Choose course from approved list 

 3

IIE: Government 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choose course from approved list 

3

Category III: World Citizen (12 hours)

IIIA: Modern Language

 

           

Choose sequence from approved list

6

IIIB: History of Other Cultures

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

IIIC: Fine Arts

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

 Category IV: The Natural World (6 to 9 hours)

 IVA: Natural Science

 

           

Choose course from approved list

6 to 9

Category V: Ethical Perspectives (3 hours)

VA: Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

 Category VI: Institutional Requirement (1 hour)

VIA: First-Year Experience

PDMT 1101

           

Introduction to University Life and
the Liberal Arts Tradition

1

Total Credit Hours:46-51

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

English Major

ENGL 3000Introduction to English Studies

3

ENGL 4498Senior Seminar Research in English

1

ENGL 4499Senior Seminar in English

2

Total Credit Hours:6

Concentrations

Students must select one of the following concentrations:

 

Literary Studies

 

 Category 1—Literary History (See course listings below)

12 to 18 hours

 Category 2—Genre and/or Category 3—Reading and Writing

and/or Category 4—Creative Writing

3 to 9 hours

 Category 5—Major Authors

3 to 9 hours

 

 

 Creative Writing

 Category 1—Literary History (See course listings below)

12 hours

 Category 2—Genre

3 hours

 Category 4—Creative Writing

12 hours

 Category 5—Major Authors

3 hours

 

 

Total Credit Hours:30

General Electives

 
General Electives

34-39

Total Credit Hours:34-39

Total Credit Hours: 121

Concentration Categories

Category 1—Literary History

ENGL 4401Seminar in World Literature

3

ENGL 4408Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

3

ENGL 4415British Romanticism

3

ENGL 4421Victorian Literature

3

ENGL 4426Twentieth-Century British Literature

3

ENGL 4427American Romanticism

3

ENGL 4428Twentieth-Century American Literature

3

ENGL 4429Multicultural American Literature

3

ENGL 4430Literature of the American South

3

Students may substitute up to six hours of 2000-level English (ENGL) courses for Category I—Literary History.

Category 2—Genre

ENGL 3307Short Story

3

ENGL 3308Novel

3

ENGL 3309Poetry

3

ENGL 3311Drama

3

Category 3—Reading and Writing

ENGL 3335Technical Writing

3

ENGL 4440Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

3

ENGL 4450Seminar in Composition Studies

3

ENGL 4455Survey of English Usage for Teachers

3

ENGL 4456Reading Improvement at the Secondary Level

3

ENGL 4460Literary Criticism

3

Category 4—Creative Writing

ENGL 2290Introduction to Creative Writing

3

ENGL 3392Creative Writing: Poetry

3

ENGL 3393Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

3

ENGL 3394Creative Writing: Fiction

3

ENGL 3395Creative Writing: Screenwriting, Drama, and Adaptation

3

ENGL 4400Trillium: Literary Publications

3

ENGL 4492Creative Writing: Poetry

3

ENGL 4493Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

3

ENGL 4494Creative Writing: Fiction

3

ENGL 4495Creative Writing: Screenwriting, Drama, and Adaptation

3

Category 5—Major Authors

ENGL 4402Medieval Literature

3

ENGL 4403British Renaissance

3

ENGL 4405Shakespeare

3

ENGL 4480Major Authors

3

ENGL 4481Seminar in Film

3

ENGL 4490Special Topics

3