English/Literature and Culture, BA

The Literature/Culture Track enables students to design a course of study in the history, meaning, function, and aesthetics of texts of all kinds. A student who completes this major will be able to identify the unique material, symbolic, formal, and aesthetic qualities of texts; apply the analytical skills and methods best suited to comprehend the significance of texts; analyze the ways that texts interact with audience, culture, medium, and ideology; evaluate the role of theory—its methods, history, politics, and functions—in textual analysis; and examine the ways in which questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity affect interactions with both traditional and nontraditional texts and theory. The Literature/Culture Track prepares students for any profession that requires strong analytic, communication, cultural, and aesthetic skills, and for academic study in literary and cultural studies.

Liberal Studies: 46

As outlined in the Liberal Studies Requirements with the following specifications:

Humanities-Literature:

ENGL 122 - Introduction to English Studies Credits: 3

Mathematics: 3

Liberal Studies Electives: 6

No courses with ENGL prefix

College: 0-6

Foreign Language Intermediate Level (1)

Major: 36

Required Courses:

Literary Survey Courses: 6

Two literary survey courses from the following:

ENGL 210 - British Literature to 1660 Credits: 3
ENGL 211 - British Literature to 1660-1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 212 - American Literature: Beginnings to 1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 213 - British and American Literature Since 1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 226 - Survey of Global Literature Since 1900 Credits: 3

Writing Course: 3

One writing course from the following:

ENGL 220 - Advanced Composition Credits: 3
ENGL 221 - Creative Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 222 - Technical Writing Credits: 3

Literacies Course: 3

One literacies course from the following:

ENGL 208 - Introduction to Film Studies Credits: 3
ENGL 308 - Critical Theory Credits: 3
ENGL 313 - Rhetorical Trends and Traditions Credits: 3

Capstone course:

ENGL 484 - Topics in English Studies Credits: 3

Controlled Electives:

(2, 3)

Four Courses from the Following: 12

ENGL 203 - Introduction to Language Studies Credits: 3
ENGL 208 - Introduction to Film Studies Credits: 3
ENGL 210 - British Literature to 1660 Credits: 3
ENGL 211 - British Literature to 1660-1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 212 - American Literature: Beginnings to 1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 213 - British and American Literature Since 1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 225 - Introduction to Literature by Women Credits: 3
ENGL 226 - Survey of Global Literature Since 1900 Credits: 3
ENGL 265 - Law and Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 308 - Critical Theory Credits: 3
ENGL 310 - Public Speaking Credits: 3
ENGL 313 - Rhetorical Trends and Traditions Credits: 3
ENGL 328 - Introduction to Linguistics Credits: 3
ENGL 332 - Film Genres Credits: 3
ENGL 335 - Literary Nonfiction Credits: 3
ENGL 336 - Language, Gender, and Society Credits: 3
ENGL 337 - Myth Credits: 3
ENGL 340 - The Novel Credits: 3
ENGL 341 - Poetry Credits: 3
ENGL 342 - Short Fiction Credits: 3
ENGL 343 - Drama Credits: 3
ENGL 344 - Ethnic American Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 348 - African American Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 350 - Gender and Sexual Orientation in Literature, Theory, and Film Credits: 3
ENGL 361 - Environmental Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 396 - The Literature of Emerging Nations Credits: 3
ENGL 398 - Global Genres Credits: 3
ENGL 434 - Shakespeare Credits: 3
ENGL 436 - Major American Authors Credits: 3
ENGL 450 - Film Theory Credits: 3
ENGL 460 - Topics in Film Credits: 3
ENGL 463 - Topics in Global Literature and Film Credits: 3
ENGL 493 - Internship Credits: 3-12

ENGL Prefix: 9

Three courses with ENGL prefix except

ENGL 100 - Basic Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 101 - Composition I Credits: 3
ENGL 121 - Humanities Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 122 - Introduction to English Studies Credits: 3
ENGL 202 - Composition II Credits: 3

Free Electives: 31-38

Total Degree Requirements: 120

(1) Intermediate-level foreign language may be included in Liberal Studies electives.

(2) An internship, aside from counting for up to 6cr toward the major, makes the BA degree recipient much more employable by providing job experience. Students should see the English BA internship director for advice about available openings.

(3) Courses used to fulfill core requirements cannot also be used to fulfill track requirements.