English, BA, Concentration: English Literature

Requirements

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Minimum Grade and Grade Point Average (GPA):  Minimum grade of C required for all ENGL and Foreign Language courses; 2.0 GPA

Experiential Learning (EL):  One EL course required.  EL courses are noted by (e) next to the course title.

General Education Core:  General Education notations can be found within the course description.  Please click on a course to see if it meets a Gen Ed requirement.

Milestone Courses noted by (m) next to the course title have been identified as being critical to your success in this field of study. 

Please see the Additional Information and Guidelines section below for more information.

Additional Information and Guidelines

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No cross-listed course may be double-counted.

No single ENGL course may count toward more than one requirement of the English literature concentration.

Undergraduates are limited to two 50000 level courses.

Note 1: SPAN, FR, or ASL: students must complete 4 semesters of the same language.

Note 2: Take ENGL 38800 Literature and Culture in Context, a variable topics course, three times, on three different topics

Note 3: Choose one Multimodal Writing course:

• ENGL 42501 Writing for New Media
• ENGL 42601 Writing for Social Media(e)
• ENGL 43100 Web Usability: Writing and Reading on the Web(e)
• ENGL 43500 Topics in Writing for Interactive Digital Media*
• ENGL 43700 Writing for Video Games(e)
• ENGL 43800 Games and Gamification

  *Variable topics course, may be repeated for credit

Choose any course in Public Writing and Rhetoric:

• ENGL 20200 Engaging English       
• ENGL 30502 Creative Writing as a Profession
• ENGL 34400 Environmental Ethics, Policy, and Sustainability
• ENGL 42800 Special Topics in Writing*
• ENGL 43300 Writing Proposals and Grants
• ENGL 44300 Intermediate Creative Writing*
• ENGL 47000 Advanced Topics in Rhetorical Studies*
• ENGL 48000 Internship in Writing(e)

 *Variable topics course, may be repeated for credit

Capstone course - select one from list:

• ENGL 30502 Creative Writing as a Profession
• ENGL 48700 Community-Engaged Literature
• ENGL 48000 Internship in Writing(e)
• ENGL 49500 Capstone Seminar for Seniors

Choose any Diverse Literatures course:

ENGL 25700, 31100, 31200, 31300, 32300, 32400, 33400, 33600, 33800, 34900, 35300, 34600, 36000, 36500, 36600, 39600.

Note 4: Choose any ENGL literature course at the 20000 level or above: ENGL 21600, 23200, 23500. 23700. 23800, 23900, 24000, 24100, 25000, 25700, 26000, 26100, 26200, 26400, 26600, 26700, 28600, 3100, 31100, 31200, 31300, 31400, 31500, 31800, 32300, 32400, 32500, 33100, 33300, 33500, 33600, 33700, 33900, 35000, 35100, 35500, 35600, 36000, 36300, 36500, 36600, 37000, 37100, 37200, 37300, 37500, 37700, 37900, 38100, 38200, 38300, 38600, 38700, 39600, 40300, 41100, 41200, 41300, 41400, 44100, 44200, 44400, 46000, 46200, 46300, 46600, 46800, 46900, 47900, 49200.

English elective: choose any course with an ENGL prefix at the 20000 level or above.

Note 5: All four CHESS Core seminar courses, CHSS 10000, CHSS 20000, CHSS 30000, and CHSS 40000, must be taken. Duplicates are not allowed.