English (B.A.) With A Literature Specialization
The literature curriculum encourages a broad exposure to literature of various cultures, literary periods, genres and themes; the development of critical, analytic, and interpretive skills in reading texts; and strong competencies in research and written communication. Students are prepared for postgraduate studies and teaching, as well as for careers in fields that value the wide knowledge and the critical thinking, research, and writing skills acquired in a core liberal arts major.
Goals and Objectives
The literature curriculum has the following goals and objectives:
- Demonstrating a set of critical practices in reading and writing;
- Performing close reading of the content and style of a variety of texts from the Anglo-American canon to multicultural, postcolonial, and gendered expansions of the canon; and
- Developing an awareness of the history of literatures and genres written in English in terms of specific aesthetic, political, and social contexts.
Degree Requirements
Core Courses (12 credits)
Students choose 1 course from Traditional Canons, 1 course from Diverse Literatures, and 2 courses from Writing and Rhetoric.
After all core requirements are fulfilled, students may take any course under traditional canon and diverse literature as electives. This rule does not apply to the Professional Writing specialization. Courses cannot satisfy both core and elective requirements simultaneously.
Traditional Canons (3 credits)
Choose 1 from the following:
Diverse Literatures (3 credits)
Choose 1 from the following
:
Writing and Rhetoric (6 credits)
Choose 2 from the following:
Literature Specialization
The literature specialization requires the 12-credit core and a minimum of 21 credit hours in literature and humanities elective courses, plus the capstone course. *No limit to the number of HUM electives students can take to complete their literature electives.
Period Courses in ENG
| ENG-424 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1800-1865 | 3 |
| ENG-425 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1865-1914 | 3 |
| ENG-426 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1914-PRESENT | 3 |
| ENG-432 | 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: THE ROMANTICS | 3 |
| ENG-433 | 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: THE VICTORIANS | 3 |
| ENG-460 | 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE: 1900-1945 | 3 |
| ENG-461 | 20TH CENT LITERATURE: 1945-PRESENT | 3 |
| ENG-423 | 18TH CENTURY ENG LIT | 3 |
Genre Courses in ENG
HUM Courses
| HUM-396 | CULTURAL STUDIES SPECIAL TOPICS | 3 |
| HUM-397 | ETHNIC STUDIES SPECIAL TOPICS | 3 |
| HUM-398 | GENDER STUDIES SPECIAL TOPICS | 3 |
| HUM-399 | GENRE STUDIES SPECIAL TOPICS | 3 |
Capstone Experience ENG