Program requirements may vary depending on when you declared your major.
Bachelor of Arts in English (Eight Semester Completion Program)
For majors declared Before Fall of 2008
| ____ ENGL 2316 | English Literature I | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2317 | English Literature II | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2318 | English Literature III | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2312 | American Literature I | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2313 | American Literature II | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL Upper Division | Period Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL Upper Division | Author Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL Upper Division | Genre Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Language Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Elective* | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Elective | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Elective | 3 hours |
| Total | 36 hours |
*Note: A student may take one of the following in place of one upper division English elective:
| ____ WRTG 3300 | Creative Writing | |
For majors declared beginning Fall of 2008 or later
| ____ ENGL 2316 | English Literature I | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2317 | English Literature II | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2318 | English Literature III | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2312 | American Literature I | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 2313 | American Literature II | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 3105 | Research Methods Workshop | 1 hour |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Period Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Author Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Genre Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Language Course | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Elective | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL ____ | Upper Division Elective | 3 hours |
| ____ ENGL 4335 | Senior Seminar* | 3 hours |
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Total |
37 hours |
With the approval of their advisor and the department chair, candidates may present one of the following as an upper-division elective:
| ____ WRTG 3300 | Creative Writing | |
*With the approval of the advisor and the department chair, Senior Seminar may be used to satisfy genre requirement. If this occurs, the student must take one more upper division elective.
Additional Degree and Program Requirements
1) BA Foreign Language Requirement: English Education majors must complete the required 2310 class in a foreign language (FREN 2310, SPAN 2310, GERM 2310, CHIN 2310, or JAPN 2310)
1Courses Fulfilling the Period Requirement
| ____ ENGL 4301 | The Renaissance |
| ____ ENGL 4305 | Medieval English Literature |
| ____ ENGL 4311 | The Neo-Classical Period |
| ____ ENGL 4312 | American Provincial Literature |
| ____ ENGL 4313 | American Romanticism & Realism |
| ____ ENGL 4320 | The Romantic Period |
| ____ ENGL 4321 | The Victorian Period |
| ____ ENGL 4342 | The Seventeenth Century |
| ____ ENGL 4354 | Modernism |
| ____ ENGL 4355 | Postmodernism |
2Courses Fulfilling the Author Requirement
| ____ ENGL 4330 | Shakespeare I |
| ____ ENGL 4331 | Shakespeare II |
| ____ ENGL 4340 | Chaucer |
| ____ ENGL 4341 | Milton |
3Courses Fulfilling the Genre Requirement
| ____ ENGL 4314 | American Fiction since 1900 |
| ____ ENGL 4315 | Twentieth-Century American Poetry |
| ____ ENGL 4335 | Senior Seminar (depending on topic) |
| ____ ENGL 4343 | Tudor-Stuart Drama |
| ____ ENGL 4345 | Twentieth-Century English Drama |
| ____ ENGL 4346 | Twentieth-Century American Drama |
| ____ ENGL 4347 | Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama |
| ____ ENGL 4371 | American Novel to 1900 |
| ____ ENGL 4372 | English Novel: Eighteenth Century |
| ____ ENGL 4373 | English Novel: Nineteenth Century |
| ____ ENGL 4374 | English Novel: Twentieth Century |
| ____ ENGL 4375 | English Poetry: Twentieth Century |
3Courses Fulfilling the Language Requirement
| ____ ENGL 3312 | Modern Grammars |
| ____ ENGL 3335 | Language and Grammar Studies: Applies only to students seeking teaching licensure |
| ____ ENGL 4360 | History and structure of the English Language |