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Major/Minor Course Requirements
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR (39 semester hours). The major courses must include one course in American literature in addition to ENG 220. Only two 100-level course may be counted as electives toward the major.
REQUIRED COURSES, 12 semester hours
____ 208. British Literature before 1780 (3 s.h.)
____ 209. British Literature after 1780 (3 s.h.)
____ 216. Introduction to Shakespeare (3 s.h.)
____ 220. American Literature: Colonial to Romantic (3 s.h.)
PERIOD REQUIREMENTS, 9 semester hours
____ Pre-1700 (one of the following)
310. Chaucer (3 s.h.)
- Tudor-Stuart Drama (3 s.h.)
320. Renaissance Literature (3 s.h.
____ 1700-1900 (one of the following)
225. 18th-Century Literature (3 s.h.)
227. 18th-Century Novel (3 s.h.)
228. 19th-Century British Novel (3 s.h.)
231. Romantic Literature (3 s.h.)
236. Victorian Literature (3 s.h.)
____ Post-1900 (one of the following)
221. American Literature: Realism to Present (3 s.h.)
333. Modern Fiction (3 s.h.)
- Modern Poetry (3 s.h.)
238. American Women Novelists (3 s.h.)
264. African-American Literature (3 s.h.)
ELECTIVES—Twelve semester hours, excluding English 100, 101, 102, 103, and 104. No more than two 100-level courses may be counted for the major.
____ Elective (3 s.h.)
____ Elective (3 s.h.)
____ Elective (3 s.h.)
____ Elective (3 s.h.)
SEMINAR REQUIREMENT
____ 381 & 400. Junior and Senior Seminar (6 s.h.: 3 s.h. each)
____ Major Field Test.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS (12-14 s.h.)
____ British or American History, 3 s.h. (C or better).
____ Philosophy or Religion, 3 s.h. (C or better), excluding Logic.
____ One year of a single foreign language (at least 6 s.h.).
Senior Requirement
The senior requirement consists of satisfactory completion of ENG 381 and ENG 400, and of taking the Major Field Test in English.
Requirements for the Minor in English
21 semester hours including ENG 208, ENG 209, ENG/THEA 216, ENG 220, and three elective courses in English, excluding ENG 100, ENG 101, ENG 102, ENG 103, and ENG 104. No more than two of the electives may be at the 100 level.