English (BA)

Bachelor of Arts Degree

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.

ENGL 3000	Introduction to English Studies	3
ENGL 4498	Senior Seminar Research in English	1
ENGL 4499	Senior Seminar in English	2
Total Credit Hours:		6

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:

	General Electives	34-39
Total Credit Hours:		34-39

Total Credit Hours: 121

ENGL 4401	Seminar in World Literature	3
ENGL 4408	Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature	3
ENGL 4415	British Romanticism	3
ENGL 4421	Victorian Literature	3
ENGL 4426	Twentieth-Century British Literature	3
ENGL 4427	American Romanticism	3
ENGL 4428	Twentieth-Century American Literature	3
ENGL 4429	Multicultural American Literature	3
ENGL 4430	Literature of the American South	3

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

ENGL 3335	Technical Writing	3
ENGL 4440	Reading and Writing in the Content Areas	3
ENGL 4450	Seminar in Composition Studies	3
ENGL 4455	Survey of English Usage for Teachers	3
ENGL 4456	Reading Improvement at the Secondary Level	3
ENGL 4460	Literary Criticism	3

ENGL 2290	Introduction to Creative Writing	3
ENGL 3392	Creative Writing: Poetry	3
ENGL 3393	Creative Writing: Non-Fiction	3
ENGL 3394	Creative Writing: Fiction	3
ENGL 3395	Creative Writing: Screenwriting, Drama, and Adaptation	3
ENGL 4400	Trillium: Literary Publications	3
ENGL 4492	Creative Writing: Poetry	3
ENGL 4493	Creative Writing: Non-Fiction	3
ENGL 4494	Creative Writing: Fiction	3
ENGL 4495	Creative Writing: Screenwriting, Drama, and Adaptation	3